in second grade I was in the bathroom washing my hands and I made the wheelock whoop noise (i was a kid), and all of a sudden the fire alarm (wheelock AS'es) started blasting since it was a fire drill. nonetheless I didn't use the bathroom for quite some time after that

Lol, at my elementary school had horn strobes in the boys and remote strobes in the girls’

The concept of "overprotection" by putting horns in an bathroom is like asking to piss twice. The only reason of why horns exist in bathrooms is because noise suppression. Though, I agree over how they shouldn't put something too loud in the bathrooms, as demonstrated in the video over 110 decibels can damage hearing. I have a lot of trauma and moments of PTSD over specific fire alarms applied to restrooms. I once had a speaker strobe in my elementary school: the simplex trualert. Now, at my job, we have FAC horn strobes or simplex 2901-9838s on the ceiling. Luckily for us there are only 2 alarms in the large agent rooms, but in the bathrooms are the FACs. I despise looking up. If I remain to stay where I am at my job, I might ask for replacements of the alarms in the bathrooms and have them remote strobe since the door isn't as sealed and is push/pull.

Great video I’ve always wanted someone to make a video about this. I totally agree about everything you said in the video. What I would do is I would put a chime strobe in the bathroom so it doesn’t knock someone’s eardrums out but it still gets a notification message in there for blind people. For a one stall bathroom definitely a strobe only.

at my local bowling alley they have those in bathrooms and i go to the bathroom and wash my hands so fast cause im scared its gonna go off in the bathroom

I was locked in a small bathroom during a fire drill with a horn strobe, I was 6. I'm 18 and I get very light headed when I see any type of fire alarm in a bathroom

Horn strobes will make you deaf within a few seconds. Chime strobes and maybe speaker strobes are softer sound.

If I see a noisy fire alarm in the restroom, I avoid it at all costs.

My highschool has wheelock as horn strobes in the bathrooms. I feel really bad for anyone who was in the bathroom during a fire drill lol.

I once saw a spectralert classic ceiling horn strobe in a changing room at a Dillards. Another time I saw a EST Integrity mini horn strobe in a really small room that had just hand washing sinks. Also there is an architect that designs the system. Installers install whatever shows up on the plan.

When it comes to bathrooms, I usually put chime/strobe in the urinal and sink areas and remote strobes in the stalls. Then, code the chime/strobe to code 3 and strobes on a sync protocol. But, I never put horn/strobes in a restroom for this exact reason.

When I was young fire alarms used to scare me and I was terrified of the possibility that I'd be caught in a bathroom during a fire drill but luckily it never happened. It did happen in the gymnasium once or twice tho, and that was probably almost as bad

Holy shit one of my biggest fears is a horn strobe going off while in the bathroom. Legit if there is a horn strobe in a single stall one I will not use it at like all.

My elementary school was like this, there are EST Genesis mechanical horn strobes in every restroom and small rooms such as the copy rooms and such. I would always wonder why they would install such notification devices in such places, but until recently, I overheard talks about the misfortunes of having horn strobes in the restrooms and small rooms, and I’d always dread ever being in the restroom at the wrong time (if the alarms were to go off). When I as in middle school and now in my senior year of high school, the concept of fire alarms in restrooms has significantly changed in terms of systems and types of devices in the restrooms, compared to my elementary school, which had been and still is equipped with an EST Edwards fire alarm system with EST Integrity and EST Genesis horn strobes, was slightly less and more at the same time obnoxious as my middle school and current high school fire alarm systems that both are equipped with System Sensor Spectralert classics and advanced horn strobes with the remote strobes being installed in the restrooms and small rooms as they should be

at my high school, in one of the bathrooms they had a Wheelock ZNS in EVERY. SINGLE. STALL!!!

There are tons of small bathrooms I encounter that have horn-strobes in them. And since I have Asperger's Syndrome, it's even louder for me. If I see a horn-strobe in a tiny bathroom I'm using, I just keep my ears covered because I know how loud it is. Even though fire alarms don't really bother me like they used to (in fact, I love them now) I still wish more installers would realize how dangerous this is for people's hearing.

