Said It Here

Contractors leaving your home bathroom disgusting

Workers are leaving bathrooms covered in urine, vomit, and diarrhea, forcing homeowners to clean up daily messes. This biohazard and disrespect often leads to homeowners banning workers from entering the house entirely mid-project.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

  1. 1
    Ordering a porta-potty for the workers
  2. 2
    Asking contractors not to come inside the house
  3. 3
    Refusing to hire the contractor again for future work
  4. 4
    Asking the sick worker to leave or stay home

In their words

Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.

One worker (female) asked to use the bathroom the past 2 days. Obviously I said yes. However she keeps vomiting and having horrific diarrhea.source ↗

Jef101114 · r/HomeImprovement · 1,036 upvotes

Piss **all over** the floor and down the sides of the toilet.source ↗

BringBackApollo2023 · r/HomeImprovement · 384 upvotes

Every single day I walked into a disgusting mess. Finally the last week I couldn’t anymore and asked them not come insidesource ↗

lavnyl · r/HomeImprovement · 86 upvotes

Where this came up

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