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?

[woofgang]

If they are working on my house, then if I am there, I would let them in to use the loo...offer tea and so on.

[Mamyalynne]

I allow them the convenience.

[Ken4155]

They'll only 'go' in your garden, otherwise.

[jomifl]

I wouldn't employ a workman who didn't know how to use a toilet.

[RATTER15]

They can use the outside loo.

[DTCwordfan]

behind the gravestones next door......

[Old_Geezer]

I couldn't be so nasty as to expect them to hold on and go elsewhere.

[Samuraisan]

I'd let them use it, but I wouldn't after they had until I'd cleaned it when they'd gone.

[Peter Pedant]

and nail everything down

I got competely freaked out by two lost carpet fitters who meant to be fitting carpets at a tenant's saying as one stood in the living room,
'Can I use your loo'
and I just thought: " distraction robbery "
and so I squeaked " no can you leave the house now please ? "
as I thought to myself - what do I do if they dont ?

o the tenant was an old lag and I thought they were two of his pals

[jomifl]

It would of course depend on whether or not the 'workmen' qualifed as not being transgender or crossdressers or any combination thereof.

[trt]

Give them a bucket & a roll of toilet paper!

[Mamyalynne]

That's posh.

[andy-hughes]

If it’s one or two men there for a couple of days, I would advise them to use the loo, and if I am out, I leave tea and coffee making facilities, and biscuits for them.

I would not expect them to take the proverbial and crimp a length off – I think most workmen know the protocol, Number Ones are fine, Number Twos can percolate until they get home.

I have never had any bad experiences, but I have always used workmen that I trust to behave in my home.

[Psybbo]

I dread to think what they might do if refused!

[Cloverjo]

If they were doing major refurbishment and would be there for weeks, I'd expect them to provide a portaloo. I've never had major works done on my house though.
Any other workmen fixing things around the house taking a day or less could use the loo. I might direct them to the downstairs one which works better.
Andy-Hughes' idea of letting them percolate their number twos has made me laugh. Poor workmen!

[gness]

I'm smiling at the thought of sending any of my workmen two miles across town to use a loo.....

Of course workmen can use my toilet.......as I would assume I could use theirs if I was in their home for eight hours at a stretch......

I've always found any guys I've had working here very respectful and thoughtful.....they take their shoes off before going upstairs for a start .....more than the kids and grandkids do......☺

[Cloverjo]

When I lived in a one bed flat with the only loo being just off my bedroom, I felt bad about some guests staying the night having to go out and look for public loos in the early morning. I hadn't really thought about the logistics of it, and should have told them it was ok to come through my room if they're quiet.
I wouldn't send anyone out to use a public loo while I had one in my home.

[bodeker]

I was just thinking about this earlier , I have someone coming to do some gardening next week and I was thinking what would I do if he asked to use toilet, I would say yes but would make sure all the doors upstairs were closed before he arrived.

[Jackdaw33]

I let my cleaner use my loo; she's the one who has to clean it.

[Sammy48]

I do let them use the loo, but do listen out to hear if the boiler fires up, which means they have washed their hands, and guess what it doesn't. Yuk. Complete clean with bleach when they have gone.