to let a surveyor use my toilet?

[kitnkaboodle]

He's been here 2 hours already and will be here til lunchtime. I fear he may ask at any minute ... is he middle class enough, or does he count as a 'tradesman'??

Eh?

Eh? why would you not?

Joke?

You should ask to see his professional qualifications and make your decision based on that. If he is a member of a professional body, you can report him for misconduct and have his membership revoked if he leaves your toilet in a less than pristine state.

What a strange post.

Have you made him a drink?

Yes but insist you go with him so you can make sure he doesn't steal anything and leaves it in an acceptable state.

Why on earth would you not?

Well if you're classing him as a 'tradesman' obviously he won't need the toilet, he'll just squat and take a dump on your welcome mat....

You had better, or he might down value your house.

I think he is university educated so may allow him a wee (but not the other, as I obviously don't possess a toilet brush)

...and you can pass him the toilet paper ration if you're right there, next to his elbow.

i've been considering having an outside loo built for such occasions ! seriously though is it the thought of a tradesman etc being in your home, and may be possibly looking in other rooms ? i let them go to the loo but make a point of following upstairs to be in one of the bedrooms so i can keep check [had money pinched once by a plumber] don't give a monkeys what they think, my home, my rules.

Have you been getting ideas from "the help"?

I hope you're making him copious amounts of coffee too.

Assuming he has no prior history of smearing his shit on bathroom walls or pissing in peoples sinks I think you should give him the benefit of the doubt.

Additionally, if we are playing the snobby game of designating professions a class status I would assume a qualified surveyor would be university educated and member of RICS so most definitely a white collar middle class professional and not a 'tradesmen'

Oh God he might not be middle class? Oh OP don't take the risk. He might not be use to a middle class loo and pass out on your floor from the shear difference in standards. Then you would be stuck with a Grubby working class person on your floor and what would the neighbours say! I think you have been unreasonably for not checking out his lineage before employing him, and what just what if he touches your loo? You could catch the 'common' germ off him. Then you would never be-able to lift your head in polite society again!

i like this thread, it appeals to my daft sense of humour !

I hope you have special cups for 'an others'

would a bucket be practical ? izal loo paper as it's medicated and a big can of air freshener to boot, oh, and my good man you may use it in the garrrage!

Ask him "is it a number 2?" then if it is, suggest he goes and asks to use the toilet at your local.

sorry don't mean to hog but i've just realised kitn identity it's hycinth bucket!

don't worry OP

my OH is a surveyor and would rather shit in the car/die than have a poo in a client's house

that's one of the criteria for getting your RICS apparently. REALLY good sphincter control

Hope you've removed your 'puppies on a roll' and replaced with some newspaper

I was thinking of 'the help' too Joan.

It didn't occur to me when I saw that film, but it would be something of great desire to Mumsnetters who don't like builders, gardeners or supermarket delivery people etc using their naice indoor toilets. They could have one built outside a la 'the help'.

We could also have a debate along the lines that 'builders, gardeners, supermaket delivery workers are all people too and guess what, we all shit just the same, so why wouldn't you just let them use the one in the house?'

Not that it matters, but we don't know that this 'surveyor' has been to university as the OP doesn't say what type of surveyor he is (I know someone who does a surveyor type job and will sometimes quite legitimately masquerade as 'a surveyor' but he hasn't been to university) and in any case, judging by the state of most student houses, being a graduate is no measure of having toilet habits that meet the standards of the more anally bonkers about cleanliness Mumsnetter .

This is the third of these threads I have seen in recent months.

Its getting boring now.