Cleaners

gabyjane

Hi thanks for the replies.

I just do things differently i guess and find it hard to adapt maybe?! I do a room and do it top to bottom and she is not i guess so me being anal maybe?!..she has just text me asking about the floor..i have gone up and it has not improved at all..hope it is just water and dries ok but not happy..my lovely cream carpet ahhhh

Fang_3

gabyjane wrote: »

Update..well one came today i asked for a general clean round, things i deff wanted doing were the kitchen, the bathroom, the floors hoovering, deff possible in 2 hours. Got home and the kitchen was in the same state as it was when i left. The halls have been hoovered but a note left to say sorry but she had spilt water on the hall upstairs..i hope to god it comes out as looks awful..she 'hopes' it has no bleach in it?..the rest so so but looks the same.
Maybe it's me but i do far far more and you can tell i have been in once you get home (or so people tell me!) And a little niggle is she moves everything, some not back where it balongs but mostly just leaves it all out, like the bin is miles away from the wall, the toaster kettle etc all in the middle of the worktop so i have to go round putting everything back..is that me or would that bug anyone else?!
Hmm...

If I were you she wouldn't be coming back.

samandona

OP. I dont mean to be rude but you say you are working part time hours, 5 days a week.

When you are a cleaner yourself - and a very good one by the sounds of it - why an EARTH are you paying someone else to clean your home? My brother is an architect and works 60-70 hours a week, every week. He has spent the last 5 years re-landscaping his house and garden and would never have dreamt of paying anyone else to do a job he is more than capable of doing.

You are clearly unhappy with the service these 'cleaners' are providing, so why are they still employed?

Fang_3

samandona wrote: »

OP. I dont mean to be rude but you say you are working part time hours, 5 days a week.

When you are a cleaner yourself - and a very good one by the sounds of it - why an EARTH are you paying someone else to clean your home? My brother is an architect and works 60-70 hours a week, every week. He has spent the last 5 years re-landscaping his house and garden and would never have dreamt of paying anyone else to do a job he is more than capable of doing.

You are clearly unhappy with the service these 'cleaners' are providing, so why are they still employed?

Did you miss the part of the OP where she mentions her other, full time job with long hours?

joolsybools

Just typed a long reply and lost it, darned internet connection!

Your cleaners are lazy chancers by the sounds of it. And most people would know whether or not they or their colleague had put bleach in the water.

Be done with it: sack them (life is too short) and as someone else suggested get someone else on recommendation - just hope it's not you x

ETA: and be VERY clear in the first instance what your expectations are. Good luck

Emma37

Op, have you thought of starting your own business as a cleaner? If you did that, and perhaps also had a couple of people working for you, I'm sure you'd find that better than your present situation. You sound an excellent cleaner, so why work for someone else when you could be your own boss. You possibly could get a government grant to help you start up. I think that's what I'd do in your position.

Make-it-3

Good cleaners are anal about cleaning and I've never heard of a good cleaner having anyone else in to do their own house. I suspect you will find it difficult to find someone to match your standards.

gabyjane

Hi i will try and answer everyones posts in one and let you know a decision i have come to.!

Fang this is what i have decided i will explain why below!

samandona as someone else has pointed out i do work full time too in another job. I clean 6-8am for a co then start again self employed 8-30-6pm 5 days per week as a childminder..i also do alternate saturdays cleaning a friends house which is where i have just returned from!

joolsybools thanks..i always leave a presice note of what i want doing and what they can leave so they know what to do..seems not which i will explain below.

Emma37 good idea if i didn't already have tons of work but am busy with the children and loads of other stuff..if i ever get quiet i tend to clean for others which is why i was at my friends today as an old job i used to have that has stuck.

Make-it-3 i agree..i am picky but tbh i am suprised they cannot cope with what i give them?

Today i cleaned for my friend..lets just say her house when i started was a take off from how clean is your house! she is very busy though so i went with it but can take me an hour+ just to clean the kitchen drainer it is that bad..without going into details today was my turning point as she had left it roughly 5 weeks since i last went (as was giving it up so not been back..long story!) today it took me 4 hours to do the basics..i decided enough was enough and have decided to get rid of my cleaners and give up the sat job with my friend and just clean my own house to the standards that i like. We have a new house and tbh although 3 years old it is kept immaculate aside from the kids making it messy during the day i redecorate lots and always make sure it is like when we moved in. Last night i went to the loo upstairs and hadn't been in there since the cleaner had been..i looked out of the corner of my eye and she hadn't done the bath..then i checked a shelf we had in there and again dusty as..the room hadn't been done which annoyed me even more due to the water as not sure what it was used for.
Could go on but i won't that's it..no more work sats and cleaning for me again but feel better for deciding on this!

Thanks for the replys again xx

freakyogre

Well I hate to say I told you so but...:p I knew you were too anal to let anyone clean your house but you, so it's all for the best. I will be inspecting skirting boards when I next visit.

Now, do you mind popping over to mine and giving it a quick once over? I'm struggling a bit pushing my hoover round on crutches

misgrace

Make-it-3 wrote: »

Good cleaners are anal about cleaning and I've never heard of a good cleaner having anyone else in to do their own house. I suspect you will find it difficult to find someone to match your standards.

Lol, same as decorators I decorate for a living, but I would never have anyone in to do mine, I am the most fussiest person when it comes to decorating for others, and am like it with my own decorating at home.

Going back to the spilled water, bleach?, cant you sniff it where she spilled it, even if its a little bleach in with the water, you would be able to smell it still.