to think a stranger should not enter a porch/bootroom uninvited

[whats4teamum]

when there is a fully functioning doorbell outside. A stranger opened a shut but unlocked door into my bootroom and proceeded to hammer on back door. I feel that a porch is part of someone's home and if you don't know them you are not at liberty to step inside without invitation. You wouldn't step into someone's hall to shout up the stairs or into a conservatory to knock on door so why would you enter my bootroom.

I wouldn't enter...people hang their coats and bags in those rooms sometimes...it's part of the house really.

I would have thought if the porch door is unlocked, its kinf of acceptable, isn't it?
Maybe it is different with a bootroom (I'm being serious!) as it is a bit like a hall rather than a porch? I think it does depend on what this room actually is.
However, I now want a bootroom, whatever it may be. I have a cat-room. And a washing-machine-room. But no boot-room :(

*kind

Boot room envy here

Then maybe someone would invade it [hgrin]

Our boot room is very much part of the house. I wouldn't want people in there I didn't know, as they'd have to come through the gate and across the garden. They should use the front door.

The boot room is also known as "the utility" by my mum, and "The Dogs' Bedroom" by DD. I like boot room.

YANBU. But didn't you know that any delivery man is so much more important and busy than a woman at home? That's why they never seem to notice doorbells but go straight for the bootroom-invading, door-hammering option.

I want a boot room and I want it invading [henvy]

I dream of having a boot room.

WTF is a bootroom? Is it a regional thing?

I've only ever seen a bootroom in a ski lodge.

Sorry, you do sound a bit Margot Leadbetter. However, in that spirit of things, here are my basic rules of etiquette.

Strangers, salespersons and 'Trade' - ring the doorbell

Acquaintances - knock on door

Close family, and friends who are expected - rattle letterbox.

Linerunner - surely 'Trade' use the Tradespersons entrance? They very thought of them using the front door!

Don't even get me started on the invasion of my tradesman's entrance.

Mine's like Picadilly Circus..........never a moments peace

Standards have slipped. I would never countenance 'Trade' entering my back entrance

YANBU, it doesnt matter if its unlocked either. I wouldnt walk in your house if you forgot to lock your front door

I've always wanted a boot room and have just had one built ( along with other rooms) as part of an extension. It lovely. Not sure I'd want my boot room invaded. In fact its so lovely today is the first time it got muddy.

If this were a Friday night thread I'd be thinking other things about a muddy boot room.

Already there, Lotkins. Already there.

I thought you lived in a ski lodge, too!

Porches, on the other hand, are there to protect the visitor from the weather and did not originally have doors.

I think you need to build a proch onto your porch, OP.
Then you can call the porch a porch and the bootroom a vestibule

or a porch, dammit.
unless I've invented a whole new pretentious word! "Oh, yes, our porch/vestibule/bootroom has a proch, hasn't yours?"

Our boot room isn't a porch. It's just the first room you enter when you come in via the back door - not a separate structure, but a small room running parallel with the end of the kitchen, and housing the entrance to the downstairs toilet.
Boot rooms are handy for storing all manner of dirty outdoor stuff, dog paraphernalia and utter crap. I recommend them to everyone.

My boot room was invaded once. The thought of it still brings tears to my eyes.

Well this caller sounds like a pushy rude arsehole. But, as someone who knocks on doors for a living, I do have to say that sometimes I enter people's bootrooms and porches because I either can't find the fecking doorbell or it doesn't work. ANd my pet hate is people who have the doorbell on the front door, but a porch/bootroom with an outer door, which they lock when they are at home, so you can't reach the dorbell!

Lots of people hammer on my front door rather than ring the bell. It annoys the hell out of me, and so I open the front door and press the bell, just to make a point, and say "Oh, I thought it wasn't working."

Porches/ boot rooms are tricky...one has to look to see if the bell is on the inside or the outside, as it can be either, IME.

i want a bootroom too

and a porch

Me, too, Mayor! And a vestibule, a cloakroom and a downstairs bathroom.

There'll be no room for anything else on my ground floor, so I may have to do without a kitchen