I cannot believe what some people do.....

[luvdzne]

The house across the street from us has been getting a total make over, new roof, siding and gutters. Today they were putting on the new gutters. DD and I were sitting on our front porch talking about what she did at school when I look across the street to see one of the guys peeing on the side of the house . As he is turning towards us zipping up his zipper he sees me looking at him like and turns away like he was just looking at the great job they did on the house . What nerve, I understand he has been working outside all day working, drinking beer (yes, he was cleaning out the back of the truck of beer bottles, and threw the empties in our neighbors trash can) and when you gotta go you gotta go, but geez look around to see who might be around. Luckily dd didn't see what happened because I would have been really . My dh did tell our neighbors when they got home, and they said they were definitely going to talk to the contractor as they really screwed up the gutters and then to hear about this. DH made sure to get the name of the co. to be sure we never call them for anything

 

[Charade]

Someone peed in my house as it was being built. There was still a puddle when I went the there to check the progress (which I did nearly every day). I called the builder and chewed him out. I know someone did it on purpose because as I was wandering through the woods behind my house I found "fresh" toilet paper from someone who pooped there. That's ok since the builder didn't have port-a-potties. But to pee IN the house is inexcusable.

 

[Nancy]

Yuck, yuck and triple yuck! I know they have to go somewhere, but the whole thought of it.....eeeewwwww!

 

[Froggyswife]

That is disgusting. Dh and I do remodeling and repair work and we would never do that we either ask the homeowner to use their bathroom (if it is way out in the country) or we go to a service station or resturant or home depending on where we are.

As for drinking beer on the job. Not no but H E double hocky sticks no. We don't allow any alchol on our jobs only soda or water. I'll bet the gutters weren't up right if they were drinking on the job. That is very unprofessional. It's people like that that give remodelers a bad name.

 

[Michie]

When you gotta go, you gotta go!!

I never let contract workers use my powder room. And I think it is a fairly common rule for them to not ask a homeowner.

 

[luvdzne]

When you gotta go, you gotta go!!

I never let contract workers use my powder room. And I think it is a fairly common rule for them to not ask a homeowner.

I agree, however, we only live less than a mile from a whole strip of places he could have gone, and if he couldn't make it that far, the least he could have done was make sure no one was around. He was practically in the front yard, it wasn't like he tried to pee in a bush out in the back 40 somewhere .

 

[FroggyinArk]

When you gotta go, you gotta go!!

I never let contract workers use my powder room. And I think it is a fairly common rule for them to not ask a homeowner.

actually michie, if working on a house, its a fairly common practice to ask to use the facilities while there, in fact, there is a clause in my standard contract that says we have access to the plumbing facilities while on the jobsite. and its a standard form contract. other wise you would be paying for the drive over to the gas station when needed. in fact most states now reccomend that th e homeowner provide facilities on any project. and require them to be available on any and all jobs over a certain amount.

the beer is a different story. that is covered in a clause of my standard form too. i ask that the homeowner agree notto drink infront of my crew, and not offer my crew a beer on the job site. i almost lost a dang good customer and friend one time when her husband got off early, came in abouttime we were shuttingdown, and offered my other carpenter at the time a beer,, i went ahead and left,, he and my helperproceed ed to drink a lot more than one beer.. and byt the time she got home both were drtunk. hubby claimed helper offered him the beer, and blamed helper for bringing it there.. i was called at 10 that nihgt and not politely asked about it. i told her the other story, and that i had left when both weree on first beer.. she demanded the helper never set foot on her place again, and i fired him that next morning.

 

[luvdzne]

actually michie, if working on a house, its a fairly common practice to ask to use the facilities while there, in fact, there is a clause in my standard contract that says we have access to the plumbing facilities while on the jobsite. and its a standard form contract. other wise you would be paying for the drive over to the gas station when needed. in fact most states now reccomend that th e homeowner provide facilities on any project. and require them to be available on any and all jobs over a certain amount.

the beer is a different story. that is covered in a clause of my standard form too. i ask that the homeowner agree notto drink infront of my crew, and not offer my crew a beer on the job site. i almost lost a dang good customer and friend one time when her husband got off early, came in abouttime we were shuttingdown, and offered my other carpenter at the time a beer,, i went ahead and left,, he and my helperproceed ed to drink a lot more than one beer.. and byt the time she got home both were drtunk. hubby claimed helper offered him the beer, and blamed helper for bringing it there.. i was called at 10 that nihgt and not politely asked about it. i told her the other story, and that i had left when both weree on first beer.. she demanded the helper never set foot on her place again, and i fired him that next morning.

Froggy, I wish you lived closer to il, I could use a good contractor. I don't know why good ones are so hard to find. We have a lot of work we need done, but were afraid to hire someone. We have had nothing but bad luck hiring people that DH decides to do the things himself, which in the end, end up taking forever to get done. It's good to know there are honest trustworthy contractors out there

 

[LindsayDunn228]

OT, but your puppy is sooooo adorable!!

On topic, ICK!!

 

[Marseeya]

Sorry, I know it's not funny, but it reminded me of something.

In our old house, there was an abandoned house across the street from us. For whatever reason, my dad would park there when he came to our house. One day I was on my porch when he came over, and he didn't see me. He parked across the street, got out, nonchalantly looked around, and then peed in the bushes next to the house. We lived next to a main highway!

I was horrified! I didn't want to confront him directly, so I called my mom and tattled on him.

It's funny now though.

 

[froglady]

I've had major renovations on my house, and the contractor (I used the same one twice) always included a port-a-john. We have a service alley behind the yard with parking spaces, so they put the john on one, and the dumpster on the other, so they weren't visible from the front of the house. Another smaller renovation was to a garage apartment, so they used the "facilities" there.

I do know that after I had the house painted, I found a milk jug full of urine in the bushes.

 

[Jpgirl]

When our house was being built, the crew used our house and woods as a toilet. We found a 5 gal. bucket full of #2 in our woods. And the soil around the back of our house smelled like a sewer for 2 years. We kept digging our old soil and adding new. What got my goat was that there was a perfectly good portopotty out in the culdesac in front of our house. I was truly disgusted and complained to the builder. We were one of the first people to move in and I got more than my eye full of guys going on a house!!