Overnight flushing

[ThatCheeseNeedsEating]

Maybe my titles a bit deceiving! I'm talking toilet flushing here!
Dh and I disagree about this. He doesn't like anyone flushing the toilet overnight as says it wakes everyone up. He says it's normal for people not to flush overnight.
I think it's disgusting. I don't want to be weeing on another person's pee!
So am I being unreasonable here?

Utter bollocks. No-one is suggesting you leave it to sit for weeks on end, just overnight.

What a ridiculous waste of drinking water, especially during a drought!!!

If you insist on flushing overnight, then at least use waste water from your washing up bowl, although you probably only use a dishwasher and wash your 3 changes of clothes daily. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

Ooh I don’t think I’ve ever seen a poll at 50/50 before, good one!

My husband flushes and it wakes me up, I’m a very light sleeper. I don’t flush so that I don’t wake anyone up. It’s one of those things that I wouldn’t admit to in ‘real life’ though. There is something a bit gross about it.

Snap.

It's a waste of water to flush every pee.

No flushing here overnight, but tbf it’s only me who wees in the night. Guess what, I don’t flush after every wee in the day either - “if it’s yellow let it mellow, if it’s brown flush it down”. It’s such a waste of water.
P.s. You weeing on top of someone else’s wee has no effect on you whatsoever, it’s not splashing up your bum!

Not flushing is disgusting so I'm with you op

Toilet flush would wake me up. However, I wear ear plugs and use white noise. Team flush here. (Tell him to wear ear plugs).

That reminds me of when I was a kid. I was barred permanently from my best mates house aged 13 for flushing the toilet after 9.30pm?! Apparently it woke the mum up.

I think if you have a rule about not flushing you obviously need to make it plain to everyone who may visit. It could be unpleasant for someone to go to the toilet in the night and find the bowl full of someone else's waste?

Peeing on pee? 😂

100%

Lots of people do 🤷‍♀️

I don't want to smell anyone's wee. And yes, your wee does smell.

Flushing in the night doesn't bother me. Shutting doors without turning the handle does though! (looking at my DD here)

No toilet flush for overnight wees here. They do wake me and also my daughter.

"It just doesn't happen" you can't possibly know this- just because you don't shit in the night doesn't mean nobody else does! People have different body clocks, different toilet habits, different working patterns and routines.

I flush. If it woke my dh up I wouldnt. Sleep is important. I dont think it is unreasonable to ask family not to flush if it wakes you. Disturbed sleep much bigger inconvenience than first person in bathroom having to flush away a pee.

My DH is annoying in that if there’s wee in the toilet and he’s just about to wee in it (even standing up!) he flushes first!! Even though he’s stood there in wee pose!! Why not just go first then flush 🤯 He said he doesn’t like using it if there wee in there in case of splashes

For people who don't flush surely you do if you are on your period?

I don’t flush the en suite at the request of DH as he is a really light sleeper and I need to go a couple of times a night. I drink loads of water though and unless I’ve had asparagus my pee is inoffensive.
On the rare nights DH needs to go he flushes because he drinks mostly coffee or beer and by his own admission isn’t pleasant.

Hahaha that’s funny between 11pm-4am are prime time for my body to decide it’s time to evacuate.

Always flush. Even the children get quite mardy if they go in the bathroom and someone hasn’t flushed no matter the time of day.

I don’t want my bathroom to smell like a public toilet.

Yes - if there is period blood in the bowl after use then I will flush. Also if I happen to have eaten asparagus or something that genuinely make the wee smell I will flush then. But otherwise as a general rule i will flush every 3 or 4 wees if that makes sense. Especially during the summer when water is in shorter supply.

My bathroom doesn't smell (Honestly it doesn't) and nothing has ever happened to me as a consequence.

maybe it's because I was brought up int he 70's??

I loathe non flushing. Flushing in the middle of the night doesn't bother me at all.

Flush or dont. Your choice.

I live alone most of the time and I don’t flush overnight. I’m not in a water meter either but think I’m saving water for us all (specially as we are on a hosepipe ban).

This is interesting. Didn't expect so many conflicting replies! Depends on all sorts then- how noisy your toilet is, whether the beds are near the toilet wall, whether you have hard water, whether there are light sleepers and whether you live alone. Also whether, when you're half sleep, you can be bothered to put a bit of toilet cleaner down after your wee.
I haven't even mentioned people not washing their hands in case of waking others up! That would start a separate debate!😄

Missed one-whether there's a water shortage!

I'm wfh today and have just been for a wee. DP said not to flush because he needed to go as well. In broad daylight and with no risk of waking anyone! The world did not end.