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?

Nobody should poo in the coat cupboard to be fair 🤣

How are guests expected to know this though? Most people (I hope) do not plan on having a poo when they are in someone else's house, but sometimes needs must. Either through illness or old age. I was reading the other day how up to 25% of women suffer some sort of bowel incontinence after childbirth. Maybe this is mostly in other countries, but even so, come on? If you don't want a guest pooing in your downstairs 'lav' just tell them you are only using it for the sink as the toilet isn't working properly, and would they use the upstairs one. And get a grip. Hope you don't ever suffer from bowel incontinence yourself.

Don't think you can micromanage people's bowel movements :-)

If you're worried about the macerator not being able to cope, I'd be more worried about tampons sanitary towels, wet wipes, cotton buds, continence pads and all the other things that people still throw down loos that they shouldn't. We went go stay with friends and they warn everybody (humourously) about the potential horrors, so please to use the bin provided if needed. I've not heard of macerator not going able to cope with a poo though. Surely that is what they are designed to deal with?

That’s horrible. You surely can’t dictate people’s bodily functions. If you’ve gotta go, you’ve gotta go.!

Well, for the 2 downstairs bedrooms to be able to go for a wee in the night without traipsing upstairs? Who does a massive shit in the middle of the night?? It's actually very useful!

Pooing in a loo with a macerator is much better than one without, far less likely to get bunged up.

How twee.

I think YABU, although if you haven't had a macerator for a while it's kind of understandable. One of my favourite cafés has a toilet with a macerator and there are signs up saying you can't put STs, nappies etc in it, but nothing about poo and I have pood in there many times without anything embarrassing happening.

Besides, when you need to poo, you need to poo. I think it would be unusual, to say the least, to insist that a visitor who would not be going upstairs for any other reason had to go upstairs for a poo when there's a perfectly good downstairs toilet available.

Then why did you bother installing a downstairs loo and cutting corners by putting either a loo without, somewhere that wouldn't work in the normal system without the macerator (cause even most understairs loo don't even need them) or if it in a basement or too far from your normal gravity fed system why would you cut corners (most plumbers refuse to install them where there are guaranteed issues).

I haven't read the whole thread but surely the answer (if you are truly worried the macerator cannot cope) is to have a rule that family poo upstairs unless absolutely necessary and you do not even tell visitors you have a downstairs loo. If they ask where to go, direct them upstairs.

Will you expect a friend who has come around for dinner to journey upstairs to the accompanying awkwardness of everybody knowing they're going for a poo?

Is the OP Val Denton?

White for hands. BROWN for feet. GREEN for torso, thighs and seat. And in the cupboard 'neath the stairs you'll find the RED for pubic hair!

Oooh, that's good. That would work.

You just direct the person to the upstairs loo, tell everyone they mustn't say you have a secret one under the stairs, in all seriousness, I would not want to know it's there, if my number 1 was flowing and 2 decided to show I'd be mortified, would I try n hold on, run upstairs and hope no logs escaped, definitely not, it needs to be used for something else

My SIL and BIL did, but that was because they had a "granny annexe". The second kitchen was bloody handy when there were 14 people for Christmas lunch. The veg team used the annexe kitchen.

It also had 5 bath/shower rooms: one in the annexe, a ground floor shower room, and upstairs had 2 bedrooms with en suites and a "family bathroom".

What if her bowels don't operate to your schedue and she needs the toilet when she is downstairs

Yabu. I went to stay at DP's grandparents house for the first time. I used the toilet downstairs before I got into the shower in the same room. DP got shitty with me, no pun intended because I done more than a wee in the toilet which turned out to be a macerator toilet, had never heard of one before. Didnt particularly want to use the upstairs bathroom which has standard not privacy glass windows with no blinds or curtains 🤷🏼‍♀️

I think it fine to have that general rule for the people that live in the house and maybe close family that you ask to do the same if they are around frequently but any guest that comes to the house or a sign, just no. This naturally limits the amounts it would be used for poo anyway. For most people one of the purposes of a downstairs loo is so visitors don’t need to go upstairs.

To avoid the embarrassing outing if a guest needs a poo, just make it a toilet only for use by your daughter and send everyone else upstairs 💩

You are ridiculous. How do you intend to police this?

Leave a small knife in the downstairs bog and ask people to chop it up themselves . As in the song (tune, She’ll be coming round the mountains )

There's a shortage of good bogs in Mobile,
There's a shortage of good bogs in Mobile,
So they wait until it clogs,
Then they saw it off in logs
There’s a shortage of good bogs in Mobile.

Don't be so ridiculous, OP. It's a lavatory - this is exactly what it's for.
Not to mention that your proposed request is incredibly inhospitable.

Just make the no poo rule for family who live there, and not guests.

That would eliminate the vast, vast majority of the shits the loo will ever have to macerate.

@Papster ,please put a warning on next time! I'm crying with laughter! 🤣 🤣 🤣