Where are they going to the loo?

[WWGD]

I have four men working on the outside of my house today. I gave them a key and said feel free to just come in if you need the loo. I also offered tea and coffee that was declined the whole time. I know two of them went to a cafe to get lunch and tea mid morning as I offered some drinks and they said 'oh we've just sent the boys in the van.'

At no point did they come in. So where are they going to the loo? They must need a wee at some point surely other than on their cafe run?

(front garden is all concrete so no bushes to pee in. No cafes or pubs on the street)

I mean I don't mind, I just am perplexed.

In a bottle in the van.

Grim.

Perfectly possible to not drink much and not need a wee during working hours.

Could have a travel john in the van. Has crystals like those in nappies to firm up the wee.
Or an old pop bottle.

Is the cafe trip the only trip they're making? We had four workmen working on our house a few months ago, one literally lived one minute around the corner and between them they were going out to get supplies, sandwich run, two who ran the team breaking off to go and do quotes for others, do mini emergency jobs.

We only had two who ever came in though - one usually an hour after he started in the morning. The other about twice a week.

I can't go without drinking during the day, even if I'm busy at work though, so would need a couple of mini breaks (rather than say a lunch break) to walk down to local cafe, supermarket, public toilet if I wasn't using yours. The main thing is you've offered.

When my husband was remote working he used a camping cylinder toilet which he kept in his van.

Working outside in this weather? I'd have probably needed to go about 4 times.

I used to be a gardener, and usually would only go once a day if I passed a cafe or something, and quite often went all day without. My body just kind of adjusted to it. Plus doing physical work all day would sweat off a lot, even in the cold.

I work outside and don’t have access to a toilet I just wait until I get home. If I really can’t wait I go to a supermarket or park with toilets.

I doubt they'd go in a bottle when offered access to a toilet in a nice house.

Presumably they went just before they came, on their break, and then didn't need to go again until they left. That is possible. If you're doing manual work you sweat more, which makes you need to pee a bit less I think.

Do you suspect they're going in your garden? Have you a doorbell camera?

When I was a teacher and couldn't leave the class I only went at lunchtime.

Your body does get used to it.

Oh no I don’t think they are going in the front garden. I just can’t work out where. (They were making a roof so yeah, hard work so maybe sweaty)

They must have had the trauma of a Mumsnetter forbidding them to use their toilet, as per the many, many threads of "AIBU not to allow workmen to use my toilet?".

We had a gardener in once who I caught peeing behind my shed 😅
he said it was easier, quicker and he didnt have to worry about getting dirt inside the house.

In the early days of a long build one of the guys refused a key to the house and said he'd go into town and use the public loos. I guess they're wary of opening themselves to the risk of something "going missing" etc, which is understandable.

That too, doubtless.

They got to know us quickly enough for those fears to disappear. 😂

I had workmen in for 3 months fitting a new kitchen and wetroom
When my toilet was plumbed in they used it, if not they used a bottle in their van.. and I had a commode overnight once
I also made almost continuous tea and coffees!

Bottle in the van.

Dudes have it pretty easy really when it comes to peeing