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Chimney sweep weed on the floor

47 replies

farewellfigure · 13/05/2015 10:18

We've just had our chimney swept. Now I appreciate then when you've got to go, you've got to go, and I didn't mind him using our loo one bit, but, he left skid marks down the pan, wee all over the floor, and the SMELL. My office is opposite the loo and it reeks in here. I feel quite gaggy. And how, if he was sitting to do a poo, did he still manage to get wee all over the floor?

I've just gone in to assess the situation (holding my breath) and STOOD IN THE PUDDLE.

Amusingly he called me out to look at the brush poking out of the top. He said it was lucky and to make a wish. I should have wished for him to leave the loo in the same state he found it!

AIBU to think it's a bit out of order. Has anyone else had strangers leaving their loo in a pretty disgusting state?

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Icimoi · 13/05/2015 10:19

Phone him to come back and clear up?

TheMoa · 13/05/2015 10:26

No, but I'd love to have a chimney that needed sweeping. I have fireplace envy.

Funnily enough, everyone I've ever encountered has known how to use the loo in a reasonable fashion.

BettyCatKitten · 13/05/2015 10:27

ChristShock
At least you don't live with himGrin

WannabeLaraCroft · 13/05/2015 10:32

Ugh that's disgusting!

I remember a few years back we had a Sky engineer in and he asked to use the toilet. Of course I said yes, but when I went up later on he had peed all over the toilet seat.

OK, accidents happen, but how can these people not clean up after themselves!?

Now whenever someone asks to use my bathroom I always expect the worst! I would never refuse anyone but jeezo, no wonder some people are picky about who they let use their toilet!!

Can you phone up this guy and call him out on it!? Thing is - I bet he wouldn't even care.

Stick some Vicks Vaporub under your nose!

kissmethere · 13/05/2015 10:32

Seriously that's disgusting. I'd definitely be calls him back to clean it up. And never using his service again.

ghostyslovesheep · 13/05/2015 10:33

Open the window
Lob bleach down the pan
Mop floor
Buy grip

oddfodd · 13/05/2015 10:33

My chimney sweep is immaculate. He would never wee on the floor or leave skidmarks. I'd get a different one

Whitewhine · 13/05/2015 10:38

I once sacked my windowcleaner for leaving a similar mess in my loo - no objections to him using it at all but the mess he left was vile! I have a small basket of dettol wipes, cleaning cloths etc in the bathroom he could have used.

I was 8.5 months pregnant, huge & hormonal and scrubbing my loo whilst gagging just about sent me into labour.

Why do some people think it's acceptable to do that in somebody else's home?

YANBU

Original poster
farewellfigure · 13/05/2015 10:38

ghosty that's hilarious. I will be off to the nearest shop in a mo to see if they sell grips. Grin Do grips stop the smell as well? To be fair he DID open the window so that's the first item on your list ticked off.

Betty it did cross my mind that I am VERY grateful I'm not married to him. I shudder to think what his loo is like at home.

I'm currently trying to teach DS(7) of the social niceties of leaving a loo how you found it (among other things). I tell him that it's my job to teach him how to be a nice grown-up so that when he's living with other people, they don't think he's a total slob. I once lived with a girl who would stand up after breakfast, leaving the crumby plate, spread open with crumbs in it, marmalade open with knife sticking out, and mug on the table. We had to call a house meeting and say, 'Who exactly do you expect to clear up after you?'. It hadn't even entered her head that her mother wasn't there any more to magically clear everything away. I think she thought the fairies did it.

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bigbluebus · 13/05/2015 10:40

I had my chimney swept a few weeks ago. He didn't ask to use my loo, thankfully. However, when he had cleared up my fireplace and everything he had moved to put his covers on, he asked me to come and inspect and make sure I was happy with the way he had left it. I smiled and said that it was all fine - didn't like to admit to him it looked cleaner and tidier than it had been before he came. SO on that basis, I would like to hope that if he needs to use my loo next time he sweeps the chimney, he will leave it cleaner than he found it Grin

sleepylittlebunnies · 13/05/2015 10:56

The grip would stop the smell if you put it on your nose. FIL often leaves a dribble on the floor, I presume he doesn't realise and I can't face telling him. DS also 7 wees all over the back of the toilet seat but has finally got into the habit of wiping the seat with loo roll as part of the toilet routine after checking the loo after every use and making him go back to leave it how he found it. Mr Sweep must surely have realised he'd made a mess and is presumably agile enough to clean it up.

JoffreyBaratheonFirstofHisName · 13/05/2015 10:58

Best chimney sweep I have had in the recent few years was a female one. I live in a council house so get no say in who my chimney sweep is - but she had the council contract for a couple of years. She'd never have done that. Seriously, check online/Yellow Pages and swap him out for a woman!

Solo · 13/05/2015 11:05

From the title of the OP, I had visions of the sweep peeing in front of the fireplace! so glad he didn't do that!

I hate 'outsiders' using my loo!! my SIL once left a trail of blood on my toilet seat! it was dark wood and she may not have seen it, but euw!!

steppemum · 13/05/2015 11:13

years ago my mum had an gardener who came once a week, he was retired. She also had a retired builder who came once a week and was slowing rebuilding the dry stone wall at the bottom of the garden.

She eventually took the carpet out of the downstairs loo and tiled it to match the kitchen, there were just too many dribbles...

Magicpinkshadow · 13/05/2015 11:16

I have used the excuse that my toilet was blocked and I was waiting for the plumber to come out once. This was after hearing one work man saying to the other that he needed a dump!

wreckingball · 13/05/2015 11:33

I think nearly everyone on MN has had a dreadful experience with incontinent or wanking tradesmen.
You just can't get the quality these days.

Pispcina · 13/05/2015 11:45

yeh at least he didn't have a wank while he was in here.

OR DID HE Grin

when you say puddle...

PuntasticUsername · 13/05/2015 11:48

Well, if you will allow tradesman to use the facilities, it's basically all your own fault. Ffs check your chimney privilege and sweep the damn thing yourself if something like this bothers you so much.

JOKE

Also Grin pisp

PuntasticUsername · 13/05/2015 11:49

*tradesmEn

I'm so embarrassed. Can't even snark at the working classes properly.

Original poster
farewellfigure · 13/05/2015 11:52

Tradesmen wank? Oh please. Really?

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BettyCatKitten · 13/05/2015 11:54

NiceGrin

stubbornstains · 13/05/2015 11:55

I opened this thread thinking that your sweep had left a bag of weed on the floor!

My friend is the cleaner at our naice arts centre, and says that the Gents get left in a disgusting state....I guess that men of a certain age just think that someone will clean up after them Hmm.

Jobless123 · 13/05/2015 11:57

I thought you meant he had left a bag of weed on your floor. No wonder they are always chirpy and singing happy Cockney rhymes, if they carry a big sack of herb everywhere.

Jah.

GnocchiGnocchiWhosThere · 13/05/2015 12:00

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Pispcina · 13/05/2015 12:01

LOL Grin

dick van dyke eat your heart out