would you like your house to smell of poo?

[misshardbroom]

Please tell me if I am being reasonable or vastly neurotic.

Our cloakroom is right next to the front door. So I'd really rather nobody used it if they need a poo.

Firstly, it means that the second you open the front door (either for yourself or [shudder] to a guest), you are met by the distinct aroma of a freshly used facility.

Secondly, I try to keep that one looking clean as it's used by anyone visiting the house (not that the others are really rank either, you appreciate!).

Bad enough that the children use it for that purpose, but I can't convince DH not to do it either.

Seriously.... it's right by the front door. Is it me?

I would love to even have a 2nd loo to start with! lol Having said that, if I knew there was a chance of visitors, and the loo upstairs was free, then no reason why people should be pooing in downstairs one quite frankly...

Get thee some air freshener woman! Or open the window.

No, I'm with her on this one...

Mind you though, what would you do though, if a visitor had a no 2 in there though??? Is it poor form to do a no 2 in a downstairs loo when a guest?? I think it is, but am I just being.. anal?

you are being reasonable. I don't have a cloakroom in my current house but when I still lived at home it used to drive me mad when my parents did a poo in there, I didn't want to answer the door to my mates with a poo-y smell.

I totally agree with you!!

DH has been banned from having a poo in our bathroom on the half landing. I guess the gasses must be heavier than air as they travel downstairs to the front door.

It is vile.

Light a amtch. The smell disappears.

Are you going to put a sign on the door "No solid matter to be passed here"?

our downstairs bog doesn't flush poos away properly, so if anyone does do one in there, they pay the price

Harvey Denton?

Is that you?

Ah,, mrsmaidamess, now you're talking. Our landlord at university did indeed have such a sign on the toilet door because it was one of those strange 'grinding' toilets that couldn't cope with anything more than wee.

Forced to agree with Pussin's suggestion that it's bad form to be a pooing guest full stop.

Oh no, beginning to think it really is me with strangely repressed attitude.

YANBU

We have this discussion all the time and it drives me mad!

Oh god, yanbu. My mil (and her entire family including dh) poo in the downstairs loo, which is like yours near the front door. My mil seems to do really loud smelly poos several times a day while we are there, and as we are sitting some seven feet away we can hear everything and as she leaves the door wide open afterwards, smell everything. It's embarassing and the smell makes me feel physically sick. Not pleasant for visitors.

YANBU.

our downstairs 'cloakroom' actually does serve as a cloakroom and shoe repository and I don't like the idea of them being in bad odour either.

Guests are welcome - have an air freshener in loos liable to be used by guests in case they are embarrassed by having to do something pongy.

yanbu

YANBU at all.

(and Humbugger that is horrifying!)