Our cleaner wont use budget cleaning products!

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meritaten wrote: »

£17 an hour??????????? My OH doesnt get that after 25 years and god knows how many promotions!
I didnt get that as a Student Support Tutor!
When I think that my last job was a killer (nearly did me in - trying to lift 36in Tvs off the top shelf of the stock room) and being nice to nasty customers) for less than £6 an hour! I couldve been a cleaner and got nearly three times as much - and dictated terms!

It's about shortages of jobs... You know, demand and people not wanting to do it and stuff!
Though £17 is only throu an agency here...

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hart44 wrote: »

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

Henry is no good for high pile expensive carpet though...
I have both, but if you use Henry in my bedroom you would kill it within few years.

Kimberley82

I used to be a cleaner and HATE Henerys

aeb_2

Perhaps she decants them into her bottles to take home and only wants the good stuff - only joking
I use Cif for everything because the supermarket equivalent just aren't as good - but if anyone knows better I'll I might have another try as it's a couple of years since I bought one.

dundeedoll_2

I am also a cleaner and totally agree with embb's post, although I do have to sat that I use Lidl's bathroom cleaner as it is brilliant - fabulous for greasy kitchen tiles and stainless steel greasy cooker hoods.

1 thing I have discovered is brilliant for watermarked showerscreens - Dettol multi purpose the green 1, apple?

I don't actually use a lot of products...........windows done with micro fibre cloth and chamois leather............damp dust with very very well wrung out chamois leather (Mostly very precious antique furniture) NO polish. Baby oil on steel etc etc

The Henry at 1 of the places I work at is useless and I hate it!

FATBALLZ

I work on a computer, and need a fast one to be productive. If I was doing a job where a set result was expected (in the way a cleaner does), and you gave me a !!!!! 10 year old laptop from a jumble sale, I'd charge you many multiples more for the extra amount of time it took to complete the job.

Same principle applies here. Give her decent stuff, not useless student crap.

vesper

I personally would buy the branded cleaning products, but it depends on how messy your rooms are. I clean for a Sports Club and need the extra bit of umph the branded products are and actually work out cheaper in the long run as they last longer. Shop around and get them on BOGOF. The only item I get non-'branded' of is Table Pollish as get one from Home Bargains which is far better than any branded one I have used, defintely for getting sticky beer off a table.
I also use Microfiber clothes and bleach/wash them as last so much longer than J-clothes.
But cheaper products are perfectly ok for somewhere that is less messy. Maybe its just because I am constantly battling beer stains and mud.
Oh another one for Henrys here, though mine is a Charles. Love it and far better than the Dyson that my work place also has.

diable

meritaten wrote: »

£17 an hour??????????? My OH doesnt get that after 25 years and god knows how many promotions!
I didnt get that as a Student Support Tutor!
When I think that my last job was a killer (nearly did me in - trying to lift 36in Tvs off the top shelf of the stock room) and being nice to nasty customers) for less than £6 an hour! I couldve been a cleaner and got nearly three times as much - and dictated terms!

London thats why but I know a cleaner who gets her travel time to Colchester and back again as the family have used her for years before moving from Kensington.

anguk

I'm sorry but in my house it would be cleaned with products that I wanted. Not that I could afford a cleaner though.

How many people on here have jobs where they can dictate to their employers the type of things they want to use?

blabberwort

I dont think she's being cheeky at all. Lets be honest and realistic here, in any workplace wouldnt you want the best product to enable you to do a better more thorough job? I know I would, and so why should a home cleaner be any different.
Cleaning your own home yourself with cheap products is fine (in fact Im more than happy to buy budget disinfectant etc) but thats the point. You are the one cleaning your home, if however your going to the expense of employing someone to do it for you surely it's not to much for them to ask for better products to enable them to manage their time better and give (they feel) a better finish to the job.

If I had a cleaner i'd rather have one who wanted better products, as to me it shows they take pride in their work and arent happy to use any old thing just because it's cheap.