I'm very thankful my school district doesn't get lazy and actually does proper installations. There's fire alarms all over the place, with half the building being Wheelock NS horn srobes (Wheelock RS in the bathrooms) and Gentex Commander 3s. The best part about the Commander 3 section is that everywhere that's not a large room or hallway just has a remote strobe and no horn.

I was in 2nd grade, class bathroom break time. I was one of the last to enter the bathroom, only one other boy in there with me. (We were probably goofing around cause ya know) and that's when it happened. TrueAlert Horn/Strobes in the bathroom. We went running out, where we were met by two girls from our class coming out of the girls bathroom. Only problem was the class was gone, and the bathrooms were in an area with no teachers in sight. We don't know what to do cause we were like, 7 years old. We walked past I think 3 exits before we walked out of the door our actual class would have gone out of from our class room. Thankfully we met up with our teacher and it ended up being nothing (Teacher was mad, we got yelled at) but man. That moment was traumatizing enough that I will forever remember every bit of it. For the longest time I was legitimately afraid of going to the bathroom by myself at school for fear of the alarm going off. Later in life I did the inspection of the system at that school There are NO remote strobes in the building. It's 100% horn strobes, even the single occupancy bathrooms that the teachers use. Every elementary school in the area was like that. Pretty sure Simplex only sold the system that way because they can sell a horn/strobe for more than a strobe, even though it costs about the same for them to produce.. I've got more fun facts about how Simplex has some shady business practices, but that could be a whole video in and of itself!

A long time ago, when I was a 1st grader, they went off when I was in the bathroom. Now I'm scared to use a public bathroom

I went to a hotel recently that had accessible rooms, and the difference was they had the hallway setup also in the room. Truealerts with the horns in every room, INCLUDING the small 10x10 ft bathroom mounted right above the door. If that went off it would truly be insanely loud, however the case makes sense as this room also has a hearing accessible doorbell. I can see it being useful for those with hearing issues already but still configured to be a loud system. It is possible these were LF truealerts but I couldn’t tell. Posting this as randomly a System Sensor low frequency sounder base woke me up at 1am. I heard faintly the Advances in the hallway. Glad I wasn’t out there.

Very nice. I get jumped scare if that happened

I remember this once. I was in the second grade of school and I was in the restroom. The restroom was very creepy. It was very echo-y, had Bad lighting, and If you were to stay in there for too long the motion sensor lights will go out and you will be in there in pitch darkness. and over all overall just gives you bad vibes. It was very small it only had one urinal, one stall and 2 sinks below 2 mirrors. It had a heavy wood door about 2" thick so any sound out side you would not hear at all. The room was layed out in a square and semi hallway entrance configuration. When you would walk in you would turn left and then right at the very end of the semi hallway into the actual space and again it was very small. You would only be able to fit at least 5 comfortably in there. Anyways I was in there all by my self and the all of a sudden a sound of a Gentex Commander 3 on full volume and full candela sounds. Scared me shitless. I remembered it on the air horn setting doing code 3. It was soo loud. The reverb echo was just awful. And all I could see was the flashing strobe it was very bright so much so that it had to be on the full candela setting. I immediately bailed out of there not even washing my hands. After that I rarely used that same restroom again. I'm older now in the teens and I don't go to that school anymore. I still remember that day as if it happened yesterday.

Yep. "Ouch" is right. Thankfully, I have never been in a position where a horn has been in a bathroom, but if I ever was, I'd... probably just avoid using that bathroom, to be honest.

They put horn strobes in bathrooms so you can get the crap scared out of you and get out of the bathroom faster... duh..

If techs were to install a horn strobe in the bathroom, they should consider installing a mini-horn at least like a GX-90 or something related, or just stick with remote strobes, depending on the size of the bathroom. It’s less ear-splitting than adding a regular horn strobe. That’s just my theory.

In the UK, fire alarms you can get sounder bases, which are basically quieter sounders, and they still use regular, extremely loud sounders

I once had the misfortune of having one of these things go off with my ear within a couple feet of it. Extremely, extremely painful. The store I used to work at had these things in small spaces and I never really understood the point of it. I love the SpectrAlerts (as well as the new L series), but somebody got carried away and overdid it by a country mile.

