to me that looks like it spewed up from the sewer and overflowed, not a deliberate act of the contractors' or subs' bowels. It's still amazingly disgusting. And I am really sorry.

As much as it horrifies me to say - I'd bite the bullet, get a tyvek suit, arm myself with lysol and some bleach and clean it up - you are the only one that is going to have to live with that odor and staining if it seeps into the grout or stains the seat.

And while it's all poop - family poop (or your own pets' poop) is "different" than stranger poop. So I totally get your wife freaking out.

can't imagine that one would "never" use the bathroom/toilet.

or that one would need to don a hazmat suit to clean it up.

vent, clean up & move on.

if this is the worst thing that has happened on the build

& you are at this stage of the build, then you are ahead of

the game. IMO.

it certainly looks like the eruption was from within

the toilet spewing up now that someone hung from above

the toilet to spew downwards.

in any event...vent here & move on with the project.

pay a worker $20 bucks to clean it up & provide the

cleaning products.

have to say its the first time I've read one of these

"oh the horror of it" threads started by a guy. LOL!

best of luck

lol.. This is far from the worst thing on the build.. I just can't imagine any "luxury home builder" that would leave this for their client to find.. And this is not some tract home builder.. This is a custom home builder who "prides" themselves on professionalism.. And Energy_Rater.. This is far from the worst thing I have seen in my life.. I think it is just the idea of how disgusting it is that it has been left like this and the lack of respect for us.. I get that people need to use the bathroom.. As I said before.. I knew realistically that subs were going to use our bathrooms.. It is unrealistic to believe that they would stop everything to go outside to use the port-a-john especially in rain/snow season.. It is just the idea of leaving the toilet in this shape is what is annoying.. To allow your client to find this and to have them bring it to your attention and you ignore it.. You would think that the first thing they would have done is had one of their crew clean it up to "look" clean.. That is what bothers me the most, that nothing was done.. I am fine in moving on once they clean it.. I think we are just at our last straw and and ready for this builder to be out of our lives.. I am thankful that this build is coming to a close.. I have a lot of review sites to visit and leave my remarks on their workmanship..

We had a sub urinate in the basement laundry sink when we had our basement finished. The sink wasn't hooked up yet! So quite a stench. I was appalled and our GC said "they're shy so they don't ask to use the restroom." Sorry but how does shy translate into pissing in my sink?!? Anywho, DH and the GC cleaned it up and we got over it. (I still think it's gross.)

I've heard stories of subs crapping into BATHTUBS which I find completely unacceptable. Seriously... if you don't do it in your own house, don't do it in someone else's! (And if you do that in your own house, well I don't want you working in my house.)

I get that everything can be cleaned and vented and we move on. But I find it very disrespectful that someone would treat a work site that way. It makes me question their work ethic and quality, if they think it's OK to defecate or urinate in someone's fixture and leave it there. Seriously, none of us would use our office like a toilet and expect someone else to clean it up. If people want to be treated with respect then they should behave respectfully.

My expectations for others matched my own high standards until I took an all expenses paid vacation in Tacoma courtesy of a rich uncle. All I expect is that things not be permanently damaged and are made right before the final walk-through.

JDS: I don't consider "don't crap in my tub or piss in my sink" to be high standards! Quite sub-standard, in fact. But now I'm curious about your fancy vacation! Sounds like a good story. :)

I would absolutely lose it over something like someone pissing all over my brand new bathroom that even I haven't pissed in yet.

I certainly would not be happy and especially after all you've gone through NJ.

While I agree that someone should have cleaned it up, if for no other reason than it would be easier to clean up at that time, I don't think this is a sub using the bathroom. Having grown up around construction workers I can tell you, while they may be blind to what typical people consider acceptable during construction, they generally try not to pee on their boots! Also just like everyone else they don't want to stand in a mess either, every construction worker I know would pee on your front yard before using that.

This just looks like a plumbing problem, which is a much bigger concern than someone peeing on your floor. A supply problem doesn't usually create a sewage backup.

As everyone else says, this is not the case of a worker using your toilet. Either it was a plumbing backup OR maybe the toilet got clogged and then someone went crazy with the plunger and didn't clean up the results.

Did the builder see THIS before you did and not clean it up? You stated that he saw the unflushed toilet but you didn't state whether he was aware of this mess which is definitely a different case. Maybe you stumbled upon this before he saw it or before he was able to get someone in to clean it.

Over the years, most every home I've built has seen this and worse from the trades and the trespassers. Certainly, from whatever source, the builder should have had his general labourer clean up.

When I was a real estate broker, I remember one house we showed where the prospects had to be warned to step over the human feces in the hall. But, heck, they did want to see the worst "fixer upper" I knew about!

Is there not a port-a-potty on site? We didn't build new, but did a gut renovation. We DIY'd the toilet installs ourselves after the GC+subs were done. Your experience makes me grateful our toilets weren't available to the crew.

