Workmen Using Your Loo

[vernonk]

When workmen are working on your home, do you allow them to use your toilet? Or do you insist they provide/use a portaloo or use nearby public toilets?

[Cloverjo]

What do you clean with bleach when they've gone? The loo handle or everything they might have touched in your house?

[Buenchico]

My work (supervising traffic surveys) often means that I have to find toilet facilities for myself and my 'team' (which might be just one person but could be over 20 people) while working 12-hour (or sometime 15-hour) shifts. I've gone into car showrooms, big office blocks, doctors' surgeries, etc and politely asked if we can use their toilets and NEVER been refused.

If I was actually working in someone's home (at their request) and they refused to let me use their toilet I'd simply walk out and tell them to find someone else to do the job!

[Jackdaw33]

If I'm caught short when out and about I head for the nearest pub. If it's quiet I buy a half so as not to abuse their hospitality but if it's busy I just go ahead as I won't be noticed.

[waterboatman]

I always allow them to use the loo. Why wouldn't I? They are always polite and do a good job. I keep them supplied with tea and bikkies, I always get a good job done.

[gness]

This question's really tickled me.....

My son is a "workman" who can spend two or three full days in a customer's home. If he was asked to bring a portaloo or find a public toilet I think the customer might be finishing his/her own work.

Is it just workmen? If your solicitor, clergyman or doctor was caught short on a visit to you would you send them off to the public toilet?

My workmen have been far more trustworthy than my last two solicitors and most of the clergy I've known.

[naomi24]

I've had people working on my house for months - they are banging and crashing as I write. They are fed, supplied with copious amounts of tea and coffee, I go out and leave them to it when I need to, and they don't need to ask to use the toilet. I can't see what the problem is.

[Svejk]

They are rather common, Naomi.

[naomi24]

:o)

[Svejk]

Oops, missed the question mark. ;-)

[naomi24]

I got the gist. :o)

[Old_Geezer]

I see here that there are others who don't seem to have the same bodily functions I have. I was amazed when I first came across this.

It seems to me that in a 'normal' person the intestines must pulse every now and again and when the remains of one's digested food reach the end of the "pipe" it isn't a choice, one has to 'go', there and then, or risk causing an injury trying to force it back.

And yet others seem to experience a different situation where the feeling of needing to go lingers on for hours, and they get this peculiar idea that everyone can simply choose when to go and so it can wait (or peculate ?) until they go home !

It is a strange world we live in.

[alavahalf]

This question made me smile .. as a workman you are always onto a loser over this one ?

If you think a workman should supply a portaloo .. who do you think will be paying for it's rental .. yes it's you the customer, as it's hire charge will be included in the bill.
If you send them across town to the nearest public toilet .. you will be paying for them to go as you are paying for their time.

Best policy for the workman is say nothing and just go in the loft tank .. and save all the fuss !

All of a sudden ... someone having a cuppa has just tasted salt !