447 Hackney Road/Toilets

The Plan

• Paint.
  • We want a strip of magnetic blackboard paint around the walls, broken by a neutral colour (TBC) at the top and bottom. This needs to be lighter than the current blackhole scheme.
    • Do we really ? If people have witty or erudite comments to make, must they be written on the toilet walls ?
  • Are the walls paintable as is or do we need to prepare them?
    • Paintable as-is. There is flecked paint on the walls but we can't do much with that. Russ (talk) 17:10, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

• Floor.
  • The current vinyl is manky and coming up. We want to tile it.
  • Do we need to use levelling compound before we do this? Who has experience of tiling? What tools do we need?
    • We won't be able to tell for sure until we rip the vinyl up, but it seems unlikely it'll need levelling compound. Tools needed: a trowel, a bucket, and some way of cutting tiles (If we can get hold of an electric diamond tile cutter, this step will be a lot easier). Russ (talk) 17:10, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

• Plumbing.
  • Does any of the plumbing need work while we're ripping stuff apart? Now is the time.

• Electrics.
  • The lights in the toilets are awful. We need low energy, bright bulbs in good fittings. The ceilings are very high.
    • Low energy bulbs are still pretty poor unless you have a lot of them. White walls are very helpful in reducing gloom (though some decoration does help reduce the sterility of all-white)
  • The two sections of the toilet are switched seperately. Do we want to keep one/both switch(es) or install PIRs like the kitchen?

• Cool Things.
  • PIR sensors for space activity heatmap.
  • Toiletcam
  • Small hanging basket with plants near the windows.
  • miko (full size infinity mirrors! Mirror glass/reflecting metal on left and right walls)

• Hot things
  • a hand dryer in the toilet that's missing one.
    • N.B. Paddy hates them so some other method of hand drying would be nice. => paper towel dispenser + bin? Cloth towels are likely to get filthy and not get washed often enough.
    • Can anyone get Dyson to give us a couple of air blades?

Disabled accessible toilet?

The toilet with the shower has grab handles, but iirc the doors are too narrow to be wheelchair accessible. With the interior walls knocked down and the sink removed it could be made wheelchair accessible.

Shower

I'd like to propose keeping the shower, and fixing it so that it works. Not for general use, but as a nice thing to have in case of a catastrophic accident with paint/whatever. I'm not sure what needs doing, if this is a good plan or if it will be too tempting for people wanting to use the space as a base of operations. Opinions.

Link Dump

• http://www.homebase.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=110&storeId=10151&partNumber=125029
• http://www.tilehq.co.uk/carrara-black-wall-tile.html