AIBU to ask people not to poop in new under stairs cloakroom?

Seriously???
I wouldn't want people upstairs and this is weird.
I have IBS and have emergency no warning poos, I would feel so uncomfortable in your house.
You wouldn't be my type of friend though.

Or maybe open the window /, use the extractor fan, and/or a bit of air freshener.

This is such a weird thread. I cannot believe there are people who think it's ok to dictate where others can/can't poo.

I think it's just about basic respect for others. Being aware of how your own actions can cause discomfort to others. It's similar to being aware not to douse yourself with strong perfume before a flight, not speaking loudly into your phone on speaker on a bus, not playing loud music on a train, etc. just basic manners. It being a bodily function doesn't really change that imo, we accept that sneezing and coughing are bodily functions you can't help and still expect people not to do it into somebody's face, we expect to cough into a tissue or elbow.

If there is no other option then sure, go for it. But with all things equal if you can avoid your poo aroma being inhaled by others, why wouldn't you? Each to their own but it's just simple manners and consideration for others I feel.

It is indeed very clear that some people see pooing as an inherently aggressive, shameful, antisocial act - and they establish all kinds of rules, moral codes and restrictions around what you can do and when; whilst others just see it as a mundane fact of life for all of us - and if you're sitting on a purpose-designed toilet behind a locked door, you're free to get on with whatever standard private toilet-based requirements as needed.

The way some people react with horror at the very idea of somebody pooing in a toilet when there's the remotest possibility of anybody else realising what they're doing, you'd think that some dirty bugger was just randomly grunting and curling one out on the living room carpet.

Probably lt cause downstairs toilets don’t have an extractor fan & some don’t have a wi dow to let the smell out! My DIL use to 💩 in mine all the time & I clearly asked him not to for the above reasons but he was a pig of a man who liked to piss on the floor too he was that way inclined!

Fascinating thread to see the differences of opinions.

I feel that deliberately pooing in close proximity to others, especially when you're a guest at someone's house, is really rude. If there are other toilets available of course you would go to one a bit further away! Who wants to be enjoying a nice dinner party or games night and then smelling someone's shit??

We don't eat the same things as it happens. I am much healthier. I don't eat anywhere like as much as they do either. Anyone gets told, no number 2s in the downstairs toilet!

Mine doesn't stink like theirs due to how little I eat maybe. There isn't the quantity either. In any case it's my house, I paid for it, and them's the rules.

I'd have never thought that there were still people who needed to be told that it was not OK to flush tampons, but apparently so.

I don't think the OP is BU. They aren't telling people not to poop, just to use the toilet least likely to block. Surely it would be more embaressing to block someone's toilet rather then just nip upstairs?
I know I'd rather do that (I regularly block my toilet coz I apparently have the bowels of a cart horse!)😂

“Cloakroom” is estate agent and building regs speak for downstairs loo.

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YABU to use the word "poop".

Have you tried rodding the drains? Mine had an issue until I got the drain rods to work.

I get it but can you imagine being a guest in someone’s house and they say “please don’t shit in there”… The sign would also be a bit weird, what if they sit down before noticing the sign and have already started.

I do understand though, I wouldn’t want the downstairs of my home stinking and with no window in there you can’t ventilate properly.

Honestly, I'd like to request that no one ever pooped in my house, ever. I don't want them showering, or shaving, or brushing their hair or teeth in any of my spaces. Might not feel that way if I wasn't the one cleaning all of the bathrooms but since I am..........!!

It's a cloak room! You don't have toilets in a cloakroom, so what's even the point of this thread?

That sounds like an old music hall ditty!

Maybe they could use the condom to contain the poo, instead of trying to flush it, and then dispose of it cleanly in the wheelie bin after they've finished the job and vacated the Saniflo salon. Happy memories of the old Kwik Save No Frills sausages.

I tell you what will choke your macerator and that’s condoms. So maybe put up a sign saying ‘don’t throw your condoms down the loo’ 👍

Could you maybe meet users half-way and keep a Swiss-style manual onion chopper and a butterfly net next to the cistern - so they can fish out any particularly monstrous offenders and show them who's boss before sending them on their journey through the macerator to Waterpooville, now barely any more viscous than Campbell's cream of tomato soup?

I agree! It's not always that simple to access main drainage!

elQuintoConyo You’re right, everyone does! But if you’ve only got a feckin Macerator then put up a note saying ‘block the macerator and the plumbing bill will be posted to you’!
I take it your downstairs loo is on the mains. Well lucky lucky you 🤬🤬

If someone does a big poo in the masticator toilet they can always unblock it with the "pushover plunge" that every woman carries in her handbag in case they accidentally block the toilet at a friend's house.

if someone popped in for wee and a smelly fart popped out, would there be an interogation, having to prove your innocence, will there be bags provided to try and catch it, 💨 gosh problems are mounting up, what bin, inside/ outside, definitely not recycling