Downstairs loo - extractor fan?

[MummytoMog]

Our downstairs loo in the new extension will have no external walls and so no window. DH (who is fucking obsessed with ventilation and leaves the bathroom window open all year round) is insisting that it will need an extractor fan. Is he right? Nobody apart from the builder does particularly rank poos, and I can't see why it would develop a damp problem. Would building regs require an extractor? How would it vent anyway? I hate extractor fans. I grudgingly admit that we will need one in the shower room, but that's it right?

building regs do require an extractor in a room with no windows, I'm afraid.

you won't get signoff without it.

get one with a timer attached to the light, so it will turn off after a while.

We've no windows in our downstairs loo and it was freezing and noisy. Dh switched it off and has duct taped over the vent. I put a can of air freshener in their. We are all happier !!

this is the other solution, although I prefer, er, natural odours to ghastly air fresheners.

Hmm. I suspect the fan might break. Shortly after we get signed off.

If you have no external walls where does the fan extract to?

Ours vented out to the back of the house.

I was wondering this. Through the ceiling and out to the side of the house? Into the utility room? I think there's still a picture of the layout on my profile, but basically the downstairs loo is self contained in the utility room. The washer and dryer will be stacked next to it in the smallish gap between the loo and the outside world and at a push we could do some crafty boxing in and conceal ducting across the top of the washer and dryer in a sort of laundry closet american-stylee cupboard. I was vaguely thinking of adding on in, so it wouldn't break my heart if we had to run ducting. Or we could shift the loo to the other side of the laundry room and then it would have an outside wall (but no window, because it's on the side of the extension which faces our neighbours). We only have one side window, over the staircase, and it's obscured glass. I could call the planning officer and see if they'd go for a second teeny tiny ground floor window? Neighbour wouldn't mind, I've asked. He didn't care if we put a side door into the utility room, but planning officer was NOT on board with that.