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

It’s your home and your loo. You have the responsibility of looking after it. If a visitor blocks your loo with a giant log then you are the one that has to unblock it. If it runs on a macerator then it is more prone to blockage. I would just keep the downstairs loo for personal use and ‘number ones’ only. Put a lock on it and pretend it’s a cupboard.

I think the time has come for me to delete the internet.

Just when I think im.up to date with things MN finds vile, grim, repulsive and disgusting there are more things to add to the list! 😄
Off the top off my head : baths, washing up bowls, washing up pet bowls, toilet brushes, ensuite bathrooms, wearing any clothes more than once, using a towel more than once, only having one shower a day, eating homemade food, M and S bakery, owning a bin, pooing in a downstairs toilet, any man using a toilet in your house....

The squeamishness on here about poos being done in appropriate places and niffing a bit for a short space of time is bizarre. I'm presuming that none of the dissenters have ever had babies or toddlers?!

our downstairs loo is number 1 only. NO 2 is for upstairs,. It's between the open plan kitchen & living room & that's not something I want to smell

is this the poo troll again!!!! 😂

Wow. This thread has been absolutely eye opening. And entertaining, I've laughed out loud so many times.

I didn't think a thread about a bog could evoke so many thoughts for me but here we go...

Firstly I had NO idea what a macerator toilet was, and I wish I didn't. I also wish I hadn't googled it. I am actually disturbed and will probably have nightmares tonight. I used to live in a flat with a pump on the kitchen sink as it was below ground and even the sound of that was a little disconcerting. I did use to worry if that went wrong, but thankfully it never did. Have used a compost toilet while camping (and at a festival). Found the camping one quite freeing actually, helped by the fact it was for sole use. The festival one, awful.

I found it interesting that multiple people have said that they have been the only toilet in a house, as this isn't allowed? Maybe it used to be or there are a lot of dodgy house owners around!

I personally quite enjoy the word poop, although don't think I would use it when talking to other adults. It sounds like plop, which is appropriate. I also think downstairs cloakroom is okay, where people are getting literal, if you just say downstairs loo/toilet... is it clear that there is also a sink in there?

I have a downstairs loo/cloakroom and if I am downstairs and need a poo, I do head upstairs. Haven't really thought about why I do this before, but on reflection I do like having more space, plus downstairs can be a little cold in the winter and has no window. So it does make sense I guess. Saying that, if I intend to only wee but then realise I need a poo, I stay seated for the entire performance and do not shuffle upstairs.

On a final note, the absolute worst toilet experience I have ever had was at a house with a single bathroom in the property. The bathroom was in the middle of the house, no external walls. This didn't stop there being a window in the bathroom, high up enough not to see through, I guess it was there for natural light, only though having to switch on the light would be preferable, surely. The window was in the wall between the bathroom and the living room. The only reception room in the house. So everyone was in the living room. And the window was open. Permanently. I have no idea why. I don't know how they lived like this. It was in another country but I don't think that explains the OPEN WINDOW. Even doing a wee was awful and anxiety inducing and I think I would have dropped down dead if the need to shit had taken over me.

Thank you for saying "shit" rather than the repulsively twee "poo"

YANBU. I would hate this honestly. Especially if the bathroom attaches to a living area. Our downstairs bathroom is next to the kitchen so someone dropping a bad poo down there would be horrific.

We always ask guests to go upstairs, that way we know for a fact nobody can poop downstairs.

I hope a few people will read this and decide not to get a mincer.

We have macerator toilet downstairs and my advice would be don't used it for number 2. When they go wrong or need servicing it's stinks. Light use and avoid putting too much loo roll down it. It will last longer.

I tell visitors to use the upstairs toilet if they need a shit (not in so many words 😁)

I mean a toilet that can’t be used as a toilet (at least not completely) is kinda pointless isn’t it?

This may embarrass some sensitive souls like me when the have to turn around and slope down to the downstairs loo

It may not be standard in newer buildings but is absolutely standard for victorian and 1930s properties.

I love how appalled people are that if you dont stick to a timetable , and go at a set time before leaving the house, you are pooping "whenever, wherever" as if people are just squatting down in a park/in the supermarket aisle/having a sneaky poo on someone's sofa etc...
Changing my breakfast means i dont usually need to go til later in the day....but i still need to go to work!

Not unless you want to see a thread on here within the month saying "my loony friend has a sign up in her house telling people where to poo".

Of course it is! Modern houses have the pipes boxed in, mine were in the downstairs loo in newer houses I lived on. Now I live in a Victorian terrace in an area where all the houses are Victorian or Edwardian, every single house has large, black soil pipes outside leading to the drains. The plus point is that if there is a blockage it's much easier to rod the actual soil pipe than if it's boxed in. You might not see them unless you can view the back of the house, but plenty of houses do have outside soil pipes.

You've never seen a soil pipe from a bathroom on an external wall in Britain?

As long as people tidy up after themselves, anyone whose home it is should poo where they like.

This is awful controlling behaviour. You're not lord of the manor.

More modern houses have an internal duct where the soil pipe and some other plumbing runs. It is typically in a corner of the main bathroom and the kitchen below, boxed in about 250mm square.

Preferably it will pass through the roof above for ventilation and air pressure equalisation.

The further away from it that plumbing, and especially facilities that were added after the house was built, the more likely they are to have drainage problems and blockages, and even a repellent macerator and pump.

If you don't mind pipes on the outside of the house, it is sometimes easier to route them to an additional bathroom or WC.

These are only drainage and soil pipes. Water supply pipes are always inside for frost protection,

It’s absolutely not standard here either. I’ve never seen it or heard of it before. It being an option for difficult spots does not make it normal.

I said the same who plans where they will 💩💩💩😂😂😂?

Downstairs toilets with macerators are doubly bad.

Firstly because of the macerator which might get blocked because of people trying to ram tonnes of toilet paper down the toilet which some people strangely do.

The other is that downstairs toilets lack the gravity assist of upstairs toilets, the action of all the solids falling from height helps keep the drains clear and moves everything along.

The thread does illustrate though the futility of trying to educate people in this, and trying to get people to behave in a certain way.

Pardon the pun, but expecting people to actually give a shit about the fact that if they take a massive dump in a downstairs toilet and then block it, causing a messy and maybe expensive unblocking to be necessary, is clearly unreasonable.

I have frequent dreams about trying to find a loo in an unfamiliar building, and this sounds like one of them.

I get those, usually because I do actually need to go, so I have to make for the bathroom when I wake up.

I'm always slightly terrified that one day, in my dream, I'll find that loo and use it ...

There are toilets and toilets. In some houses they have a window and are sort of on the side. In others it is litterally a cupboard under the stairs with no ventilation and just next to the kitchen.

OK, thanks. I didnt know this quirk of British plumbing.
Actually yes, I have often seen pipes running on the outside walls but didn't realise it's a standard way of doing it. I come from a country where these run inside of houses and usually are not close to external wall.