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To think you can't put a toilet outside someone's bedroom?

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SapphosRock · 10/05/2024 11:33

House on the left is having work done.

House on the right has no involvement in the work.

AIBU to think you can't just put a random portaloo above someone's front door and outside their bedroom window?

To think you can't put a toilet outside someone's bedroom?
To think you can't put a toilet outside someone's bedroom?
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Mummyoflittledragon · 24/05/2024 00:25

Fantastic news. Why they thought it was acceptable in the first place is beyond me.

eurochick · 23/05/2024 22:54

A happy ending!

Tamigotxh · 23/05/2024 16:45

Great update @SapphosRock

I still can’t believe they anyone ever thought the toilet there was acceptable.

Magnastorm · 23/05/2024 16:42

TonTonMacoute · 23/05/2024 12:35

Of course. Still astonishing that people can be so completely wrong though.

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It's not wrong to merely have a different opinion about something.

HTH.

AGovernmentOfLawsNotOfMen · 23/05/2024 16:19

Yay👏👏👏👏

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SapphosRock · 23/05/2024 16:09

We can all sleep at night now, particularly those in the house on the right.

To think you can't put a toilet outside someone's bedroom?
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Allshallbewell2021 · 23/05/2024 12:56

Thanks Sappho! That's a relief - it was bothering me, the sheer brass neck of them!

TonTonMacoute · 23/05/2024 12:35

Magnastorm · 13/05/2024 18:01

People have different opinions, shock. Kinda the point of discussion boards, y'know.

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Of course. Still astonishing that people can be so completely wrong though.

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SapphosRock · 23/05/2024 10:26

@Allshallbewell2021 update incoming!

Apparently it has been taken away 🎉

I am not there atm. I will check it out later today and send a pic.

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Allshallbewell2021 · 14/05/2024 11:43

Any news OP?

That portaloo is parked on some scaffolding inside my head!

Magnastorm · 13/05/2024 18:01

TonTonMacoute · 13/05/2024 15:13

I'm finding it really hard to believe that there are posters who wouldn't mind having a portaloo on scaffolding right outside their bedroom window. This is surely Mumsnet at its most batshit.

I cannot believe there isn't a working toilet in the property that is being worked on. I think it's totally unacceptable, especially without even asking, and if it was me I wouldn't rest until it was taken down, and I would be hounding my local councillor , MP, local paper until it was gone.

People have different opinions, shock. Kinda the point of discussion boards, y'know.

TonTonMacoute · 13/05/2024 15:13

I'm finding it really hard to believe that there are posters who wouldn't mind having a portaloo on scaffolding right outside their bedroom window. This is surely Mumsnet at its most batshit.

I cannot believe there isn't a working toilet in the property that is being worked on. I think it's totally unacceptable, especially without even asking, and if it was me I wouldn't rest until it was taken down, and I would be hounding my local councillor , MP, local paper until it was gone.

AGovernmentOfLawsNotOfMen · 13/05/2024 13:48

asdfgasdfg · 13/05/2024 10:07

next door have a portaloo in their front garden, the rental company come and "vacuum" it out every day about 7:30 so no smell but how would they get up to that level of your one to empty/clean it?

They have a flexible tube to suck it all out.
grimm

asdfgasdfg · 13/05/2024 10:07

next door have a portaloo in their front garden, the rental company come and "vacuum" it out every day about 7:30 so no smell but how would they get up to that level of your one to empty/clean it?

Allshallbewell2021 · 13/05/2024 07:43

OP, this portaloo lives in my head now.

Any news gratefully received.

8misskitty8 · 13/05/2024 06:55

I hope it is secure and it doesn’t leak as looking at the photo again it’s actually above the OP front door.
Surely a health and safety matter ?

MaggieHM · 13/05/2024 05:33

Don't they have a back garden it could go on. I think it's disgusting, inappropriate and unhealthy. Also why can't they have it outside their own house not the neighbours. You can also have it or something similar inside the renovating property. We did back in 1972 we had to use a glorified barrel with a toilet seat on top.

