Would it upset you if your contractor used your (only) toilet to poop on a daily basis?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d lock it and put a sign up :

out of order
Facilities available at -///

(Nearby public restroom)

Insane. You people are truly insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has mentioned yet that this contractor took 6 WEEKS to finish floors???? That is unbelievable! He should've been able to replace your floors in a week.

OP here.

Right. Actually it is a big job, and the new guy we will be hiring expects it take 3 weeks total (including ripping out most of what the other guy did.)
But yeah, one of our issues with this guy was how it took him much longer than he contracted (and in the end, we found out he didn't even do it correctly.) We wondered if he worked more than 5 hours a day if he would have finished faster?

Many years ago I worked for a construction company (secretary type work) and I know our crews would generally work 7 am-4 pm. It really surprised me that this guy was rolling in close to 9 am and then leaving in the early afternoon.

Well then stop being a cheapo and hire a better contractor. And as others have noted, if you've got mental anxiety from the thought of another person using their toilet while working in your home, get a portapotty.

He wasn't "cheapo." He was actually the highest priced of the bids we sought.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has mentioned yet that this contractor took 6 WEEKS to finish floors???? That is unbelievable! He should've been able to replace your floors in a week.

OP here.

Right. Actually it is a big job, and the new guy we will be hiring expects it take 3 weeks total (including ripping out most of what the other guy did.)
But yeah, one of our issues with this guy was how it took him much longer than he contracted (and in the end, we found out he didn't even do it correctly.) We wondered if he worked more than 5 hours a day if he would have finished faster?

Many years ago I worked for a construction company (secretary type work) and I know our crews would generally work 7 am-4 pm. It really surprised me that this guy was rolling in close to 9 am and then leaving in the early afternoon.

Well then stop being a cheapo and hire a better contractor. And as others have noted, if you've got mental anxiety from the thought of another person using their toilet while working in your home, get a portapotty.

He wasn't "cheapo." He was actually the highest priced of the bids we sought.

Why didn’t you talk to him about the bathroom use?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has mentioned yet that this contractor took 6 WEEKS to finish floors???? That is unbelievable! He should've been able to replace your floors in a week.

OP here.

Right. Actually it is a big job, and the new guy we will be hiring expects it take 3 weeks total (including ripping out most of what the other guy did.)
But yeah, one of our issues with this guy was how it took him much longer than he contracted (and in the end, we found out he didn't even do it correctly.) We wondered if he worked more than 5 hours a day if he would have finished faster?

Many years ago I worked for a construction company (secretary type work) and I know our crews would generally work 7 am-4 pm. It really surprised me that this guy was rolling in close to 9 am and then leaving in the early afternoon.

Well then stop being a cheapo and hire a better contractor. And as others have noted, if you've got mental anxiety from the thought of another person using their toilet while working in your home, get a portapotty.

He wasn't "cheapo." He was actually the highest priced of the bids we sought.

Well, then clearly you didn't get high quality bids or solicit any references if all the work had to be redone. I show my contractors where the toilet is, offer them sodas from my refrigerator and buy them pizza for lunch at least one day if they're on-site for more than a week. If you pay people a fair price and treat people well, you wouldn't be having these problems with the quality of work.

But since you're fixated on the contractor's use of the toilet rather than the fact that you paid him for work that has to be redone, I guess that shows the level of focus that you're capable of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone. Everyone can arrange to poop at home. OK there are some exceptions, and I do feel bad for people with IBS but his schedule, the way you describe it, is unfathomable. He's just not professional. And these guys are not tidy. Team OP.

My next door neighbor came over for an evening party and CLOGGED OUR TOILET. FFS. That's when you step off home. It's a no brainer. Don't poop in someone's powder room at a party.

I never know when I am going to poop. It's usually a surprise to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone. Everyone can arrange to poop at home. OK there are some exceptions, and I do feel bad for people with IBS but his schedule, the way you describe it, is unfathomable. He's just not professional. And these guys are not tidy. Team OP.

My next door neighbor came over for an evening party and CLOGGED OUR TOILET. FFS. That's when you step off home. It's a no brainer. Don't poop in someone's powder room at a party.

I never know when I am going to poop. It's usually a surprise to me.

You can normally set a clock by my DH's poop schedule, but even he has times where it's like "I gotta go now." It's totally human.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has mentioned yet that this contractor took 6 WEEKS to finish floors???? That is unbelievable! He should've been able to replace your floors in a week.