At my school, there are speaker strobes inside of some of the bathrooms. One of them actually has an Integrity remote strobe mounted to the ceiling as well as a Genesis speaker strobe. The speaker strobe that i had in the thumbnail for my fire drill video that I uploaded last Thursday was a picture that i took of a speaker strobe installed in one of the boys bathrooms at my school.

My college has speaker strobes in the restrooms of the larger buildings (student union, library) and TrueAlert HORN strobes on the older in construction, 'graduate' campus. Glad I am not around when those go off; and the Student Union has a beeping tone so its very tolerable (also has bells and horn strobes in the building)

Pretty much every Sports Venue I've been in has Horn/Strobes in the Restrooms. Although I'm guessing usually they're more Speaker than Horn with Voice Evac.

the sad part is i know multiple places with advanced horn strobes placed right over the urinals and usually they are in the most echoey bathrooms ever i also see a lot of wheelock as in bathrooms in my area. also the highschool that is closest to my house has advanced that are set to high volume mounted outside and when they false over summer you can hear them ring for a good 4 hours before they are silenced and i live a mile away from the school

Spectralert advances may be loud, but I have to admit, it is pretty satisfying to listen to when they are in sync.

One of the buildings at my university has Simplex 4903 horn strobes installed inside all the bathrooms. Fortunately I was never in the bathroom or in the building when they went off but one time they went off & I was in the building in a classroom across the main sidewalk & could hear them nice & darn clear.

Oh yes; I remember the Walmart I used to work at had a ceiling-mount SpectrAlert Advance horn/strobe in each restroom, as the Walmart corporation designed the system (a Fire-Lite MS-9600UDLS) to have horn/strobes EVERYWHERE. Luckily the installers were smart and set the horn/strobes in spaces like the restrooms or any other smaller rooms to "Low" volume. I remember when I began working there there was also a Wheelock MT-24-WM from the previous FCI system in one of the mens' rooms, and I remember asking a fire alarm technician that came in the restroom during a routine testing if only the Advance was hooked up, and he said it was, and I said I was glad because having both horn/strobes active in that restroom would be a bad idea! I've also seen a couple buildings at my friend's university with horn/strobes in restrooms. One of them has Simplex 4903-9219 electromechanical horn/strobes in the restrooms (they were installed as part of a Simplex 4100 system installed in the mid-90s; currently they have a Simplex 4100ES with a mix of the 9219s, TrueAlert horn/strobes and even voice-evac!) Another building has Simplex TrueAlert horn/strobes (4100U system) in several of the restrooms; these TrueAlerts are on adapter plates replacing Space Age 2DCD+AV32 horn/lights that were originally in said restrooms! OUCH!

Where I work, each of the restrooms has a ceiling-mounted Simplex TrueAlert horn strobe.

We don't get horn strobes in England, what we do get is bells. Very loud continuous bells. In my local shop, they have bells EVERYWHERE. Even on the roof (they are wall-mounted). I believe they are Fulleon Conventional and Solenoid electronic bells. I seem to remember the Solenoid ones being significantly louder, which may have been a problem because in one small bathroom there were TWO. Two of the same bell - I wasn't sure if one wasn't working, but I believed that both were because everywhere you looked in that shop there were bells everywhere. Fortunately, I wasn't in the bathroom when the alarm was going off. But when we got out, my ears were ringing. Just couldn't imagine what the bathrooms would've been like.

I'm so glad to have been fortunate enough to have NOT been in the bathroom back in grade&high school when horn strobes went off, I think maybe one or 2 of them were properly given some sort of cover or something that reduces the noise (I can't for the life of me figure out what they're called) but anyway! yeah I'm both fortunate and lucky this hadn't happened... I think I'd have lost my hearing by the time I was 18 0.0

Well I D K why I'm watching this @ 12:23 am....

You may be able to get away with a chime/strobe or speaker/strobe in a restroom, but putting a horn/strobe in a restroom is a big no-no!

