To have insisted on DH doing his ‘business’ at work when we were down to one bathroom

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I told my friends this last night who found it amusing so would be interested to hear if they are the only ones!

We were down to just our upstairs bathroom this week as the downstairs bathroom was being re-done (finally finished yesterday afternoon).

Given the heat, DH was told that he should do his usual morning business when he arrives at his work rather than use the upstairs bathroom, as I didn’t fancy the smell festering all morning in this heat.

DH was fine with this - AIBU to have made such a request?!

I often wonder when people say this would they REALLY go to their GP and say “ Doctor I have this terrible problem, my poo stinks “?!
I can just imagine what the GP is thinking..

We technically have the en-suite too, but that has always been firmly out of bounds for anything but a shower!

You really are nuts!!!! How can you "technically" have an en-suite? You have one. It has a WC. For shitting in. Welcome to the real world.

Yabu if you think he shouldn't be able to use the toilet in his own house but you're perfectly fine to

This is surely a troll post? It’s reminding me of a LadBible video interview with a man who escaped domestic abuse after his partner almost killed him. One of the things she did was banned him from using the toilet…

Wow, what do all those poor people with only one bathroom do? I wonder. Just suck it up and get on with it, you are being precious.

Most old terraced housing stock also won’t have room for a downstairs loo. Flats routinely only have one loo. You seem somewhat detached from reality as far as housing stock in the U.K. goes.

Holding in a shit when you need one is bad for your guts, according to my late DM! And it would be very uncomfortable unless his commute to work is a very short one.

YABVU. Light a poo candle to burn off the worst of the smell and let him go when he needs to.

Omg I’m struggling to understand what planet you’re on?!
What country are you in?
in the UK one bathroom houses are fairly standard.

It is only since 1999 that houses have to have a downstairs toilet. So all the houses before that may not have one so not that unusual.

Is this a piss take, or rather, shit take?
Despite what you might think lots of houses and flats do have only one loo, my bungalow for instance.
Anyone who has multiple loos and still doesn't allow a member of their family to use one of them sounds a bit deranged to me.

Houses still don't "have to have" a downstairs toilet.

I've never lived anywhere that had 2 toilets, and I've lived in an awful lot of places in my 69 years!

How do you know that?
Others might percieve it differently.

Greater love hath no man than he who risks serious medical problems by restricting his bowel movements for his fragrant controlling wife who thinks it’s funny to discuss his most intimate details with her friends.

Funny, not funny.

Potentially the second most worrisome issue is that he ‘was fine with this’.

Building regulations Part M require all new builds to have a downstairs toilet

I was initially sceptical but Uncle Google proved to be my friend. I think there may be a very few exemptions but essentially, you are correct.

Thanks for the information.

Do they have to have an upstairs toilet as well though?

Weekend contingency plan 😆 to do a poo 😆 I’m dying 😆

Yes, but it shouldn't smell so bad that it stinks the house out after being exposed to the air for mere seconds a d flushed away.

It's not like he's doing a shit in the bath and leaving it there to fester.

There's something wrong with his digestive situation if it smells that much!

Omg. You're actually taking the piss. Toilets are for shit and piss. Yabu

I don't think I've read anything so ridiculous generally with this thread but this response takes the biscuut.

Can you really not comprehend that there are hundreds of thousands of houses that only have one toilet. Or that just because you may have the means to only buy a property that you could then spend thousands on installing a second toilet, many many others don't.

It is after all 2025, maybe read some news once in a while to understand society, varying wages, poverty, the process of doing works to a property etc.

How unkind of you. Like he’s an animal

My old terrace had one loo..downstairs in the built on bathroom.

How's health meant to wash his arse after then?