I’m having a pretty big celebration at my house this Sunday. There’s 3 bathrooms, 2 are going to be open to the “public”. One of those bathrooms are mine.
Something just occured to me this morning. I’m a 110 pound female and I clog my toilet about once a week or once every other week. I can’t imagine what it would be like if some 220 pound man takes a shit in my bathroom.
Not good. Not good.
I don’t mind people peeing in my toilet, but nervous about people pooping in it. I’m not open-minded to cleaning up about 4 pounds of shit and water from my bathroom floor, if my toilet stops up and overflows.
Not sure you can really stop anyone from answering the call of nature. You might post a sign saying something like, “My plumbing is outdated and can’t handle a whole lot. The plunger is behind the toilet if you need it.”
Really, even terrible (shitty? ha ha!) toilets don’t usually overflow on the first flush.
It sounds like you’re doing a public service by getting people to avoid this toilet. I don’t see any rudeness in explaining to people that your one toilet is currently malfunctioning, so please do not use it. There are alternate facilities available. I guess a sign would be fine as well, as you might not get to everyone if its a big party.
I don’t know what you should say. I wouldn’t say anything at all, but I just want to point out that your science looks shakey to me. I have seen very small people produce very large waste. I don’t think that just because a man is 200 pounds, that he will harm your plumbing.
You could perhaps put up a sign, “This toilet has delicate pipes, pls do not flush paper towels, tissues, or napkins.” That’s a polite hint that this isn’t the best spot for parking to read the newspaper. And really if it’s that sensitive then someone flushing a makeup tissue is just as likely to be a problem. Along with that, put a plunger and (lined) wastebasket out in the open. If it’s so bad that a quick plunge doesn’t fix it then you probably just need to close that bathroom.
LOL. Really? I’m curious to know how you found this out.
Anyway, I don’t overflow my toilet. I just stop it up sometimes, a quick plunge gets it back to normal. However, I’m concerned if someone happens to dump larger than I, regardless of their size, I’m scared it will progress to it overflowing. Plus, not everyone can plunge as well as I can. I got skills.
Yeah, I think there’s something wrong with my toilet eventhough it’s only 5 years old.
The one in the master bedroom will be closed off, since my folks don’t want random people trolling thru their bedroom. My mom insists that we have the guest bathroom open and my bathroom open. Well, I don’t want to give her any trouble since, well, it’s her birthday party.
I might do that.
I hope my mom doesn’t see this.
I thought that at first. But it happens when the “business” goes down, I use toilet paper for the second flush.
Some of the people coming to the party are old and dense. I should put that on the sign also. Good idea.
I used to have a friend who never let anyone take a shit in his toilet. He handled it pretty well; he just ordered everyone not to shit in his toilet. We gave it all the respect it deserved.
Two days before the party, treat the guests to a sample of norovirus. They should still have a touch of the runs on party day and you will have no worries of solid lumps of waste plugging the toilet.
If someone takes a dump at your party, it probably means that they really, really, really had to go so it was either in your balky terlet or on the kitchen floor. Which is better?
Most people ime won’t sit and have a huge dump in someone else’s house, they’ll wait til they get home. But how can you say or imply that someone can’t poop in your toilet?? I have IBS and if I really had to go not being able to would cause me a lot of pain and discomfort. You can’t tell people they can’t poop if they have to! If the toilet is ‘delicate’ make sure there’s a plunger in full view just in case. Sorry but I’m shaking my head a bit over this. I’ve had guests block my toilet, stink out the bathroom etc, but part of being a host is dealing with that tactfully and not making the person feel uncomfortable. You’ll just have to do a few checks throughou the party to make sure everything is OK - is that so hard?
(Friends of course are different - a mate of ours shared a very spicy taco chip with us the other night over a few beers, and was told in no uncertain terms the next morning that as he was going home anyway he could keep his arse shut until then. Of course if he’d actually been in pain or discomfort we would have told him to go ahead - and then slagged him mercilessly afterwards…)
