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?

Everyone will know why you are going upstairs … walk of shame.

I'm really surprised at the amount of ppl saying about no2 being done downstairs and smell etc

We always used downstairs toilets for both 1+2, our guests are welcome to use said toilet and I left home and also continued in this fashion and.... no stinks.

I think some people need to check their diets!

What if you have visitors? If they then sheepishly make their way upstairs, everyone will know they’re going for a poo. That’s pretty mortifying. 😂

You’re having a toilet put in for your daughter who’s mobility has been damaged. But if she needs anything except a wee she will be forced to go upstairs anyway.

What a waste of money and a fake way of showing care.

Imagine - people using toilets for what they are designed to do! The horror!

This. If you can't use it as a toilet for both then wouldn't bother.

Seen it all now.

If you’re actually going to make your daughter go upstairs anytime she needs to shit, then literally don’t bother with the toilet in the first place.

And agree YABU for calling it a cloakroom.

So think it’s fair enough. I can’t send people to different toilets for poos. However, I have purchased a sign saying ‘please don’t flush anything other than toilet paper’. Hopefully visitors won’t be pooing and vomiting in my downstairs loo too often! My daughter I obviously won’t be making her walk upstairs if she’s downstairs. That was a black joke. There haven’t been many of those in our lives lately so apologies if I offended anyone. Many of the comments have made me chuckle so thank you.🙏

But “please do not flush anything other than toilet paper refers to no flushing tampons, pads etc not poo.

My first thought too

We have this rule for the downstairs toilet , it’s a saniflo and we know they have issues with smells sometimes so we said from the outside no poo in it and it’s been fine.

I saw a SM reel recently of someone demonstrating exercises to do on holiday/in your hotel room in the morning if you have to head out for the day and haven't yet had a poo.
Quite useful. Plus, I hadn't realised it was something other people worried about; thought it was just me!

My normal toilet blocks quite a lot - we still poo in it.

my ex’s parents had a loo that was in the utility room with a curtain. although the utility room had no door so any smells or noise from one room would waft into the other.
I have frequent dreams about trying to find a loo in an unfamiliar building, and this sounds like one of them.

We have a macerator loo downstairs......it deals with poo just as good as the upstairs one!
That's what they're for...

I wouldn’t risk it with that sign a lot of people don’t understand macerator toilets
and will throw wipes and tampons down then not realising the implications even though there a sign

just send your guest upstairs

If anybody ask tell them it’s a macerator for emergency wee’s

It’s a toilet for goodness sake. Stop being so precious. People will stop visiting you if you adhere to this ridiculous rule.

@roibusteasome of us have IBS. No amount of dietary changes or exercises will make it so that we go at the same time each day. And when we do go it’s often urgent and painful. And that’s not even mentioning my friends with IBD, bile salt malabsorption, stomas, crohns etc. It can happen wherever and whenever - and if they don’t reach a toilet it’s not just going away.

Sometimes I think I’m going for a wee and get a bonus poo that I wasn’t aware was on its way.
Would I need to run upstairs partway through OP? 😂

What nonsense. People can't always police what happens when they go to the loo.

I have no medical conditions but when I need to go I need to go.

Not for me - fibre is an important part of your overall diet you know 😂

If you have 3 in a day it’s known as a shat trick in my house 😂

Absolutely this! My German friends have two toilets, a regular one and a more traditional german style one where the poo is sort of on a little platform before flushing away. When I went to stay, my friend gave the tour and asked me not to poo there as it smells more because the poo hits air rather than water.

I was so embarrassed about it that I used the other loo every time so they wouldn’t know when I was pooping. It’s also still the main thing I think about when I think of her place, which is such a shame as it is a very lovely home!

Just tell guests to use the upstairs toilet.

I would be very confused to be instructed to pee in a cloakroom for sure.