Downstairs loo without a window - problem or not?

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We have pp to build a new house, a surprise issue has meant a slight redesign and the most obvious solution is to move the position of the downstairs loo which would leave it without a window although more generously sized. If we leave it where it is with a window we end up with some dead space in the form of a short corridor to the loo and a smaller utility room. Wwyd? I'm thinking naice lighting around a mirror above a sink with a posh unit underneath would make up for the lack of a window, but would it be odd and would it put you off buying it?

Merrymarigold - love the poem - do you know any poems which cover discretely advising ladies that we are on a septic tank and therefore sanpro must be binned rather than flushed, oh the joys of the countryside

Hmmm...I will have a go for you...

No window here - although it does have the window "space" where the window used to be before we built an extention on the other side of it!
Ours is a tiny room - just wider than the loo and probably the loo again in length. The door is on one loner wall and the window space is in the middle of the other longer wall.
We have a mirror on the wall opposite the loo, plus I had a mirror piece cut to size to fit the old window space.
This makes the room seem a lot lighter, and was pretty cheap (less than £20 I think - although because it fits into the space it isn't framed or anything).

If you're a woman, and not transgender
I hope my request will not offend ya
I need to be just a little frank
Due to our issue of a septic tank
When disposing of your monthly paraphernalia -
Please use the bin. Don't be a failure!

Ta dah! Helen Steiner Rice watch your back

Merrymarigold!! You are a genius! So talented! Thank you!

I think it needs another couplet somewhere but hey...

there are some very weedy, cheap, ineffectual extractors that builders usually fit, because by the time you find out, the cheque has cleared. These cheap ones often become noisy when the bearings wear.

You can get some very good, very quiet extractors, especially the ones intended for use with ducts, which are often put out of sight above the ceiling. They usually have ball-bearing motors and run for 50 or 100 hours on 10p worth of electricity.

If you ever think of buying a fan, look at the extract rate (in cubic metres per hour) and the noise (quoted in db) and get one twice as good as the cheap ones.

We don't have a window in ours either - extractor fan works well enough

Forgot to add- the random white frames hide access to th oil filter for the Worcester outdoor oil fired boiler the other side of the wall. The extractor is a 'silent' one.

2 bathrooms in my last 3 houses/flats haven't had windows.

No window in ours or the one at our previous house. Tends to mainly used for wees though - more about the, err, noise but helps to reduce the smell!

Main worry for me would be more about the fact you will have a soil pipe running internally somewhere rather than straight out the house - if you have a window you'll also likely have a toilet against an external wall. We had a problem with ours at one point and that meant the kitchen floor had to be lifted.

Just comeback to this thread, loving the poetry

We had one with just an extractor fan connected to the light, so it ran on for a minute or so after the light went out. I think it, er, smelled cleaner than our current one with a window but no fan.

Need a good light near the mirror though.

Ours has no window, but has a ceiling extractor. We tiled with a black floor and black tiles halfway up the walls. White to the top and white ceiling. White wall hung sanitary wear and tall radiator. Chrome accessories. Nobody notices there's no window - comments are about the decor!