Do you let contractors use your bathroom?

[Anonymous]

We're doing an exterior renovation of our house. This was discussed in the contact signing and we elected to cover the cost of a porta-potty. It was like $300 and just seemed easier.

[Anonymous]

"Not too far from commercial areas with bathrooms," omg! If your sewer line clogged and your family couldn't use the toilets, would you forego an emergency-rate plumber and wait a few days for a budget plumber on the grounds that there's a 7-11 a few blocks away that your family can use? Of course not.

[Anonymous]

Geez op. Geez.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on your set up. We're replacing a deck and told the contractors to use the basement bathroom, which nobody is using during the day. Kids are back in school and DH and I are back in the office. But there is another house in the neighborhood also building a deck, and those parents are still working from home. They do they have a porta potty.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on the set up of the house, whether there's something like that basement access bathroom. If you have one, possibly okay. If not, rent a portapotty.

I think some of you are ridiculous. When you are out do you go to the nearest residential home and ask them to use their bathroom or do you go to the Starbucks or Nordstrom's or whatever?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"Not too far from commercial areas with bathrooms," omg! If your sewer line clogged and your family couldn't use the toilets, would you forego an emergency-rate plumber and wait a few days for a budget plumber on the grounds that there's a 7-11 a few blocks away that your family can use? Of course not.

This is truly a dumb comparison. The contractor is not living at your home. When my apartment had a problem I have and would go to the nearest store until the plumbing was repaired. It took 12 hours, much longer than any contractor is going to be at your house.

[Anonymous]

I do not let them use the bathrorom, but buy them donuts to make up for it.

[Anonymous]

If any of them bring you a lovely chocolate pie don't eat it!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Of course I let them. Have them mask up, and clean the bathroom at the end of the day. Just don't use it yourselves until it's been cleaned. But these are human beings and they need to use the bathroom.

+1 Of course I would give access to a bathroom. I agree with the PP that they can clean up at the end of the day. And they should be masked if they are inside the house anyway.

[Anonymous]

Nope. I have not allowed contractors to use the bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I do not let them use the bathrorom, but buy them donuts to make up for it.

I bet that is well received.

[Anonymous]

Have they asked? My husband is a handyman and doesn’t use clients bathrooms even when he is working inside. His work truck has an enclosed topper and if he really has to go, he pees in a Gatorade bottle in there and then disposes it at our house. (Gross to me, normal to him.) Id be surprised if they expected to use your restroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, I make them squat in the backyard.

Of course I let them use the bathroom. You can insist that they be masked, but they can't be expected to go all day without facilities. Or I guess you can rent a portapotty, but that seems silly.

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[Anonymous]

What an awful question. You are a low-class person from a shabby background, at least ethically. ... and I bet you think you're sort of "proper." Repugnant. Pick a bathroom you don't have to use much and share it, scumbag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What an awful question. You are a low-class person from a shabby background, at least ethically. ... and I bet you think you're sort of "proper." Repugnant. Pick a bathroom you don't have to use much and share it, scumbag.[/quote

Well, maybe that's an overstatement. Was just reading about some other nasty type treating workers poorly and you caught the brunt of it.