OP here.

Right. Actually it is a big job, and the new guy we will be hiring expects it take 3 weeks total (including ripping out most of what the other guy did.)
But yeah, one of our issues with this guy was how it took him much longer than he contracted (and in the end, we found out he didn't even do it correctly.) We wondered if he worked more than 5 hours a day if he would have finished faster?

Many years ago I worked for a construction company (secretary type work) and I know our crews would generally work 7 am-4 pm. It really surprised me that this guy was rolling in close to 9 am and then leaving in the early afternoon.

Well then stop being a cheapo and hire a better contractor. And as others have noted, if you've got mental anxiety from the thought of another person using their toilet while working in your home, get a portapotty.

He wasn't "cheapo." He was actually the highest priced of the bids we sought.

Well, then clearly you didn't get high quality bids or solicit any references if all the work had to be redone. I show my contractors where the toilet is, offer them sodas from my refrigerator and buy them pizza for lunch at least one day if they're on-site for more than a week. If you pay people a fair price and treat people well, you wouldn't be having these problems with the quality of work.

But since you're fixated on the contractor's use of the toilet rather than the fact that you paid him for work that has to be redone, I guess that shows the level of focus that you're capable of.

He certainly did not deserve pizza.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone. Everyone can arrange to poop at home. OK there are some exceptions, and I do feel bad for people with IBS but his schedule, the way you describe it, is unfathomable. He's just not professional. And these guys are not tidy. Team OP.

My next door neighbor came over for an evening party and CLOGGED OUR TOILET. FFS. That's when you step off home. It's a no brainer. Don't poop in someone's powder room at a party.

I never know when I am going to poop. It's usually a surprise to me.

You can normally set a clock by my DH's poop schedule, but even he has times where it's like "I gotta go now." It's totally human.

OP here
Sure, and I understand that. But every single day? And always during the 5 hours he was at my house, not the other 19 hours of the day?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everyone. Everyone can arrange to poop at home. OK there are some exceptions, and I do feel bad for people with IBS but his schedule, the way you describe it, is unfathomable. He's just not professional. And these guys are not tidy. Team OP.

My next door neighbor came over for an evening party and CLOGGED OUR TOILET. FFS. That's when you step off home. It's a no brainer. Don't poop in someone's powder room at a party.

I never know when I am going to poop. It's usually a surprise to me.

You can normally set a clock by my DH's poop schedule, but even he has times where it's like "I gotta go now." It's totally human.

OP here
Sure, and I understand that. But every single day? And always during the 5 hours he was at my house, not the other 19 hours of the day?

WHO CARES!!!!! He was doing something perfectly normal. You only had one toilet. You didn't tell him not to use it or provide an alternative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has mentioned yet that this contractor took 6 WEEKS to finish floors???? That is unbelievable! He should've been able to replace your floors in a week.

OP here.

Right. Actually it is a big job, and the new guy we will be hiring expects it take 3 weeks total (including ripping out most of what the other guy did.)
But yeah, one of our issues with this guy was how it took him much longer than he contracted (and in the end, we found out he didn't even do it correctly.) We wondered if he worked more than 5 hours a day if he would have finished faster?

Many years ago I worked for a construction company (secretary type work) and I know our crews would generally work 7 am-4 pm. It really surprised me that this guy was rolling in close to 9 am and then leaving in the early afternoon.

Well then stop being a cheapo and hire a better contractor. And as others have noted, if you've got mental anxiety from the thought of another person using their toilet while working in your home, get a portapotty.

He wasn't "cheapo." He was actually the highest priced of the bids we sought.

Well, then clearly you didn't get high quality bids or solicit any references if all the work had to be redone. I show my contractors where the toilet is, offer them sodas from my refrigerator and buy them pizza for lunch at least one day if they're on-site for more than a week. If you pay people a fair price and treat people well, you wouldn't be having these problems with the quality of work.

But since you're fixated on the contractor's use of the toilet rather than the fact that you paid him for work that has to be redone, I guess that shows the level of focus that you're capable of.

He certainly did not deserve pizza.

He did deserve a toilet.

