Tradesmen and bathrooms

You don't seem to have had much luck!

I know people who do not wash their hands after the loo and it always surprises me, but you can't stand over them and give instructions!

Is this a thread about tradesmen or handwashing?

One is a skilled and experienced person (hopefully) who you ask into your home to do work for you, the other is the reason why so many people regardless of their work or social standing, pass infection on to others. Remember Covid? How many people have become lax over handwashing? Plenty I guess and some of them wear suits to work!

keepingquiet

Is this a thread about tradesmen or handwashing?

One is a skilled and experienced person (hopefully) who you ask into your home to do work for you, the other is the reason why so many people regardless of their work or social standing, pass infection on to others. Remember Covid? How many people have become lax over handwashing? Plenty I guess and some of them wear suits to work!

It's about tradesmen who come into your home and don't wash their hands after using the toilet.

There are many tradesmen and many people who do not wash their hands after using the toilet.

Just imagine it as a venn diagram with tradesmen in one circle, handwashing in the other. The overlapping area of those two circles represents the elements that are common to both circles.

Thus it is about tradesmen not washing their hands.

keepingquiet

Is this a thread about tradesmen or handwashing?

One is a skilled and experienced person (hopefully) who you ask into your home to do work for you, the other is the reason why so many people regardless of their work or social standing, pass infection on to others. Remember Covid? How many people have become lax over handwashing? Plenty I guess and some of them wear suits to work!

😂 Well said.

Ok- I was just making a point that if anyone else came into your home and also did not wash their hands would you check that they had?

Do you check the towel has moved if other people use your bathroom- that's my point.

There's nobody other than tradesmen who have both entered my home AND used the toilet recently so I haven't had the need to check on anyone else.

We are a small family, we know to wash our hands, particularly as we have a family member with MS - and the odd friend who may visit AND use the toilet - yes I would tell them that I've put clean hand towel in the bathroom and I doubt they would blatantly not wash their hands.

This is my bug bare! Workmen, that don’t respect my property, thank the lord my husband has done all our jobs. Folk that don’t wash their hands. I carry hand sanitizer around with me as nobody provides it anymore.

This is why I clean handles of shopping trolley before use (and was doing it years before covid), I also use baby wipe on cafe/restaurant tables before I sit down. Try not to touch door handles with my bare hands in public toilets
Some people are disgusting

Ziggy62

This is why I clean handles of shopping trolley before use (and was doing it years before covid), I also use baby wipe on cafe/restaurant tables before I sit down. Try not to touch door handles with my bare hands in public toilets
Some people are disgusting

Me too, always used handgel before it was a thing. As a student, I did bar work. I would see men coming out of loo, wiping their hands on their trousers.
Some women are just as bad.
My friend was sorting her bird feeders, then offered me a coffee without washing her hands 🤮

I hope the link works.
I don’t subscribe to The Telegraph, I just typed in filthiest items you should never share.
www.telegraph.co.uk/interiors/home/household-items-you-should-never-share/

If it flashes up then disappears behind Trump, I think that’s an accident. Just type in filthiest in the search box.
www.telegraph.co.uk/interiors/home/household-items-you-should-never-share/

A workman who came to fix our Smart Meter broke the lock in our downstairs loo. I wonder what Angela Rippon would say!

This is why I hate being given a drink (any drink but usually coffee in a cafe) and the server passes the cup to you with their fingers covering the rim of the cup (even though said cup has a perfectly good handle) so germs are all around the rim of cup which is the part going into my mouth !

Their fingers could have been anywhere, up their nose, in their ear, in their mouth, in their hair, up their bum for all I know but no, can't possibly pass me a cup and use the handle.

I refuse to accept them

Tradesmen have broke my loo flusher, broke a roof tile, carpet sweeper, dust pan & brush!
There's probably more but I can't remember.
The best was a guy posting leaflets who knocked and asked to use the loo. It was winter time, and I was alone. Directed him to my outside loo, which is perfectly serviceable. Thought nothing of it and went out a few days later to find a big frozen, unflushable jobbie! Had to wait for the thaw to flush it. I've been wary ever since

What is it with trades men & breaking dust pans? Our kitchen guy broke ours by standing on it.

All you can do, ferry, is explain that it is very important in your home that people remember to wash their hands after using the toilet or blowing their nose, as your son has a health issue that makes even a common cold dangerous for him.

ferry23I

A friend had a decorater in all day while he went to work. When he got home and went to the bathroom, the toilet and floor were so liberally splashed with the guy's urine, you'd think he'd aimed from a few feet away!

My friend, who is pretty fastidious about cleanliness, will certainly never have that guy back again!

An old friend had a sign above the loo in her house which read: ‘Now Wash Your Hands’.

Of course you can use the loo, but I must insist on handwashing for everyone who does so, due to my son's health condition. Sorry to be a stickler. Would you like a brew?

unfortunately I find many women in public toilets don't wash their hands either. You think Covid would have changed that but not the case

Oh for goodness sake I would never even think of checking if someone washed their hands after using my loo I ve never checked if that happens or not

I always wash my hands well, several times a day and always after loo trips. I usually do the full Covid-washing advice. However I don’t always dry my hands in a public wash room, especially if there are no paper towels. Surely those air dryers just spray the bugs around or give them a warm, damp breeding ground.

Yes I am guilty of wiping freshly washed hands on clothing if nothing decent available. I might have a piece of loo paper as well to take worst of water and also to used when opening the door to exit.

BlueBelle

Oh for goodness sake I would never even think of checking if someone washed their hands after using my loo I ve never checked if that happens or not

I expect you would if you had ason who were as vulnerable as the OP's son is.
Less of the for Goodness sake please