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?

This is how houses used to be. The houses I grew up in (the last one was a new build in 1962 when we moved in) were like this but most have been modernised by knocking through between the toilet and bathroom.

Don’t you need to look at your diet? We don’t have stinky loos in our house but that’s maybe because we have a mainly vegetarian diet with not much processed food. And I have a very sensitive nose-I definitely notice stinky loos elsewhere.

Just factor in the cost of knocking through to the bathroom.

Every 1920s house will have been built like this, and any older house with integral toilet and bathroom will have been knocked through or re-modelled.

The bidet in the bathroom was for before and after sex not after the toilet.

But how did you hand wash if someone was in the bath?

Many houses were built like that in the UK. Ours built in the 1930s was like that when we bouight it.
When we had the money we made it into one bathroom.
I guess it would depend on how easy this would be to do.

Yes agree with everyone saying this is defnitely being over-dramatic. Loads of ways to fix or mitigate this up thread and to let something like this put you off an entire house if everything else is good would be crazy.

I think shit just stinks because it’s shit. We eat a lot of vegetables and beans, we don’t eat a lot of processed food. Me and DH have the odd finders crispy pancake once the kids are sleeping, but that’s it. I am glad that your shit apparently does not stink, but I find this very very hard to believe.

It was standard in the old days, usually quite easy to knock through and make one bathroom.

People often have the misconception that it is/was illegal to have a toilet connected to a kitchen but its not, you just need a dedicated sink (which most old toilets didn't have). Handwashing wasn't standard practice until after the mid century.

Although one I saw last year had a bath and sink upstairs in the main house box room but the only toilet was the buildings original outhouse (basically a brick shed with toilet in)... now that one was mad. Whats more shocking is it looked like an elderly couple had been living like that until very recently.

We have this. When we moved in I wanted to knock it through, but now I like it separate.

But these were houses where before that the toilet was outside so (if people even washed their hands) it would be at the kitchen sink. I’m not sure there was quite the drive to wash hands that there is now.

Kitchen sink?

Lots of houses where I live have this set up. Some have taken out the dividing wall to make it one room. I grew up in an Edwardian house where this was a thing with the main bathroom. It wouldn’t put me off, no.

I grew up and lived in a house like this and now live in a house with separate toilet.

I also agree with @LibertyLily those basin over the cistern toilets are awful. You end up with your shins on the toilet rim where invariably pee has dribbled down, and the sinks are so small that you end up splashing water everywhere. And they are useless for small children.

Wouldn’t put me off because its relatively cheap to change.

Ha ha of course there is a smell but it’s not pungent certainly doesn’t stink out the bathroom so that windows have to be opened and people can’t use it. But I have been in bathrooms after someone has used it at work for example and I have to gag. It’s definitely diet related as it’s different from when I was younger and had a shit diet. Or if one of us has eaten something disagreeable!

You could always get a hand sanitiser gel dispenser for the toilet wall? Problem solved.

Smash the wall through.

Really? This is how ours is. It was built in the 1980s and then and prior to then it was how it was.

funnily enough no one has been ill in our house from touching the door handle, because we then wash our hands in the bathroom.

do you genuinely never touch any doors etc when out in public? You know, ones that have been touched by the great unwashed public and not your family?

My house was like that. We put a basin into the room with the toilet in, but I love the fact that the bath room doesn't have the toilet in! No loo germs where you clean your teeth... winner for me.

You need better ventilation in the bathroom then. I have never found this to be a big problem.

We had this in a house - I kept hand sanitiser on top of the loo.

I don’t understand the handwashing thing because the only people touching the handle are (hopefully!) going to be washing their hands anyway, so it’s not like you’d be contaminating clean hands?

Anyway, very common and easily solved, most people take down the wall now.

It wouldn’t put me off at all because it’s so easy to change - either do as already suggested and change the WC for one with a sink on the top of the cistern or run pipes through from the bathroom to install a separate sink.

Washing hands wasn't that much of a thing until post WW2.

During WW2 because of blackout/blitz, with lack of labour and supply and demand etc... issues there was a MASSIVE shift in the food market. Cows and Pig which had been staple meets where too hard to raise quick enough so we started factory farming chickens which could be raised in their thousands indoors in dark shed to maturity in next to no time making chicken the new staple meet product.

Around this time people started getting really ill with bouts of food poisoning (Salmonella) and over the next decade or so they discovered it was from cross contamination of raw chicken. Prior to then people just 'wiped' cooking slime off their hands onto rags or tea towels but the discovery of Salmonella was a huge public health hygiene crisis which promoted 'washing hand' to stop the spread of illness and is when teaching people to wash hands became a public social thing.