Would this put you off a property? Toilet in separate room no sink

[roomnightmare]

Going to see a property that has a downstairs toilet but upstairs, the bathroom has a shower, bath and sink but the toilet is in a separate room next door with no sink. I have no idea why they have it this way but would it put you off? I hate the idea of people touching the door handle after being to the toilet before washing their hands 🤢 it makes no sense imo but am I being too dramatic?

You can always change the loo to one which has sink above the cistern
It would not be a deal breaker as it’s such an easy thing to change

If it’s just through the wall from the bathroom, it should t cost too much to install a sink if there’s room

Yeah it would. I can see the point of having a separate toilet with sink but not with no sink in there. Especially as there’s a toilet downstairs that people can use. Could the wall be easily taken down or a sink easily put in?

It used to be very common. We had it in a house we bought but renovated it and made it into one big bathroom.

I agree. I've seen loads of houses where it's all been knocked through into one big bathroom, so it doesn't really seem to take much effort to do.

Yes it’s grim but you could always just swap the toilet for one of those ones designed for teeny cloakrooms where the sink is on top pf the cistern and voila you’re hygienic again without having to fully re-do the room. I wouldn’t let it put me off an otherwise great house.

I had it in a previous house. I liked it. People can clean their teeth while the toilet room is still airing!

We had this in the house we bought. We knocked the bathroom and the ‘toilet room” through and created one large bathroom.

My parents house is like that; I didn’t know you can get over cistern sinks.

I grew up in a house like this - the house was built late 60's I think and used to be very common.
You could as others have suggested knock through to the bathroom as shouldn't be too difficult. In the meantime just pop a bottle of hand sanitiser in the "toilet room" so people can clean their hands before touching anything - then wash their hands properly in sink next door. Or you can got these toilets where the cistern has a tiny little sink incorporated in it.

We had this arrangement in our house when we moved in. We resolved it by having a very small wash hand basin put in in the loo. All the plumbing is already there so it's just a matter of working out where to put it.

Knocking the two rooms into one is OK if you have another loo and a small household.

2 in 1 Close Coupled Toilet with Sink on Top Basin Tap Cloakroom Space Saving WC

Early 70s houses are often like this. We knocked through which made the bathroom large enough to have both a bath and a separate walk in shower.

No it wouldn't put me off. We have a second toilet without a sink. It was very common in houses built in the 1930s and later
We have hand gel in there. But people have managed for years by just going into the next room to wash hands. Noone has come down with anything horrible.
We actually plan to put in a new toilet with a combined sink above the cistern they are not expensive .

This is standard in Australian houses for main loo & bathrooms.

I don't see the issue. When people flush, if the lid is up, it sprays all over the room with tiny droplets so it's not clean touching anything anyway. And I don't have DC refusing to use the bathroom to shower / clean teeth because DH has just come home & stunk it up 🤮 (which happens often).

Once you wash hands properly in the adjacent bathroom, your hand are clean. Wipe the door handle regularly. Or get an over the cistern sink. Great for water saving, too.

It’s really common, not all houses were built with two bathrooms and it meant people could shower and use the toilet at the same time. I actually prefer it - all the germs are in one room, away from the tooth brushes!

I grew up in a house like this. After many years my parents knocked through the two rooms.

There’s a benefit to not having the loo in the bathroom but I would add in a basin.

How do you cope in public toilets where the sink is outside the cubicle?

It’s exactly the same principle!

I’ve just come back from my daughters in Belgium and it’s common there to have a toilet in a separate room to the rest of the bathroom. I have to say it was a pain having to go from one room to another to wash my hands

My old house was like this but the toilet was at the other side of stairs so couldn't just knock through. We removed the old boiler from the main bathroom which made space to add a toilet then turned the toilet room into a separate shower, plus made a downstairs loo.

My sister's was next door to the bathroom so they just knocked through. It's really common

My mum had this in her house. I think it was common in post war houses when hand hygiene wasn't so important! She ended up knocking the shared wall down and putting a new bathroom in. (Not her herself! She got a builder in.) If the rest of the house was perfect and it was possible to remedy it I'd go for it, but I'd want it changed smartish!

It was very common at one time, and it is to hygienically separate one bodily function from others, check out droplet dispersal with not putting a toilet lid down! I lived in such a home for 35 years and never an issue. We moved to an ex council house and simple solution to knock through or insert tiny wall sink.

It wouldn’t put me off but I would probably plan to knock it together with the bathroom. If not, add a tiny handwash sink.

That’s how houses were built in the 20s and 30s. We eventually knocked our toilet and bathroom into one large room.

It’s definitely a negative but not a deal breaker for me.