Hanging coats in the downstairs loo

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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.

That’s how it was when I was a kid in the seventies. The downstairs loo was the cloakroom too and if big enough, shoes lived there too.

My sister has a lootility - cat feeding room, washing machine, tumbledryer, outdoor coats and drying laundry and a loo and handbasin...

I know that lots of people have lootilities - are they pearl clutching too....?

That's the alternative for us - we don't put in a partition and have a really big lootility (with coat hooks for guests' coats).

I'm in no way hysterical or ott regarding hygiene but after seeing a video about toothbrushes in a bathroom I actually stopped keeping mine there. I would not keep my clothing there either and would not store visitors coats in there. If someone put my coat in a toilet I would actually wash it when I got home.

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They're the size of facecloths. Go in with the usual weekly load of towels. And there are only two of us here; pre-Covid we weren't even home all day.

Not that big a deal and I prefer to dry my clean hands on a fresh, non-damp cloth.

@Marcanana

It's called a "cloakroom" for a reason guys.... it's where you hang your cloaks. Just put the seat down before you flush the loo. You store your toothbrush in the bathroom for gods sake, and I assume that has a loo in it too?

Mine doesn’t, and I have a cover I put over my toothbrush because we get a lot of blue bottles in the house for some reason and sometimes they sneak into the bathroom with their germ laden feet.

I probably wouldnt say anything out of politeness, but would think it was absolutely minging.

It would be talked about after, and if there was a next visit, would probably just say ill keep hold of my jacket myself...

Seriously @ChatterMonkey you would talk about it afterwards. If there is no room in the hall, where do you think people should hang coats? We regularly go on hikes with the dog, so have mucky coats and usually wet coats. I am not going to be hanging them in wardrobes. Our hall is teeny, and just has doors going off it with no wall space for coats and no space for a coat stand, I wish there was but there isn't. Our utility room is teeny too so no wall space for hangin anything.
Where should we hang our coats?

@ineedaholidaynow Well i would find somewhere else to hang them in other than the room where people shit in. I have limited space and hang my winter coats in my wardrobe. Guests coats would most likely get put on the spare bed, or if no spare bed, then on mine so out of the way when entertaining.

But perhaps its me thats unusual, i have never in my life heard of or seen anyone that stores outdoor clothes in a bathroom. But apparently according to this thread people do.

But yes as a situation that i have never come across, and find pretty disgusting, i would talk about it afterward. Not like a public post on fb, but would defo be mentioned to dp.

@ChatterMonkey does anyone shit in a downstairs loo? Not sure if anyone’s raised this but I thought there was an unspoken rule that people don’t poo downstairs?

No.

I have a tiny downstairs loo where you can shut the door - outside that you can hang coats - I don't think it it is a problem - but then we do not take shoes off and dogs can sleep on the bed - never had outside pavement disease - only one opinion .

It would be talked about after, and if there was a next visit, would probably just say ill keep hold of my jacket myself.

I would find it grim too tbh and would remark on it when I got home.
I have never been in a house where coats are hung in a loo.

I don’t understand how clothes can be dried in a loo either. To dry coats,, they need to be hung up on a hanger or spread out in some way. Bundling them on a coat hook in a small room would mean turning them around every so often.

I expect my vision of a small bathroom is much much smaller than somebody else’s version of small!

Some of these responses are weird. In a bathroom are toothbrushes and towels which may then get covered in poo particles. Every time you go to the loo, your clothes, skin, hair, all get covered in poo particles according to some of the arguments on here. I do close the toilet seat but the thought the my whole bathroom is covered in poo as well as my whole self, never occurred to me. It’s a bit OTT in my view and there’s actually no way to stop this happening so surely a bit of chilling out is required?

My washing machine is in my downstairs loo and on rainy days I hang my washing in their on a clothes horse. Wouldn't bother me.

We are a toilet lid down before you flush house though

Guests coats would most likely get put on the spare bed, or if no spare bed, then on mine so out of the way when entertaining.

To me, this is worse than possibly having my own (or my families) poo particles on my coat. You’re putting other peoples’ possibly filthy coats on your bed. That’s awful. Some people hardly ever wash their coats, and they come into contact with all manner of disgusting surfaces/things. Think of public transport, mud/general outdoor filth, animals, bird shit on park benches, all of the disgusting possibilities...and that’s now on your bed? Rank.

@QueenAdreena

Guests coats would most likely get put on the spare bed, or if no spare bed, then on mine so out of the way when entertaining.

To me, this is worse than possibly having my own (or my families) poo particles on my coat. You’re putting other peoples’ possibly filthy coats on your bed. That’s awful. Some people hardly ever wash their coats, and they come into contact with all manner of disgusting surfaces/things. Think of public transport, mud/general outdoor filth, animals, bird shit on park benches, all of the disgusting possibilities...and that’s now on your bed? Rank.

I can understand where you’re coming from But I think if I was as occupied as this with how dirty things were, I’d never leave my house. I’m not sure how people can have these thoughts in their mind and still go about their business without washing themselves, their coats, their shoes etc every time they came home from anywhere, it would exhaust me having cleanliness on my mind to this extent as we know nothing is every 100 clean or sterile. There is dirt everywhere and yes sure, we can clean and be sensible about washing etc but surely we have to accept some dirt?

“Ever 100% clean” that was supposed to say

There is a big difference between a towel and a coat. Towels can be washed at high temps and are washed frequently. My winter coats have to go to a dry cleaners and are cleaned once a year before being put away for the following year.

The thought of wearing a coat that is kept in a loo for months on end is grim!

We do the same. New build house so haven’t got a hallway, just a smallish square with maybe just enough space for two hooks. We don’t have a newel post either, just a banister. If we did have visitors I’d put coats on the stairs. We do have an under stairs cupboard the other side but that’s where we keep the tumble dryer/dog food and stuff/DIY stuff.

No, it is grim.

@pinkmagnolias but you wipe your hands on a towel. If people are being so paranoid about poo particles, surely something you wipe your hands on is more likely to transfer these particles than a coat hanging on a hook on the wall. I don't tend to wipe my hands all over my coat.

Our coats dry in the downstairs toilet as the coats hang above the radiator. Dry a damn sight better than being left in a wardrobe or on a bed.

Where do people hang wet and muddy coats, surely not straight into a wardrobe?

I hang them over a kitchen chair to dry and if not wet hang on the bannister.

For the love of betsy I am amazed my family are still alive

@BasiliskStare snap!

Agreed..how have I made it to a reasonably advanced age. I always feel concerned when the antiseptic spray adverts come on tv as to how anxious people seem to be now. Reasonable hygiene yes, but accept that unless you live in a laboratory there will be bacteria.