I would have a heart attack if I was in the rest room and the fire alarm went off inside! That is just so wrong on so many levels

The high school I go to uses hornstrobes in the bathrooms. Good thing they're Cerberus Pyrotronic alarms from the 90's that sounds similar to a Siemens UMMT, somehow my ears are used to the low pitch sounds of those alarms and yet high pitch ones like Wheelock, and Spectralerts hurts my ears a lot.

Epic intro! It reminds me of the fire alarms at school Except that they don’t seem as terrifying in the intro. It has a nice beat

I been to a school where the alarms were replaced, and the school now uses spectralert advances, and in the bathroom, horn strobes.

They actually have horn strobes at the learning skills center and at the High School where I graduated from in 2004, I would definitely not be in the bathroom during a Fire Drill. I'd hate that, honestly. In my opinion, a strobe works better.

At my school they only have the strobes in the bathrooms because you can hear the outside alarms from in the bathrooms

Back in December 2013 I was at a High School Basketball game and the school had horn-strobes in the Restrooms. The horns were Simplex 9838s.

My school actually has two of those exact same fire alarm models in the bathroom and I couldn’t imagine how loud it would be if you were in there and they went off since they’re two in there! Lol.

I was working this event and there was this little walk through thing that snaked through the bathroom and it got me pretty close to the alarm and ended up going off during it and it hurt my ears so much! I was practically right up against it

I saw horn strobes in the bathroom at a water park.

I'm no alarm expert, but according to Google Lens, there is an Edwards GL1WN horn mounted inside my apartment bedroom, which is a roughly 6x6ft room. I'm not sure if its meant to be mounted in such an enclosed space, but every time it goes off it is incredibly painful, I know this because, for some reason, the fire alarm in my apartment goes off randomly about twice per month for no apparent reason.

Thank goodness that the school that I go to has remote strobes in the bathrooms... otherwise I'd be having anxiety :p

At my middle school there’s nothing but specter alert advances more horn strobes than strobes.edit:my school has specter alert horn strobes in a bathroom with tile in it

There’s this local vet that has a HORRIBLE fire alarm installation. SpectrAlert Advances EVERYWHERE. Like literally so many that they’re only a couple of feet apart from each other. Not only that, but the worst part is that there isn’t a SINGLE remote strobe. All horn strobes, even in the bathrooms.

in my high school we have that same exact fire alarm and the horn strobe is in some of the bathrooms!

That fire alarm looks like the ones in my science building, except those ones are notifier fire alarms

Here in the UK at my college, we have this building that used to be a prison and uses a different sounder type to the rest of the college called the Cooper Fulleon Roshni. One thing that bugs me is that they put Roshnis in the toilets. Why? In the other buildings, they put zp755 base sounders which aren't as loud. In my old school, we had Hochiki base sounders even they weren't as bad as one went off and was set on a low volume so everything was fine. The simple solution in the UK is a base sounder works in a toilet, not a big red Roshni or a full on Hornstyle sounder. Some companies are crazy to do this blather. I am even urged to wear headphones so I don't jump from my skin from a loud sweep, continuous or alternating tone in such situation.

The bathrooms in my school have remote strobes however the bathroom in the second grade wing in elementary school had horn strobes

They need to do away with those screeching loud alarms in small rooms such as classrooms.

There’s only a few places in Massachusetts that I know that have Horn Strobes in restrooms, just in general that would scare the living hell out of me 😂😂😂

There was a wheelock AS in a tiny bathroom at a gas station, and worst of all, it was right over the toilet

My school has these exact alarms in the bathrooms on continuous

In an elementary school, they have a Wheelock NS Horn/Strobe in the Pre K, Kinder and 1st grade hall has a small restroom, Causing Hearing loss

When I was in Kindergarten, there was a continous strobe from like 1956 sounding like a Barber shop razor on an amplifier!

ya thought we wouldn't notice that joke about Cole burning popcorn. We noticed.

I care about my hearing so I hate loud fire alarms 🙂

I started watching this video then my smoke alarm went off.

fire alarm went off in the classroom bathroom back in 2nd grade whilst i was using it ☠️

The Elementary School I went to in Michigan had Horn/Strobe Truealerts in some of the Bathrooms. In the Middle School I went to Where I Live Now Have Commander 4s, and Some Commander 2/3s in Some of the Bathrooms.

