Get the hand dryers right in an office and nobody mentions them, which is the whole point. Get them wrong and you hear about it every day.
Whichever you choose, you lose the paper towel bill, the overflowing bins and the cleaning that goes with them. And if you are fitting out on someone else's behalf, the last thing you want is a callback, so it is worth weighing the warranty as heavily as the spec. Call us on 01934 253600 for a quote.
Three things decide it in practice:
- Noise, if the washroom backs onto desks or a meeting room.
- Running cost, which follows the wattage more than anything else.
- A warm airflow, which staff notice on a cold morning and which not every high-speed model offers.
Quiet, or cheap to run?
In most office washrooms you can have both, but it is worth knowing which way each model leans.
- The Mitsubishi Jet Towel Slim unheated is the best of both here: 59dB on 550W. No warm air, which suits a heated office and not a cold one.
- The Mitsubishi Jet Towel Smart is the quietest and fastest combination on the page, 58dB in 9 seconds.
- The Diamond Dryers range draws only 300W, the lowest here, but runs at 75dB. Good for a washroom well away from the desks.
If noise is the deciding factor, our hands-in models enclose the airflow and are quieter as a group. If you want the full low-noise range rather than the office selection, see quiet hand dryers.
