In the next few weeks we will be having a new driveway.

Don’t really want any workman going upstairs to use our trap…

There is a supermarket 2 mins drive or 5 min walk with toilets should I make this clear to them when they start ?

Don’t really want any workman going upstairs to use our trap…

Working class people in our house? Infamy!

I let workmen use my inside toilet. I also offer them tea at regular intervals.

When doing up her house a friend had a Plumber – YES PLUMBER – leave a log in an unconnected toilet – put some straw down in a cardboard box.

We just let them use our loo (doing an extension and they were around for 6 months). They left some revolting presents for us so next time I will be insisting that they bring a portaloo onsite.

should I make this clear to them when they start ?

If you want the shit to hit the fan,go for it.

Dear god, what a charmer.
What exactly do you think there going to do up there, that you don’t?

whats the worst that could happen?

either you let them use your loo or they WILL use the bottom of your garden – assuming your in that is … if your not in they will use the bottom of the garden anyway.

Tradesmen tramping over my carpets? How frightful!!!

How about….

Just curious, but when you tell them they can’t use your toilet and they ask why, what are you planning on saying?

Plenty of decent builders out there who are quite happy to make other arrangements. Include portaloo hire as part of the contract if necessary.

It’s not so much that they’re using the loo, although a few I’ve encountered seem to have directional difficulties, it’s the amount of muck that gets traipsed into the house over the course of a build.

Last time I had people working on the garage, I offered to leave the house open so they could use the loo. They told me not to worry, and that they’d go to the McDonald’s up the road. I think they did (although I sometimes pee in the garden myself, so I’m not going to worry about it too much).

🙂

edlong – Member

Just curious, but when you tell them they can’t use your toilet and they ask why, what are you planning on saying?

wife is OCD…

the workmen live in caravans and have a very thick Irish accent…would you let them use your toilet ?

Just make sure that you are well prepared..

the workmen live in caravans and have a very thick Irish accent…would you let them use your toilet ?

This should go well. 🙂

tea on tap goes without saying….

You’re having people working for you on your property but you don’t want them to use the toilet? A shoes off policy as they’ll be mucky is fair enough but an outright toilet ban is just plain weird.

Having said that we had some fellas doing some work on our roof a couple of years a go and one had a particularly weak bladder and would use the loo 3-4 times a day whereas the other never once needed it. I asked the wee’er “How come your boss never needs to pee?” the reply was “He does but he does it in a bottle in the back of the van”.

No, [stereotyping alert] I wouldn’t let them lay my drive either.

The BIL has had some fairly extensive home improvements since June and at no time has he allowed the bricklayers/carpenters/electricians/plumbers/decorators to use either toilet even though at one stage they were actually building a new downstairs toilet

No wonder they’ve ballsed everything up 😆

the workmen live in caravans and have a very thick Irish accent…would you let them use your toilet ?

A good effort, but the “Irish accent” thing was a bit too obvious.

Might need to review the choice of reading material available in the “little library”…..

Mrs PP bakes cake for our workmen and is disappointed if they don’t eat it. Of course they can use the loo too!

Had a new boiler fitted a couple of years ago, the apprentice decided to crimp one off mid afternoon on our upstairs loo.

No drama apart from the fact the water had been turned off and the kids had already emptied the cistern. Once said apprentice realised he couldn’t flush the evidence he devised a cunning plan which involved covering the offending article with what appeared to be roughly 95% of a full toilet roll.

I kindly asked the owner of the plumbing business if he would ensure I had a fully operational toilet before he left to which he agreed.

Took him nearly an hour to clear it. Just glad I didn’t have to!

Mrs PP bakes cake for our workmen and is disappointed if they don’t eat it. Of course they can use the loo too!

Do they visit the trap shortly after being presented with cake and consumption monitored by Mrs PP? 🙂

martinhutch – Member

the workmen live in caravans and have a very thick Irish accent…would you let them use your toilet ?

This should go well.

This +1

Do let us know how this goes please, ta.

its ok, they dont need in the house to see your shiny shiny. Assuming you have windows they will be able to see all the stuff they want to come back later and take :d

if my local lot were anything to go by – my neighbours(about 1 mile away) front window infront of his kids was where they liked to urinate.

*facepalm*

I just… I can’t even process this.

my neighbours(about 1 mile away) front window infront of his kids was where they liked to urinate.

They must have been bursting for it to reach that far.

tea on tap goes without saying….

Hold on,you want them full of tea ?

This is not going to end well.

Supposedly a bonefied company….

Supposedly a bonefied company….

In which case I refer you to MoreCash’s comment further up the thread.

You are obliged to provide welfare

How you do that should be discussed prior to start on site

Do they visit the trap shortly after being presented with cake and consumption monitored by Mrs PP?

I don’t force them to eat! I’ve won awards for my cakes (& chutneys) I will have you know…. cheeky bugger!

a portaloo costs about £25 pw + £25 delivery each way – usually 2 week min hire + about £25 an empty. not that much if its on site for a couple of weeks use. (all figure + vat)

Why don’t you just go the whole hog and put this sign on the window before they arrive, just to spice things up a little:

I don’t force them to eat! I’ve won awards for my cakes (& chutneys) I will have you know…. cheeky bugger!

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Mrs P earlier:

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the workmen live in caravans…

Shirley it would be simple enough for them to bring their own loos?

the workmen live in caravans and have a very thick Irish accent…would you let them use your toilet ?

Yeah, I would. Putting aside whether any particular people are ones you’d be comfortable letting use the bathroom, I find it a bit weird that people you wouldn’t be comfortable letting use your toilet (perhaps partly because of their ethnicity, perhaps not) you would let do work on your house?