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Chimney sweep weed on the floor

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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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BettyCatKitten · 13/05/2015 12:02

A bag of weedGrin

Pispcina · 13/05/2015 12:02

yeah it's good luck to piss in the fireplace after a good sweeping Wink

'look at my brush poking out the top' Grin

magicstar1 · 13/05/2015 12:11

My parents had a party once and a neighbour's brother was drunk and weed all over the toilet floor. I was disgusted, so I called him over and said "You peed on the floor...go in and clean it up". I don't see why they can't wipe up after themselves.

BettyCatKitten · 13/05/2015 12:17

I don't know why but chimney sweeps creep me out. I had one who bought his mum with himGrin

alibubbles · 13/05/2015 13:09

I had this recently from a very well know appliance company, and I rang and told them that when they deliver the following there are NO toilet facilities for the use by delivery men as I do not want to see urine all over the floor and seat. I was furious as the floor had just been cleaned by my housekeeper

nooptionforwillis · 13/05/2015 13:15

Sorry but this thread has really made me laugh.

I love the idea you should change sweeps like its a regular visitor - how dirty is your fireplace? Angry

Royalsighness · 13/05/2015 13:15

I don't know where people get the nerve to shit in a strangers house, I've never been able to do it, I can't relax, can't even go at work.

When other people come round and ask to use the toilet I always say yes but I make sure it's very clean before i have guests, also like to clean it after they have gone before I use it. If I find it in a state where someone's left skids I almost feel impressed that people felt relaxed enough in my home to do a Poo! Grin

nooptionforwillis · 13/05/2015 13:18

I had mine swept once and i lived there for 5 years. He was lovely. I gave him some chicken eggs to say thank you. (And paid him of course)

When I was getting married and naively going to wedding shows there was always a bloke there who could show up at your special day dressed as a chimney sweep(blacked up!) as it was supposed to be good luck Hmm

Eugh

Would love to know if anyone has used one though. What did they do??

helenahandbag · 13/05/2015 13:30

Not my home toilet thankfully, but a contractor was on-site at a previous workplace and he asked if he could use the toilet. The toilet placement was really awkward (and I'm not sure how legal it was) in that it was basically a disabled-access cubical within the small, two-person office and the door actually opened onto the main reception - great fun when you walk out to see a queue of clients and the toilet is flushing noisily behind you!

Anyway, I said he could and he followed up by saying, "this might take a while!" with a big guffaw. He was in there for twenty minutes, he flushed twice and said, "that was smashing, thanks!" with a wink when he left. He made such a mess in the toilet that my assistant manager chased him down, brought him back to the main office and made him clean it. Disgusting.

BettyCatKitten · 13/05/2015 13:34

This remind me of Jim Royal going for an 'Earth Kitt'Grin

Lavenderice · 13/05/2015 13:45

Possibly one of the most MN thread ever!

Did the little mite, doff his cloth cap and ask for a cloth to wipe his little sooty face ?

MadameOvary · 13/05/2015 14:10

UUUURGH.
DP has a story about the gardeners who managed to block the downstairs loo (which has a macerator) and ended up with shit all over the walls. He complained and they were sent back to clean it up. Bloody right too.

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farewellfigure · 13/05/2015 14:36

He wasn't a little mite Lavenderice. He was big and beefy as was his poo I expect.

Now our lovely little chimney sweep in our previous house was tiny and about 90. I used to imagine he probably got send up the chimney when he was a wee boy, he was that old. He used to whistle the whole time while he was working. I mean CONSTANTLY. He barely even paused for breath. He was lovely. He would never have left the loo in that state. And he had a cloth cap. Yep, straight out of a Mary Poppins.

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Nanny0gg · 13/05/2015 17:39

The toilet placement was really awkward (and I'm not sure how legal it was) in that it was basically a disabled-access cubical within the small, two-person office and the door actually opened onto the main reception

Our school loos used to be like that. One men's/disabled (at the time only one men worked there) and one women's (for 20+ women!)

Horrible!

Luckily got posher ones now.

Dowser · 13/05/2015 17:55

Gross!

Dowser · 13/05/2015 17:55

Gross!

lithewire · 13/05/2015 18:31

I had a plumber in once who for some reason chose to go into the bathroom and have a pee while leaving the bathroom door wide open behind him. It's only a small house and I was just in the front room at the foot of the stairs (loo is at the top) so I heard every tinkleConfused That meant I could also hear him not flush the loo or wash his hands before going back to work on my sink. Hmm

EponasWildDaughter · 13/05/2015 19:10

There was a funny 'live' thread a few months (years?) ago about a chimney sweep throwing up in his bucket in the OPs lounge. OP could hear it going on but didn't know if it had been on the carpet or not Grin

ForalltheSaints · 13/05/2015 19:56

I imagined the OP as Mary Poppins!

MrsSchadenfreude · 14/05/2015 08:14

Oh I thought you were going to say he pissed in the fireplace for good luck, after he'd swept it.

derxa · 14/05/2015 09:43

Tears of laughter streaming down my face at this.
I just had visions of him having a massive tantrum at having to clean all those chimneys. He then decided to have a huge piss on your fraightfully naice floor. A dirty protest

diploddycus · 14/05/2015 09:51

I also thought he'd peed on your carpet on front of your fireplace. Count yourself lucky, OP!

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