Are you 'precious' about your toilet?

[bunny2]

Ok, am I OTT or have I a right to be upset? We have a rather strange man (+dog) doing our garden at the moment. Today he asked to use the toilet and left it really dirty. The bathroom is the only room that gets a thorough cleaning regularly, I hate an unclean toilt and I cant get it out of my head that his cr@p has been left in there festering . I have thrown a bottle of bleach down and got dh to clean it but I still feel it has been contaminated and have considered buying a new seat.

Am I over-reacting? wise Mumsnetters?

Do I have to hover over the seat, or should I just sterilise it afterwards?

Perhaps you're more sensitive because not used to it - after all bunnies don't do poohs but those dry pellety type things .

IMO no your not I would feel the same - we did not buy a house once because the toilet was dirty

Im going to get my mum to read this thread later, should give her a laugh!
How about a polite notice "Please leave this toilet as you find it, clean shiny and free of skidmarks"

With 3 males in my house it's a case of you've seen one skidmark, you've seen them all......

Normal response = thorough clean and forget about it!

lol sponge and bran

charliecat, I did stick a sign up above the toilet once when we had buildres in who didnt flush. It said "PLEASE FLUSH THE TOILET" and they did .

hi, I think if it will make you happy buy a new loo seat because if you're anything like me this will be on your mind now everytime you look at the loo, so what's a few pounds for a new seat.
While on the subject, does anybody else's dp or dh drive them mad with puddles on the floor around the loo?? This is an ongoing argument in my house and it's driving me crazy!! Is it asking too much that he might sit down to do a pee??

Bleurgh! You've made me feel sick, Bunny2! Yes, geta new loo seat - pronto! And don't let him use the loo again! Gross. We have unisex loos at work and the state some men leave them in is soooo digusting. BLEURGH!

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FFS, loos are for pooing in let's face it.
He should scrub it afterwards but maybe he wasn't very well brought up

God I'd be much more p**ed off at a huge dog turd in the garden that wasn't cleaned up than a bit of a skidder in the pan. At least the blokes pooh won't get spread around your house on the bottom of small childrens feet (or was he that messy?).

I can see where you're coming from, I'd be disgusted too and knowing me it would play on my mind as well. I've become a lot more queasy about everything since pg and I'm afraid I would go and buy a new seat too.

I walked out of a cafe the other day without touching my lunch because then man who brought it to my table had dirty teeth. The cafe itself is spotless and the man was neat/tidy etc but once I saw food in his teeth, it was all I could think about, so wasted a whole lunch and went home instead.

I would hate it if I found my loo in that state - and promptly get DH to clean it . But saying that, where else could the man do his business? TBH I would be much more concerned about doggy doodoos in my garden more than anything else

FWIW - I also give workmen the worse mugs in our house but only because I reckon they are much more likely to get broken.

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I don't hink you're over-reacting. It's only polite that if you explode the loo (it's happened to the best of us) then you get out the harpic and the loo brush and get scrubbing.
When my neighbour was selling her house, one bloke who came to see it asked to use the toilet, she let him and he roughcasted it. He just left it like that. In she went with the gloves and the bleach. What mad it worse was that he phoned to say he really wanted the house and would come round for another viewing.
On a final note, my DH works for a large builders merchant who also do kitchens and bathrooms. The sales staff dread the little voice from one of the display 'mummmy/daddy, the loo wont fluch and there's no paper'.

PMSL, glad Im not the only one who is a bit anal about these things. I'm not buying a new seat cos it was an expensive one but I have given it a few more cleans today.

He's back tomorrow and dh is under strict instructions not to let him in the house.

gscrym - love "roughcasted" - fab!! What a revolting man though.

Bunny2, how do you feel about using other's loos? Do you clench your buttocks until you get home to avoid contaminating other people's loos? I always like to use my own, but I think that's to do with types of paper.

(Damm, and I was trying so hard not to reveal my neuroses )

Oh gawd - thought I was the only one.

I hate the thought of anyone apart from myself, DP and children pooing in my toilet. Once, MIL and female collegue stopped off at our house on way back from a conference and collegue asked to use the loo. After 5 mins I realised she was doing more than a wee and after 15 (excruciating) minutes later she re-emerged with smell wafting down the landing and stairs

When we had the plasterers in I had nightmares about it weeks before for fear they would need to use the loo.

Ridiculous I know......but i'm in therepy

I am with all the most squeamish of you, 1st thing we bought when moved house was a new loo seat, don't like strange people using my stuff...

But, dh is so neurotic that when we're out & dd wants to go, he always takes her cos he won't let her sit on public toilets (I do after a good scrub & layers of paper on seat if necessary)...anyway, I don't know what he does, holds her in a squat over it or something, but she managed to get a wee all down his leg this week, which cheered me up no end (just feeling evil as have spent last 2 weeks off work together & that is toooo much).