What is a Toilet Partition?

What is a Toilet Partition?

    A toilet partition is the enclosure that surrounds most toilets in public bathrooms. It’s function is to provide privacy for the person using the bathroom stall. They can come in many different types and configurations, not to mention materials. In this blog post we will provide a breakdown of the different types, materials, configurations available both popular and unpopular. You’ve asked for what is a bathroom stall and we’re here to bring that to you! Read more below to learn about our bathroom stall definition.

Types

    Standard: This is the kind you normally see in the United States, with a 12″ gap at the bottom and sightlines at the door edge.

European: These are basically little rooms, with a much smaller gap at the bottom ( for wheelchair foot movement ) but no sightline gaps at all. Most times the bathroom partitions connect to the ceiling however they don’t always, when they don’t they are much higher than standard US partitions.

Single use rooms: These are completely enclosed rooms, with no gaps or sightlines, however where you will see these most commonly are in one toilet restrooms where it’s more like a bathroom in your home than a public restroom.

Configurations

    The configurations for each type of bathroom can vary as well. Mainly dependent on how much traffic the restroom will receive. Smaller restrooms normally have 3 toilet stalls ( 2 standard and 1 handicap ) and if it’s a men’s room will contain 1 or 2 urinals. However they can go up to 15 stalls on each side of the door ( for a high school football restroom ) it’s all related to how much traffic that specific restroom plans on having currently and in the future. Some for big venues like NASCAR Raceways have seen configurations of 66 stalls in one room. Yes, you heard that right, 66 toilet stalls in one restroom!

    Standard: This type of stall is the most common aside from ada-handicap stalls.

    ADA – handicap: Handicap stalls also known as ADA stal