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.
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- 1Ordering a porta-potty for the workersDid this help you?
- 2Asking contractors not to come inside the houseDid this help you?
- 3Refusing to hire the contractor again for future workDid this help you?
- 4Asking the sick worker to leave or stay homeDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, 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 ↗
“Piss **all over** the floor and down the sides of the toilet.”source ↗
“Every single day I walked into a disgusting mess. Finally the last week I couldn’t anymore and asked them not come inside”source ↗
Where this came up
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