To think you can't put a toilet outside someone's bedroom?

[SapphosRock]

House on the left is having work done.

House on the right has no involvement in the work.

AIBU to think you can't just put a random portaloo above someone's front door and outside their bedroom window?

The scaffolding should not be on any part of the neighbour’s property. In this case, the neighbour may not own the path outside the houses but it definitely shouldn’t touch their house.
If it does, I recommend having it removed immediately. Some of my masonry was severely damaged when the neighbour’s scaffolding impacting my walls and I had no recourse from the builder at all.

Are they new neighbours? Talk about a bad first impression, that’s disgraceful.

Fuck no

Madness. They do smell. You don't want it outside your bedroom!

And how on earth did they get it up there? We've had them before and it's been a task and a half to get it over the 3ft garden wall.

How will the toilet company service and empty it up there?

Yeah…that’s a nah from me. I’d be addressing this straight away.

It needs to be on the ground.
The scaffolding needs to come down too, it's obscuring your property.

Some many CFs about these days 🤬

lol 😆
Its not gonna be there for ever is it so i guess it will have to stay till the work is done.
Or you could put a note in your window to say please knock if you need the loo.

Oh god I hope its got a solid floor and not a grid mesh style floor - grim

The portaloo is going to be a barrel of laughs when they remove it. The contents tend to slosh around a bit.

But I think I'd have a bigger problem with them just putting up scaffolding around my front door. I would be looking to rent out the space to them at, say, £50 per day.

I assume you’re the house on the right OP. That’s absolutely wild. So disrespectful. I wonder what the thought process behind that was!

That’s a bit stupid, they’ll get it moved. But you know that.

That is outrageous!!!
Health and safety risk and I'm not sure environmental health would approve either

I have never seen a portaloo up on scaffolding before. - wierd. Is it for security reasons.

Why do they need the scaffolding across your house?

I would want to know why they had put it in front of my window rather than on a bit of scaffolding in front of one of their own windows or elsewhere in/on the property or its grounds.

Trying to remember what we were told when they built a new block of flats next to the ones I lived in - there was about a 3 inch gap between the two buildings.

The scaffolding grew with the new building and was a real pain - not least because we were on the third floor and had sliding doors opening onto a Juliette balcony. Security had never been an issue before, but suddenly we felt very vulnerable. I seem to remember being told that we couldn’t complain about the scaffolding but that we had to live with it as the freeholders had said ok. However, it was all done properly with party wall surveyors who they paid for for us, and we were given all the relevant contact numbers for the foreman on site and council contacts etc for things like if it got too noisy (eg when the concrete mixing Lorrie’s kept turning up at 6am and would then sit churning the concrete underneath our open window, walking us up and suffocating us with their fumes) and they were pretty good at listening to out complaints and acting on them.
have they sorted out a party wall surveyor for you? Check on your household insurance to see if you have legal cover and if so, talk to them about what you can do to get it moved ASAP - free solicitors letter always helps to focus minds of those who think that they can ignore you!

Oh, you'd change your mind if you wanted to open the window. Even without it being opened, it WILL start to smell up the room behind the window.

Whoever thought putting a porta-potty on a second floor scaffold is batshit crazy. Let them put it in front of the house being worked on (or the back).

@SapphosRock I hope it gets resolved before the stink gets too bad.
A council allowing this makes me think the council deserves to have a porta-potty in front of their windows. (As if they would allow such a thing...)

I agree. It looks like they’ve only put the scaffolding across the neighbour’s house in order to put the portaloo up there.

As grim as it is why would they need neighbours permission it’s not on neighbours land it on the public pavement which they’ll of had permit for
the neighbour doesn’t own the pavement it’s not blocking access

its been out up for the sole purpose of accommodating toilets
toilet can’t go on pavement you need a clear metre walkway

Did you look at the photo?

Yes it on public land and not attached to the house
it’s isn’t in the neighbours land it’s on public land

I certainly wouldn’t like it

You cannot just erect scaffolding against a property you don’t own! You need express permission from the home owner to do this!

You certainly need permission if it’s on private land but this looks like it’s on a public pavement. If it’s not touching the house I’m not sure they need permission? From the council though they would need permission. And I’d be complaining about the toilet.

It’s against the op’s house and over her front door. You cannot erect scaffolding against someone’s house without permission, unless it’s to carry out essential emergency work to ensure the structural integrity of the building. You certainly can’t erect scaffolding against someones’s house for the express reason of housing a portaloo.

Get onto the council and be firm.
I'm sure the scaffolding company would have had to submit a design, but it probably didn’t show the portaloo. Therefore the council may not have known.

Maybe report it to the HSE too. They may not be happy with its proximity to you. Also, if more than 7 people working on site the HSE will tell them to make other arrangements, such as a proper toilet in a different location.

I would have pushed it over to their side and remove the boards.

lighten up It was a joke.