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Here at Handy Dryers we have developed a superb range of hands in hand dryers sutable for all modern washrooms. These hygenic hand dryers include HEPA filters as standard helping protect your customers and your staff.And this range is expanding! Unlike a Dyson Airblade AB14, the Gorillo range ...

What is a HEPA filter? “HEPA” stands for “high-efficiency particulate air” (filter) and is an efficiency standard form of air filtration. Made from synthetic fibres, HEPA filters are incredibly effective at capturing almost every size of particle and releasing cleansed air back into the en...

OUR ECO COST SAVING HAND DRYER FAVOURITE, AND YOURS... Our cost saving ECO gem... With the whole world seeming to be feeling the financial pinch, we are thrilled to be able to support you by offering such a superb hand drying experience with an equally amazingly low running electricity cost ...

Global Handwashing Day is a global advocacy day dedicated to increasing awareness about the importance of hand hygiene and triggering lasting change from the policy-level to community-driven action. Handy Dryers believes that Global Handwashing Day can help schools across the UK increas...

When rising costs and bills seem to be all we are talking about, Handy Dryers are thrilled to be able to provide you with some of the most cost effective, low energy hand dryers within the UK marketplace today. We cannot change the rising cost of energy, we wish we could, but we can offe...

HEPA filters should be replaced every 6-12 months Replacement HEPA filter - Gorillo Hand Dryers Keeps your dryer’s air clean We recommend replacing the HEPA filter on your Gorillo hand dryer every six months or so, particularly if you manage a commercial washroom or a facility w...

Is style important to you? Do you have an eye for interior design, or maybe you feel your rest room can be more than just a functional area for users? As well as an extensive range of advanced user functions, our ever expanding range of black handy dryers, offer a stylish, modern and eye-cat...

STERILLO THE HYGIENE INNOVATORS WELCOME CLASSROOM PURIFIER TRIAL Leading hygiene innovators, Sterillo, welcome the Government’s recent announcement to trial air purifiers and UV light in schools to combat COVID-19. The trials, which aim to curb the spread of coronavirus in classrooms, are t...

One possible reason that children may abstain from using sanitiser is due to the effect it has on their skin. A recent study of school children in Denmark has shown that 42.4% of children studied who had no prior symptoms of dermatitis were experiencing it since more stringent hand hygiene measures ...

In order to ascertain whether HEPA filters can remove coronavirus from the air, we must first determine the sizes that they are able to filter, and the size of this virus itself. The coronavirus is 0.075–0.160 microns in diameter. Now, the HEPA filter (in order to be classified as such) must be able...

Should we really be using hand sanitisers over washing our hands? Hand sanitiser usage has absolutely rocketed, with a recent report finding "The demand for hand sanitizers has increased by 1400 per cent from December 2019 to February 2020 period." Some companies had even gone so far as t...

What is IP Rating for a Washroom? The IP rating (Ingress Protection rating) helps determine what washroom electricals can be fitted in particular zones in the area. It is important to consider this when buying lights, hand dryers and extractor fans etc. The IP number is used in the UK to speci...

Best Hand Dryers To Beat Covid Contamination. In order to start addressing this question, we have to paint the picture of what really happens to the microbial flora on someone's hands between the time that someone enters a washroom, and then leaves. It is widely accepted that hands become cont...

Appropriate hand washing facilities in schools are key to preventing spread of infectious diseases via person-to-person contact (Goldmann, 2000; Department for Education and Skills, 2006). The importance of this measure comes from meta-analysis studies that have found various hand hygiene interven...

The UK government has joined global health experts, including the World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in approving the use of hand dryers throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The confirmation follows a campaign from the hand drying industry request...

The UK is slowly but surely, beginning to return to some normalcy after the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic that has been prevalent in the last few months. As of June 15, all non-essential retail shops opened to the UK public (Stephens and Penna, 2020) and by July 4th, pubs, restaurants, and large p...

