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.

You won't get caught out again though Itssosunny, it is frustrating though to think you have to do that because people aren't honest or cover things up.

Ha! When we came back to this house to measure up after exchange, I asked to use the downstairs loo and there was a floater in it. I just flushed it away and carried on.
I am trying to get my head around asking male visitors to sit down when they pee. I mean, just how do you broach this subject? Do you have a list of instructions in the loo?
How awkward and embarrassing to have to give your guests hints and tips on how to urinate tidily.

I agree it’s really unkind not to allow it. It’s putting some Hyacinth Bouquet style squeamishness over basic human decency.

I could never be friends with someone like this.

This happened to my sister - some bloke took a humongous dump and stunk out her whole upstairs for about an hour. She still hasn’t got over it. If there was nothing wrong with the plumbing there probably was after the log jam he created. Disgusting - this was 15 years ago she is still shuddering now.

You can ask the agent to direct them to the downstairs loo if you have one, or whichever bathroom visitors use. Saying they can't use it at all is very rude. They may want to check the water pressure or plumbing and think you're hiding something.

Also keep in mind lots of buyers bring kids to viewings and young kids can't always wait while their parents finish the viewing. It's either cut the viewing short or let kid use the loo!

We're viewing at the moment, often 5-6 viewings crammed into one day. DD (4) has twice needed to do a poo in the middle of a viewing, the agent has always directed us to the bathroom. Who would stop a child using a toilet?

Thefemalekeithrichards, your sister still has the shakes over a shit someone took 15 years ago? Does she have a problem with her nerves?

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

@beckyann....
Yes she is a bit of a clean type - but to be fair I was there and I smelled it ...you’d have thought a dead badger had been unearthed - it was really bad

The only way to get the water back on was through the attic hatch on a very high ceiling. I had no ladders and even if I did I’m not a plumber so I had to leave the shit festering in a dry toilet to drive 7 miles back to my office so my boss could go get the water back on,flush the toilet then drain the system down again. It took 2 hours.
Wouldn't it just have been easier to have gone back with a gallon or two of water and poured it down the bog, or filled the cistern with it and flushed?

A bog is a bog. If someone needs the bog, you let them use it. I'm pretty sure we used the loo in this house before we bought it: it was several hours' drive from where we used to live and we had a squad of small DC.

MN blows my mind sometimes.

Firstly, you're gonna come across really strange if you actually ask people not to use your loo, or worse leave a post it note on the loo saying as such.

Secondly, what is the diference between you using a public loo to that of someone needing to use your loo?

Personally I lost any ickiness of cleaning toilets when I had to change my ds bum when he was a baby.

I suggest logging it with 101 OP.

When you are bursting for a wee to the point that it is unbearable, you are just grateful to be able to use a toilet.
How would you feel if it was the other way round?
If you viewed someone's house and found a sign on the bathroom door saying "Please do not use the toilet. If you are desperate please piss in the garden".
I mean what's the alternative for someone who is desperate?

After having coped with fly ridden toilets on municipal campsites in France decades ago, and holes in the ground in parts of Vietnam and Cambodia, I really can't be arsed to get worked up about someone doing what people do on my loo. I have never ever heard this sort of preciousness, ever ever - except on MN of course.

I suggest logging it with 101 OP.

And 111, just in case.

Actually, my DH sits down to wee and it’s clear that he’s not the only one from this thread. So it’s obviously not the case that all men stand to wee.

Re the OP’s question, I wouldn’t be at all bothered if someone viewing the house needed to use the toilet, what is the big deal?? As long as they clean up behind themselves.

Would you accept an offer from someone who had used your toilet? Very curious.

If it was an office and a visitor was refused, it could be considered disability discrimination.

YABU. Someone could be spending £1/2m and you think they should not use a toilet.

And what about if it was someone with a potty training toddler? Because then there really would be wee on the floor if you refused permission. [grin🤣

I think you are being remarkably calm. I would be too busy cleaning everywhere to post about this. There is a possibility they didn’t wash their hands and touched things in your house. No door handle is safe, shudder.

Well now you’ve pointed hay out grumpyoldwoman yes it would have been but we didn’t think of that! The house was in the middle of nowhere though with no neighbours or accessible water supply so it still would have been left for ages while we trailed back and forth getting bottles of water.

Quite honestly out of courtesy I wouldn't use anyone's toilet if I was viewing a house. Some of them have been rank but really it isnt polite. And definitely not number 2.

Quite honestly out of courtesy I wouldn't use anyone's toilet if I was viewing a house. Some of them have been rank but really it isnt polite. And definitely not number 2.

Luckily for you you are able to have so much control over your bladder and bowels. Not everyone is so fortunate and I am surprised how few adults can empathise with this.

I once viewed a house with a massive stinking great turd in the toilet.
The couple who owned the house sat downstairs on the sofa while the EA showed us round.

Weird AF. They also had a TV screen fitted into the wall of the bathroom for watching TV in the bath.

I find it strange that a viewer can’t relieve themselves before the viewing.

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

I always find it weird that there are so many people on MN who are so poo-phobic that they have nightmares about the thought of someone using their toilet, but seem to derive great joy from using the semantic field of shit with such aplomb.