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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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oakleaffy · 10/05/2024 17:24

AloeVerity · 10/05/2024 17:22

Get the council and your solicitor straight onto that. Charge for any damage. Local press too. Outrageous!

Daily Mail!

oakleaffy · 10/05/2024 17:23

IClaudine · 10/05/2024 17:22

That is awful. I would be going potty if that was outside my window.

Why didn't they just put it outside the house they are working on.

I'd be giving them shit.
They are taking the piss.

AloeVerity · 10/05/2024 17:22

Get the council and your solicitor straight onto that. Charge for any damage. Local press too. Outrageous!

IClaudine · 10/05/2024 17:22

That is awful. I would be going potty if that was outside my window.

Why didn't they just put it outside the house they are working on.

oakleaffy · 10/05/2024 17:22

That's grade A cheek!

The scaffolding is just to support the Turdis across neighbour's property.

AGovernmentOfLawsNotOfMen · 10/05/2024 17:20

The scaffolding needs to be pushed back to only cover the property being renovated.
Then the portaloo should be removed and placed in the properties garden or elsewhere.

And whoever owns that house needs to sort their builders out!

oakleaffy · 10/05/2024 17:20

Report the TURDIS to the Council.
The whiffs in this warm weather will be gross.

thurstonthethird · 10/05/2024 17:18

They can't legally put scaffolding on your house if you didn't agree, let alone a portaloo.

TheTripThatWasnt · 10/05/2024 17:16

Magnastorm · 10/05/2024 14:43

If they have permission to put the scaffolding up where it is, having a portaloo there wouldn't really bother me all that much, to be honest.

They could probably shift it forward a foot so it can't be seen, but really, assuming it's only a temporary thing does it really matter?

It might be temporary, but that temporary could be many many months! A house around the corner from me has had scaffolding up whilst they did building work for at least 8 months, maybe more.

A couple of days might be tolerable, but any more than that would be a big fat NO WAY from me.

ZipZapZoom · 10/05/2024 17:14

SwingTheMonkey · 10/05/2024 16:39

Portaloos don’t smell, according to this poster!

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Creating a none smelling portaloo would be the kind of thing that would make you a millionaire... although I still wouldn't want one outside my bedroom window.

Ifyoucouldreadmymindlove · 10/05/2024 17:05

That is fucking outrageous.

SwingTheMonkey · 10/05/2024 16:39

ZipZapZoom · 10/05/2024 16:35

Yes I refuse to believe it. Honestly unless you're the most passive doormat known to mankind then this is something that would quite rightly bother you.

Portaloos stink! The fact you only have to look at it for 20 seconds a day is irrelevant. Your bedroom would smell like a toilet and you'd be totally fine with that?

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Portaloos don’t smell, according to this poster!

ZipZapZoom · 10/05/2024 16:35

ILikePistachios · 10/05/2024 15:37

You can refuse to believe it but it's true. I wouldn't care, it's not a permanent feature, I spend probably 20 seconds of the day looking out of my bedroom window or even in my bedroom so it's not like it's inconveniencing me. Plus it would be fun to wait for someone to go in there and bang on the outside

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Yes I refuse to believe it. Honestly unless you're the most passive doormat known to mankind then this is something that would quite rightly bother you.

Portaloos stink! The fact you only have to look at it for 20 seconds a day is irrelevant. Your bedroom would smell like a toilet and you'd be totally fine with that?

TonTonMacoute · 10/05/2024 16:19

portaide · 10/05/2024 15:15

The people having the work done need to give the builders access to their toilet.

This FFS!

We have had builders in for 10 months, they use our downstairs loo when they need to, it hasn't been a problem at all.

SwingTheMonkey · 10/05/2024 15:47

ILikePistachios · 10/05/2024 15:45

Have you ever been near a portaloo in your life? Do you know how they work? I'm guessing not

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Yes. We had one for our builders. It smelt horrendous, even when emptied.

LakeTiticaca · 10/05/2024 15:46

That's insane. Everyone knows what portaloos smell like, especially in hot weather. I would tell them to shift the scaffolding from the front of MY house as well!!
This looks like one of those things that will go viral, such is the insanity of it!!

ILikePistachios · 10/05/2024 15:45

SwingTheMonkey · 10/05/2024 15:44

And if the smell of sewage from the portaloo started to permeate your bedroom?

I suppose poo and wee smells, doesn’t it? And everyone has to go! You could just breathe through your mouth, can’t you!

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Have you ever been near a portaloo in your life? Do you know how they work? I'm guessing not

SwingTheMonkey · 10/05/2024 15:44

ILikePistachios · 10/05/2024 15:37

You can refuse to believe it but it's true. I wouldn't care, it's not a permanent feature, I spend probably 20 seconds of the day looking out of my bedroom window or even in my bedroom so it's not like it's inconveniencing me. Plus it would be fun to wait for someone to go in there and bang on the outside

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And if the smell of sewage from the portaloo started to permeate your bedroom?

I suppose poo and wee smells, doesn’t it? And everyone has to go! You could just breathe through your mouth, can’t you!

ILikePistachios · 10/05/2024 15:37

ZipZapZoom · 10/05/2024 14:44

I refuse to believe you wouldn't have an issue with a porta loo being placed outside your bedroom window when the work wasn't even for your property. No one is that much of a doormat surely?

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You can refuse to believe it but it's true. I wouldn't care, it's not a permanent feature, I spend probably 20 seconds of the day looking out of my bedroom window or even in my bedroom so it's not like it's inconveniencing me. Plus it would be fun to wait for someone to go in there and bang on the outside

FiatEarth · 10/05/2024 15:30

Waiting for the drip feed .....

from the bog....

🤮

On a serious key this needs to be in the Daily Mail, sad face special edition.

Backtothepalmtrees · 10/05/2024 15:28

SwingTheMonkey · 10/05/2024 15:03

Got to laugh at mn sometimes.

OP ’Next door’s builders have just taken a shit on my kitchen floor’

Mumsnetter ’Well, I would have no problem with that personally, everyone has to go’.

This! 😂

Ponderingwindow · 10/05/2024 15:27

If that appeared in front of my house, I wouldn’t be leaving the site until it was moved. They wouldn’t be getting any work done because of the fuss.

if they didn’t have permission for the scaffolding either, well i wouldn’t be politely contacting the scaffolding company. I would expect my neighbors to have it sorted within 24 hours.

LlynTegid · 10/05/2024 15:17

I hope OP they have been given a deadline, say by 4pm today. Remember most people involved in any way in the building trade don't do weekends on a main job at least.

At a later date, the neighbours should have to pay you for the trouble it has caused. I'm sure your time is valuable, say £100 for every hour it's been there?

portaide · 10/05/2024 15:15

The people having the work done need to give the builders access to their toilet.

Getonwitit · 10/05/2024 15:13

DH is a scaffolder, says the scaff's there are CF. The portaloo shouldn't be up there and they have no reason to go across your property. He says he check with the council that they have a street licence.