They are doing work for your benefit, should you close off your bathroom to them?

Of course they can use my bathroom. Is this even a question?

I let them use the head, and leave out a cooler of water too.
I want them to have an incentive to do a good job.

Use at your own risk.

It’s up to you how you want to handle it – let them use a bathroom, or get a port-a-pottie for your front yard.

When I owned a house I always let the work men use a toilet in the house.

Anyone who denies bathroom access to people working in their home is inviting them to pee in their alley or garden. Not a very smart choice. Of course, workers should be permitted access to the bathroom.

Let the man use the can.

I have always let workers in my home have access to my bathroom. I have also left them bottles of water and sometimes a plate of cookies.

It would be the Christian thing to allow them to use the bathroom.

@osoraro I was trying to find a Bible quote on this but nothing quite fit. Even from the Gospel of John!

@janhb actually Orthodox Jews do have a prayer that they will say before going to the bathroom. I don’t know it offhand though.

The city was doing some work on a street that runs by our house. They put their blue outhouse in our yard. It was there for over a week.
About the 3rd day, I hailed the guys and told them if they needed a break from the out house, wanted to use a real toilet, wash their face, get a drink, ice, what ever, my back door was open and to make themselves at home…..

What an odd thing for a non-Christian with no moral code to do.

I would never refuse a workman at my home the use of my bathroom—or in any other way treat them with anything but respect and kindness. This isn’t a “Christian” or “Jewish” or any other religious kind of thing to do—it’s social responsibility and more than that, simple common decency.

If they’re working on building a deck, it’s perfectly reasonable to let gravity do its job. Let them pee downwards.

@janbb, the Hebrew word for urination is hashtanah – look for ‘tfilot hastanah’ for urination prayers.

Prayers after excretion: ink

Asher Yatzar literal meanining is “that which I have produced”

During my years as a remodeling contractor, I noticed that women tended to think about those things more than men. Not just access to bathroom, but an extra roll of TP set out, too.

On an outside job, men were more likely to say I pee on that tree over there, but feel free to use the bathroom if you want to. Peeing on a tree sure beats taking off my boots to walk through the house to the bathroom.

I was only on one job where I didn’t have access to the bathroom. The only bathroom was through the bedroom where the ill wife spent her days in bed. I peed in a can in my truck, and had to leave the job site several times to find a public toilet.

I let them use the bathroom and offer them water.

Only if you want them to do a crap job of work.

@elbanditoroso i wasn’t looking for defecation prayers; I was looking for something on how to treat workers to quote to HC.

The Bible has the word ass in it like 94 times. Granted, it means a donkey, but with some imagination…

I’m with @josie on this one. Bathroom access and a cooler of water for workers doing this sort of job are just basic if you want them to do a good job.

And guys, I doubt that @Hypocrisy_Central is asking this question because he wants an excuse to deny bathroom access to anyone.

@Hypocrisy_Central, what is your answer?

@janbb Of course they can use my bathroom. Is this even a question?
Yes this is a question. I once spent the better part of the day painting a large patio on a fairly big house but the owner told us to go pee around the house near the back shed, something about his wife not wanting people in the house. I wondered if it was just her or that household or was it fairly common. Myself, if there were going to be anyone at my residence doing work that was going to take more than an hour I would expect them to have to use the bathroom at some point. If a woman was at home alone and had no guard dog, I can see her being apprehensive of letting men in her house while she is alone, but if it is a reputable business or she has a man or other people to help, or get help, it should not be as big of an issue, but maybe it is.

@Dutchess_III My answer is you should expect it if they have a job to do greater than 1 hour.

@Hypocrisy_Central I’m sorry you had that bad experience; those people were obnoxious.

I had a similar experience to Hypocrisy_Central. We were building a fence and not allowed in the house for anything. I wouldn’t do it but I understand the reasoning.

One in five women will be raped in the United States in their lifetime. My sister has been raped, my mother has been raped. It should be pretty easy to understand why neither of them would want random dudes going in and out of their house.

And it isn’t just getting raped while they are working. They could unlock a window and come back at 2am where you don’t associate the rape with the workers at your house.

Good point @johnpowell. My brother is a contractor so pretty much his workers are the only ones that have been to my house to do work and I have known them for years and trust them.

Certainly. I let them use the can and give them water. I’ve even made sandwiches a couple times.

The guy repairing my drywall on my patio ceiling just peed in my bathroom today! Of course they can use the bathroom.

I check all my doors and make sure everything is locked after someone has been working in my house.

@johnpowell It should be pretty easy to understand why neither of them would want random dudes going in and out of their house.
I can understand if she were there alone, but her husband was there supervising our work to make sure we got done all he wanted done.

I’ve never actually had this come up one way or the other.

@Darth_Algar That’s cuz we have to do the shit ourselves! We don’t hire no contractors. ;)

@Dutchess_III Whoa dude! Did you just rap?

Trying to hear the beat. All I hear is polka. Being white sucks sometimes!

Polka is awesome when Vikings are doing it.

@Hypocrisy_Central :: When it happened to me it was a month long job and just me and my sisters husband and we worked very slow since we were constantly running to the Dairy Queen for the restroom and Blizzards. :-)