[Hurricane]

I've searched for posts on crate training and house breaking,and found a little bit of help, but I have some more specific questions.

Hubby was totally against crate training, so we now have to replace the carpet before we sell the house and move in 6 months. Our only hope is that Oxy Clean will take up the stains. Hubby still will not allow me to buy a crate. Hurricane has made my bathroom his "den". We were both working, so Hurricane got into the habit of going wherever he happened to be standing when the need strikes. As a last resort, hubby was working nights and I was tired of cleaning the carpet every single day, so when I went to bed and couldn't watch the puppy, I closed the bathroom door. In 3 days, I noticed a dramatic difference! But, it's not all better. Hurricane still claims the bathroom as his, and I'm not using it for punishment. I will close him in there when I go to sleep, or leave the house, or am so busy with whatever that I can't watch him. But, we still have accidents. He will start to pee on the carpet, so I say "no" and he quits. I take him outside, but he won't ever finish peeing. He just sits down in the grass and chills. He's already done this twice this morning. He can sleep through the night without any fuss. The alarm clock goes off around 5 AM, then hubby hits snooze. Hurricane knows what the alarm means, so he gets whiny if hubby keeps hitting snooze. Hubby is proving much harder to train than the dog. ;-) But these accidents are putting me at my wits end. Sometmes, I know I need to take the puppy out because he starts sniffing around suspiciously. But, 9 times out of 10, he doesn't. He'll just be walking along and just stop and pee. The poopy accidents have quit altogether, I'm happy to say. I wish hubby would allow me to buy a real crate. I put water in with Hurricane, but no food. How can I get him to quit peeing on the carpet? I don't want to lock him in the bathroom except for playtime and potty time. BTW, I'm eagerly awaiting my idiot's guide!

PS-my older dog is so "well trained" that we went away overnight. Left on a Saturday morning and came home Sunday night, and he held it the entire time. He had run of the house, too.