Market research studies show that the sale of hand sanitiser products has skyrocketed by 470% in the first week of March this year (when compared with the same week in 2019) (Huddleston, 2020). Despite this, very little research exists at present investigating the efficacy of different types of han...

Is your school prepared with hand sanitiser stations? Many schools in order to provide a safe environment for children and staff to return following the COVID-19 lockdown will need to provide ample sanitisation equipment to reduce the risk of viruses and bacteria spreading. Sanitiser stations ...

With the Covid 19 pandemic changing our world as we know it, we need to make new choices regarding how we work and how best to keep ourselves, our staff and our customers as safe as possible.  The new UK Government advice is clear insofar as it expect every business have hand san...

What are HEPA filters? Air purifying filters, such as the HEPA filter, work to remove pollutants, microorganisms and other particles from the air. Once in use, these filters are subject to an onslaught of fungi and microorganisms from the environment. The threat imposed by biological agents such as...

Virus’ and germs travel by air. Silently, unseen and undetected. They emerge at speed from our mouths, noses and waste excretions Washrooms have the most dangerous of air environments to manage. Flushing sends up a mushroom cloud of aerosolised droplets Anything and eve...

Sterillo Hand Dryer and Sterillo UNO have understandably been flying out of our warehouse in recent months. Our washroom sterilisation equipment was primarily being used in just the one room, but thanks to Sterillo UNO – a complete air sanitisation unit without a hand dryer, we have ...

When someone sneezes, a potent mixture of particles containing bacteria, viruses, allergens are released in a suspension called bioaerosols (biological aerosols). This is one-way airborne pathogens (such as Coronavirus) spread from human to human and cause subsequent infections.  It is commonl...

Germicidal UVC light (254.7nm) is proven to stop all viruses (including Coronavirus’) replicating and therefore spreading.  By destroying the section of DNA responsible of its replication – the virus is no longer able to infect or spread. Coronaviruses are strikingly similar i...

As the Coronavirus death toll rises more and more governments are being forced to take drastic action in attempts to abate its inexorable spread about the globe whilst the medical fraternity race against time to find out the vital facts they need to understand how to deal with the virus’s spread and...

It has been debated over between paper towel and hand dryer industry giants for many years. Both sides of the argument have for some time been able to make viable scientific studies which prove one is better than the other at maintaining washroom hygiene and in a recent article in the Guardian newsp...

Nothing says sophistication in a washroom more than high performing hygienic quiet hand dryers, especially when they have a significantly lower sound output than customers’ might be used to. It’s surprising how simple ambience and a pleasant method to dry one’s hands after visiting the bathroom in ...

Research highlights the importance of hand drying in infection control – and points to electric hand dryers as the best method of hand drying While the benefits of washing your hands have been understood for more than a century, the benefits of hand drying are yet to become public knowledge. Equa...

Gone are the days of compromise. In the past we had specific hand dryers leading the way for either style or drying time but the dryers of 2021 are trailblazing state of the art technology, superseding all of the old ‘specialist’ dryers in one compact machine. In the past few years...

In theory, placing your hand dryer or towel dispenser in just the right location should be easy. In the simplest terms, it involves measuring the hand dryer height from the floor and planning the right hand dryer distance from the sink and other washroom features. The fact that it seems so simple i...

At Handy Dryers our aim is to provide long lasting products that can be repaired either by our technical team or by our customers. We developed our own products so that they can be repaired We stock replacement parts including covers, motherboards and HEPA filters for most of our products W...

If you’ve never fitted a hand dryer by yourself before, you’re in the right place. To make your hand dryer installation an absolute breeze, follow our simple six-step guide.  Hand dryer installation in 6 simple steps Step 1: Time to unpack First things first – open the box ...

Whether you work in an office, exercise at a leisure centre or eat in a restaurant, washing your hands and using a hand dryer are everyday occurrences.  Although it’s easy to overlook how hand dryers work, the facts may surprise you – and they’ll certainly make you think twic...

