How to I put this nicely - workmen.

[Iamnotagoddess]

Have workman here atm doing some work for a few days.

I have gone to work and left them to it.

Come home and they have clearly been going up and down the stairs (to use the loo - which is fine) with their fucking filthy boots on. I am going to have to scrub the bloody carpet and mop the bathroom floor. It’s not a new carpet but that isn’t the point, I am pissed off!

I want to text the guy to say tomorrow please can you all take your shoes off before you go upstairs but I don’t want to sound like an arsey cow - how do I phase it nicely?!

I once got someone off checkatrade. He was totally incompetent and wrecked a room. Never again. Only accept word of mouth recommendations now and would rather leave work undone than risk any more crap like we endured years ago. Reckon reviews were fake.

Tbf most of the people we have had off Checkatrade have been fine.

OH has just called me, he works away, he’s decided to collect his two teenagers tomorrow and bring them there for the rest of the week. One lounge is unusable due to the work, the other lounge diner is unusable as full of stuff from the other lounge - not sure where the fuck he thinks we are all going to sit

Bring them here

I’ve got a chap here working at the moment. The first thing he did was put dust covers down on the stairs.

You don't you tell them off for being so bloody messy & careless. That's very shoddy.

Our kitchen builders, who had no need to go upstairs bar for the loo, put covers down on our stairs too, so they didn't leave a mess using said loo.

He has replied to my text apologising.

Update - DS has popped In and just texted to tell me we are out of milk and sugar - is that normal?

The builders I had in at the beginning of the year to strip and refit my bathrooms put dustsheets right through the hall and up the stairs and hoovered every evening before they left each day. It wasn't perfect but they did their best to leave everything clean. I think maybe you have just been unlucky?

DS, so your son? do you mean is it normal for them to have used all the milk and sugar or was it the builders that text you that?

I’ve got workmen in at the mo and they were here when I had my new stair carpet laid last Thursday. Come home today to brown footprints up the whole way fuming. I’ve left a note on the stairs asking them to remove shoes tomorrow with a sad face. I don’t care if it comes across as rude, what they have done is unacceptable. They’ve done so many other shit things. Is there such a thing as reliable, respectable and trustworthy workmen these days?! I’m losing faith

I don't understand why anyone would willfully wear dirty shoes on any carpet?! Mind boggling...definitely make it clear from tomorrow they have to use shoe covers etc

Not normal at all. I'd expect boots off inside or have put dust sheets etc over my carpets. How would they feel about it in their own homes! Never had a workie help themselves to drinks - but I usually offer one.

I forgot to offer tbf as I was rushing off.

I just was a bit meh about running out.

As an LA worker I have to provide my own tea and coffee

As I said in your other thread - they won’t wash cups up. Lay out stuff to make tea - it is generally expected.
They should be cleaning up after themselves at the end of the day - including vacuuming if they’ve made a mess. I think you need a chat with the project manager on this as they are not behaving well and are taking liberties. I renovate houses and have worked with lots of tradesmen and it’s made clear from the beginning how I expect them to treat the house.

May I just add the standard comment that the people the OP refers to are (almost certainly) "Tradesmen", and not "Workmen". It takes quite a lot of time, effort, and money to learn a trade, and they deserve respect.
It is very "Mumsnet" to call people "Workmen". Do Mnetters refer to farm labourers as "Peasants"?
P.S. They were obviously quite wrong to make a mess-the OP is entitled to insist on better manners.

OH is in the trade & always always uses boot covers which only take a second to pop on & off, he also vacuums & cleans up the area he's been working on

On the other hand you are quite lucky they are not just peeing in your garden as this is what most do.

In regard to tea cups - they won't be washing up their own cups & you are a little unreasonable to expect them to - OH works on a day rate & you would be paying him for his time taken washing up!