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Hanging coats in the downstairs loo

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BarkingUpTheWrongRoseBush · 21/06/2021 21:59

We’re getting a downstairs loo put in. There’s bugger all cupboard space in the house. How would you feel visiting a house where your coat was hung up 8. The downstairs loo.

OP posts:

Bryonyshcmyony · 22/06/2021 07:10

Maybe they have one of those downstairs loos that automatically lock and flush themselves from top to bottom.

ufucoffee · 22/06/2021 07:23

I couldn't care less about sodding particles of shit and would have no problem at all with coats in the downstairs lav. Why do you presume that anyone is actually going to have a shite while you're there? The list of things people worry about these days seems to grow longer and longer.

FindingMeno · 22/06/2021 07:28

No.
Ewww.

Whatapalavaa · 22/06/2021 07:32

No I wouldn't

EversoDelighted · 22/06/2021 07:38

Wouldn't have a problem with this at all, I don't believe the possible poo particles are going to do the slightest bit of harm. I keep my dressing gown on a hook in our bathroom, haven't died from poo particle contact yet.

Megan2018 · 22/06/2021 07:42

Our coats are with our downstairs loo. It’s a laundry room with a toilet in it so larger than your average cloakroom. I couldn’t give a toss about poo particles and neither could anyone I know.

In fact every house I’ve lived in has coats in a downstairs loo.

lightlypoached · 22/06/2021 07:45

Grew up in a house that had a cloakroom and it was never a problem. All this 'poo particles' thing is a bit weird. I'd be happy to hang my coat in there as long as there was some distance between the coat and the loo.

If guests have an issue with it they can always ask not to put it in there?

MrsBungle · 22/06/2021 07:50

Our coats are in our downstairs loo I didn’t realise it was so controversial!

Our downstairs loo also houses washing machine, tumblr dryer, boiler, dog leads, wellies, kids sports stuff, sun cream. It’s the most useful room in the house.

Bryonyshcmyony · 22/06/2021 07:51

Do the poo particle people have towels in their loo?

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BarkingUpTheWrongRoseBush · 22/06/2021 07:57

I’m of the view that it’s fine. They’ll be on the back wall furthest from the toilet. . Would a diagram help?

I think I do have a couple of friends who would wash their coats afterwards though.

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Ragwort · 22/06/2021 08:07

I've heard it all now, not just that mumsnetters dislike toilet brushes but some of you don't even want a hand towel in the toilet .

I've never thought it grim to hang coats in the loo - thinking about it, all my coats are in the loo, DH & DS's coats are on the coat rack in the hall. Guest coats go over the stairs ... although I am also of the generation that remembers guests coats going on the bed upstairs .. that brings back happy memories of helping to carry coats at my DP's dinner parties in the 1970s !

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 22/06/2021 08:10

for me it's not so much the loo itself (lid down to flush) but because there's a shower in there too so the idea of coats getting damp and possibly mouldy from condensation is what I couldn't reconcile with.

and frankly we don't need to keep clothes there, we have 2 tall double door wardrobes in the hall, so it would be very impractical to hang coats elsewhere

LightasaBreeze · 22/06/2021 08:12

Put yours in the loo and have a small peg area for visitors coats elsewhere, though I wouldn't care if my coat was in the loo anyway

LightasaBreeze · 22/06/2021 08:15

Only worn a lot coats are downstairs anyway, I put pegs on the wall in the small spare bedroom for the excess, could you keep some elsewhere.

Snoken · 22/06/2021 08:19

OK, I'm not British and I have never in my life been asked to put my coat in the guest toilet. I really didn't know this was a thing. Where I'm from you either have a walk in closet type of thing, a wardrobe or a coat/shoe stand by the front door. We don't dump the coats on beds either.

I would feel really uncomfortable putting my coat in the guest toilet.Out of all the places in a house you can choose to hang clothes, that would be the last one for me.

SallyLockheart · 22/06/2021 08:28

definitely a diagram

MadamBuxton · 22/06/2021 08:29

I wouldn’t expect most downstairs loos would be inundated with the dreaded poo particles in any case. We have a poo upstairs policy for members of our household and I’m not aware of much log-dropping by visitors.

Ninkanink · 22/06/2021 08:38

Could you fit a storage bench anywhere in the hallway? At least that way you’d have some functional seating, and guests could lay their coats in there. Looks more tidy than coats all over the place.

We definitely need a diagram. Of hallway and of bathroom!

ineedaholidaynow · 22/06/2021 09:04

Our hallway is so small there is nowhere to put coats, so we have no choice but the downstairs loo. Shock horror we also have a hand towel in there too, which is regularly washed. We are quite anti social though, even before COVID, so don't have many guests! Which by this thread is probably just as well!

QueenAdreena · 22/06/2021 09:06

I wonder how many of the disgusted posters on here own cats and dogs - because if you do, a few human poo particles on your coat should be the least of your concerns, your animals are constantly rubbing their backsides up against your sofas/beds/carpets. Probably licking stuff (and you) after licking their privates too.

And what do you do if you’re in a public toilet and someone goes for a number two in the cubicle next to you? Do you rush home and strip off and shower immediately?

We have coats hanging in our downstairs loo OP. There is an unofficial ‘no poo’ rule down there as we have another two loos upstairs for that but if occasionally a guest goes in there or the three year old won’t make it up the stairs in time, I don’t start washing all the coats in dettol. We’ve survived.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 22/06/2021 09:08

@QueenAdreena

no cats, allergic to them.
no dogs either.
got 2 chickens though

FuckyouCovid21 · 22/06/2021 09:15

@PerveenMistry you have single use hand towels i.e. you wash after one person has used it? You must have quite a stash in that drawer!

borntobequiet · 22/06/2021 09:15

All the houses I have lived in bar one had a downstairs cloakroom where coats were hung and which contained a loo and a washbasin. (The one without was a tiny cottage where coats were hung on the back of the front door.). I suppose downstairs loos crammed under the stairs are a bit small for coats now.
If you lived in a castle in historic times, you would keep your clothes and some other valuable belongings in the garderobe (toilet).
www.ancientfortresses.org/garderobe.htm

Douchebaggette · 22/06/2021 09:21

This is all missing the point - which guest of mine is having a shite in my downstairs toilet, where we can all hear what they are up to?

p.s. I couldn't care less if my coat is hung in there. But then it often has a forgotten bag of (dog) poo in the pockert, anyway. So...

QueenAdreena · 22/06/2021 09:23

@FuckyouCovid21 I thought that too! If I had single use towels I’d probably be doing at least an extra two washes a day just with hand towels, there are six people living here who mostly work and study from home at the moment. It would be madness! We change our hand towels daily, no one has died from that either.

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