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I'm considering moving to a house that is essentially five bedrooms and one bathroom. Weird, I know, but it's in a great location on a big lot and is otherwise a cool house. I've found a lot of info on bedroom sizes, and the bedrooms are huge, but other than having functioning bathrooms I haven't found any details on the rules on that.Any idea if there are rules on numbers of bathrooms? It would just be my two kids and me and at most two foster kids. That is a lot for one bathroom, I get that, but would licensing care? At some point I'd love to redo the kitchen and add a bathroom, but could I foster in the meantime?I'm editing to add that there's a creek in the front yard. You have to park on a parking deck, walk across a cute little bridge, and then about 15 feet up to the front door. There's no way to fence off the creek entirely like you could with a pool. There are also ponds and a lake within blocks. I don't want to say so much you could find the house but will say it's in the mountains and there are just weird house layouts and lots of lakes and creeks and all up here. All that snow has to go someplace. I'm just wondering if this house's eccentricities would be a dealbreaker.
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I can't see bathrooms being an issue at all. You could all work out a schedule if you think there might be problems within the family.
As for the creek, I would just call and ask. Our friends had something similar in their backyard. At this time they're only going to foster infants just to be safe, but in order to pass their home inspection they just had to put an alarm on the door so a child couldn't wander outside.
Good luck!
In my state we can have 1 bathroom for 8 people, so your house would be fine. My concern would be everyone getting sick at the same time, yuck.
I have no idea about the creek, but I am sure the agency will help you find a plan to make that work. You may need a high lock on the front door, so the kids cannot get out that way without you. It is scary in a fire, but here people with pools that connect up to their house have to do that to their back doors which basically makes the door unusable as an exit. It makes no sense.
I think that the bathroom issue shouldn't be a big deal since I couldn't find anything about it on the county's website beyond saying that plumbing needs to be functional and the water needs to be on. I'd love to add a half bath at some point. The creek turns out not to be as much of a creek as the owner was saying. It's really more like a spot where water drains from the hill, maybe 1/2 inch max at most times, like a gutter in front of a sidewalk would be. There's a cute bridge over it but that's more for the cute factor than necessity. Alarms are a given since my kids are autistic. Now I'm wondering about it being an a road that isn't paved or maintained. It's a short road, maybe 6 or 7 houses, and the end is dirt and gravel. It snows and gets muddy and social workers tend to drive itty bitty compact cars. Maybe I need to go with an agency that specializes in the mountains? I understand there is one, so they'd be used to this kind of thing.
I know for us we have to have one working bathroom - it is a 2 1/2 bath condo but as long as one toilet flushes and there is hot running water in one - and it doesn't even need to be the same one - that is all the agency requires (all are functional, so this hasn't been an issue).
If there is an agency that specializes in mountain issues that would be a good call to go with them - I used to live in the mountains in CA and know that there can be issues that those who have never lived there would "freak out" about whereas those who live there accept as everyday life (i.e. the non-paved muddy roads).
Good luck on your journey to foster (maybe adoption too?)
Let us know how it goes - it sounds like a cute place.
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hi,
A bathroom is a room for personal hygiene, generally containing a bathtub or a shower, and possibly also a bidet. In North America and some other regions, it characteristically contains a toilet and a sink; hence in North American English the word "bathroom" is commonly used to mean any room containing a toilet, even a public toilet (although in the United States this is more commonly called a restroom). In other countries, including the UK, Australia, France and Japan, homes may have a separate toilet. In Iran almost all homes have two distinct rooms for bathroom and toilet room.