As we discussed in a previous article, there’s a ‘right’ way to dry your hands – and there are plenty of wrong ways too. Use the wrong method, and you risk holding hands with millions of bacteria. What we didn’t tell you about were the different types of hand dryer and...

How to install a baby changing station The Grey Baby Changing Station is available for purchase from Handy Dryers. It is an ideal model for many commerical washrooms. Baby changing stations are designed to be easy to install, and any baby changing unit you purchase should be provided with a full ...

Hand dryers are usually very robust, but – like all modern technology – they do require a spot of maintenance from time to time.  ‘My dryer isn’t heating’ is one of the most common hand dryer queries we receive – but it is often one of the simplest issues to...

So, here’s the thing – there’s no single test for deciding which dryer is best. Choosing the perfect hand dryer will require you to consider a number of factors, including the needs of your users, your facilities budget, interior design considerations and the particular requirement...

It’s easy to take hand dryers for granted. After all, you spend a matter of seconds using them, and once you’ve dried your hands and carried on with your day, they’re quickly forgotten about. But when you look past all the industry bluster, the hand dryers history that emerges is ...

Are hand dryers safe? That seems to be the question on everybody’s lips.  You can hardly pick up a newspaper or read a blog these days without encountering some scathing report about the safety of hand dryers.  The popular view is that hand dryers spread germs and bacteria inside t...

Hand drying is more important than you’d think We all know how important it is to wash our hands. The Covid 19 pandemic has reinforced this message. Washing and as we will find out, drying our hands properly is more important than ever. But what most of us don’t know is wet hands are m...

All the staff at Handy Dryers would like to wish all of our customers and visitors and very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. As the year draws to an end and everyone winds down to prepare for spending time with extended family and friends over these upcoming holidays we would like to thank you ...

As the cold weather draws in and brings with it snow, ice, cold hands and runny noses, we think that we have found the perfect winter warmer... hand dryers! With our hand dryers being so economical to run and so powerful when you use them that your hands will be toasty and warm within seconds and re...

This delightful specimen was found by Steve, our MD, whilst he was on his travels in the picturesque hamlet of Pin Mill, Suffolk on the banks of the River Orwell. This must surely be the oldest example of an electric hand dryer in existence?!  Amazingly it still worked (at least air came out o...

Bathrooms are a prime location for smearing disease-causing microbes all over your hands. Yet, despite societal pressures and prodding signage, a lot of people don’t clean their grimy mitts after a potty break. Some audacious folks just skip the sink all together, while others don’t wash...

All modern hand dryers should dry hands in 10-12 seconds and it is therefore quite straightforward to calculate their running cost as, apart from electricity, there is usually little or no maintenance and no spares or consumables needed. To calculate an actual cost we need to know: • N...

Studies have shown that airborne germs such as flu and norovirus spread quicker in washrooms than anywhere else, resulting in it being one of the most common reasons for sickness in the workplace. However, to try and tackle this the Sterillo Hand Dryer and Sterillo Uno sanitiser have been ...

The NEC approached Handy Dryers in early 2016 to ask our opinion on converting from using paper towels in all of their washrooms throughout the entire Exhibition Centre in Birmingham to hand dryers.  They were part way through a major refurbishment and wanted hand dryers that met the following ...

User accessible toilets play a vital role in improving the lives of thousands of people throughout the UK by allowing them the freedom to venture beyond their own doorstep safe in the knowledge that they can access toilet facilities. For some people though standard accessible toilets are not suitabl...

Here at Handy Dryers we take pride in being a carbon trust accredited supplier and work closely with a variety of suppliers and customers to ensure that we are as ECO friendly as we can be and produce hand dryers that are ECO friendly. The environmentally friendly hand dryers that we produce are ...

Have you ever had that sinking feeling as you approach yet another ineffectual hand dryer?  We have a full range of hand dryers to suite your every bathroom, Commercial or otherwise. With cutting edge technology, our hand dryers blow away the competition and leave your hands dry as a ...