Our cleaner wont use budget cleaning products!

Sweet_Pea_2

Surely you are employing her not the other way around?!
I have heard of this before though, usually in areas where cleaners are hard to come by, so they know their demands will be met and they will need to use less elbow grease as all the cillit bang toxic chemicals will do it for them whilst they have a coffee and put their feet up!

I use Aldi cleaners, and Sainsburys value products and my house is spotless. If a cleaner requested more expensive products I'd change the cleaner and not the products.

outofmoney

My Mum is a cleaner (has several customers) and just uses what is available. Her biggest moan is all the people that have gone out and bought Dysons thinking she will be very happy. In actual fact when they are not about she smuggles a Henry in

LittleMissAspie

How rude. If I had a cleaner I wouldn't supply them with branded cleaners because they all come from companies that test on animals.

katholicos

I don't think you are justified in referrring to her as a 'cheeky cow' just because she has requested better quality cleaning products. Maybe you could have a face to face conversation at a mutually convenient time, or alternatively, a phone conversation and ask her what (for her) is the difference is between value and more expensive cleaning products...she may have a good reason, for example, it may take twice as long to do her work when using cheaper/possibly inferior products, and that may impact on her work in other peoples homes.

If, however, she is just being a snob, i'd decant the products, as suggested by others....she will most likely notice, but perhaps would hesitate to bring this up with you.

ragz_2

I'm a little confused how you can justify the cost of a cleaner then moan about an extra few quid for decent products? If she's been using them for ages and you suddenly changed without consulting her (and she's the one doing the cleaning) I'd say she has every right to moan.

embb

Just to make things clear I use whatever my customers get for me to use, but after 3 yrs of using most cleaning products the value stuff doesn't perform as well I've found and no good if you're on a time scale (needs to be cleaned more than once) and have to clean 3 houses that day, actually Cillit Bang I personally don't like, but I use it if they've bought it, Flash is my personal favourite but I wouldn't demand my customers buy it :eek: Also there's a difference between cheap 'good' products and cheap 'carpy' ones.

I love a Dyson if it's working properly, a nightmare when they're not, I keep my Henry in the boot if they've got a broken hoover or lots of wooden floors. Don't get me started on mops

fawd1

maybe it's because some (and I'm not saying all, so no one jump down my throat) but some of the cheap brands are cheap because they are rubbish??? In all fairness to her, it could be that to get the work done using the products you want would take her a lot longer, so she would have to charge you extra time every single time she came round. Just playing devils advocate, although I agree that vinegar cuts grease like no one's business, just makes your room smell like a chippy!

meritaten

just leave her a bottle of stardrops and some bicarb and vinegar and tell her that they have the full endorsement of thousands of VERY experienced housewives/househusbands and cleaners on MSE! and suggest she might learn a few tips from Kim and Aggie (I can honestly say I havent seen them use a branded product on 'How Clean is Your House'!

withabix

I hope all you people who are suggesting the illegal (Health & Safety at Work Act) action of decanting cleaning fluids into the wrong bottles have also carried out COSHH assessments for the cleaner you are employing....

hart44

outofmoney wrote: »

My Mum is a cleaner (has several customers) and just uses what is available. Her biggest moan is all the people that have gone out and bought Dysons thinking she will be very happy. In actual fact when they are not about she smuggles a Henry in

Im the same I take my Henry with me as I hate Dysons they are a pain to empty as well