Why should your business, restaurant or store consider touchless fixtures?
Your clients, customers, and employees have a perception of the safety of your office, warehouse, store, or restaurant. In these days of COVID, ensuring that perception is a positive one is paramount to fully recovering your business. Touchless fixtures are the remedy for this.
Many people, especially older age groups, and particularly women, are reluctant to physical contact with public-use fixtures such as faucets, toilets, and drinking water. Many commercial clients replace standard bathroom faucets with touchless, automatic sensor models, such as the Sloan® automatic sensor faucet shown here. Sloan’s sensor-activated technology helps stop the spread of germs by reducing contact in the restroom. It’s also a great way to reduce water usage (which saves you money).
Add some touchless, automatic soap dispensers and air dryers, and your clients, customers, and employees will feel safe, secure, and clean; they’ll also tell their family and friends.
Sensor-Activated Touchless Faucets
No one, especially in today’s COVID-sensitized world, wants to touch a faucet control someone previously touched. New technology allows users to avoid touching the faucet and also means fewer hoses and wires.
Plus, there are innovative options to power to these units, including:
- Batteries – Ideal where hardwiring is not an option, like retrofitting spaces.
- Solar – Passively harvest power from outdoor or indoor light to extend battery life.
- Hardwired with Battery Backup – Perfect for new construction or remodeled space and allows functionality if the power goes out
- Turbine – Miniaturized hydro-electric turbines extract power from moving water and use it to extend battery life.
It’s often possible to connect up to six faucets to a single power source.
Time to Get Smart
With a “smart” faucet, every office, store, or restaurant can provide peace of mind while also benefitting from enhanced water management analysis. With an app on your smart device, faucet settings are adjustable without getting under the sink. A wireless connection provides functionality and data that can help you save money, including:
- Adjust settings wirelessly, and avoid disassembly or getting “under the deck.”
- Determine on-demand or metered faucet activation.
- Adjust the timeout duration.
- Activate a line flush to clear the supply lines or drains.
- Data to measure or analyze water usage.
- Check the status of the batteries, plus identify technical data.
- Save notes about the site or the faucet.
There are many touchless deck-mounted or wall-mounted faucet designs from which to choose. Many brands have standardized their internal components to expedite installation and reduce costs if repairs are ever needed. And in addition to polished chrome, there are special finishes available in many of the brands we work. Many of our faucets are engravable with corporate logos, teams, or venue names.
Legal Mandates
As a result of the spread of COVID-19, many municipalities are quickly mandating touchless fixtures in public and commercial bathrooms. These mandates started with schools but are expanding to other municipal buildings.
There are many finishes available, including polished chrome, polished brass, brushed stainless, polished nickel, and matte black.
Touchless Soap Dispensers
We can provide sensor-activated soap dispensers to complement your choice of faucet design. Your employees, customers, and guests will love their style and performance, and you’ll love their durability. They are ideal for:
- Office Suites
- Schools & Universities
- Restaurants
- Retail Stores
- Airports
- Medical Offices
Sensor-activated soap dispensers are available hardwired or battery-powered. Installation and set-up are simple, and the units require little maintenance.
Touchless Toilets
Your employees, customers, and guests will appreciate the distinctive appearance, enhanced hygiene, and hands-free experience a touchless toilet will provide.
Touchless toilets, while similar to regular toilets, are fitted with advanced flushing systems but do not require your employees or customers to come into contact with any surfaces to flush away waste. In general, toilets are a hotbed for germs and bacteria, so touchless technology is a welcome addition, from a hygiene perspective.
Touchless toilets use battery-operated infrared sensors and engineered to deliver reliable quality, design, and performance for years to come. You can also extend the battery life with solar power harvesting in some models. Standard alkaline batteries can provide up to six years of operation.
Flushing toilets require a lot of water but today’s dual flush technology, available in many sensor-activated mechanisms, provides a high-efficiency option to reduce water consumption. Some Sloan® models have shown up to 30% water volume reduction.
If your existing toilets use the Sloan® Flushometer mechanism, Aquino can retrofit them with a Sloan® sensor-activated flushometer. This retrofit approach means not having to disconnect the flushometer from the stop and fixture.
There are many special finishes available, and all of them provide durability and stain resistance. Looking for a bold statement or prefer a clean and efficient look, Aquino can help you determine the right finish for your environment.
Products That Are Recognized & ApprovedCompliance
Americans with Disabilities (ADA)
California Energy Commission (CEC)
Buy American Act (BAA) on select models
CalGreen Code
NSF 372
Contact Aquino Plumbing, Heating, & Air ConditioningWant to Learn More?
Aquino is ready to help with the latest touchless, automatic COVID-alleviating restroom essentials, and the team of professional plumbing technicians to properly install them. Contact us today, so we can immediately help your business recovery effort. Use the form here and let’s start the conversation. Or call Aquino at (973) 981-1034.