Outside loos - what do people think of them ?

dunramblin

Hello

I am considering building an outside loo. We have one upstairs but don't have room for one downstairs, so I am considering building one outside (just outside the back door). We have a family house with young kids and a medium size garden. The kids are always running upstairs to go to the loo with their mucky boots on. I realise they should take them off but ..

Just wondering if people would see it as more of an inconvenience or old hat, etc, if we were ever to sell the house. It would probably be cold out there in the winter, but then the upstairs one would be used more often then. It would be handy to keep smells and mucky boots out of the house!
Cheers for your thoughts.

27col

Two loo's are always better than one, even if one of them is outside. If you can make it big enough to provide a bit of storage as well then so much the better. Obviously there is a risk of freezing and precautions would need to be taken to prevent or at least limit the risk of this happening. The first house that we had, only had an outside loo, inspite of the fact that the bathroom was large enough to accommodate one. Installing an indoor toilet was the very first job that we did. I have often considered building an outside facility. Every time I start to do a bit of gardening I seem to have to come back indoors to use the loo. Just one of the results of growing older, I suppose.

Snuggles

I would absolutely hate this, no matter how practical it might seem. If I was a prospective buyer, I would see it as a problem to be got rid of, with the associated expense.

To me outside toilet = cold, dirty, smelly. The very thought makes me shudder! This may be irrational, but I'm sure I'm not the only person who would think this!

Green_eyes_3

There was one at one of my old houses. It was handy for my daughter, and partner. I refused to use it.

Plumberman

I have reinstated 3 outside WCs over the past 6 months or so, and converted an outhouse into a wet room. If there has been a toilet there before then connecting to the drain is not a problem, but if drain alterations need to be made it could turn into a big job.
A good point on being susceptible to freezing, a lot of outside toilets and outside taps froze during the cold weather at new year.

barneyg

When you start looking at posher houses the lovely estate agents call them 'gardeners loos' - so your neighbours might well be jealous

Seriously though, is there no way of making it part of the house, maybe having a back porch ('boot room' ) with a door to outside and a door to the loo?

flea72

we have an outside loo at our house. its so handy, as you say, when out in the garden as it means you dont have to traipse through the house with dirty shoes, or hands - but even when indoors, we still use it, as its just outside the back door, so is nearer than the one upstairs anyway

we dont have room for a sink in ours, so have a small shelf with a bottle of antibacterial gel

id rather have an outside loo, than no downstairs loo at all

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Andy_L

Could you arrange it so you have doors from both indoors & outdoors so its a useable downstairs WC/cloak room/store as well as accesable direct from the garden?

anotherbaldrick

dunramblin wrote: »

Hello

I am considering building an outside loo. We have one upstairs but don't have room for one downstairs, so I am considering building one outside (just outside the back door). We have a family house with young kids and a medium size garden. The kids are always running upstairs to go to the loo with their mucky boots on. I realise they should take them off but ..

Just wondering if people would see it as more of an inconvenience or old hat, etc, if we were ever to sell the house. It would probably be cold out there in the winter, but then the upstairs one would be used more often then. It would be handy to keep smells and mucky boots out of the house!
Cheers for your thoughts.

You would have to say, not so much an inconvenience, more an outconvenience

jsh99

Plumberman wrote: »

I have reinstated 3 outside WCs over the past 6 months or so, and converted an outhouse into a wet room. If there has been a toilet there before then connecting to the drain is not a problem, but if drain alterations need to be made it could turn into a big job.
A good point on being susceptible to freezing, a lot of outside toilets and outside taps froze during the cold weather at new year.

Pun intended??????
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LittleMissAspie

I'm with Snuggles, if I viewed a house with an outside loo I would be thinking of ways to get rid of it.

How much room do you have? I'm thinking you could build an outside utility room. You could have a sink and nice tiling and room to keep some tools etc, and a loo.