Total Hygiene Makes it Real

Choosing independent living aids is being made more personal with an innovative approach from Total Hygiene, the company behind the Clos-o-Mat ‘wash and dry’ toilet.

The firm has developed a novel exhibition display, receiving its first major outing at Naidex 2010, which aims to help people better picture the equipment in their own home, and see how it works.

Fully functioning Clos-o-Mat Palma ‘wash and dry’ toilet, Lima Lift height adjustable ‘wash and dry’ toilet, Aerolet toilet lift and a selection of the company’s new range of height adjustable fixtures are displayed against a backdrop showing a bathroom/ washroom environment. Plasma TV screens strategically positioned around the stand area run computer generated imagery (CGI) footage of Total Hygiene’s range of equipment in action.

Robin Tuffley, Total Hygiene marketing manager, elaborates, “We have extended our range of independent toileting aids significantly, and want to make people aware of the diversity of options now available to make carrying out this basic daily function as pleasant and dignified an experience as possible. We all know when buying anything for the home, particularly in an exhibition environment, it can be hard to visualize how it works, and what it would actually look like in situ- hence our development of real working examples in a ‘roomset’ display, enhanced by the rolling video of the equipment.”

The Clos-o-Mat Palma Vita is now the UK’s top-selling toilet of its type, with its integral douching and drying facilities eliminating the need for the user or their carer to wipe them clean after toileting. It is also the only unit of its kind developed specifically for disabled people, and with WRAS approval, so the only one that can be legally connected to the UK mains water supply. Simple body or hand pressure on the flush pad or ‘remote’ pressure sensitive pad triggers the flushing and warm water douching process, followed by warm air drying to comfortably but effectively cleanse after toileting. Total Hygiene has now introduced a wall-mounted version, the Lima Vita, to compliment the current trend in bathroom aesthetics.

The Aerolet toilet lift is available in a range of options, and replicates natural standing and sitting motion, lowering and raising the user over the toilet in complete safety and with optimum stability, whether in a single user domestic or multi-user public/ commercial environment.

The additional range of height adjustable equipment, coupled with Total Hygiene’s range of hoists, body driers and shower seats, enable comprehensive, Document M- and Changing Places- compliant bathrooms and washrooms to be specified, supplied and installed from one, proven reputable source.

Total Hygiene (www.clos-o-mat.com) has over 30 years’ expertise in developing, supplying and maintaining toileting aids- the only UK company to offer the breadth of supply and support for ‘wash and dry’ toilet products. Today, some 40,000 Clos-o-Mats are in domestic, commercial and public environments in the UK, some of which are still in regular use 30+years after being first installed.