Toilet noise making me anti social

[KingCatMeowInSpace]

A couple of years ago I got our bathroom re-done and I've become obsessed with the fact that the door has a gap at the bottom which means that you can hear EVERY noise coming from the bathroom. If I'm doing something on the landing or sitting in a bedroom with the door open or in the hall and someone's in the bathroom, you can them - peeing, closing toilet, any water splashing, farting - everything. So now when anyone goes in the bathroom I immediately turn on the radio and if any visitors are over I keep music on and doors closed. I HATE it. Had a couple joiners out to look at the bathroom door but they both said it's because floor is at a slight angle so door needs to have gap at bottom or it won't open without banging into the floor. Any suggestions other than ripping up the floor tiles, re-levelling floor and re-doing it, which my husband says no way as it doesn't bother him at all- he's oblivious ?

Is it the only toilet? If not direct them to one further away. Or connect a particularly noisy fan (look through reviews!) so that every time the loo is in use you can hear the fan.

Easiest, cheapest, way is just to slip a pool noodle over the bottom of the door.

@KingCatMeowInSpace could you change the door frame and door to open the other direction so door won’t catch on the floor? Might be able to make it longer then. Bit of a faff though.

Lay a new floor in the bathroom, on top of the existing but levelled. Small sloping threshold to avoid a trip hazard. We have a mad sloping threshold elsewhere in the house to deal with slightly different level floors. The door will close over the threshold rather than a gap.

Get a really loud fan that's joined to the light, so when you turn the light on the fan goes on too

the bathroom is on our small landing which has 3 bedroom doors off it so when fan was noisy it would wake us up if used during the night.

If you have an isolator switch fitted for the fan, you can turn that off at night so it wouldn't come on.

I’d go loud extractor fan. Other option Japanese toilet as they play sounds whilst you’re going for this exact reason. Otherwise, yup, really thick fire door or similar - you can cut it slightly on a diagonal if your floor is uneven to get a tight fit - surprised the joiners wouldn’t entertain that.

Reminds me of an old rental flat I lived in with a mate. The toilet door was one of those sliding paper thin cardboard feeling type things and it opened up into the living room. Even with the tv on quite loud you could hear everything. Was increasingly embarrassing when one of us had pulled and the lucky lady was hanging around for Sunday breakfast.

Self levelling acoustic drop seal.

sorted!

Oh I see someone else has suggested it. It’s made for just this situation!

Someone earlier mentioned a rising hinge. That is a great answer to get a door that fits the hole.

Depends which way it opens and which Way the slope is surely?

plus rising hinges are deeply annoying I think.

You've had some good suggestions here OP, but also I would suggest you try really hard to fixate less on this.

Nobody WANTS to hear other people farting and shitting, I used to live in a tiny one bedroom flat with my IBS suffering partner where you'd have no choice but to hear everyone's everything regardless of where you were in the flat. It wasn't ideal but there wasn't much he could do about it.

He'd put the fan on, I'd turn the telly up, over time you do tune it out. How do you manage staying in a hotel with someone?

Thanks - I wouldn't say I fixate on it but am very keen to try to fix it. It's not a problem sharing a hotel room - it's when visitors to my home have to listen to others going to the toilet.

Called a rising butt hinge. (Really, it is called that.)
They tend to self-close too if hung properly, so beware of your fingers.

Honestly a rising butt hinge is not what you need here. It’s also deeply irritating if it closes the door constantly.

Rehang the door the other way round, so the hinges are on the opposite side of the doorframe?

It may be a safety issue which way the door opens.
Personally I prefer bathroom doors to open outwards, in case anyone is taken ill in there and falls so as to block the door if it opens inwards.