Advice please on bathroom doorway widths inc the door

[FossilPancake]

Hi

Please someone advise me. I have found the regulations for required doorway widths for bathrooms, but if you have a door that doesn't open fully because of the handle on the back and therefore reduces the accessible width does this contravene the regulations? I have attached a very crude hand drawn picture as an example.

Thank you

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Is this an existing house or extension or what? Or a new house? Upstairs, downstairs?

 

[FossilPancake]

It's actually a first floor hotel room that has built a bathroom in the room between 2 cupboards.

 

[RichA]

Can you use a smaller handle.

A 70cm door should have a hypotenuse (opening) of 99cm. So the handle must be quite substantial?

Via Pythagoras:
99^2 = 70^2 + 70^2

 

[FossilPancake]

Yes the handle was quite large. This is the only place I could find to ask the question as this was in a hotel that we stayed in over the weekend and I am complaining about the access to the bathroom.

 

[chappers]

did you manage to get in and I assume you managed to get out again. If so just give it up stay somewhere else next time.

 

[John D v2.0]

I don't think you'll get far complaining about building regulations. Just write a bad review online and don't go back.
If this Is an academic discussion, then true you wouldn't get away with it in a new dwelling, but who knows with a hotel.