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?

It’s how it used to be. You can always knock it through if you prefer.

We could look into the special toilet but not knocking through the wall for the foreseeable. Thanks for experiences!

This is what I did too.

People can still touch the door handle without washing their hands even if there is a basin in there...

Yes you're being a bit dramatic! Wouldn't put me off at all! That was the house situation where I grew up, a separate toilet with the bath, shower and basin in the bathroom. In fact I'd be delighted to see that set up again, I still hate having a loo in the bathroom.

I do not understand houses like this. Fine to have the shower separate, but the toilet and the sink should surely be together? You can’t use the toilet if someone is in the shower, because you can’t wash your hands.

We recently renovated and the toilet was in its own little room, and a bidet was down the hall in the main bathroom! 😕I can only assume it was a added in the 70's/80's when bidet's were popular, but they clearly had no clue how it was used. Who wants to waddle down the hall with pants down to get to it? 😆

We knocked through, but I read that won't be an option for you. Would a very thin wall sink or a corner sink fit into the room, or as someone suggested- a combo sink/toilet in one.

I would prefer it, but there would need to be a small basin added.

😂 I’d love to know the thought process there!

It's a non issue as so easy to put in either a small wash basin or a wash basin over cistern as above.

I would get one of these.

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Just seen somebody else already posted that.

The cistern basins are very awkward, you have to reach over the loo , then come back over the loo with wet hands as there isn’t usually room for a towel rail.

we installed a slimline basin instead, as the bathroom was not next to the loo room ( French house design) we couldn’t get hot water but the plumber took a cold feed from the pipe to the loo. Worked well.

It wouldn't put me off because it's so easily fixed. I'd prefer a separate loo to be honest.

This was how it was in both my childhood houses, 1st built 1969, 2nd built similar time. Lived there through 70s and 80s. Never questioned it at the time although it seems odd now. Easy to add a small handwash basin though.

I'd just knock it through if I wanted the house.

We had this in our first house. I will say, it’s good because it someone needs to poop it doesn’t stink up the room you shower in. If someone poos in our house now I have to air it out before I shower, or have a stinky shower. Definitely get a sink put in the loo room, but I would maybe see it as a positive.

My mum's house is like this, 1930s house. We didn't have a toilet downstairs and it was better as people could use it whilst someone was in the bath. Hand washing wasn't an issue, it was only a couple of metres walk!

Public toilets don't have sinks in the cubicles?! I can't imagine it being a deal breaker, you can regularly clean handles?

I'd knock it through, assuming everything else about the house is right.

I don't like those combined loo/basins as imho they're incredibly awkward to use. If I wanted to keep the loo separate from the bathroom, I'd fit a tiny basin in the upstairs cloakroom if space allowed.

My parents' house where I grew up was built in 1925 and had a loo (no basin) separate from the bathroom, but it wasn't anywhere near the bathroom so couldn't be knocked through. I don't think my parents ever considered adding a tiny basin (would've easily fitted) and they were otherwise very insistent on personal hygiene.

If the rest of the house is perfect it wouldn’t put me off. If you’re on the fence, then it would sway me to no.

You can put a sink over the loo. Our habit of having one bathroom where you toilet and wash in the same environment is seen as unhygienic in some cultures! MY friends who lived in Japan maintained their separate loo and bathroom in their 30s house.

It would put me off but not enough to stop buying if all was ok. We had it before in a rented house and hilariously it was lowest of a long list of things that were awful so I only just remembered it!! I will say a dealbreaker for me is a bathroom with no window. Hell on earth for me (lived with it for four years, shudders!!)

Normal to me.

If someone was in the bathroom whilst you used the loo (handy), you could wash your hands in the kitchen sink if needed. But honestly, hand washing was less obsessive when these houses were built, many houses still had only an outside loo which had no sink either.

And the bonus is, when you do get round to renovating, you usually get a pretty big bathroom, sometimes large enough to split into a bathroom and ensuite.

no issue
it's easy to add a sink. either stand alone or top of cistern.

separate toilets are great, especially if you live with people who occupy toilets for a long time.