To(i)let or not to (i) let, that is the question.

I certainly would not mind workmen using my facilities if they were spending many hours working inside/outside my premises. I make copious cups of tea/ coffee throughout the day with biscuits and a cold drink is offered if summer but would not dream of giving them lunch money or food at lunchtime - surely they’re supposed to bring a packed lunch. I usually have no reason to complain about any hygiene issues, my workmen are reliable and responsible folk.

If you trust someone to let themselves in and out of your house and with the maintenance (and more) of your very valuable property why wouldn’t you be happy to let them go to your loo? Unless they left it in an absolute state - and then you’d have a conversation with them surely - what’s the big deal?

ReadyMeals it would be great if all towns and cities did something to restore public toilets, wouldn’t it?
We don’t always want to have to buy something in a cafe in order to use the loo, or trail through a big dept store looking for one.

I am surprised to find anyone on this thread who is ‘happy’ to let any person use their loo ( other than visiting friends) sometimes we have to but that is ‘needs must’ only.
I once read that Kenneth Williams wouldn't even allow good friends to use his loo....now that’s going a bit far!

Yes agree lemon, nobody needs a bitchfest.

It would be very nice if posters at least tried to stick to the subject on here instead of indulging in bitchfests.

All of the above Nana

It's fine by me if you 'don't get it'.
Jog on.

SunnySusie - what public toilets? They don't even exist in my town

I’m totally bemused.

I must live in an alternate universe to you *Gabriella!

You won’t let workmen use your toilet, you pop down to Waitrose for sandwiches for Muslim couriers , you announced ( flounced) off a couple of weeks ago - and now you’re back telling all and sundry you don’t care what they think.

So why post here ? Approval? Support? To create a fire storm? As research for a book ?

I just don’t get it !

Sparklefizz

Your story at 13.24 made me shudder. ???

Calendar girl....I’ve just done the same as you ...bathroom ripped out and shower room installed. Didn’t want to as I love a bath particularly when my arthritis is bad. But husband cannot get Into bath to use the overhead shower! I found it politic to hire a ‘portaloo’ for10 days....for our own benefit as well as for our two workmen who fitted our new bathroom. It was installed in back garden 6 feet from back door. They are really excellent now! Think about it! I believe if you have it over the week the suppliers come out and thoroughly clean and re-stock. They were so good .

Immediately I get home I wash my hands before doing anything else. No sluttish behaviour from me

I do the same, Gabriella

I am not keen on workmen using my loo although I accept that they have to, but they rarely wash their hands.

One time I left a decorator here and went out, and when I came back, I found him sitting on the toilet with his trousers round his ankles and the door wide open, and a horrible smell wafting over the house.

He didn't move, just said "You're back early!" and finished pooing!

He had 2 more days of decorating to finish off and I was counting the minutes

^GabriellaG54 Mon 18-Nov-19 13:10:34
Don't believe a word I type. That's fine by me. We none of us know truth from fiction on here, it's all froth and fantasy.^

I can't imagine the point of anybody making it up on here but I guess it takes all sorts. My memory is far too shot to remember lies!

Don't believe a word I type. That's fine by me. We none of us know truth from fiction on here, it's all froth and fantasy.

Nah, I'm happy to be very fastidious.
Immediately I get home I wash my hands before doing anything else. No sluttish behaviour from me and I too have remained healthy and without meds.
It works for all sorts.

GabriellaG54, your fastidiousness makes you sound very much like Donald Trump. Are you acquainted?

Me? I am a total slut, very happy to let visiters, personal or commercial to use the loos in our house. I have never had a problem.

Mind you, recently, I have been reading a number of books about biome, bowel and skin and I am beginning to wonder whether my sluttish habits are the reason I have reached my mid-70s without any medical problems beyond the mild ones, that pre-date old age and with no need to take any medication

Well this thread has been entertaining! I am not surprised by much these days, but I’m still waiting for my eyebrows to come down. LOL! I had felt a little sorry for the OP, thinking she might be upset by people laughing at her actions, but since her snippy (to say the least) responses belie that, clearly, I don’t need to.

GabriellaG now posts-

"If anyone honestly thought that I paid any political party £50k then I suggest they lay off the gin.
Obviously, it was a joke"

She has just outed herself as someone whose posts are not always truthful so why should we ever believe anything she tells us?

We only have one bathroom so anytime workmen are here if they need the loo that's the one they have to use. I just make sure it's flushed and give a good clean when they've left. Usually they provide their own food and eat in their vans outside. I provide plenty of tea/coffees and biscuits to keep them going in-between. I've not heard of giving lunch money though or refreshments to delivery people.

I didn't make that up. If you look back at the thread entitled "Farage the fraudster" on page 4 several people remembered that Gabriella had made that post, which some thought had been a wind up.

Amazed at all the cleaning after workmen use the loo.

Me too, SunnySusie. Unless they’d peed on the seat it wouldn’t cross my mind to do an extra clean after any visitors. As for not flushing, I’d have to check that ours was flushed before they used it. Do none of you subscribe to water conservation, and if it’s yellow, let it mellow?

Asking for a friend, of course.....

Can everyone please stop all the nastiness which has appeared on here ? It’s totally unnecessary.

Although I wouldn’t give workmen lunch money it is kind of you Gabriella, as is giving a snack to your regular delivery drivers.

As regards a donation of any amount to a political party, well that is nothing to do with this thread is it?

I never ever use public toilets or eat food provided on flights or use their loos.

Amazed at all the cleaning after workmen use the loo. Why would you? they are just normal people. What on earth does everyone do when they have to use public toilets, or - even worse - clean their teeth and wash in the loos on a plane after an overnight flight. Memories of loos in various parts of the world where a hole in the ground is the norm also spring to mind. Are people aware that being over clean is actually quite bad for your immune system, and that lots of cleaning products give off fumes which linger in the house (particularly in the winter) and are probably pretty horrid in themselves.