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The Customer
St Anne's School Female Toilet Room was looking tired after more than two decades of use, so the Commercial Washrooms school toilet refurbishment team was approached to update the facilities and introduce a more modern approach to the challenges of a School Toilet block.
The old Toilet Block consisted of 28 three-quarter-height Toilet Cubicles, Hand dryers, mirrors, fluorescent tubes, and a central island for Hand Basins. It also had entrance doors so that antisocial behaviour could be conducted behind closed doors.
St Anne’s is a highly successful school with a strong moral purpose: to work together to strive to be the best that we can be and to live life to the fullest. Our Catholic ethos, girls’ school status at Key Stages 3 and 4 and our mixed Sixth Form College make us hard to beat as the best place to educate the region’s girls from 11 to 18 and boys from 16 to 18.
Customer Testimonial
Ryan Young of St Annes School relfects on a smooth refurbishment
After consultation with our Commercial Washrooms Design Service Team, a plan was approved to provide a complete strip out of the old School Toilet Cubicles and increase the number of Toilet Cubicles to 30, add a suspended ceiling, clad the walls with Altro Hygienic Wall Cladding, 6 Armitage Shanks Sensor taps and counter-mounted soap dispensers.
Cladding the Washroom with hygienic wall cladding made the rooms cleaner and easier to clean. Whiterock not only holds strong hygiene credentials but also high fire ratings.
With extensive experience in this sector, Commercial Washrooms can tackle everything from the ideal flow and design of your washroom for Children, to bringing together the best products that encourage strong personal hygiene habits.
Did you know?
As School Pupils over 5 years of age require 1 toilet for every 20 pupils, increasing the number of Toilet Cubicles increases the permissible number of pupils in the school.
The Toilet Rooms were fitted with an IPS Duct System behind the toilet with Blue Oslo doors and Gris Perle Grey Solid Grade Laminate Cubicle sides. An IPS Duct System is a unit that conceals all pipework, waste and cisterns within a false wall, delivering a clean, minimalist finish. The back-to-back Bathroom Vanity Unit with Wash troughs made space for extra Cubicles.
This School Toilet Refurbishment was completed on time and on budget, outside of term time to minimise disruption.
Eliminating Antisocial Behaviour
The Project involved many improvements in the way that Antisocial Behaviour is managed in modern Schools, including an open-plan layout, sensor taps, floor-to-ceiling cubicles, and a few other ingenious ideas.
- Open plan design with no doors – increasing student security.
- Floor-to-ceiling cubicles to prevent privacy breaches. Camera Phones cannot fit below or above the Cubicle.
- Sensor Taps – to save water and reduce the risk of flooding.
- Anti-concealment ceiling tiles. Pupils cannot hide contraband in the Toilets
- No mirrors – preventing injury and time-wasting, reducing 'hang time'.
- High abuse anti-vandalism cubicles.
Read more about how Advances in Toilet Blocks are eliminating Antisocial behavior in schools.
Customer Response
How happy are you with your installation?
We're ecstatic with the installation. The process from day one has been so smooth - any minor snags the team has had have been resolved with brilliant suggestions to improve and make the cubicles fit perfectly. So yeah 100% satisfied.
How was the decision making process?
I was involved from day one liaising with Lewis Meaden. We've gone through many different designs to accommodate the best toilets that we could get in here. Lewis came up with some brilliant suggestions to fit in extra toilets so it's been really easy and it's great working with him.
Were there any disruptions to the School day?
Fortunately we were having work done in the summer holidays but even then the team have been so accommodating um with the times we've been able to work putting in extra hours where needed so there's been no disruptions - it's been smooth process
How did you decide to use Commercial Washrooms?
We spoke to a number of contractors regarding having these toilets fitted, but we immediately felt a strong connection. The response time on emails from day one were immediate. Lewis has been in constant contact with myself and others here at St Annes just to make sure everything moves smoothly.
Is it a benefit having all the specialisms in one company?
Having the Commercial Washrooms provide everyone from the Carpenters to the Plumbers and the Electricians has been brilliant. For any small issues they've had, they've had someone on site immediately to rectify them rather than waiting for a contractor from another company. It's been so smooth having it all in one.
Would you recommend Commercial Washrooms?
We'll 100% recommend - we're already looking at booking them in to provide Toilet Cubicles in the other areas of the School.
