To keep outside toilet

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Victorian terrace, long narrow back garden, with an old outside toilet block at the end. It still has a functioning toilet.

We have an indoor bathroom and toilet but DH thinks we should keep the outside toilet, albeit cleaned up a bit. He thinks it would be useful during BBQs and stuff.

I think we should rip out the toilet and convert the block for use as outdoor storage, which we need.

Who, if anyone, is being unreasonable?

Keep it. I have one and it’s really useful. In fact so much so I got the plumber to attach it to the hot water last year. It’s beautiful and private and quiet.

Am extra toilet is useful when someone is having a bath and you're desperate for a wee. Plus when you have visitors and parties etc and for when the kids grow up.

I like having the outside loo, but then again just have bathroom indoors. It's really easy to build storage inside around the actual loo; there is quite a possibility that people will appreciate this kind of original feature when you come to sell.

Keep the toilet.... so useful. I had 4 children who spent a lot of time in the paddling pool in the garden, the outside loo meant no water trails through the house. Sometimes when I'm busy it is quicker for me to use our outside loo rather than run upstairs. My husband, we are ancient now, finds the stairs a challenge unless he is going up and staying up so uses it a lot. When I'm gardening it comes into it's own.., also good for storing garden stuff with easy access.
Apart from that , I am fond of the old loo, there is a new cistern etc in there but it suits the character of the house to have it outside. Mine is attached to the house though next to the old coal hole but that houses my washing machine and tumble dryer now.

We were lucky enough that we were able to get rid of an outside toilet and incorporate the freed up space back into another room.
I hated the one we had growing up, never went into it - you wouldn't know what was lurking there.
I would never have asked someone working in my home to use the outside toilet if we'd kept it.

Though the man we bought the house from had "notions" so he probably did. 🙄

I was one of five children so a household of seven with one bathroom indoors. It was only when clearing the rammed shed as a teenager (and only three of us living there by then) that I discovered it was actually a working toilet! It would have been a bloody godsend. Keep the loo!

Eh? Why would this be an issue? Workmen are human beings too.
Except MN workmen.
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I like the idea of the toilet. Why not spend a summer with it and see how often it's used and then make a decision?

Also, I've just downsized and getting rid of clutter has been so nice. The more storage you have the more crap you accumulate. I'd vote to keep and find a storage solution that works, but as you've said; without seeing a diagram hard to tell what additionally storage you may need.

I think the outdoor toilets are quaint, very English to me, who is not English. I would keep it.
also as a gardener working in peoples gardens I loooove them even more because I don’t have to worry about about dirtying anything .

I would keep the toilet. You can never have too many toilets, and old Victorian ones flush the best. Also a well ventilated loo at a distance from the house can be a blessing.

Unless you have another downstairs loo, keep it. Trekking up and down stairs every time you need the loo is a pain.

Keep it! There's only 2 people in my house but we both have IBS so only one toilet is a bloody nightmare.

I think a diagram would be useful.

We also have an outside accessed loo, but ours is under the stairs. It's very handy for all the reasons outlined by PP. When we were having the garden landscaped the workmen all used the outside loo (and it has electric sockets in there too which was beneficial).

But, we don't have another toilet on the ground floor, so if we're indoors and need the loo we have to traipse upstairs. Not a biggie to do that at the moment but my mum's partner struggles with mobility and I'd rather we had a loo on the ground floor as well.

Yours sounds like it can only be accessed from the garden which simplifies things. Can you build some storage into the space within the block, or add to your storage with Keter boxes or similar stashed behind the toilet block?

Haven't voted, as neither of you are being unreasonable, but I can't tell you how useful either an outside toilet, or one near the back door is over the years of small dc playing outside ..... + when you have people round outside ..... + workmen / builders ...... + when elderly, or physically impaired people are round.

Ideally though, I'd be looking at trying to configure a way to have it so that the toilet is inside, but by the back door. It just makes it so much more useful throughout the year.
You'll always fill whatever storage you have, but a downstairs toilet is just invaluable.

I’d keep it - nice bit of social history, but I’m a bit weird like that

There is space for some storage within the toilet block, even with the toilet retained. We don’t have much lawn and so don’t have a mower, we either use a strimmer to tidy it up or my dad pops down with his mower. So maybe that’s the compromise. Shelves above it is a good idea.