7 Keen Tips to Maintain and Enhance Safety Inside Your Bathroom
When talking about the bathroom at home, many people are very much concerned about its looks, visuals and aesthetics. What color will it be? What tiles would be used? How will it be styled? Being a place of “comfort”, it’s understandable how homeowners are indeed looking forward to making their home bathrooms pretty and posh. Nevertheless, beyond all that beauty, what everyone must prioritize is the safety inside the bathroom.
Keep yourself and your loved ones free from danger in your house. Check out these 7 tips to maintain and enhance safety inside your bathroom.
1 – Set non-slip floor mats and covers
The number one hazard that people encounter in bathrooms is slipping. Because the comfort room is where you take a bath, sometimes wash clothes and do other hygienic and sanitary activities that need water, the floor gets wet and slippery. Falling and slipping happen during these times of wet and soapy floors. Regardless of whether you’re spending just a minute or an hour in the bathroom, you may get into an accident of slipping. It’s dangerous.
To prevent this very common bathroom accident, set non-slip floor mats and covers. They are tough and reliable to firmly attach to the floor. No matter how wet the floor gets, these slip-resistant mats will do their job of protecting bathroom users from accidentally sliding. While some homeowners just place these mats on the door area, it would be best to entirely occupy and wrap the floor.
Using these keeps you safe, especially family members who are handicapped, elderly or kids.
2 – Consider matte floor tiles.
Your new home builders or your house renovation experts know the best tiles for your bathroom if you’re targeting utmost safety, and they’re matte floor types. Unlike glossy floor tiles, matte tiles are not slippery. It is very safe to walk around and even slightly run on matte bathroom flooring.
On top of that, they require low maintenance, which makes bathroom sanitation quicker and easier than other tile sorts. That lessens your exposure to possible accidents while cleaning the bathroom.
3 – Ensure sufficient lighting in the bathroom.
Accident-prone areas, inside and outside the house, need ample lighting and lighting equipment to prevent the common mishaps that happen there. In the bathroom, ensure sufficient lighting. So users can clearly and surely see where they set foot and where to hold inside the bathroom, see to it that the lighting is bright enough to make everything visible. Further misfortunes, like falling, slipping and tripping, will eventually be avoided.
4 – Keep cleaning chemicals out of children’s reach.
Many bathroom harms mostly happen to children because of their playfulness and curiosity and also because of the wrong organization of items in the bathroom (or the lack thereof). Cleaning agents, such as toilet bowl cleaners, bleach, tile sprays, mildew removers, are usually just placed anywhere on the bathroom floor. When naughty little kids discover them and think that they are toys, you might encounter tremendous life-changing troubles. Do not let them get even a little chance of happening!
Keep cleaning chemicals out of children’s reach. For your new house, let your new home builders create tough and durable shelves or cabinets in your bathroom. That’s where you will keep all chemicals not used for the human body. They should be separate from your body cleaning and grooming items. When not in use, those custom-made bathroom closets must be locked.
5 – Have grab bars installed.
Talk to your new home builders, and have grab bars installed to your bathroom walls. These are the metal handles where you can hold onto whenever you’re walking inside your bathroom. They function as support to prevent slipping and to help moving in the area. These are very useful, especially for homeowners with kids, with elderly family members and with mobility issues.
6 – Opt for doorless showers.
Sometimes, less is more. To enhance bathroom safety, you may opt for doorless showers. They are not literally without a door. They do not expose your all to the rest of the house. Instead, it means that inside the bathroom, there are no dividers in between the sink, the tub, the shower area, the cabinets and everything else. It’s an open-floor bathroom also called walk-in showers.
Doorless showers are safe because bathroom obstacles are reduced. You can freely move and navigate without hurdles. Even when you’re in a hurry, you can safely hop into the bathroom and move like no one’s business!
7 – Organize electrical sockets and appliances away from water sources.
Last but not the least, if you have appliances inside the bathroom, make sure that you organize all the electrical sockets and the devices themselves, ascertaining they are stationed away from water sources. Put them on overhead storage areas and not on the floor and not on areas where water usually splashes to. This is to avoid electrocution and fires.
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SAFE SHOWERS!
Bathrooms are inevitable portions of houses. What would life be without them? It’s unimaginable. They are very important as their functionality is irreplaceable! Being one of the most used areas in the house, the bathroom is also prone to many possible mishaps and harms. If not prevented, they can hurt you and your family. Furthermore, they can put your dwelling at risk and even destroy it as well as the other properties around it.
The bathroom may just be a single segment of the house, but it can present multiple challenges to you if you’re not wise and careful. Always keep these safety tips in mind, and remind your family members to also take note of them. Better safe than sorry. Enjoy a bathroom that guarantees your safety!
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Nicole Ann Pore is a writer, an events host and a voice over artist. Quality and well-researched writing is her worthwhile avenue to enlighten and delight others about things that matter. She is a daytime writer for Horizon Homes, a boutique home building and designing company in Australia. Nicole graduated Cum Laude from De La Salle University Manila, Philippines with a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts.
