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Do cleaners not do dishes?

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Fifi00 · 13/02/2023 13:47

My new cleaners seem a bit rubbish. I clean the loo , move clothes, I had already hoovered a couple of days ago and gave everything a proper scrub/mop there wasn't much for them to do but DD and DH had left breakfast dishes in the sink. The dishes were untouched and the cleaners left 30 mins early. I pay for 2 hours a week , 2 cleaners so 1 hour. Is washing some dishes and cleaning the sink really unacceptable?

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WednesdaysPlaits · 13/02/2023 13:51

Mine does. You generally have to ask them though. I've told mine to clean each room throughly as if it was her own house and so that includes putting away dry dishes, washing anything in the sink or loading the dishwasher and putting it on, putting away the multipack of crisps that Ds has left on the worktop etc.

MeMyCatsAndMyBooks · 13/02/2023 13:50

No, dishes is usually a extra you have to pay for if they provide it. Most don't.

icefishing · 13/02/2023 13:50

The cleaners we have had over the years have always done dishes.
There usually aren't any but sometimes the odd plate or glass is found and they have always been washed up.

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Fifi00 · 13/02/2023 13:50

dollymixtured · 13/02/2023 13:49

Of course they don’t do your dishes!

Why? Everything is already cleaned and there's 30 minutes left which I'm paying for ?!

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olympicsrock · 13/02/2023 13:50

In my experience cleaners do not expect to do the dishes and would just move them to clean the sink ( although if just a few bits they would do them).

I think it was a bit disrespectful to have expected them to do the dishes.

Ohdearnamechange · 13/02/2023 13:50

Mine does. Why not??

Silverribbons · 13/02/2023 13:50

I wouldn't expect my cleaner to do dishes unless I expressly asked her to. But I also wouldn't clean the loo (unless of course it was visibly gross), hoover or scrub and mop before she came. What's the point in having a cleaner?

dollymixtured · 13/02/2023 13:49

Of course they don’t do your dishes!