Finding a home help

I think if you explain all of the above the right person will understand. I go to one lady where I only clean bathrooms and hoover/mop floors using dog friendly cleaner, she can manage dusting, making beds herself.
Another lady has a certain way she likes the bed making and we do it together then she leaves me to do rest of the cleaning.
I clean some very old houses and some new builds but always check with customers about which products to use before I begin.
Good luck with the lady you have coming, I'm sure if you explain all will be well 😀

I always provide all cleaning materials.
Sounds like you might've overthinking the potential situation. Maybe it won't be exactly how you envisaged it but over time and as you build a relationship with thus person I'm sure all will be well.

gentleshores

Allira

It sounds like it might be me that's the problem then. I'm finding it hard having someone in the house doing things when I've always had my own way of doing things.

I know just how you feel.

Thank you

So far I've resisted but I think the answer for us is to get someone in to thoroughly clean the whole place every so often as and when rather than someone weekly.

First we need to declutter and get rid of stuff that is in piles ready to dispose of!

Yes that is the problem - too much clutter here. I need someone to help me clear the clutter as well as clean the odd thing!

Fingers crossed for the other one on Monday. But that's two people in who have cleaned something so far and neither of them cleaned anything properly! And the last one stressed me out and was rude. And I'm paying for it!

Ziggy62

I think if you explain all of the above the right person will understand. I go to one lady where I only clean bathrooms and hoover/mop floors using dog friendly cleaner, she can manage dusting, making beds herself.
Another lady has a certain way she likes the bed making and we do it together then she leaves me to do rest of the cleaning.
I clean some very old houses and some new builds but always check with customers about which products to use before I begin.
Good luck with the lady you have coming, I'm sure if you explain all will be well 😀

Thank you! I did tell her all that - lots of chat by text first and then when she first arrived, over a cup of tea. She said she would do whatever I wanted and to suit my needs. And did the opposite.

You have to give the poor cleaner time. She's a person not some machine that does exactly what you want. You'll have to adjust your expectations or you'll never find what you're looking for.

gentleshores

Yes that is the problem - too much clutter here. I need someone to help me clear the clutter as well as clean the odd thing!

Fingers crossed for the other one on Monday. But that's two people in who have cleaned something so far and neither of them cleaned anything properly! And the last one stressed me out and was rude. And I'm paying for it!

My cleaner person does organising for me, too.
She will go through piles of paperwork, and sort them into some sort of order for me.

She's better at that than cleaning, actually.

Allira
You need me. Mr L jokes that he’s frightened to stand around too long incase he’s chucked out 😂
I’ve realised this is why I sort in a charity shop, I luuuv sorting stuff 😂

petra

Allira
You need me. Mr L jokes that he’s frightened to stand around too long incase he’s chucked out 😂
I’ve realised this is why I sort in a charity shop, I luuuv sorting stuff 😂

You must be my mother's child, perhaps we were accidentally swapped at birth!!