Extra toilet

It doesn't have to be in the understairs cupboard. My son and his wife had a tiny corner of the hall (next to the front door) boxed in to make a loo. Very small but useful. They had to have pipes put in all round the house though as the kitchen was at the back.

My DS and DiL have just moved into house with 2 bedrooms with ensuite, one family bathroom and downstairs loo. Lucky them!

Looking to rightsize soon and a second downstairs loo is in the top three of requirements, the first two are a kitchen and a shed/living room for Shed Man aka OH. As a child we only had one loo in the house but the outside one, full of spiders, was often brought into use by an impatient member of the family. I preferred to wait and hop around like a kangaroo, not that it helped. My father was renowned for having a library book at hand in the only toilet (much to my mothers disgust) and every house I've lived in has had, or had installed a second loo.

Hello Gagagran. I needed my toilet raising too. So a lot cheaper than buying a new toilet. My husband put a block under the toilet and highered it, then fitted carpet over it. Looks great and does the trick

We couldn't do that Dandibelle as the upstairs bathroom floor is tiled and the downstairs loo is wood (sealed). The toilets really need replacing anyway - looking a bit elderly now so I am going for new modern ones with the height I need and soft close lids. Your DH sounds like a very handy chap - wish mine was!

Oh how I long for an upstairs loo ! Our one and only is downstairs and has been perfectly adequate for the last 27or so years. However with age and dodgy knees and prostrate problems (the other half not me !) the trip down stairs in the middle of the night is getting more and more of a nuisance !

Gagagran yes I'm very lucky. Not much he can't do !
Enjoy your new loos. They'll certainly make a big difference to you

My dear late mum had a downstairs toilet installed back in the early 90's,when when she was in her mid sixties and in good health,saying that she was 'thinking ahead to a time when she might not be able to get up and down the stairs so easily'. Was she glad she did. She was virtually housebound the last 6 months of her life and it turned out to be a god-send.

We were looking at one of those washbasins on top of a cistern the other day - a very good idea for those tiny rooms where a full size washbasin isn't possible. We've been lucky enough to have a downstairs loo since we moved into our house 30 years ago - very handy for visitors and workmen. I hope your loo is more successful than the one Mrs Brown had fitted under her stairs Nancy

Willow500, you have made me remember when she did the bikini wax in her understairs loo. Very funny.

We have a utility room off the kitchen at the back of the garage. We had a cubicle built with a toilet and wash basin. Very useful.

I don't really mind where the loos are, though a downstairs one is useful, but having 2 is ESSENTIAL in my house.

We had a downstairs loo put in recently during our extension . It's great ,but now OH gets NO exercise as the only thing he did 3/4 times a day was to climb the stairs ! . But do like it for the extra loo and for the DGC .

Have just been through a massive refurb and had extra toilet put at the far end of laundry room . GREAT IDEA as space was at a premium.

Our house had had the pantry under the stairs converted into a toilet ( avocado green - lovely ) when we bought it over 30 years ago.We have had it updated and put in a modern toilet aand tiny wash hand basin. It has been invaluable with elderly relatives and 3 young GC! Also no one spends too long in there as the central heating doesn't extend there so it is very cold. That's the next job on the never ending list.

When we moved to our present house I listed 10 things that must be there, a downstairs loo was near the top of the list.
Our house has 9 ticks out of the 10 required. Yes we have a downstais loo.
I agree about it being quite a low height.
Our solution is a plastic removeable seat.
It raises it by approx 2 inches. Much more comfortable for me to use !

anyone have experience of Japanese loos? When I had shoulder surgery one would have been a godsend - and no more loo paper! You can have just the top converted not the whole loo, but expensive -

We have a Saniflo and when it was put in , our daughter, who was quite little at the time refused to use it because of the noise it made!
The first time i ever came across a saniflo-type loo was in France, when part of our bedroom had been cut off to make a tiny bathroom. The loo had a label on it saying "Danger d'explosion!" I was terrified of it - I think it was just because you are not supposed to put anything unusual down the loo.

Saniflos must have changed a bit Phoebes - my little beauty is really really quiet!

When I commented early in the thread about the noise, I was talking about one that was newly about two years ago. Maybe position and the plumber have an input to the noise generated. This one was very noisy.