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?

When I had all day all pregnancy 'morning' sickness, I didn't care where I vomited, so I'm sorry to say your cloakroom would be used if I was at yours and it was the nearest.

my bf had room in a house, he wasnt allowed to poo in his personal loo so had to walk through the family kitchen to poo
very awkward for him and the teenage girls who giggled when he walked by

Is it just me who thinks of a cloakroom as just a room for coats and shoes etc? Why’s everyone calling the lavatory a ‘cloakroom’??

It’s a standard name for a loo.

Never heard it in 31 years of life

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Other people have.

It's completely normal and healthy to go three times a day.
Some of us would never go anywhere if we followed some mumsnetter's rules on where it is acceptable to poo.

If I was a guest and I saw that sign, I would have 2 options. Ignore it… or leave the downstairs toilet and make my way upstairs so that everyone could know what I was doing 😂😂

You might put in an extra powerful extractor fan

Can you not just direct guests as a matter of course to the upstairs loo? Tell them the downstairs one is out of order, or not flushing properly. Better that than saying 'if you want a poo go upstairs, otherwise the downstairs one is fine'.

modern macerators are better than they used to be. We had one at my parents house when I was a teen and it was a bloody nightmare, but they upgraded a few years ago and it's better now. Put a sign up confirming its a macerator to contextualise it as otherwise you will look a bit weird! Most people dont like to poo in other peoples houses so would only be an emergency I think. Unless you have regular family visting in which case they can go upstairs!

three times a day?
who has time for that?

I go 21 times on a Monday. Two benefits:

1. It leaves the rest of the week free.
2. it’s a work day so l get paid for doing it. 😀

OK, thanks. I didnt know this quirk of British plumbing.
Actually yes, I have often seen pipes running on the outside walls but didn't realise it's a standard way of doing it. I come from a country where these run inside of houses and usually are not close to external wall.

There are toilets and toilets. In some houses they have a window and are sort of on the side. In others it is litterally a cupboard under the stairs with no ventilation and just next to the kitchen.

I have frequent dreams about trying to find a loo in an unfamiliar building, and this sounds like one of them.

I get those, usually because I do actually need to go, so I have to make for the bathroom when I wake up.

I'm always slightly terrified that one day, in my dream, I'll find that loo and use it ...

Downstairs toilets with macerators are doubly bad.

Firstly because of the macerator which might get blocked because of people trying to ram tonnes of toilet paper down the toilet which some people strangely do.

The other is that downstairs toilets lack the gravity assist of upstairs toilets, the action of all the solids falling from height helps keep the drains clear and moves everything along.

The thread does illustrate though the futility of trying to educate people in this, and trying to get people to behave in a certain way.

Pardon the pun, but expecting people to actually give a shit about the fact that if they take a massive dump in a downstairs toilet and then block it, causing a messy and maybe expensive unblocking to be necessary, is clearly unreasonable.

I said the same who plans where they will 💩💩💩😂😂😂?

It’s absolutely not standard here either. I’ve never seen it or heard of it before. It being an option for difficult spots does not make it normal.

More modern houses have an internal duct where the soil pipe and some other plumbing runs. It is typically in a corner of the main bathroom and the kitchen below, boxed in about 250mm square.

Preferably it will pass through the roof above for ventilation and air pressure equalisation.

The further away from it that plumbing, and especially facilities that were added after the house was built, the more likely they are to have drainage problems and blockages, and even a repellent macerator and pump.

If you don't mind pipes on the outside of the house, it is sometimes easier to route them to an additional bathroom or WC.

These are only drainage and soil pipes. Water supply pipes are always inside for frost protection,

As long as people tidy up after themselves, anyone whose home it is should poo where they like.

This is awful controlling behaviour. You're not lord of the manor.

You've never seen a soil pipe from a bathroom on an external wall in Britain?

Of course it is! Modern houses have the pipes boxed in, mine were in the downstairs loo in newer houses I lived on. Now I live in a Victorian terrace in an area where all the houses are Victorian or Edwardian, every single house has large, black soil pipes outside leading to the drains. The plus point is that if there is a blockage it's much easier to rod the actual soil pipe than if it's boxed in. You might not see them unless you can view the back of the house, but plenty of houses do have outside soil pipes.

Not unless you want to see a thread on here within the month saying "my loony friend has a sign up in her house telling people where to poo".

I love how appalled people are that if you dont stick to a timetable , and go at a set time before leaving the house, you are pooping "whenever, wherever" as if people are just squatting down in a park/in the supermarket aisle/having a sneaky poo on someone's sofa etc...
Changing my breakfast means i dont usually need to go til later in the day....but i still need to go to work!