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?

We had a toilet in the upstairs bathroom in a previous 3-bed house.

Just for the family (2 adults and two toddlers) it was fine, though slightly annoying at potty training time. What bothered me, was that all the guests/acquintances (parents of kids’ friends who accompanied them for playdates) using the toilet had to go upstairs, which felt a little like invasion of privacy.

I miss having two toilets, but it's not been a huge problem so far. I do get worried when people are feeling ill, as I have a fear of people being sick.
DP says his dad used to come in the bathroom for a number two whilst he was in the bath. I've told him this is never happening, ever. I don't mind him coming in for a pee, although he never does, but I have done a few times with him. He takes epic baths sometimes.

Never lived anywhere with more than one in the main bathroom.

That would be strange, imagine more than one all lined up. Funny what the lack of a comma does.

The infamous quote in our house is, small niece going into my parents house and saying "nanna and grandad must be really poor, as they only have one toilet"

Is this a real post? How many toilets do people now think they NEED.

Yes more are a nice to have but honestly?

I am the youngest of five so grew up in a household of seven with only one bathroom - don't recall it being a problem except one famous incident when I was taking my time getting out of the bath and my incredibly gentle father broke the door down as he was so desperate for the loo.

Some years later when the three oldest had left home, I ventured into one of the two garden sheds, it was full of rubbish etc but I looked up and saw a cistern. Turned out we had two loos all along! Still bemused as to why it was never used as my parents obviously knew about it.

Don’t do it, it’s a bit shit when you’ve both got sickness bugs!
I’d never ever buy a house with 1 toilet again unless it was just me living there. My new house has 3 toilets. Much better 😂

What a fucking first world problem.

If there is an option to have more than one loo, I definitely would

We are rennovating our new house and putting in lots. We have 3 small DCs and parents who stay the night etc. I do not want to be queuing for the loo or a bath or running upstairs with a toddler potty training conatantly

It just makes life easier to have options generally

This website makes me laugh with how hilariously middle class the concern are. Of course normal families manage with one bathroom/toilet on a day to day basis! My best friend growing up had a family of 7 in a three bed cottage with one bathroom (15 years ago, not in the 50s)! I cannot fathom how this could be considered a huge problem?

I’m loving all the competitive misery: we were a family of 3818282 and only had one bathroom

Things progress. Life gets easier. Why would you want to “manage” when you can have an easier life.

People used to bath in tin baths in front of the fire. They “managed”. It’s kind of nice not to have to, right?

Depends how many people! My first house had two bedrooms and only one toilet which would have been fine except it was downstairs and that was a pain. This house has 3 floors and two bathrooms originally but we converted a walk in wardrobe to a wc for the kids on the top floor and wonder how we managed without it now. I'd say for a family of 4 one per floor is a good rule.

Correct that most older houses have one or possibly two if you include an "outhouse"
I grew up in a 3 bed semi with main upstairs and an outhouse.
Was very useful especially when there were 6 of us in the house.
We moved.from a three bed.with one loo. one necessary was at least more than one.loo. As pp said potty training two kids with one (upstairs) loo is difficult.
We've now moved and have more loos than bottoms but my dh and ds still insist on shitting in the downstairs loo not envy

I've just bought a 3 bedroom house and there simply isn't anywhere downstairs where I could install another toilet even if I wanted to. The house I grew up in had three bedrooms and one toilet. We had no trouble selling it recently.

And sorry if this is competitive misery - as a student I lived in halls with communal toilets at the end of a corridor. Students living in bedsits had shared facilities too. No one seemed damaged by the experience.

We have a 4 bed house and one toilet in the bathroom (Victorian terrace so standard) but only one DS aged 2 (and another on the way). I grew up in the same situation til I was 18 with a younger brother and it was fine, we managed. I am planning to move in a few years though and my criteria include another bathroom! I can imagine two teenage boys....I might not want to share with them!

I don't see how it's competitive misery. We have one bathroom. The one toilet is in that bathroom. How can I have "easier life" with another toilet? Where is that mysterious toilet to meant to fit? If we had to sacrifice one of our two bedrooms our life would be much harder, not easier.

I wouldn't mind there only being one toilet in my house, but I wouldn't be keen on the toilet not being in the bathroom, I would think that's a big issue.

We have 3 bogs and often wish we had more. I couldn't live in a house with only one.

We have one, in the one bathroom. There are us 2 and our 2 teenage daughters 15 and 17.

It is interesting. Was fine when they were little, but now they take an hour to get ready to do ANYTHING! it can be a little frustrating.

I can't ever imagine a need for anymore than two loos. I mean like how often will it be really that both loos will be 'in service' whilst someone else is waiting?

We have 3 bogs and often wish we had more. I couldn't live in a house with only one.

What would happen?

Would you shit yourself?

If it’s a two bedroom house, isn’t it pretty standard to have just one toilet.

The more toilets, the more cleaning. The same goes for a bigger house.

I grew up like this and it's perfectly fine and not an issue.

Yes having a separate second loo is a convenience, especially if you have guests or kids, so they don't have to traipse upstairs, hence why it's so popular to have a downstairs one.

However it's really not a big deal to not have one, unless mobility issues.

Depends on how many people will need to use it surely. One can be perfectly fine for 2-3 people I’d have thought. You might need to introduce a ban on 20-minute shits for men (and it is almost always men for some reason, who decide to take a book / their phone / magazine in with them).

I live with 7 people and we have 4 toilets in our house - 1 is ensuite and I don’t have access to it, 1 bathroom I share with someone else, 1 bathroom is shared between the other 3 people and we also have a tiny toilet under the stairs on the ground floor. There have been occasions when I have desperately needed the loo and both my and the other bathroom were taken, so the downstairs cloakroom has been a lifesaver!

Round here it's all fairly basic older houses so no one has more than one loo and that's in the bathroom. Can see how it would be a pain if you have medical problems, but otherwise perfectly fine for 4 people. You just learn to be considerate and ask others before you go for a shower or anything else that takes time. Teenagers just have to learn not to spend an hour in the bathroom getting ready during the busy time of day. Either do your makeup in your own room or get up before everybody else.

Family of 5 here. We've had houses with two toilets (one upstairs and one downstairs) and I would not go back to having just one. We still manage to get queues and sniping every morning when everyone is getting ready for work or school.

If I am ever living on my own anywhere then I would consider a place with just one toilet. Indeed, I grew up in a three bed bungalow with just one, but having two has been extremely useful to us while our children have been growing up.