ᐅ WC window in guest bathroom next to the front door – is that now considered a no-go?

Garten2 schrieb:
said that all toilet windows next to entrance doors must be bricked up,

How did he justify that?

Garten2 schrieb:
So is that just the personal opinion of a pedant?
What do you think?

I see it differently – as a pedant notorious for having a personal opinion.

Garten2 schrieb:
I only learned this term here in the forum.

Maybe the legal situation in Austria is different from Germany (?).
The culture of having a guest toilet near the entrance door comes, as far as I know, from the dilemma of on one hand a regulation (according to which refusing a stranger to use the toilet would be considered failure to provide assistance) and on the other hand the wish to minimize this stranger’s intrusion into the “my home is my castle.” Therefore, the guest toilet often branches off directly from the entrance hall. The foremost pastime of Germans is for Austrians (and Swiss) to have someone to find odd.

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ypg schrieb:
...so that no one gets caught off guard when passing gas in the restroom. It’s like the saying "keep the church in the village."

Exactly, the sounds and the smells were the arguments.

Build a house with proper sound insulation and a ventilation system, and these arguments become nothing more than a myth.

Garten2 schrieb:
Yes, exactly, the noises and the smells were the reasons.

Oh my god. Then he should just go to a campsite. Seriously, what kind of people are there!

Where would the noises and odors be properly contained?
I consider this graduate engineer to be completely unrealistic and pretentious, making the entire discussion pointless.

Garten2 schrieb:
Yes, exactly, the noises and the odors were the arguments.

How often and for how long in relation to what, exactly?