Does anyone else run around like a scalded cat before the cleaner comes?

Please can you send her and Mr J here when convenient?

I’m having the house deep cleaned next week, lovely girl who I’ve known for years, it’ll beat my token gestures. She’ll do all the bits I dislike doing, what used to be known as a Spring clean. Very little tidying needed, if any, we hate clutter.
If MrJ is not working he helps, during lockdowns it was shared, but he does all the ironing, working or not

No!

Possibly your wife Rameses?

I’ve never had a cleaner but have recently moved in with my daughters and they’ve always had cleaners ( they both have the same one so she’s just doing the same hours in one house) She’s great and we do tidy up the days before she comes and I still do my own ironing . It’s fab not to have to clean the bathroom which I’ve always hated

What is a cleaner??

Don't have a cleaner now but when I did I used to make sure floors were clear and nothing other than the basic stuff on surfaces. Much easier for a cleaner to actually clean if no clutter to sort out.

If you are paying someone that much to clean leave it to them to do....don't lift a finger before they come.

Sorry , I know this isn’t the thread to post this but can any one help ? I’ve suddenly stopped receiving emails from gransnet. Any ideas ?

Whilst I’m happy to tidy up before my cleaner comes I would not keep one who didn’t do the job properly - I would find that far too frustrating. I have to say too, that with the amount mine is charging I do expect her to clean non-stop. My last cleaner (long, long ago) was hugely efficient so I paid her slightly above the going rate to reflect that and always encouraged her to have a cuppa ‘on the go’, but the rate charged by this one is so high that my expectations are equally high.

Does not affect me as I do it myself.

Only a little otherwise what's the point of paying her

I tidy up so she can concentrate on cleaning. She can whizz through the jobs and get more done in the time if a bit of tidying up is done beforehand.

Germanshepherdsmum

I don’t have a cleaner but I’m sure I would clean before she came. Otherwise she might gossip about me to her other clients.?

I used to be a cleaner. None of my clients knew of the existence of the others! I appreciated the tidy houses because then I could just get on with cleaning, but I preferred to clean dirty houses so that I (and the client) could see a difference.

The cleaners where I live charge 10 pound an hour SE

I don’t have a cleaner, but I think I’d also be tidying up a bit before she came the night before, as I suppose there would be an element of me thinking oh I don’t want her to think I’m messy ??

If only I had a cleaner !
I would guess it's easier to do some of it, then let the cleaner do the jobs you hate or can no longer cope with!

I am getting to the point where I will probably need a cleaner and I am sure I would go into scalded cat mode prior to their visit. My mother used to help me out when I started back to work when my boys were 8 and 10. I remember clearly rushing around to make things presentable and often doing a huge pile of ironing despite my mother saying ‘Leave all the ironing, I’ll do it.’

My cleaner comes fortnightly. I tidy so floor and surfaces are possible to clean.

When our 3 children were young and I was working full time I thought a cleaner would be a boon, and she was. But the night before she was due I'd coax, bully or bribe the kids to tidy their rooms, which they could do in a flash, suspiciously fast in fact. Roll on 25 years, children left home and house sold for our downsizing. The last place to clear out was the loft where I had scarcely ever visited before. And behold! Horror of horrors and lots of self-blame....a dozen or more cardboard boxes full of jumbled long-forgotten kids' bedroom stuff!

Years ago I used an agency, one girl kept bringing her child, one I set little traps for, to see if she actually moved anything, she failed. Then they sent me two at a time, they didn’t realise my teenage daughter was at home once, turned up late, left early and watched a lot of television.
Eventually they sent me a lady they had just employed, and she was a marvel, we had a very happy relationship/friendship for about ten years till I’ll health forced her to retire.
In you get a good one, you’re very lucky.

We had a cleaner when I worked full time and she was a local lady brilliant job .But she stopped working due to ill health.We tried several others did a terrible job .
We moved to a bungalow with a huge tiled kitchen diner and utility got a cleaner as couldn't manage it .She didn't clean the floors just hoovered the living room etc and ate our biscuits in the kitchen ! So struggle by doing it myself now

Jocork
My twelve year old granddaughter is exactly the same, she hates her stuff being moved.
She moves all my stuff around as well, to where she obviously thinks is better, I just move it back.

I wouldn't want a cleaner for that very reason. I'd be way too embarrassed by what they would find.
When I was a teenager my mum employed a cleaner. Every week she rearranged things in my bedroom so on 'cleaner day' I would race home from school to put everything back. I hated her! It wasn't that she randomly moved things, but my ornaments and bits and bobs were always moved to what she obviously thought were better places - always the same ones! It still makes me furious to think about it all these years on!

I tidy up. My cleaner comes for two hours a week and I want her to clean surfaces, not put away things. In those two hours she cleans my sitting room, kitchen, stairs and bathroom. I’d love to tell her to leave her phone in her handbag as she seems to spend half an hour on the phone and another half an hour in the loo! When I tell her to please make sure she cleans the basin plug hole, it has a trap that collects gunk) I get told, “I’m only here for two hours!”. My house is tiny, btw and I have myself cleaned for a while between jobs.