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?

The OP just needs to label her toilets Number 1 and Number 2 and if anyone mentions using the loo she needs to clearly explain 'we have toilet Number 1 downstairs and toilet Number 2 upstairs so use the one that suits'.

My parents have a loo off the dining room (yes!) which they semi-joke is for "light use only" so you could have that on a sign/convey it when people ask where the loo is: "There's one under the stairs for light use only, or head upstairs first on the right"

Well that’s why theatres and shops and cafes and other places have loos! Because people need to use them!
I can usually hold for up to half an hour, but not always, and it could happen any time. Eye opening for me to know that some people poo on schedule!

I don't think you are being unreasonable at all! If the loo is under the stairs, presumably it's in the hall. If someone does a stinky poo in there, and let's face facts, poos ARE stinky, the pong will drift out into the hall, even if you have an extractor fan, you'd need an airlock to contain my husband's poo pongs.
We have a downstairs loo and I ask people to use one of the upstairs loos (3) if they are planning a poo, and yes, I do say please. We all know that pooing is a natural bodily function but that doesn't mean we all have to smell the stinky does it? Plus, poo smells are particulate, meaning there's particles of poo in it, just tiny ones, but I don't want them in my hall, or up my nose if it can be avoided.

😂😂

Sometimes you go for a wee and a poo happens. And isn't that what a macerater is for? Do you expect people to go in, read the signs, come out and go upstairs, with the world now knowing they need a poo? Or will the signs be outside the door?

Well I must have led a very sheltered life. I’m mid 50s and have never heard of a macerator loo. I’ve never lived in a property with a second loo though.

They politely excuse themselves and go do what needs to be done without fanfare.

Agreed! It is extremely fucking weird.

And a guest not using it mean they are telling everyone they are doing a poo - not exactly welcoming. And making your sick daughter go upstairs is batshit, and horrible.

Are you Sheldon Cooper ?!

😂😂😂love the ‘like the poop’ comment. Had a macerator for years in a basement flat. No issues despite many hungover teenagers. Good luck 😂😂

Not sure about being Sheldon Cooper but I think @loislovesstewie is also known as 'If it didn't happen to me it never happened'.

I once viewed a house with the lavatory sitting in lonely state on the landing with not a concealing wall in sight. Shitting would have been a public event. A bit like this one.

Just don't do it by accident!

Oh no, I can believe that other things do happen. I'm just saying that's what I do. I mean I now know that people designate different loos for different functions. Mad!

They just find a loo and use it. Meeting or not.

Apologies, on reflection it was other posters who were being a bit ‘If it didn't happen to me it never happened'.

How do some people function in this world ? Long haul flights, motorway service areas, family homes with only one loo, etc. ??

This is what I really don't understand. Everybody knows what a toilet is for, and apparently people are very happy to accept one that has only been designed to cope with half of the standard payload that toilets receive.

If you were at a car showroom and the salesperson showed you a flash new model and said "Yep, this baby works like a dream! Latest state-of-the-art, top-drawer design. Oh, just so you know, it only has two gears, so it's amazing to drive, but anything over 20mph will probably break it, OK?"... would people cheerfully hand over their hard-earned loot to secure one, or would they clearly understand that this product is clearly wholly unfit for its basic purpose and so run away with their purse firmly closed instead?!

Am I the only one who thinks that The Macerator sounds like a less commercially-successful Arnie film?

"DON'T get to the chopper!"
"Get your ass to my khazi upstairs!"
"Come with me to the first floor if you want to whiff!"

Macerator loos are fit for purpose but due to them having to 'macerate' the 'payload' to exit via a small bore waste pipe, not the usual waste pipe, they can't handle things like tampons (which also shouldn't be flushed down a regular loo but that's another discussion). They can handle pee, poo, and a reasonable amount of bog roll.

The purpose of a macerator loo is to have a loo that doesn't have to be plumbed straight into the regular soil waste system. It gets there but through a smaller bore pipe.

Gawd, this is getting boring...

Omg seen it all now 💩 👮

how embarrassing for your guests

Why not just put in a urinal?

Not sure that OP's daughter has a penis to point at porcelain 😉

...With a rear-angled parking mirror for the ladies, of course.

Indeed. So why is OP protesting that it simply can't be used for poo, when that's clearly a basic function of its design?

Nobody is going to reject a sleek, low sports saloon that can't go off-road like a Land Rover - when that's patently not what it's designed for; but if it can't handle the motorway, that's where it fails. Just like you don't angrily stomp back to Curry's and demand a refund because your new microwave can't receive Channel 4!