Downstairs Bathroom.

Arfa__

Why so bad?

Caught bit of some property program on the idiotbox last night and they were being really derogatory about a house because it had a downstairs bathroom. Made out it could be a deal breaker. Suggested ditching one of the three bedrooms and converting it to an upstairs bathroom.

So what's the big deal? Is it purely because people don't like going downstairs at night for a slash?

poppysarah

Yes. And people who call it a slash probably use an empty cider can by the bed instead.

michele-p

we have a downstairs bathroom at the moment, and we are hopefully moving very soon. If you wake up at 3am, and know you have to go downstairs to the loo, it wakes you up too much and you have you be really careful of steep stairs. Unfortunately lots of properties where we are have the bathroom downstairs! Top of my list is an upstairs bathroom.

Arfa__

poppysarah wrote: »

Yes. And people who call it a slash probably use an empty cider can by the bed instead.

Watch it now! Otherwise I'll be flinging my chamber pot in your direction....

Yeah we have a downstairs bathroom, never really thought about it. Guess I also grew up in a places where the bathroom was always on a different floor to my bedroom, so its never really phased me. That said whenever I've stayed somewhere with an en suite bathroom, its always been handy.

avenida

Yes read this thread about downstairs bathroom, it really does seem to be a deal breaker and personally I would be put of too

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2582647

loracan1

My neighbour's house has been on the market with various estate agents for over 2 years now (divorced and isn't in a hurry to pay off the ex) she's had several viewers whose feedback has been about the downstairs bathroom despite there being a sink and toilet upstairs.

pinkshoes

In short, they're a pain in the ar*e, and thus make your house difficult to sell as people want one upstairs.

Chamber pots went out of fashion years ago!!

KME91

One annoying thing is if you're having a bath or shower, having to wander back through the downstairs of the house to get up to the bedroom and get dressed. Very annoying if your other half has friends round!

g_attrill

KME91 wrote: »

One annoying thing is if you're having a bath or shower, having to wander back through the downstairs of the house to get up to the bedroom and get dressed. Very annoying if your other half has friends round!

Get dressed in the bathroom at those times?

I recently bought one house out of a street of houses up for sale. Two of the houses had a very strange arrangement of a bath and sink upstairs, and a toilet and sink downstairs! They sold for approx £160k, the others went for £180k, although they were a different overall layout.

lee636

I think it just seems 'wrong' in the modern house life to most people now. Most of us are used to going upstairs to bed and bath etc. so having to change to go down can seem like too much change in your new home.

lincroft1710

People do get used to them. My parents' house (built in late 1940s), which they lived in for 40 years, had a downstairs bathroom. Their previous house had a downstairs "bathroom" but WC was outside.

There must be hundreds of thousands of Victorian/Edwardian houses with downstairs bathrooms.