When you see a wet floor sign in front of the restroom

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If there's a sign blocking the way into the bathroom, it's closed.

Basically, if I see any type of maintenance equipment (e.g. cleaning supplies, relevant caution signs and orange cones, machinery, etc.) blocking the entryway into any room, I immediately suspect that some kind of significant maintenance is going on in the room. Most people I know of would not use a restroom that is undergoing significant maintenance, so they go find another restroom. However if you really need to use the restroom, I don't think people are going to necessarily stop you, unless the maintenance person is actually in there and doesn't want you using the restroom. If the maintenance person is in there, I ask if it's ok. I don't want to be a bother to maintenance people trying to do their work, and at the same time I do not want to be bothered by maintenance that can potentially be very noisy, create a lot of dust or aerosols, etc..

oh, jesus, i work with these things all day. it simply means that the floor has just been mopped, and to be careful not to slip. it's basically just a big plastic disclaimer. if it's right in front of the door, that usually means the housekeeper or janitor doesn't know the proper place to put it where people won't fall over the damn sign. in which case you'd need an extra "beware of sign" sign.

just because i put a wet floor sign at the entrance to a patient's room, you think it means the nurse or doc can't go in? jeez people.

Strangely enough, I went to a museum today and the ladies restroom had a yellow cone that said "caution wet floor". I thought of this thread and I thought how strange to go so long without seeing a public restroom with a wet floor cone in the doorway. Suddenly this thread appears and just as suddenly, a cone appears blocking the door of a public restroom irl. I thought about the info in this thread, the wet floor cone in the doorway means the restroom is closed. I needed to go so badly I walked in anyway. No one was inside and the floor was completely dry! It was very clean. Somebody must have forgot to remove the cone.

If it's not actually blocking the door from opening then it means wet floor. If it`s just close to the door then it could just mean the bathroom just got cleaned.

If the put a barrier around it as well I would get the hint. But if it just a single free standing sign I would just walk around it with caution.

I would think that it would mean the floor is wet. A sign saying "closed" would be closed, to me. I work at wal-mart, and whenever i see a "wet floor" sign anywhere i take it as a warning to be careful because the floor is wet.. Not as something that means i'm not supposed to go past it. If the cleaning person's cart is completely blocking the entrance to the bathroom then, ok, i won't go in. But just a sign, to me, always meant to be careful. But, then again, i once got in trouble in middle school for writing a message to someone during a "silent lunch" our class has as punishment, because i took "silent" to mean no speaking, not no communication, and the teacher wouldn't believe that i sincerely didn't understand that. o_O Rules are just strange sometimes.

I don't know why, but every time I see one of these signs I laugh. It's the "Piso Mojado" that cracks me up cause "piso" makes me think of piss. Caution: Piss on the Floor. And then I have piso mojado phrase stuck in my head for a couple hours.

That one looks like a pencil. The cone I saw was plastic, taller and much more narrow, like a small tower only pointed on top. This thread has made me wonder...what does the cone really mean when it is placed in front of a restroom and is it different depending on where the restroom is. If i had saw someone who worked at the museum in the restroom, I might have asked, "Does the caution cone mean the restroom is closed or is it a warning the floor is wet so they won't get sued if someone happens to slip?" I bet if I asked around whenever I saw a cone, the answers would vary.

We should all make a point of finding out so we can compare our answers

Up here, it means walk with caution.We put the sign up to warn you of the wet floor so you took on the risk by risk by walking in and if you fall, we are not liable and you can't sue us since we did not breach our duty of care in warning people of the dangers involving a wet floor such as slipping.

The sign is more of a way for those cleaning, to legally cover their butts from any potential lawsuits from people falling.