"Installing Hornstrobes Is Not A Good Idea" My Job site literally putting a Spectralert advance hornstrobe in one of the bathrooms: Allow me to introduce myself..

Actually There's 2 Differences Between The SpectrAlert Advances. Difference 1: One's A Horn Strobe And One's A Strobe Difference 2: One's Red And One's White.

My school has always had a strobe without the horn. Expect for when I was in elementary school

I wouldn’t mind remote strobes, chime strobes, or speaker strobes at the .25 watt setting in bathroom but, if I see a horn strobe in the bathroom, I would find another bathroom the next time I do my business. Horn strobes have their place but a bathroom isn’t one of them.

My school had just strobes thank god

New fear unlocked: Level 1,000!

In buildings in the uk, they stick really loud sounders in lavatories!

As a practice yes you shouldn’t put audibles in a very small space but it depends on the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ). The AHJ in Waterloo Region (Cambridge, Kitchener, Waterloo, Ayr, etc in Ontario Canada) REQUIRE Audibles in barrier free or handicap accessible washrooms. Depends on what your local authority or engineer puts down on the drawings

I saw a spectralert ceiling mount horn strobe in a bathroom at a state park.

Hey seriously, a warehouse complex I worked security in had horns in the restrooms. I had to go check out a fire alarm in one of the buildings one morning and went into a restroom to clear it. I couldn't hear for a good half hour after that.

The bathrooms in one of my grocery stores uses speaker strobes set to voice. I’ve been there when it went off, and it’s not that loud.

At all of my schools the fire alarms in the bathrooms had speakers, including my elementry school which was the worst once since it had spectralert classics which were really loud

I don't know but some school have loud spectalert advance horns including my elementary school in Houston

The Walmart in an area about 20 minutes from my house is less than 4 years old and it has some sort of Wheelock voice evacuation system and the speakers double as the store's PA system and there are speaker strobes in the bathrooms are those ok to install?

My school has spectralert advances the Chime one in the bathroom

Everytime I see a fire alarm in my restroom I feel like it’s gonna go off so I wash my hands for like 10 seconds

I just came back from the movies and i used the bathroom and there was a EST horn ceiling mount AND a genesis HORN STOBE

I KNOW THAT A BATHROOM IN DENVER INTL AIRPORT THER IS A ALERT HORN IN THE RESTROOM

That horn/remote strobe is in my old school (But the ones in my old school are red)

Interesting information, I would like to learn more about these strobe fire alarms.

meanwhile every school only has hornstrobes in the bathrooms not just a strobe halls right there i'll know

Horns also don't belong in Hospitals and Hotels; chime fire alarms are ideal in those venues!

My 2nd elementary school had a Simplex 4903-923x in the TINY BATHROOM. We had a fire drill, of course it was at that time when I was on the throne.

Yet every school I went to did this...SHGs in elementary and intermediate school (set continuous) and GEC4 ceiling mounts in classrooms...hallways and bathrooms set on code 3...and I was diagnosed with sensory processing disorder as a kid If I knew it was the end of the month I avoided bathrooms during class like the damn plague. But...it was a Spectralert Advance that actually helped me remember their importance. In an apartment complex I was in there was a grease fire. Gentex Mini horn inside with advances outside. First thought when I heard them go off was some dumbass pulled a pullstation...till I saw smoke billowing from a unit 2 units across. And I remembered that these horribly sounding horns have a job and sometimes we don't remember how important they are until we see them do their job.

My old dorm had horn strobes (SpectrAlert Classics) in the bathrooms

My school has insanely loud Simplex TrueAlert Horn Strobes in all the bathrooms, Including the Single-Stall Bathrooms

This is why at the beginning of a month of school I barely use the bathroom. And after the fire drill I would go strait to the batchroom

My middle school had horn strobes in the bathroom. Thank FUCK it never went off when I was there.

Our school bathrooms downstairs have semiens remote strobes but the upstairs bathrooms have semiens UMMTs set on code 3 horn

I live in a neighborhood state ran group home and my city code requires hornstrobes in the bathroom

At work I've seen a few small bathrooms with entire speaker strobes in them

In Florida they are literally in your hotel rooms bathroom