I love the new BOk Arena but....

[izmophonik]

Seriously...we have to flush the toilet and urinals manually?  I looked at some pictures on the website just now and all of the pictures had manual urinals/toilets.  C'mon, the automatic flush technology has been around for years.  Could the cost have been so massive they abandonded the idea?

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by izmophonik

Seriously...we have to flush the toilet and urinals manually?  I looked at some pictures on the website just now and all of the pictures had manual urinals/toilets.  C'mon, the automatic flush technology has been around for years.  Could the cost have been so massive they abandonded the idea?

Maybe it's some part of the claim that this building is more 'green' than others?

[YoungTulsan]

quote:Originally posted by Hoss

quote:Originally posted by izmophonik

Seriously...we have to flush the toilet and urinals manually?  I looked at some pictures on the website just now and all of the pictures had manual urinals/toilets.  C'mon, the automatic flush technology has been around for years.  Could the cost have been so massive they abandonded the idea?

Maybe it's some part of the claim that this building is more 'green' than others?

I'm thinking the colors will be brown and yellow.  Only green if they are serving some really bad food there.

[sgrizzle]

They are low-water use.

In my office we had automatic in some and converted some back. The things would either never stop flushing or never start. That and for the BOK Center you would have 350 9v batteries to replace regularly.

[izmophonik]

I had no idea they ran on batteries.  I just assumed they tied into existing electrical.  Ours never have the flush/not flush issue.. maybe your company bought them at Big Lots or something cheap.

[rwarn17588]

I travel a lot, and just from observation I can tell you the automatic flushers malfunction a lot.

It's just as well the arena goes low-flow and manual flushes. Less maintenance that way.

[Hoss]

quote:Originally posted by rwarn17588

I travel a lot, and just from observation I can tell you the automatic flushers malfunction a lot.

It's just as well the arena goes low-flow and manual flushes. Less maintenance that way.

Better point than mine, actually.  I never really would have thought that.  And I also didn't realize that the auto-flushers ran on batteries.

[citizen72]

Some of you guys need to have the opportunity to live out on a farm for a time with outhouses as your only form of release. Makes any kind of toilet with attached flushing mechanism pretty attractive. []

[rwarn17588]

quote:Originally posted by citizen72

Some of you guys need to have the opportunity to live out on a farm for a time with outhouses as your only form of release. Makes any kind of toilet with attached flushing mechanism pretty attractive. []

What makes you think I haven't? []

[sgrizzle]

Rwarn lives there now. He's sticking it out for when Red Fork gets fresh water and electric service.

[joiei]

I remember my grandparents first house had an outhouse out back near the swamp.  When your 4, that was a very scary place.

[RecycleMichael]

The Denver Grill, a diner that was torn down for the arena, had outdoor bathrooms.

I remember how the anti-arena people were going on and on about how terrible it was that they were tearing down this old diner.

I doubt most of them had ever been in the place.

[Michael71]

quote:Originally posted by izmophonik

Seriously...we have to flush the toilet and urinals manually?  I looked at some pictures on the website just now and all of the pictures had manual urinals/toilets.  C'mon, the automatic flush technology has been around for years.  Could the cost have been so massive they abandonded the idea?

You used more energy thinking about, composing, & posting this thread than you would use in a lifetime going through the act of flushing a urinal.

....However, convenient/sanitary

[rwarn17588]

quote:Originally posted by RecycleMichael

The Denver Grill, a diner that was torn down for the arena, had outdoor bathrooms.

I remember how the anti-arena people were going on and on about how terrible it was that they were tearing down this old diner.

I doubt most of them had ever been in the place.

I have. The neon was really cool, but little else about the place was. I'm surprised it passed health codes at all.

I'm a big Route 66er, and like old things a lot. But not at the expense of sanitation. I'm retro, but I'm also a realist.

[izmophonik]

quote:
You used more energy thinking about, composing, & posting this thread than you would use in a lifetime going through the act of flushing a urinal.

....However, convenient/sanitary

I was really opening the thread based on a cleanliness/anti-bacterial/let's not get sick bias...not because I'm lazy, which I am.