Toilets, and more importantly, clean toilets are a key part of what we’re about here at Albany. We spend a lot of time planning, researching and developing ideas to help improve deep cleaning methods, washroom services and hand hygiene solutions.

Since we spend so much time thinking about washrooms, we wanted to share some rather interesting (and some quite frankly disgusting) facts about toilets and hygiene in general. Warning: if your about to eat your lunch it’s properly best to read these after!

• On average most people spend around three years of their life on the toilet.
• One gram of human faeces can contain 10,000,000 viruses, 1,000,000 types of bacteria 1,000 parasite cysts and 100 parasite eggs – this shows you just how important it is to use soap dispensers properly and making sure you have good hand hygiene!
• During Victorian times outside toilets were common place, but a recent survey by the Halifax showed that around 40,000 houses in the country still have them (we still think that’s quite a few!)
• Typically in public toilets the first cubicle is the least used which also means it’s usually the cleanest.
• Children who grow up without access to toilets are twice as likely to get diarrhoea than children who live in houses with toilets. 
• Contrary to modern logic that women are much neater than men; women are more likely to grab toilet roll, where as men are more likely to fold it!
• And finally, believe it or not most toilets flush in the musical key E flat.

Apologies if this has put you off your lunch or dinner, but it really does show how important washroom equipment such as soap dispensers and hand driers really are in the modern-day washroom.