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

482 replies

keepswimming38 · 17/05/2026 20:46

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?

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ImFinePMSL · 17/05/2026 22:09

We are just having a new cloakroom installed downstairs

I’m extremely confused as to why someone would do a shit in a cloakroom?

Or do you actually mean you have a downstairs toilet and are having some rails installed to hang your coats? Because if that’s the case, then just get rid of the toilet.

You can’t just call you downstairs toilet a “cloakroom” because you want to hang your coats in there that’s nuts 🤣

supersop60 · 17/05/2026 22:09

keepswimming38 · 17/05/2026 21:04

Chillax. It’s lighthearted as you said.

Is it? You’re not coming out well here.

SqueakyFromme · 17/05/2026 22:09

@Ilovelurchers your post is really sensible

HayfeverComethAndThatRightSoon · 17/05/2026 22:09

YABU to use the infantile term "poop". What are you, an American 7 year old?

PyongyangKipperbang · 17/05/2026 22:11

"poop" "cloakroom"

Its poo/shit/faeces and bog, shitter or loo.

HTH

SqueakyFromme · 17/05/2026 22:12

KilkennyCats · 17/05/2026 22:02

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

It’s not ‘like having a kitchen you can’t cook in’ is it ? Who has two kitchens ?

QOD · 17/05/2026 22:12

keepswimming38 · 17/05/2026 21:46

Now im concerned about toilet paper quantity! Mm 🤔

I buy 2 ply for caravan chemical loos!

Hotsaucenoketchup · 17/05/2026 22:14

Following in from other posts - how about a little rhyme on the sign on the wall ??

please do not use this loo
if you need to do a poo.
careful if you do a wee :
toilet sheets - no more than three.
solids are just unacceptable
in this porcelain receptacle.

Or you could just leave it and let people just do what they need to do!

MyGammyEye · 17/05/2026 22:16

Invite me to stay. I have some sort of mental block where I can only poo in my own home.

Holidays - are you having a nice time? No I'm painfully constipated!

PyongyangKipperbang · 17/05/2026 22:16

SqueakyFromme · 17/05/2026 22:12

It’s not ‘like having a kitchen you can’t cook in’ is it ? Who has two kitchens ?

Gordon Ramsey apparently!

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 17/05/2026 22:18

Unreasonable for using the word ‘chillax’

Hankunamatata · 17/05/2026 22:19

You need 1 ply or fast dissolving toilet paper for for masserator/saniflow

Inevergotthatfar · 17/05/2026 22:22

No don't do this how embarrassing.
What about guests that can't climb stairs, they will be mortified having to explain that to you.
I would not repeat a visit to anyone's house that stipulated no pooing in certain toilets, and why even have guests if you can't deal with them carrying out their natural bodily functions? Very inhospitable and totally nuts.

Kirbert2 · 17/05/2026 22:22

Why are you having one downstairs in the first place? Especially since you will force your daughter with mobility issues to use the upstairs one anyway if she needs a poo?

Sounds like a waste of money and a source of unnecessary stress.

DrCoconut · 17/05/2026 22:23

MyGammyEye · 17/05/2026 22:16

Invite me to stay. I have some sort of mental block where I can only poo in my own home.

Holidays - are you having a nice time? No I'm painfully constipated!

My DS has bowels of steel and will withhold poo for as long as a week if away from home. It's not good for him and he knows it but just struggles with public/non familiar loos.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 17/05/2026 22:23

GuineaPigWig · 17/05/2026 20:52

You can keep some corks next to the front door to offer guests. Right next to the blue plastic shoe covers I assume you have.

😂😂

hahabahbag · 17/05/2026 22:24

Make sure you have a lidded bin and a sign saying don’t flush anything other than toilet paper. Two ply is better than 3 ply with them too (experience) it will cope fine with poo, just not half a rolls of thick toilet paper

RedRock41 · 17/05/2026 22:25

Wow 😮… yabvu

MyCrushWithEyeliner · 17/05/2026 22:27

AllBranGirl · 17/05/2026 21:56

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

😂

All Bran Girl. You won’t be able to use the loo as you’re probably very regular 🤔

DrCoconut · 17/05/2026 22:28

Tigerbalmshark · 17/05/2026 21:36

That was my first thought too! I imagined an under-stairs cupboard, and somebody shutting themselves in there and shitting all over the coats and shoes 🤣🤣🤣

Glad it's not just me that's a bit literal and interprets cloakroom as place to hang coats. Like the cloakroom at school.

Twooclockrock · 17/05/2026 22:28

Well the issue is that anyone that comes to your house is basically going to have to tell you if they are doing a poop in your toilet, as they will have to ask to go upstairs.
This is a really horrible experience for anyone, even a close friend to have to badically say ''I am going for a poo now'. Either by words or by the action of them going. upstairs.
Yoh could put a sig up saying ' please use the upstairs loo if you use a lot of toilet paper as the flush is not very good' or something like that. Not directly saying 'you must go upstairs to poo'.

GinaWhoLikesADrink · 17/05/2026 22:30

DrCoconut · 17/05/2026 22:28

Glad it's not just me that's a bit literal and interprets cloakroom as place to hang coats. Like the cloakroom at school.

Or the one at a nightclub. Drop off your turd and take a ticket.

BudgetBuster · 17/05/2026 22:31

keepswimming38 · 17/05/2026 20:52

My daughter recently got sepsis and it’s affected her mobility. She would use upstairs loo in morning to poop though.

Is she only allowed poo in the morning then?
This gets more bizarre

Pistachiocake · 17/05/2026 22:34

GinaWhoLikesADrink · 17/05/2026 22:30

Or the one at a nightclub. Drop off your turd and take a ticket.

If we're being literal, should it be a cloakroom, if no one wear cloaks this century?

fashionqueen0123 · 17/05/2026 22:34

TalulahJP · 17/05/2026 21:14

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 always felt nervous using it. i was told by my then bf it was pee only in that one. fair enough. totally got it.

id be fine with a sign. id direct people to the upstairs loo “the downstairs loo is a noisy macerator for no1s only, for your comfort you may prefer to use the upstairs one, it’s quieter and the lights better for makeup too”

A curtain and no door?! Omg 🤣

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