To buy a house with one toilet

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Is this a bad idea?

The only toilet is in the bathroom. It's a two bed house. Would this get annoying?

When I was young, friend lived in a cottage with 1toilet, accessed out the back door past the back of the neighbour's house, up the side, cross the road and past the neighbour's loo...

When I was a student friends had outside loo though they had a bathroom that you accessed via someone s bedroom.

My mum had a look at the bottom of the garden. A long drop before they got their council house. One indoor loo does not seem so bad after that.

A loo not look ffs

I grew up in a house with one toilet in the bathroom and there was 2adults and 4kids. I only remember the odd time of pestering someone to get out when really desperate for the loo.

when i was a kid for awhile there was 6 of us and one loo

why is it so weird op

When I was a student friends had outside loo though they had a bathroom that you accessed via someone s bedroom

My last house, which I sold 5 years ago, had exactly that situation.

We live in a 2 bed bungalow. It had 2 bathrooms abet one was an ensuite but the bathroom was next door. Taken it out to make bedroom bigger - just the 2 of us live here.

We've only got one toilet. I've literally never lived in a house with more than one toilet. It's never been an issue, we let people know when we're going for showers/baths so they can go to the loo beforehand if necessary.
It wouldn't occur to me that a 2 bed house would ever have more than one toilet.

Me, dh and ds. 3 bed house. 4 toilets (2 downstairs, 2 upstairs). Overkill really. Although I wouldn't buy a house with less than 2 and 1 of those would have to be downstairs.

A port-a-loo in the garden wrks wonders 🤣🤣

I think it would be fine. My mum was one of 9 children. Including her parents and the granny, 12 people lived in a 4 bed house. With one toilet . But apparently if my grandad was drunk he peed in the kitchen sink!

I realise that this is a stupid hangup but if we're visiting someone else's house and the only loo is upstairs I feel like I'm invading their privacy a bit by going up there. I feel like downstairs is a communal area but upstairs is private because that's where the bedrooms are.

Like I said, it's stupid. When I lived with my parents my friends hung out in my bedroom and vice versa and it was never weird.

My husband grew up in a three bed semi with two parents and three children. I don't know how they managed as my FIL Is always, always in the bathroom.

Oh and my mum grew up in a house with two adults and six children and only an outdoor loo (and a tin bath). My auntie has lived in that house all her life and only had a bathroom installed in the 1980s.

We're househunting at the moment. We have only one child but I still wouldn't consider a house with only one toilet.

I couldn't buy a house with one loo. I would be looking for a space to fit the second loo in or not buy.

We saw a house recently with an en suite that had a shower and sink but no toilet. I couldn't see the point, I'd have preferred a dressing area.

Our family of four moved from a three bed with one loo to a four bed new build that has five toilets. I've never used two of them. I wouldn't want to go back to one, but I think two would be plenty!

I live in a 3 bed with 4 people soon to be 5 and we have one toilet, in the bathroom it's no big deal

One bathroom was the standard. I grew up in a nice house with three bedrooms and one bathroom/toilet, but the house I was born in had a toilet at the bottom of the garden.

We have a downstairs toilet, nobody uses it ever.

I grew up in a family of four a late 50s built detached three bedroom house with one bathroom and two toilets. The upstairs wc was separate from the bathroom. The hall and landing were huge. Nowadays that would be considered a bad use of space but it made it lovely and airy. Even the four bedroom houses down the road only had one bathroom.

We only have one toilet in the bathroom upstairs in a 3 bed house. Another one downstairs would be useful but we manage just fine without.

I've only ever had one loo. It would be a compete novelty for me to have two.

My parents have a large 4 bed house which they have lived in for 30 years and I grew up in. Until very recently that only had one toilet (separate to bathroom) for a family of five!

It is perfectly normal, especially for a 2 bed house to have one loo. It's only newer built houses that seem to have a downstairs loo as standard. Then again, I'm not used to having more than one toilet. I supplies if it was the norm for me I'd feel a bit weird with just one, but it's normal.

but the house I was born in had a toilet at the bottom of the garden.

I wish ours was there sometimes after DH had been 😂

I get up in a 4 person household and we had one toilet, in the downstairs bathroom, we survived.

I now have my own 4 person household with 3 toilets and we could do with one each. I sometimes wonder how I managed growing up. But we did as we had to, just adapted and waited. No one (including me) has any patience these days

Depends on how many people live in the house? If it's four adults that could get very annoying! I lived in a two bed flat with 4 adults and one loo (which was thankfully separate from the bathroom) and it was a pain. I've also lived in a flat with four adults and one bathroom and that was not fun! You couldn't have a leisurely bath and I have kidney issues so sometimes had to call on my way home to ask no-one got in the bath! Of course it's doable to only have one loo though.