It’s all cisterns go for the modern home | Brief letters

Kevin McCloud | Book lice | Heart symbols | Ofsted gradings | Medicinal properties of Guinness

As one of three occupants, all well over pensionable age, of a house with four toilets, I can tell Kevin McCloud that when he gets to our age, he won’t consider always being able to get to an unoccupied loo a bugbear (Report, 3 September).
Mike Lowcock
Sandbach, Cheshire

• “Why do people judge the status of a house by how many toilets you can offer your guests?” asks Kevin McCloud. Surely the question should be: “Just what are they planning to feed their guests?”
Barbara Knapp
Pudsey, West Yorkshire

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