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

[keepswimming38]

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?

Just ask loudly "Is it Number One or a Number Two?" whenever someone asks to use the loo, then direct them as appropriate.

To me, YANBU. We have a downstairs loo and the flush is awful. Everyone in our house knows only to use it for a ‘number 1’ and go upstairs otherwise. Not sure about guests though because we don’t have many, but I don’t think I could say don’t go for a poo downstairs and not cringe 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Don't put a toilet in that people can't poo in..that's ridiculous.
It's like having a bedroom you can't sleep in, or a kitchen you can't cook in..
I havent read full thread so apologies if there's some.big other story but as it stands this seems completely ridiculous.
Save the space for other things or let people do whatever thye need to do in a toilet. Surely..

Yes, you can’t do this.
I grew up in a home where we were only allowed to do no. 2s in the downstairs toilet because there was an extractor fan.
I did used to say to friends please use the downstairs loo for a no.2 but these were really good friends who uunderstood that my dad was a bit weird and very fussy about hygiene.
This isn’t something you can stipulate to your guests as an adult…though you could of course pretend the toilet doesn’t work properly and suggest they may prefer to go upstairs?

I’m not sure why you’d even install the toilet when the macerater is your only option and you don’t rate them after your previous experience? Hopefully you’ll listen to everyone and not put a sign up. I think you’re so far into this that your only option is to tell close friends and family not to poo in there, and hope that any less familiar guests don’t.

@keepswimming38 I’m with you OP, presumably your family that live in the house will know, and you don’t have too many guests and that they will only want to wee anyway.

Maybe just tell visitors when they arrive it’s a banker use the upstairs toilet? So there’s no embarrassment of knowing what they’re going for and they don’t have to walk in and out or hold it. You can say the downstairs toilet is not working or just for your daughter.

bur tell people when they arrive only to use upstairs.

Why install a toilet and then put conditions as to how it can be used?

This is even worse: "Please use the downstairs loo so we can fan out the smell after."
ETA though on second thoughts perhaps "Please don't poo in the downstairs loo as our toilet might not cope with macerating it" is probably still more awkward.

are you aware that sometimes people might want to go for a wee only and suddenly as that sit they have the urge for poop? so what then? finish quickly wee, run upstairs for number 2?

No it’s really not as there is a second toilet.

When guests ask to use your loo just direct them to the one upstairs. Problem solved!

I really wouldn't want people to know exactly what I was doing in a loo. I mean, it's a loo, we all know what we do there, I just don't want to announce it.

People whose bowel habits are not the same as yours? I often visit people overnight or got a weekend, I can't hold my shit in until I get home.

I do really hope this is a joke thread. It’s a toilet.

A downstairs toilet you can only pee in? I know your sort!

Don't put up the sign. That would mean that people would have to go in there, see it, and relocate to the other bathroom if they needed a shit. That's unnecessarily embarrassing.

Family and good friends, tell them about it.

Most other visitors are likely to go upstairs anyway on the (rare) occasions they need to shit in your house.

Accept the risk that very occasionally, your macerator will have to cope.

In short, it's fine to have this as a general rule. But a sign will be embarrassing and awkward and unfair.

Hope that makes sense?

Just don't tell people about the downstairs loo at all and tell them to go upstairs. Though I too am taken aback at the number of people who apparently just poo wherever, whenever. I go in the morning. It takes about an hour after getting up, then having a shower, having breakfast and having a coffee. I don't go out until after my poo. So it's very annoying if I have a stupidly early appointment as I have to factor in enough time between getting up and pooing to know what time I can safely leave. But I think I thought everybody had a schedule of some sort, unless maybe they had a medical condition. Learn something every day!

It really is. It’s a toilet that op doesn’t want people to use as a toilet.

You can’t always plan when you’re going to drop a log ffs. I sometimes go to the toilet thinking I only need a number 1. But number 2 slips out as well. 😂😂😂If it bothers you that much get some VIPoo it works.

Well for a start YABU to use the word "Poop" grow the fuck up.

As for anyone needing a shit, well I have a bowel condition, as does my mother and sister, and we need to shit we need to shit NOW. So either we shit in your downstairs loo or we shit ourselves.

So with that choice, I would shit in the loo.

Why have a downstairs loo installed at all if you dont want people to use it for what it was designed for?

As for making your disabled DD use the upstairs loo despite your assertion that you had it installed for her, yes it does sound bad because it IS bad. Is your £20k new bog worth more than your daughter? Good to know.

If it can’t cope, then tell all guests it’s out of order or not flushing properly so that all guest business is don’t upstairs

We have a macerator under the stairs and indeed have 2 signs. One says ‘please don’t poo in the downstairs loo’ and the other says “please don’t flush tissues, wipes, sanitary wear or your hopes & dreams’

macerators ain’t the most reliable and we are on our second.
if someone does poo it really doesn’t matter, but we encourage people to use one of the other 3 loos!

The macerator doesn't normally need to do much to clear poo it's toilet paper it has to deal with.... Maybe have a bidet added to reduce the macerator noise....

Gawd you can’t do that. Folk will think you are nuts.