AIBU to ask people not to poop in new under stairs cloakroom?

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We are just having a new cloakroom installed downstairs. AIBU to put a sign up saying ‘no poo loo’ or ‘if you plan to do a poo do it in the upstairs loo’?

My DH thinks it’s not reasonable. I just down like the idea of people doing a poop in there and then the macerator having to … anyway AIBU?

You might as well just have a urinal in there.

I’ve had zero pushback

Not everybody can guarantee that when they go for a wee, though - sometimes your unexpected upgrade forces its way to freedom!

Do older MNers remember the vintage twee Mabel Lucy Atwell signs for things like this? There was a popular one that said: "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, please be sweet and wipe the seat".

You could adjust one of those to say "You may, of course, wee like a horse; but this bog's unable to munch your cable".

I suppose you could always hand them a beautifully-printed menu when they ask to use the toilet, so they can 'order' whatever they intend to do - only, instead of prices next to each toilet application, it could tell you which bog you need to use.

Then, if they ignore you and still go ahead and pinch a loaf into your downstairs macerator-powered cludgie, and kill the tiny little Ninja Samurai men who live in there, you can angrily hand them a rubber glove, plunger, mop and printed repair quote list from your local plumber, and glare at them as you hiss "Service is NOT included!"

I would poo in the toilet just for the crack

Have you been eating ball bearings?!

Ok but I think OP will need to clarify further...

As per the Bristol Stool Chart, which types are the in 'solid' category, and which are in the acceptable 'liquid' category?

A type 7 would no more block a toilet than a wee. Nor would a type 6, IME. But what about a type 5?? OP?

I have two loos. Upstairs and downstairs. I let my visitors go to either. As long as they don't poo or wee on the floor, I wouldn't get worked up about it. I would prefer people to feel welcome and comfortable when visiting.

Me! I have two kitchens (not the point of the thread I know). My house also has more bathrooms than bedrooms - it used to be a B&B

Same here.
I've been surprised by how many people on the thread have one as they don't seem to work as well as a normal toilet.

To be fair, those who are pooh-poohing the OP (pun unintended ) will never have known the true horror of owning a Saniflo/macerator toilet.
I have one. And hell would freeze over before I bought a house with another.

I've heard of cloakroom being used as a euphemism for downstairs toilets in estate agents' house descriptions but I have never heard the term in a RL conversation - I have only heard the room referred to as a toilet or loo.

Like others, my automatic reaction was very literal and I wondered why someone had pooed in the area used to hang coats. It took me a moment to stop and think and to realise that wasn't what the op meant.

When they work, they work fine. And fingers crossed, you’ll get a good year or two before needing a repair.
But then comes the dreaded day where you hear a change in the motor. A humming or buzzing sound rather than the familiar, comforting roar.
Accusations of maltreatment will fly all over the house: ‘did you remember to remind your friend who was on her period NOT to flush her tampon?!?’
And then you will discover, the tiniest of toothpaste caps or hair grip has fallen down there and caused the whole thing to grind to a halt.
And then slowly but surely, the waste will start backing up the toilet bowl. And the smell will be unreal. At least until the poor overworked Saniflo engineer can get there. But you don’t feel too sorry for him, as he is paid VERY handsomely for his time. Yes, because normal plumbers won’t touch a Saniflo with someone else’s bargepole.

Same here.

Right;

It's only "poop" in you are American or possibly if talking about very small amounts of poo. Or the sound of Toads car horn

Downstairs cloakroom is a toilet.

People wee far more than they poo. It's much easier to wet yourself than poo yourself.

For people without medical conditions (vast majority of us), it's easy to hold in a poo. You can hold in a poo for a good few hours without it being dangerous.

Saniflow loos are hard work all round.

Oh dear lord, what have I read? It’s a blooming toilet.

I had a downstairs toilet in my house before I downsized and lived there almost forty years with nothing going wrong with it. Why would it go wrong more than any other lavatory?

The problem isn't that it's a normal toilet which happens to be downstairs. The problem is that it's a macerator - something which many of us had never heard of before reading this thread.

Oh no, mine wasn't a macerator. I would not have one of those noisy things. Mine was in the house from when it was built in the 1930s.

An unwritten house rule is probably a good thing, and even then you need exceptions. But in my view a sign is over the top.

Buy some 'doggy poo-bags' and hang them on a nail in the downstairs loo, with a sign;

"Will Guests please use one of these (free) bags if you wish to poop - and then take it away with you for disposal. Thank you"

That's what I would do.

Just to add, holding a poo in is the way to constipation. You might be lucky and it not effect you but it's really best to empty your bowel when the urge arises.
And only on mumsnet have I seen people who:
Don't want workmen using the loo when working in the house.
People designating loos for different functions
And a controlling person deciding that no flushing will take place after a certain hour.
I feel like I'm in an alternate universe sometimes.

Put sensors on the toilet and a loud klaxon and neon signs around the house that announce POO ALARM in case someone has the temerity to besmirch your downstairs water closet with excrement.

No vomits either? Vomits just happen. You can’t time them.

So if a guest chooses the upstairs loo over the downstairs you are making them signal to everyone that they need to do a poo.

What an awful way to treat guests.

If the manufacturer of this kind of toilet says that is cannot cope with solid matter the you are not being unreasonable, but I highly suspect that is NOT the case?