This has been done to death but even so - workmen and toilets

[RebeccaWithTheGoodHair]

So two workmen arrive at 8.30am by 10.30am BOTH had been for a shit. And they'll have working here by 12pm. That's less than four hours when they could either have gone before they set off in the morning or waited until they left.

One is stinking the whole ground floor out and I just know there is going to be something left for me to clear up when the stench has died down a bit.

Why, why, why would you go to someone else's house for a crap.

And I don't believe workmen suffer unduly from loose stools compared to the rest of the population but every single bloody one that comes here feels the need to offload as soon as they walk through the door.

Oh stop being so weird. People shit when they need to shit.

But you sound so tightly wound you probably only shit monthly.

Some people can't hold in the shit for several hours. Me for instance; if I have to go, I can't just do other things for 3 hours and then go at the appointed time. What the hell am I supposed to do about it? People don't plan to shit in someone else's house, nor do they plan to make their shit stink.
You sound anal retentive.

I think there are definitely two types of people. Ones that can poo anywhere and ones that wait to do it on their own toilet. I've always been shocked when walking in to the toilets at work that people actually poo in there, I just couldn't. Saying that I never once used the toilets when at secondary school and would wait until I got home for a wee. I do wee occasionally at work now but that's only because I've had 3 kids and can't keep it in. I just don't like using toilets that are not my own. Maybe it's a compliment that you make people feel so comfortable in your home!

My dogs don't just squat down and crap when they feel like it, they wait to go outside because that's where they go.

Unless ill you go at your own home, you don't wait to get to someone else's for the pleasure.

And yes, I do poo at the same time each day. I thought most people did.

I don't go at regular times each day and often I can't hold it in when I do need to go. So I would make use of whatever toilet facilities are available, even if they are in someone else's house.

Leaving shit all over the bathroom at someone else's house is nothing other than disgusting though. Some people do this and it does seem quite common in the construction industry. DP works on building sites sometimes and does complain about uncivilised toilet behaviour - but then people on here working in offices have reported phantom shitters etc leaving a mess.

Weirder and weirder.........

I'm female. I used to work in people's houses. I was a nanny. I used to shit in other people's toilets all the time. I 'go' about 5 times a day so it was a bit bloody hard not to.

And finally, it's always men. The cleaner doesn't feel the need to shit as soon as she walks through the door

I never thought about this, but it seem to be true! Or at least she cleans afterwards, in that case fine.

I ask the workmen to clean after themselves if needed. I remember one team, they arrived first thing in the morning, one of them went to the bathroom and then left (so apparently he wasn't even going to do any work in the house). I went to the bathroom afterwards, there was pee on the floor, seat up etc. I just asked the team leader to clean up the mess (which he did, and apologize).

This is rather pathetic. Light some scented candles, open some windows and get over yourself

Look, tell them before they go in there that handwashing is a must. 'You stink out the loo and it makes me sick. Please poor bleach down the pan after you're done, open the window and wash your hands.' They need some fucking manners.

Ok, you seem to have 2 choices op

No work done at house unless by female tradespeople with a no shitttng clause
Accept that tradespeople will shit in your bog

"Leaving shit all over the bathroom?"
Really?
A dirty protest?
Exaggerating doesn't help your case.😌

If it's left in a mess I would tell them to go and clean it. My DH often shits at customers houses but only if they are out and he always cleans up afterwards.

YANBU to resent people leaving your bog in a manky state after doing their business.

But you are being immensely unreasonable to expect people located in your house for presumably at least a significant chunk of the day not to poo in your loo.

To expect people not to use a lavatory when they need it on the basis that one should only poo in one's own loo is incredibly odd and neurotic. Toilets are there to be pissed and shat in by whomever in the vicinity may need to go.

Ask them to clean up after going to the loo, leave toilet brush, air freshener etc there and job done.

Gross
Only ever poo at home
And ds is the same- he was horrified when I asked him if he had pooed at school

My dogs don't just squat down and crap when they feel like it

Presumably, neither do the blokes working at your house - I thought they were using the bog?

Can your dogs tile a bathroom?

That was a reaction to 'he was horrified when I asked him if he had pooed at school'

I'm a woman. 90% of my work takes place I other people's houses.
If I need a shit, I ask politely to use their loo. I have never been refused and if I was I would probably end my contract with that client. It's cruel to begrudge someone the use of a toilet.
I clean up after myself and squirt room spray/ open window if possible.
Yabvu and precious.

I don't get the 'surely they can just nip to Tesco' argument either.

Presumably if they did that they'd be gone for at least half an hour. Wouldn't you then complain that they did an hours work then left? Surely it's better to spend two minutes in the loo and get on with your work?

Leaving shit all over the bathroom at someone else's house is nothing other than disgusting

Has Bobby Sands started a building company?

Surely if a builder is spending more then a few hours working on a project in your home you have to expect at the very least that he might need to have a pee? If he is there all day doing more major work him maybe having the need to crap should hardly be surprising.

Some people get so weird and precious with toilets!