To request people don’t use my toilet at house viewings?

[Diamondeye]

Just that really ...

As obviously it has been used today and it’s grossed me out.

YABU about the toilet. The blinds down is a bit weird. Estate agents using your house for having sex during the day?

Jeez Nearly47 don't put those sort of ideas in the OP's head!!!!!

As long as the toilet is left clean YABU. I have flushed a toilet just to test if I can hear water running through pipes, especially in relatively new builds. Taps in bathrooms and kitchens for the same reason.

I remember an episode of ‘Alan Partridge’ where Alan’s unselfaware ramped up social ineptness was signalled by his going to see a show home (in his Lexus) and, in his words, ‘taking a dump’ in the loo, which, I believe was not yet connected to the mains plumbing.

In real life it would be very embarrassing for a house viewer to be ‘caught short’ and need to use the owner’s lavatory. I would find it excruciatingly awful to have to ask. However, life being as it is, these events must happen and I don’t see they are a major disaster there being such a thing as bleach in the world.

And I am a very, very fastidious person about loos and germs.

YABU. I honestly don't know how people this precious and fastidious with cleanliness survive in life.
They didn't smear shit up the walls or even the bowl, that would be rude and I'd understand you being upset.

They were probably checking the plumbing.

I wouldn't buy your house if there were restrictions of any kind during viewing. It tells me that you'd be a nightmare through the process and unless it's over 500k then your house ain't all that.

You replace the kitchen and bathroom when you move? Seriously, even if there's nothing wrong with it? Wasteful, precious, entitled and spoilt. I don't think we would be friends OP and i wouldn't be comfortable visiting.

Is it like Mrs. Hinch' house? Are you Mrs. Hinch? Or more of a Hyacinth Bucket type?

Closing the blinds they may have wanted to see how the house looked with lights on etc

We bought a house, and after moving in discovered that the downstairs loo leaked so much - from the bowl, at the base - that we had to replace it. It was very old and repair would have cost more

Believe me, we use every loo, and flush before s l o w l y washing hands when viewing now. It was an expensive oversight*

A house costs hundreds of thousands. A new loo, maybe £200. And it was an expensive oversight?

My dad is in recovery from prostate cancer. He and my mum came on a couple of house viewings with me and had to ask to use the toilet, he was embarrassed but literally had no choice.

It was probably the estate agent. They go from appointment to appointment and will often choose to use the loo in a house where the vendor is not there.

Well I'm going to 'fess up now. I suffer from IBS and when I came to view the house in which I now live I was, "taken short" as they say. I went and used the downstairs loo, (the house was empty and this was an unaccompanied viewing). Imagine my absolute horror when I found, on attempting to flush, that there was no water in the cistern! The water had been turned off at the main stop cock, it having been empty for some time, and someone had clearly already used the loo since then. I located the main stop cock but, owing to also having RA, found that I couldn't turn the bloody thing back on! It was just too stiff fo my hands. I had to confess to the agent and apologise profusely on returning the key. I have never been so embarrassed in my life!

I had a workman use mine and he left the seat up.
The horror, the horror.

well..... ifeelsuchafool you bought the house! So win win all round

Diamondeye

Imagine all the unknown people that will have used the toilet in your new house op

Well I’ve always had a new bathroom and kitchen whenever I’ve moved home

What a Pratt - so you’ve never used any public convenience? Pub? Cinema? Restaurant? Plane? Because your arse is so precious. What a load of bullsh*t. You really expect us to believe that you’ve never moved into any home before the kitchen and loos have been replaced? It’s amazing that you’re so offended by arses since you speak out of yours!

I wish I knew where your house was - I’d come and view with the sole purpose of leaving a big turd in your sink.

Wow! 'There's nothing stranger than folk'

I think it's a basic human decency to allow someone to use your toilet!

Your trying to sell your house ffs? Surely that's the main objective here.

Even if they did leave a skid or a bit off piss in the toilet, get a fucking grip, clean it and move on.

I can't think what people you must have had round in the past to make you feel this way?

You should appreciate people taking interest in your home and people willing to spend 100's of thousands - I defiantly think they have the right to check out the facilities like flushing ect as well.

If you get offended by this I can't imagine how you would feel about real issues.

I've never needed the toilet when house hunting (thankfully according to op and some pp who agree with her cuz apparently it's a horrific offence) but if I got caught short and couldn't hold it and someone had refused me to use the toilet I would walk out immediately! As it's rude and I would think there is something wrong with the facilities - and to your shock horror I wouldn't be interested anymore!

I’ve used the toilet on a house viewing once - 1 hour drive, 5 viewings about 20 mins apart. I needed to pee. Really don’t see the issue - I’d try not to but if need to go what else do you do?

My toddler poo’d during a house viewing once - I was mortified but she gave me no warning ‘mummy mummy I need to poo NOW!’. She insisted she couldn’t get home. The owner was in and was very nice and said it was fine but I’m sure she’d have rather we didn’t! I’d made DD sit on the toilet before we left but I had no idea a poo was brewing!

FFS

So odd! Do you not use public loos? This is someone you want to sell your house to and you want to put them off by being petty. Oh dear.

I have to test flush of toilets mine is the greatest-if your so bothered dont sell up

remember an episode of ‘Alan Partridge’ where Alan’s unselfaware ramped up social ineptness was signalled by his going to see a show home (in his Lexus) and, in his words, ‘taking a dump’ in the loo, which, I believe was not yet connected to the mains plumbing.

Are you sure? The only episode like this remember was when he bought a house, anticipating a second series, which Tony Hayers refused to grant. He did indeed take a shit, and came out exhuberant that it had flushed on the first yank.

I’m surprised at 99% of the responses on here. I’m house hunting at the moment, done lots of viewings and would never EVER think to use someone’s toilet. People viewing houses are surely mature enough to take a piss or shit before they’ve left? Or can wait until after? No? Just me? Ok then...

Some people can't wait. When they need to go, they need to go. Duh.

@Ells0204 - you do realise that it isn’t always as easy as ‘just go before you leave/wait until after’ - people may be viewing houses a long drive from their current home. Or doing a list of viewings on one day, without enough time to nip home between each one. Or they may have a toddler who has only just been potty trained. Or they may have some condition that means they need to use the loo at very short notice.

I have an inflammatory bowel condition that means I get little or no notice of needing the loo, and even if I do go before I go out, I may need the loo again once I am out - and I can’t wait. I can make it to the nearest loo, but if I was viewing houses and got that kicked-in-the-stomach cramp feeling, I would not be able to finish the viewing, get back in the car and find somewhere with a public loo. Would you rather I suffered the indignity of soiling myself than that I asked to use the loo in the house I was viewing?

Frankly, all you need to do is read this thread to see that there are any number of situations which might mean that your oh-so-simplistic ‘solution’ wouldn’t work. All it takes is a bit of empathy, and the ability to understand that not everyone is like you.