OutOfTheHouse · 12/05/2024 21:25

NickyT64 · 12/05/2024 20:45

But I’m not talking about the pavement! Why do you think that?? I’m talking about the scaffolding encroaching on yo her house and the bloody big blue portaloo which us definitely not on the pavement!!!!!!

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Because the scaffolding is on the pavement, not on the house.

AGovernmentOfLawsNotOfMen · 12/05/2024 21:10

NickyT64 · 11/05/2024 21:51

Besides anything it is Trespass!!! Criminal Damage!
I have NEVER seen a portaloo anywhere other than on ground level! Do you could be in your bedroom with a guy taking a piss just outside your window. what’s wrong with outside the house they’re working on? It’s like a (bad) slapstick comedy sketch!

Portaloos are often put above ground level on scaffolding.
Big Ben had them during renovations

AGovernmentOfLawsNotOfMen · 12/05/2024 21:07

OutOfTheHouse · 12/05/2024 15:35

I’m not saying I wouldn’t have a problem but the house doesn’t own the pavement so I don’t see that they have any right to claim trespass. They have every right to be very pissed off, and I wouldn’t be at all happy. But the scaffold isn’t touching anything that own.

I might not like a bloody great lorry parked outside my house, for example, but if it’s on the public highway it’s not trespass onto my land.

But then I’m not a litigation solicitor so it might well be more complicated than that.

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No it’s not more complicated as long as access isn’t blocked.

NickyT64 · 12/05/2024 20:45

OutOfTheHouse · 12/05/2024 15:35

I’m not saying I wouldn’t have a problem but the house doesn’t own the pavement so I don’t see that they have any right to claim trespass. They have every right to be very pissed off, and I wouldn’t be at all happy. But the scaffold isn’t touching anything that own.

I might not like a bloody great lorry parked outside my house, for example, but if it’s on the public highway it’s not trespass onto my land.

But then I’m not a litigation solicitor so it might well be more complicated than that.

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But I’m not talking about the pavement! Why do you think that?? I’m talking about the scaffolding encroaching on yo her house and the bloody big blue portaloo which us definitely not on the pavement!!!!!!

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SapphosRock · 12/05/2024 19:29

nobodysdaughter · 12/05/2024 19:15

Oh! I know exactly where this is and walked past it the other day - I thought it was crazy then!

Hi neighbour 👋

I'm thinking of sending the pictures to the Argus and see if that shames them into taking it down.

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nobodysdaughter · 12/05/2024 19:15

Oh! I know exactly where this is and walked past it the other day - I thought it was crazy then!

Magnastorm · 12/05/2024 19:07

SoupDragon · 11/05/2024 19:21

So, you had one outside your own house whilst you did work on it. Hardly the same as installing one outside your neighbour's bedroom window is it?

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Well, yes it is the same. Whether the loo was outside because of work on my house or my neighbours house is irrelevant.

In the situation posted, provided it wasn't going to be months and months and the relevant agreement for the scaffolding being there was in place, it wouldn't bother me to have a portaloo outside my window. They don't smell nearly as bad as some of the pearlclutchers here would have you believe, and the workmen need to have access to a toilet somehow.

Shockingly pragmatic, I know.

OutOfTheHouse · 12/05/2024 15:35

NickyT64 · 12/05/2024 15:17

Actually it is.
confirmed by a litigation solicitor specialising in land/property issues. No permission sought let alone granted doesn’t help in this situation.
From a lay person’s point of view- are you telling me if you opened your curtains one morning to a shedload of scaffolding and a portaloo you wouldn’t have a problem?!

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I’m not saying I wouldn’t have a problem but the house doesn’t own the pavement so I don’t see that they have any right to claim trespass. They have every right to be very pissed off, and I wouldn’t be at all happy. But the scaffold isn’t touching anything that own.

I might not like a bloody great lorry parked outside my house, for example, but if it’s on the public highway it’s not trespass onto my land.

But then I’m not a litigation solicitor so it might well be more complicated than that.

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