We showed up on site one day and found that someone had freshly urinated against one of the foundation walls on the inside of the wall. We asked the GC to ask that they not do that and he put up a sign. Amusingly as I was doing this build remotely I had put a pair of web cams up (one on a tree on the edge of the site and one on an interior wall as soon as that was framed). Amusingly a few days later I got to listen to the masonry guy talking about how he got caught by the cameras taking a whiz but he knew where they all were now.

Amusingly that's not how we caught him and he seemed oblivious to the fact that the cameras also had audio feeds.

The GC thought the whole camera thing was a blast and wanted to know if I could help him set them up at other sites.

@JDS: now I understand your 'rich uncle' reference. And wow, what an experience. I had a challenging morning but I think I'm going to stop and count my blessings.

Just clean or have it cleaned and move on. It's just pee and poo.

Everyone, including your wife has copious amounts of both in their bodies right now.

I'm sure this was shocking to find, njbuilding. We had already heard stories like this so we REFUSED to install the toilet seats until we moved in (we bought our own). We feel lucky that we only had one errant pee stain to clean up.

How it got there is a moot point. The fact is that it disgusts you and, to an extent, is putting a damper on your excitement for your new home. Hire someone to come in to clean it and try to (no pun intended) wipe it from your mind.

JDS...my brother was 18 over there. Just 5 yrs older than my twin sons. Changed forever. You must have seemed like the old man. TY. Counting my blessings right now.

Our plumber had old toilets that he installs for every job...a temporary toilet that the workers could use. Ok by me. He knows they are not going to use the portapotty consistently. "Our" toilets were one of the last things to go in. Eleven yrs later, this is still the only company we use for our home and our business.

A little off topic for new construction but a true story that happened to my friend a earlier this year.

A co-worker was having a new roof installed on his home a couple of months ago. He was at work but his wife was home during the process and at some point during the day one of the workers needed to use the restroom so he asked my friend's wife if could use theirs. Being good-hearted she allowed him in to use it. A little bit later she was shocked to find a terrible smell when she went into the bathroom he used. Come to find out, after doing his business, instead of putting the used toilet paper in the toilet and flushing it (as is customary in this country), he deposited the used toilet paper in the decorative trash can in the bathroom (as was apparently customary in his native country where indoor plumbing isn't as common).

To say my friend and his wife were irate is a bit of an understatement. After a phone call to owner of the company he was offered a $3000 discount on the new roof and a cleaning service to come and clean the bathroom top to bottom. After a bit of back and forth I think the owner the company realized what PR nightmare this could turn into (and knowing my friend he wouldn't have an issue making the incident as public as possible) and offered to wave all charges for the new roof which my friend was happy to accept. Luckily, this was a legitimate roofer with a reputation to protect and a the sense to do the right thing.

Seems to me, a contractor doing work on an occupied house should NEVER ask to enter the customers home and use their restroom. It is just bad business practice. In the end, it ended up costing this roofer $15,000.

Jim, All I can say is wow! I've been in those other countries where the toilet paper is not put in the toilet. I, too, would find it unsettling, but understand it was an honest error on the part of the worker. The worker wasn't just obsertving a local custom, he was doing what in his home country had been a necessity to avoid plumbing issues. Whether he should have known better, I certainly cannot say since I have no idea whether someone might have "educated" him by this time.

While it was a mess I certainly wouldn't enjoy cleaning up after, I can't imagine demanding that kind of compensation.

Sheesh. I don't think Id consider that type of person a friend, Jim. $15,000 for being grossed out and throwing away a decorative wastebasket is unconsionable. The wife should have directed the worker to the nearest fast food restaurant. As a rule, I never let men in my house when my husband isnt home. Its was awkward to tell a sofa delivery guy and a landscape estimator no, but imo its just good policy and safer for everyone.

I agree, benjesbride - seemed like a bit of social media / blabbermouth extortion was at play here for $15K. The first offer of a reduction from the builder / roofer seemed more than fair...

The above is nothing short of extortion. Seriously, it is just crap, you live in it every day. Bird crap, insect crap, baby crap, dog crap, etc. Every living organism produces waste and many things in your house are more disgusting than pee or poop.

While I commend them for not wanting to play in it, demanding thousands of dollars of free stuff because someone put the wrong kind of waste in a waste basket is utterly ridiculous. It is a bathroom - unpretty stuff happens in there, eventually unpretty stuff will probably find its way into your waste basket, do yourself a favor and put a liner in your waste basket. You can then pick up the unpretty stuff, tie it off and throw it away, in bigger cans full of even more unpretty stuff.

On a side note - I assume some of you all are not parents. When my son was a baby every time we took off his diaper he would let lose with a stream of pee, right at me. I got peed on more than a fire hydrant, I was a rebel though and washed my clothes, cleaned off the furniture and kept my son. Maybe I should have thrown everything away and grabbed a stork to demand recompense. And let's not even talk about me having to wipe his backside when he was a baby.

Totally unconscionable that anyone would conduct themselves

and/or their business in the way of Jim's friend. or that anyone

would admire them for it.they may have won a free roof, but word travels

between trades people.