Will be having some quotes soon for an extension. I am considering asking the builders to supply their own toilet to avoid having ours messed up. Any thoughts on the likely cost and how a builder may react?
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Toilet Cabin for Builders
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Just get a quote from a portaloo company. If you're in S Yorks a good one is Lizzie's Loos. If you hire the bog the builder can't mark it up. Some builders have their own, but this is unusual. Don't let them erect it near your kitchen or dining room. Best place is downwind of the house.
Bill
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For a guide to what is available and what it costs:
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suspect that the builder would be very pleased to have an on-site loo. When I have had builders in if they needed a loo and I wasn't in they have had to leave the site and find a public one.
Colin Bignell
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Dunno about the cost, but they are are a requirement at some of the houses I have worked on.
Nothing beats having a crap at minus 6 in a portable toilet. It's worse than having one when it is 35 deg.
But if you are in the trade then tough shit. The tradesmen have to live by your rules.
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The building trade has always been crap.
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Not for a piss they wouldn't.
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You mean "treated as crap".
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Yes. And tradesmen accept it. I "roughed in" central heating systems many years ago in houses under construction and came close to freezing to death. The foreman once caught me asleep sat on rolls of lagging. I had the gas bottle going to keep warm. If you needed a crap, you had a crap at the back of the site. Errr, I remember shoving empty milk bottles and just about everything down the cavity wall.
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If you wish the builders to supply their own toilet facilites then tell them that as part of the contract preambles (written or oral and expect them to build the cost of supplying, maintaining and emptying the portaloo into the contract (they may even have one or two as part of their basic equipment) - but remember, you must also have sufficient space in your garden for them to accommodate the portable loo.
As for how the "builder may react" - they now have to provide such facilities under the H&S regulations, and if they object, look for another builder.
BTW, that 'law' has been enacted (IIRC) since the mid 90s, because of an incident at the Army Apprentices College at Beachley near Chepstow, where a female out walking, came across a male employee of McAlpine's (who were renovating the college at the time) having a 'dump' behind a hedge because no toilet facilities had been arranged at his particular place of work by Mac's, and one hell of a stink was raised about it by the press, public and local politicians - talk about the shit flying about then....
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With our builders last year if we hadn't allowed the use of one of the downstairs loos for them they would have provided a "portaloo" and charged for it...
I suspect these days a portaloo is required under H&S, Notice how they pop up at roadworks that are there for a few days. All new build sites have at least one.
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It doesn't matter what it will cost because the builder won't be paying for it, you will. The builder will probably be happy to have somewhere to have a piss without waiting for you to go out so he can do it in your gulley or behind your shed.
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To be fair you cannot have a shit in a new build until the plumbers have done the second fix can you?
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Trust me, it's when you need a shit that you need a toilet. A bloke can have a piss anywhere they want to and get away with it.
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Thought thats what cavity walls were for?
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You can usually just shove then to a new place if stood on concrete. This is best done when an apprentice is in the toilet and you have strapped the door closed with a rope. Rocking the toilet as you move it is an optional extra if the apprentice is useless.
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I have no access to them when 1st fixing the electrics.
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Preaching to the choir mate, I won't tell you all the places I've shat, but some of them are worth a mention.
Master bedroom of a 6 bed detatched, into a cement bag and launched out the window...the house had no windows in nor plaster on the walls as it was a new build, and I was the only person on site.
Back of several vans, into numerous recepticles; bags, buckets, chippy cartons etc and disposed of in the usual manner - lobbed in a bus stop bin.
In someone's garage into a bucket, then poured into open manhole.
When you've gotta go, you've gotta go.
Cue the 'you could have waited until you got home' brigade, and my answer is that I was lucky to make it to the empty cement bag nevermind the staircase - my guts give me ten seconds to find somewhere to curl one off and then it's on show
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2builders1carton?
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What, no 'yesterdays' newspapers to wrap the crap in and stuff it in any odd cavity/attic/corner - tell you are a young whippersnapper ARW. And *NEVER* drink out of any pop bottle you find with liquid in! :-)