Our cleaner wont use budget cleaning products!

MrsE_2

embb wrote: »

Do you not think an experienced cleaner isn 't going to notice that the bottle of Flash smells and performs like that cheap rubbish from before?

Deary me, cheap products don't perform well, I'm a cleaner with a big customer base and know what I'm talking about, you use more, you spend more time cleaning with it which leaves less time for cleaning other things, buy decent products and you will get a decent job, a happy cleaner who will go that extra mile, and a sparkling home.

I like Cif sprays (the fizzy green one for the kitchen & the white one for the bathroom). I think good quality products are no more expensive in the long run.

rozmister

I agree with Maysie go to Poundland! The stock isn't always in so when you see a product your cleaner will use every week (Cif bathroom cleaner or something) buy 3 to stockpile. It's still only 3 quid and will last absolutely ages!!

Also don't call your cleaner a 'cow'. I work in a customer focused role in retail & try really hard and it really pees me off when people speak to me or about me (within earshot) like that. Just because you do a job that is socially deemed as being lowly doesn't mean you should be treated with no respect. We're all humans at the end of the day!

themull1

Just write 'no' on a note and leave it next to the cheap cleaning products....

G51shopaholic

Cheap products don't work - how dirty is the house when she comes to clean?

Maybe you or one of your flatemates try cleaning the place yourself!

Desperado99

nuno wrote: »

we stocked up on cleaning products from lidl and pound stretcher etc only to find a snotty note left last week saying the products we've left for her "aren't good enough" and could we buy "proper cleaning products" for next week

I wouldn't buy more until the cleaning products you have, have run out.

BTW, I'm a cleaner, I buy all my cleaning products and claim it back on expenses - lots of BOGOFs and stuff on offer, but it's up to you what they use, it's your house.

sueeve

How easy is it for you to find a cleaner in your area, one that wants to do the job properly? That may well affect your response, because she won't stay if she find it harder than it should be.
I have changed onto 'better quality' cleaning material, and I do think that they are often just that. Why not buy one batch for her and try using them yourself. You may be surprised. I found bleach especially was very different, and I need far less.

ladymarmalade1970

I used to charge £10 or £12 per hour in 1996 - 98 and would expect to pay around £20 per hour now for a professional cleaner.
It's hard work but very satisfying.
If i could find a decent cleaner now for a tenner an hour i would snap them up!

Nicki

ladymarmalade1970 wrote: »

I used to charge £10 or £12 per hour in 1996 - 98 and would expect to pay around £20 per hour now for a professional cleaner.
It's hard work but very satisfying.
If i could find a decent cleaner now for a tenner an hour i would snap them up!

Where on earth do you live? As I said in my previous post, even in central London, that is double the going rate. I have used agencies and employed people privately. They have varied in quality, but their rates have all been the same. With the agency cleaners, the agency has set the rate.

£20 per hour is more than you would pay a qualified nanny, and more than a lot of professionals with degrees and on the job experience will get. It works out at around £70k a year if the cleaner works a full week. Do you seriously know any cleaners who earn anything like that kind of money??

ETA just had a quick google in case I'm massively exploiting my current cleaner and every one I found had rates in line with this one

http://www.london-domestic-cleaners.co.uk/domestic-cleaning-rates.php

notechno

£70k per annum? Hardly.....
Assuming you could get straight from one cleaning job to another (which you probably can't) so assuming you'd work around 35hrs per wk, that would be £700 per wk, which would be £36k per yr - if you could manage to work all those hours and have not holidays whatsoever. To get your figures you'd have to spend pretty much every waking hr 24-7 all year working and travelling from job to job to get that

Doom_and_Gloom

G51shopaholic wrote: »

Cheap products don't work - how dirty is the house when she comes to clean?

Maybe you or one of your flatemates try cleaning the place yourself!

Cheap products can and usually do work.
Cheap and good cleaners

• vinegar
• bicarbonate of soda
• lemon juice
• stardrops

With the above you should be able to clean just about everything in the average house. If you wanted to you could add bleach to the list as well. None of them are expencive but all are very good cleaning products.

As for the person that said £20 an hour for a cleaner :eek:. Most cleaners get just over minimum wage here in the SE. The most you can see yourself paying for one is £12 ish (maybe a bit more but no where near £20!) but that will be through an agency.