Paying to use the toilet.

Tail Docker

I got a text a few hours ago from a client - blocked public toilet, send someone first thing tomorrow. That will cost them, they don't charge for its use, so it's dead money for them. If it was my jax, I'd charge people to use it. Toilets block, break, need cleaning, paper, need complete overhauls costing tens of thousands. And now, water costs too... so why not charge? Also, 20c is really not that big a deal.

Irish Steve

OK, point in passing, businesses are already paying water charges, they have been for some time, along with rates, and other charges that they have to cover somehow, there's no such thing as a free lunch, or a free piss.

We might not like it, the "entitlement/free" mentality has to change, it's one of the reasons that the country ended up with the debt mountain that it did, too many things that should have been paid for that became "free", often to win votes (don't get me started on that subject) with the result that money was spent in all manner of areas that were totally inappropriate,

FizzleSticks

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Snake

FizzleSticks wrote: »

I would happily pay. I think anyone who has to clean up anything that should be in a toilet from the wall or floor should be paid very well.

Or perhaps people should be properly trained to use the ****ing toilet.

Macavity.

It's commonplace in mainland Europe.

JupiterKid

In Holland and other Continental European countries, paying to use toilet facilities is the norm. I'd have no problem paying a small amount to use a toilet given the maintenance the facility requires.

Snake

JupiterKid wrote: »

In Holland and other Continental European countries, paying to use toilet facilities is the norm. I'd have no problem paying a small amount to use a toilet given the maintenance the facility requires.

In Spain the legal age of consent is 13, should be adopt that here too? Since we're obviously in need of following everything our European counterparts do. The toilets in Ireland are disgraceful. Even a lot of hotels are manky. Why should we have to pay for the service when the managers of the service don't give a crap

Bipolar Joe

GrayFox208 wrote: »

In Spain the legal age of consent is 13, should be adopt that here too? Since we're obviously in need of following everything our European counterparts do. The toilets in Ireland are disgraceful. Even a lot of hotels are manky. Why should we have to pay for the service when the managers of the service don't give a crap

What? Who was talking about marrying kids? This is a conversation about needing a 20c coin for the privilege of having a shit. I can't think of anything farther away from what you just posted.

Deranged96

it's far from toilets I was raised... and the thought of paying for it :O
Just take a sh*it into a tesco bag (plucked off the street, not paid for), wrap it up tight and bring it home for rectal recreational family fun

peejay1986

It's only an annoyance for me because I rarely have cash on me. Apart from that I'm happy to pay for the use of clean toilets.

its me_330

Every public toilet in cork expect pubs and restaurants that I have used have a 20cent slot on the door. I jst wait for someone to come out and go in for nothin😄 Call me a cheap skate if ye want but im not goin to pay unless im really caught short�🙌😆

Jesus Wept

If they are going to charge me and the place isn't in great nick, I am going to get my money's worth and piss all over the place.

Tarzana

is mise spartacus wrote: »

I presume it's for maintenance.

Which makes it maddening when you've to pay and the toilets turn out to be filthy. :mad:

Strawwwbreeezz wrote: »

Paid toilets are usually cleaner because they have an attendant.

I wish this were true. But I have not found this to be the case at all. Free loos are often cleaner.

Pablodreamsofnew

I charge 50 cent for visitors to use my toilet. What's wrong with that?

Pablodreamsofnew

whirlpool wrote: »

It's the same in Eyre Square shopping centre in Galway.

I would guess it's to help prevent the place getting vandalised but also to make money.

I miss Galway!

Pablodreamsofnew

mikemac1 wrote: »

The wise Galwegian who appreciates luxury knows you can walk though the Radisson carpark to the toilets for the lobby

You will not meet a single staff member

I Love this

whisky_galore

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

which just proves that "normal" people are absolute cretins aswell. So many toilets in places I've worked in have been absolute ****holes. If people cant even the lift the seat or otherwise not foul all over a toilet they know they'll be using regularly I don't know what hope there is.

Or break locks on doors, break the bog roll holder, break off coat hanger and write 'words of wisdom' on the walls. Some people are just animals when they use a bog that's not their own.

Chinasea

Hootanany wrote: »

We pay for this service in our taxes reduce tax then i will be happy with this service withdrawn.

How's that then seeing as there are none?. Want everything for free, begrudge paying towards sevices and expect everything to be magic'd in. This attitude has assisted bankrupting the country.