[Anonymous]

A worker for a contractor used my powder-room without my permission and clogged the toilet. Then the toilet overflowed. I made him clean it, while yelling at top volume at him and the contractor. He had to wipe everything and mop up every inch with multiple rounds of clorox bleach. I probably made him use two roles of bounty, lots of clorox bleach, lots of lysol etc. Then he had to bag everything and take it in his truck. That guy never ever returned back because I told my contractor that I do not want to see his face.

My toilet is out of bounds for maids, contractors etc. If kids from the neighborhood are playing outside my house and want to use my bathroom, then I ask them to go to their own house.

Thankfully, people I socialize with are the sort who will poop in their own house before they come to mine. Pooping in other people's home when you are a dinner guest is something that only people from certain culture do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everyone. Everyone can arrange to poop at home. OK there are some exceptions, and I do feel bad for people with IBS but his schedule, the way you describe it, is unfathomable. He's just not professional. And these guys are not tidy. Team OP.

My next door neighbor came over for an evening party and CLOGGED OUR TOILET. FFS. That's when you step off home. It's a no brainer. Don't poop in someone's powder room at a party.

Are you crazy? If I have to go, I'm going to go. My friends don't all live around the corner from me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has mentioned yet that this contractor took 6 WEEKS to finish floors???? That is unbelievable! He should've been able to replace your floors in a week.

OP here.

Right. Actually it is a big job, and the new guy we will be hiring expects it take 3 weeks total (including ripping out most of what the other guy did.)
But yeah, one of our issues with this guy was how it took him much longer than he contracted (and in the end, we found out he didn't even do it correctly.) We wondered if he worked more than 5 hours a day if he would have finished faster?

Many years ago I worked for a construction company (secretary type work) and I know our crews would generally work 7 am-4 pm. It really surprised me that this guy was rolling in close to 9 am and then leaving in the early afternoon.

Well then stop being a cheapo and hire a better contractor. And as others have noted, if you've got mental anxiety from the thought of another person using their toilet while working in your home, get a portapotty.

He wasn't "cheapo." He was actually the highest priced of the bids we sought.

Well, then clearly you didn't get high quality bids or solicit any references if all the work had to be redone. I show my contractors where the toilet is, offer them sodas from my refrigerator and buy them pizza for lunch at least one day if they're on-site for more than a week. If you pay people a fair price and treat people well, you wouldn't be having these problems with the quality of work.

But since you're fixated on the contractor's use of the toilet rather than the fact that you paid him for work that has to be redone, I guess that shows the level of focus that you're capable of.

He certainly did not deserve pizza.

He did deserve a toilet.

Well, I provided one for him. He was never denied a toilet

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, what if he needed to use the toilet while working on your project? How close is the nearest toilet he could use? How long would that take? How much would you complain about the time needed to leave your project and go use the nearest off-site toilet?

You cheaped out. Next time, pay for a portable toilet if this bothers you so much.

I don't mind if he uses the bathroom to pee. Most people don't poop several times a day though, right? Since he was only at my house about 6 hours (or less) each day, I would think he could go poop before coming to my house. And like I said in my OP, I can even understand the occasional emergency, but it was like it was his planned routine plan to poop at our house each day.

The nearest public/business bathrooms to our house are two gas stations, about a 5 minute drive away (they are across the street from each other.) About 5 minutes beyond that in various directions there is a Target, Walmart, and at least 5 large grocery stores. Plus more gas stations and fast food places.

We didn't "cheap out" not getting a porta-potty. It really never occurred to us that it would be necessary. I guess we just assumed that a grown adult could poop at his own house and then go 5-6 hours without pooping again on most days, barring illness/emergency.

If they are eating healthfully, they do.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, that happened to us during our kitchen renovation except it was the powder room and we had fortunately access to our other bathrooms. But, it was astonishing how the lead contractor would literally walk into our house and go straight to the bathroom to take a dump. And, he regularly camped out in there with his phone, sometimes watching soccer.

Next time we are definitely getting a portapotty. [/quote]

If that was my only working toilet, I'd be knocking on the door to check on him after a few minutes. [/quote]

You're insane, just like OP. [/quote]

We work from home and have a special needs child. No one camps out on the only available toilet. [/quote]

Would you rather him shit his pants FFS? If "no one camps out on the only available toilet," there were plenty of porta-potties available for rent.[/quote]

I was the pp who said I always let anyone in my house use the toilet. You just can't camp out there if it's the only one available.