To think the electrician should of knocked?!

[Bellad19]

So here’s a bit of background info!
Husband arranged for electrician to come and look at our cooker, the electrician is not someone we know literally someone he found on google. His visit was at 9:30am, when my husband booked this he didn’t realise I was working the night before, but irrelevant as I would sleep through a tornado and I wear ear plugs in the day and I’d be in the bedroom where the cooker most definitely is not 😂
So anyway, I’m in bed asleep, electrician obviously arrives and my husband had said to him I’ll go and play with DC in their bedroom so we are out of your way because DC was trying to touch the tools etc!
Next thing I know I’m waking up and a strange man I’ve never seen before was stood my side of the bed knocking on the wall!!
My bedroom door had been closed and he said he needed to knock on the wall to make sure he was drilling in the right place or something. My DC bedroom is right next to mine and we are in a flat so all on one floor so electrician could of easily asked DH is it okay if I just nip in this room with the door closed?
Luckily I had pyjamas on and had the duvet over me but I do normally sleep naked.
I’ve not really had workmen in the house before so is this the norm? Are they just allowed to go wherever is needed or if they need access to another room and the door is closed should they ask permission? I just assumed I’d be fine sleeping while he was here and didn’t even consider that a job in the kitchen would require him to come into my bedroom.

Opinions please, DH is fuming!

If electrician didn’t know you were in there I can understand him entering without knocking but once it became clear there was a sleeping woman in the bed it was a little creepy to stay (if he did) - he should have gone and told DH he needed access to your bedroom then got DH to wake you.

But yes whole situation caused by DH not warning him.

I agree he probably should have knocked but perhaps he did and you didnt hear. I also feel it was poor communication within your household. Between the two of you, you should both been aware when he was visiting. Your husband should have told you when but also if you were aware he was making the booking you should have asked the time and date of the visit.

Thank you so much for the opinions! :)

It's spelling not grammar!!!! Another Emglish teacher here and I beg to differ that it's an acceptable variant. Saying that, I wouldn't have commented on as you get screamed at here.

It doesn't impede my understanding at all. It grates terribly but I just move on. I would make huge mistakes with quantum physics/ plumbing/ placing a bet/cooking anything, so chose to not comment.

He should have knocked most definitely!

I'm aware of the irony of Emglish teacher

Yes, he should have knocked. I'm a night shift worker and I would be annoyed if some strange man came into my bedroom while I was sleeping. It's a gross invasion of privacy!

You are very lucky being able to sleep so well during the day, even with blackout blinds and earplugs, I wake up every hour or so.

Thank you everyone who’s replied :)

I'm aware of the irony of Emglish teacher

@Snoopdogsbitch - plus the two other errors in your post!

Thank you to those who corrected my grammar also, good to know for future use so that I don’t make a mistake smile You are very gracious. It is always good to learn it is unfortunate the way some people choose to educate and correct.
You're right he should have asked.

OP, you should HAVE roared at him with fright and maybe he'd think twice about walking in to rooms without knocking early in the morning.

Very bloody rude. I would be very annoyed in the moment.

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My husband has had an expensive private education and STILL uses should of instead of should’ve. He gets quite precious if I mention anything like this so I have to grit my teeth and not say anything. And if that’s his worst fault, I know that I’ve got a keeper

And OP he should’ve knocked! I’d have went nuts

when I read the title, I thought electrician had let himself into the house unannounced!
If your husband let him in, and he was expected, fair assumption that everyone was up. Yes, polite to ask - but if your husband had shut himself away in another room, how is the electrician supposed to knw which one?
Husband should have said that you were still in bed.

(afterthought - if you wear earplugs and could sleep through a tornado, are you sure he didn't knock first?)

I think he could possibly have been excused for opening the door without asking, (although that’s really quite rude) but to see someone in bed, fast asleep, and carry on coming into the room is beyond what’s acceptable!

Also, why did he need to knock on your bedroom wall to see where he needed to drill in the kitchen? Perhaps there’s an electrician on here who can explain it, but this makes no sense to me. If he was looking for a hollow bit of wall, he’d have been able to gauge that from the kitchen, surely? And if it was checking for pipes, don’t they have those little machines that beep? We’ve just had a load of electrical work done and none of them needed to go into adjoining rooms.

All in all, very rude and a little bit questionable.

@billy1966
Your comment cracked me up 🤣

Did he know you were in there? That’s the important bit

Thanks for the replies to my curiosity (why is 'should of', now SO ubiquitious ?). The answer (as I suspected), is not merely a case of errors/typos, but that it's now being taught as an 'acceptable alternative' in schools (earlier post from an English teacher).

YANBU OP

As it must have been fairly obvious it was a bedroom, he really should have knocked.

< Rolls eyes at SPaG police > As soon as I read the thread title I could hear sirens and screeching of brakes...

I think everyone is a little bit unreasonable - the electrician for not knocking and then leaving when he found someone sleeping in the room he went into; your husband for not telling the electrician that you were sleeping and weren't to be disturbed and you for not confirming the plans with your husband re:the electricians visit details.

If I've ever had workmen in then I've always told them to let me know if they need access to another room because I have cats and have usually corralled them into one of those rooms to keep them out of the way and I dint want them to be let out. Also if someone was asleep I would let them know just so they would stay out of the room unless necessary. A simple "My DD is asleep in there, dont worry about disturbing her with noise as shes a deep sleeper but let me know if you need access to her room" has always been appreciated by workmen.

@Puzzledandpissedoff I was indeed thinking of Basil Fawlty! "I just came in to check the wall."

@Bellad19 I think it was definitely unreasonable for him to carry on when he realised the room was occupied. I’m currently in the middle of house restoration and just tape a note on the door if I’m sleeping or my DH is working from home now though! If it makes you feel any better I was once evacuated from my bedroom by the fire brigade due to a suspected house fire. I do not wear PJs in bed 😳

Dad ODFOD. Ever heard of typing too fast? Pedant.

Thank you everyone for the replies, noted that my husband must inform any workmen in the future!
On a serious note, next time I’m struggling helping my children with their English homework I now know where to seek help 🤣 I don’t mind being corrected, we never stop learning :D x

Years ago I was having ntl tv installed in my flat. The workmen failed to show two times, then two random blokes arrived around 6pm to do it.

Next thing I know, one of them was in my bedroom moving furniture - I thought he'd gone to his van!

It was really distressing as these aggressive men were just shoving my things around and I couldn't stop them.

So no, YANBU OP.