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

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Just that really ...

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

As I said, I am not a mind reader so would not know someone had a hidden disability and if someone’s toddler weed on my carpet, they would be paying for it to be cleaned. ps. I sold my house inc exchange and completion in 6 weeks.

OP you're really not following are you. Of course you wouldn't know if they had a disability which is why you should act like a normal human and let them use the bloody loo. Even people without disabilities need to use the toilet. If you are really so distraught about the fact that other people use your loo just give it a quick clean after people leave.

Also if their toddler pissed on your carpet after you refused them use of your loo there is 0% chance of you successfully getting them to pay for it. Just saying.

@The2Ateam the hysteria isn't coming from those who let people use their toilets. It's coming from those who seem to think that someone else sitting on their toilet is a terrible prospect.

And yes, if you would deny someone the facilities to they need to urgently carry out the most basic of human functions, you are being inhumane and unkind to them. I'm not even suggesting that, I'm saying it straight out.

I'm sorry but that's how you're coming across. And unkind. What about someone who has a genuine medical need?? I assume you'll be happy to accept their money?

Whatever. Seriously, whatever.

If I ever sell this house, I will be making the same request to the EA. In fact I might do the viewings myself and tell people to their faces they can’t use my toilets and to toilet train their toddlers.

CrispsSandwiches Exactly. Because parents often have no choice but to take their toddler with them for the viewing and with a toddler, when you've got to go you've got to go.

That, or the parent leaves and doesn't come back again, and buys another house instead.

In fact I might do the viewings myself and tell people to their faces they can’t use my toilets and to toilet train their toddlers.

This forum really needs an eye roll emoticon.

If I ever sell this house, I will be making the same request to the EA.

Go ahead and be that person. Like I say, unfortunately they exist.

That really is nasty, but you're too unreasonable to see it. Well on your head if you can't sell your house.

Not my problem if grown adults can’t coordinate their urinating with looking around someone else’s house.

So someone who has been looking at a load of houses in one afternoon or has driven 100s of miles. Fuck those guys.

I can’t imagine being so damn precious.

From the point of view of self interest, surely you can see that you'd be losing potential buyers. If viewers go away to find a toilet, they won't come back.

All these people with a precious toilet seem to forget that they'll also have to view houses if they move and could get taken short, hopefully the owners of a property for sale will banish them from using the toilet and dirty pants will ensue with added karma.
Karma always bites you on the bum

I viewed a house and the estate agent did a massive stinky poo during the viewing. He just left us to wander the house while he was in there! Good god, it stunk!

It didn’t do my house sale any harm. Sold super quick, within weeks.

Just as as well your buyers didn't need the toilet then.

Haha, RedBalloon. You know, I bet it's usually the EAs who use the toilet rather than the viewers.

@The2Ateam - I am one of the people with a hidden problem. I have IBS and lymphocytic colitis which causes me to have diarrhoea with no warning whatsoever. I cannot ‘coordinate’ my bowels - all I can do is hope that I will be able to get to a loo if I get the sudden painful cramps that mean a bout is coming within minutes.

So yes, I think you are incredibly inhumane and unkind if you would deny someone like me the use of your loo - because chances are, if you don’t, I won’t make it to another loo in time.

And yes, people DO let near strangers, who they have only had in their house for a short time, use their loo. I do. Workmen, friends, delivery drivers making deliveries here. And I have never had a bad experience doing so - no skid marks, no mess, no nasty smells.

I cannot imagine being so nasty that I would send people away from my house, to try to find a public loo, or to have to use a bush or an alley, when I have a loo - the very clear message that sends is ”You are good enough to fix my windows/clean my house/deliver my parcels or shopping/pay hundreds of thousands of pounds for my house, but you are NOT good enough to use my loo - now fuck off!!!

It didn’t do my house sale any harm. Sold super quick, within weeks.

Inhumane AND smug.

@category12 yes, really.

Because, as I believe others have said upthread: if they’re precious about that kind of thing, heaven knows what else they’re precious about and buying a house is stressful enough.

Refusing use of a toilet is a strong indicator of someone’s character and and it tells me that, overall, they’re not a nice person and not someone with whom I want to transact.

Did you take your precious bog with you when you moved?

I never use the loo when viewing a house but I always flush it. To see if there are plumbing dramas.

You'd open your loos to a perfect stranger whose been in your house for 30 minutes..... said no one EVER !!

There have been threads on here before discussing "Would you knock on a stranger's door and ask to use the loo?". Not viewing their house as a potential buyer, just needing the loo.

There's no way I would let a stranger in just for that but the discussion was surprisingly mixed, with many people saying they had done so.

@BadLad - I have been pondering that question only today, and like you, I am not sure what I would do if a stranger knocked on my door and asked to use the loo. I guess I would make a quick assessment of them, and whether I felt safe to let them in, and then say yes or no, depending.

I would have immense sympathy for them - you’d have to be pretty desperate to knock on a stranger’s door. And I would only have to let them in as far as the downstairs loo, which feels less of a risk than letting someone use your loo upstairs.

But with regard to a house viewing - you have invited these people into your home, and you WANT them to spend hundreds of thousands of pounds on your house, so I genuinely cannot understand someone refusing the use of their loo, in those circumstances. Are there really people who would rather lose a potential buyer than have their precious porcelain sullied with a stranger’s wee? Madness.