How do you isolate from othe family members if no spare room

[Overseasmom100]

In our house is me DH and DS. Suddenly thought if one of us get Covid how do we isolate from each other. Dont have a spare bedroom...downstairs is only lounge abd kitchen diner. What havw u done in same situation?

Well I guess whoever gets it has to move into your DS'S room

And him in with one of us....

You don't. And this is why Covid has spread quicker in parts of the country with more pressure on housing. There is no reasonable means to isolate within a household in any meaningful way if you just don't have the space (and all share a bathroom).

You just do your best and clean like crazy. Not everyone has a guest suite they can retire to (despite what the Tories think).

We had primary age DC needing to isolate.
Doesn't have own bedroom, but made up a bed in the dining room.
We started off trying to do it properly- Dc eating meals in there from a tray, me cleaning bathroom every time etc.
We lasted about a day of isolation from rest of the family, Dc was bored, miserable, ill and alone, so went back to mixing as a household during the day but Dc still sleeping apart.

None of us left the house for 14 days, so at least we kept it contained within our house.

I caught it, DH and other Dc somehow didn't (or were symptomless).

I think you either have to all self isolate as a household and try to minimise exposure, or one of you has to take over a bedroom. So we live in a big 4 bed house, but there are 4 of us and 3 bedrooms (4th bedroom is a box room filled with storage boxes as we had been supposed to move house after first lockdown). Whoever needs to self isolate would have to take the ensuite bedroom (our room) and then dc would sleep in their rooms as normal and the other adult would have to sleep either on the sofa or on a camping cot in one of dc's rooms.

We wouldn’t even try there’s no spare room, kids share bedrooms and we only have one bathroom which is downstairs.

Surely once you've got the symptoms those living in close contact and touching the same surfaces will have got it as well? We will keep separate if someone here gets it, luckily we have a couple of spare rooms but wouldn't hold out much hope that it wasn't already too late. Otherwise If no space I think I'd probably suggest the child keeps their room, and the adult with the Covid keeps their room and the other sleeps on the sofa.

It’s difficult to isolate with covid plus it’s not good for your mental health to be cooped up away from everyone. Just disinfect and sanitise as you touch things. I wore a mask round the house. Difficult too when you have young dcs.

I don’t think we would even try, no space. The dc aren’t of an age to be able to put in one room by themselves and left to it for that long. One adult could sleep on the sofa in theory, but that’s not exactly comfy for two weeks if they are then also responsible for all the house and child needs, if it was the other adult who was unwell. And I think a person is meant to be most infectious for a few days before symptoms appear? So if we’ve all lived together, it will happen or it won’t. No point in making the isolation period even more miserable than it has to be. None of my family are in the vulnerable group though, that would change things.

We have got space to separate sleeping arrangements if required, but DS2's modus operandi when ill is to want to snuggle up with me...

We wouldn't even try tbh. There's no way I'd expect one of my dc to sit in a room on their own every day for two weeks away from the rest of the family.

We didn’t try. DD got symptoms, then I did 12 hours later. No one else got it.
Given that we’d felt ropey for two days and presumably infectious two days before even that, I thought we would have already passed it on.

We wouldn’t try, we live in a small flat. If myself or dh get it, we would wear masks and try and keep our distance, up cleaning etc. If the kids get it, we will all get it.

You can’t, realistically.

As a PP said, unless you have a guest wing, it’s just not gonna happen in your average family home.

And especially with children under 5 who have no concept of personal space.

I can only see it possibly working with an anti social teenager who is happy to eat in their room and only emerge to use bathroom.