Chinasea

Hootanany wrote: »

We pay for this service in our taxes reduce tax then i will be happy with this service withdrawn.

How's that then seeing as there are none?. Want everything for free, begrudge paying towards sevices and expect everything to be magic'd in. This attitude has assisted bankrupting the country.

Frank Lee Midere

The fact that you "pay your taxes" doesn't stop local government from charging for use - like a car park. Otherwise car owners are subsidised by everybody else.

With public toilets the only way it will work is to charge because you need to keep a lot of people away. Imagine a loo on Talbot street. Since people won't treat free toilets well, and complain about damaged public toilets the best thing is not to do them. Plenty around in private businesses which can charge or not. Up to them.

Kimbot

Im actually suprised by this thread, that charge has been in place now in Stephens Green for at least 13+ years now.

Rathfarnham shopping centre used to charge aswell, you put your money in the slot and the door opens.

There are numerous places around the country that charge so I just simply move on to a toilet that doesnt charge haha

shruikan2553

Some of the replies about entitlement and ruining the country are hilarious. Its a ****ing toilet. Not a free car for everyone with coke and hookers.

darkpagandeath

Chinasea wrote: »

How's that then seeing as there are none?. Want everything for free, begrudge paying towards sevices and expect everything to be magic'd in. This attitude has assisted bankrupting the country.

We are paying for them now Via property tax. We were told this would be spent on local services. But oh wait it just goes into 1 giant pot again.

phasers

The Brown Thomas bathrooms are free and they have tellys in the walls.

ebbsy

I remember in Germany paying 50c or 1 euro for the jacks. They had security and were spotless.

Then again I would'nt fancy getting a baton across the head either.

Red Pepper

Dublin is shockingly poor for public toilets.

unseenfootage

Library toilet's in Galway are free plus you can always take a novel to read but I wouldn't recommend it.

Red Pepper

mikemac1 wrote: »

The wise Galwegian who appreciates luxury knows you can walk though the Radisson carpark to the toilets for the lobby

You will not meet a single staff member

A wiser Galwegian will walk straight in the front door and smile like they own the place and then proceed to test their sewage pipes to the max!

Drakares

Strawwwbreeezz wrote: »

Refusing to pay to use a private toilet on private property??? Freeman bullšhīt.

Paid toilets are usually cleaner because they have an attendant.

It's the norm in Germany and The Netherlands.

Is it? I have been living here over a year and I have never payed to use a public toilet.

unseenfootage

Drakares wrote: »

Is it? I have been living here over a year and I have never payed to use a public toilet.

You should get out of your house more often.

Tarzana

shruikan2553 wrote: »

Some of the replies about entitlement and ruining the country are hilarious. Its a ****ing toilet. Not a free car for everyone with coke and hookers.

Agreed. Loos are one thing I don't think you should need to pay for. Especially as paying ones tends to be filthy.

Also, would people get over Germany already? :pac:

chellyry

OSI wrote: »

The toilets mentioned are all in shopping centres. Where people go to spend money in shops that pay rent and maintenance fees. Do you go to a restaurant and expect to have to pay to use a toilet there to?

You don't tend to walk into a restaurant, use the toilet and walk straight out again, as many people do in shopping centres (Some people do this anyway though - I know). The maintenance fee for the toilets would be included in the bill in a restaurant. When you use the toilet in a shopping centre you haven't necessarily bought something in one of the shops.

I completely agree with charging a small fee to use the toilets. It costs money to supply them with toilet roll, soap etc. and in Arthurs Quay in Limerick there is an attendant there most of the time. She needs to be paid too, and in fairness to her as public toilets go they're quite clean. 20c isn't going to break the bank.

Fred Swanson

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chellyry

OSI wrote: »

The maintenance fee for the toilets in the shopping would be included in your purchase price, part of which goes to rent and maintenance.

But you haven't necessarily bought anything in the shopping centre, particularly if it's in the city centre. I can only really speak of the one in Limerick, but if you didn't have to pay for that one a lot of people would just stroll in use it and leave again, without buying anything in the any of the shops there. How is it funded then? 20c each isn't that much to us but for the amount of people that use it, it pays for keeping it clean and well kept.

ebbsy

Drakares wrote: »

Is it? I have been living here over a year and I have never payed to use a public toilet.

It is