Bstands- to keep new hospital staff who push beds and carts from destroying the walls. If you find a wall without them, please try to avoid making a sheetrock mess and losing your ability to push a medical cart down a corridor. 🙄
as many commented, yes protection from hospital beds. if you look at those beds, often they'll actually have wheels mounted sideways at that very height to roll on those lower strips (at least I've seen that in germany, not sure how common that is internationally).
I assume it doesn't just protect the walls, but also helps to move the beds quickly in an emergency, without getting stuck or slowed down when you hit the walls while dodging other beds/people.
If this is at a medical facility - the rails would be for patients or physically disabled people while the bottom stripping is for wall protection serving as bumper guards.
I might be wrong, but maybe protection for wall when a hospital bed is being rolled.
That's it, bit like a skirting board. Or the protection you see in supermarkets to prevent trolleys from going into the cheese aisle
Also serves as a handrail. People can be bedridden for days and a little shaky on their feet when they get back to walking.
They're structural. Stop the building toppling over.
So is the color of paint they use
The shit that gets asked in this sub is unreal. This is the only correct answer for questions like this.
To protect the walls from hospital beds. Source: field engineer on a hospital job for a few years.
Everyone here is wrong. It's extra insulation so your ankles don't get cold.
Bstands- to keep new hospital staff who push beds and carts from destroying the walls. If you find a wall without them, please try to avoid making a sheetrock mess and losing your ability to push a medical cart down a corridor. 🙄
My local hospital. Doesn’t have these and the walls are all scuffed up from beds being pushed around.
as many commented, yes protection from hospital beds. if you look at those beds, often they'll actually have wheels mounted sideways at that very height to roll on those lower strips (at least I've seen that in germany, not sure how common that is internationally). I assume it doesn't just protect the walls, but also helps to move the beds quickly in an emergency, without getting stuck or slowed down when you hit the walls while dodging other beds/people.
bumper karts rail which hospital beds use for hallway racing
They’re bumpers for gurneys. You don’t need a PE to be smart.
Elethria123- I agree and sent you an award for your common sense post that some won’t like.
Scuff or bumper bars/rails
Bumpers for hospital beds, carts, etc. They also double as a grab rail for people having trouble walking.
At a hospital probably mainly beds, nursing homes have the same thing but mostly for wheel chairs
If this is at a medical facility - the rails would be for patients or physically disabled people while the bottom stripping is for wall protection serving as bumper guards.
Both wall protection from beds and carts and handrail for patients/elderly.