To have said this to my cleaner?

I disagree - it’s clear from the tone of the OP’s posts that she has a superior attitude and is also somewhat lacking in self-awareness.

The fact that none of your friends will give you the numbers of their cleaners tells me all I need to know.

all my friends that have cleaners tell me they are too busy and won't give me their numbers

I know someone who treats her cleaners terribly. They always either quit or she fires them. She talks to them like dirt on her shoe. She also always asks the rest of us for our cleaners numbers and we would never, ever pass our cleaners numbers to her.

I fear that is what is happening here.

I can’t get past the fact that your cat lies on top of the utility room wall cupboards vomiting and this seems not to be a big thing. You know the vomit/cat juice almost certainly spatters on top of the cupboard too, and even seeps down inside the cupboard where the door join is? This is really gross.

The cupboard needs to have everything removed from it & to be cleaned inside with a bleach spray - no wonder the cleaner did not do it! Just wiping the outside is not enough!

I would be prioritising (a) stopping the cat getting on the cupboard by blocking access and (b) brushing the cat daily and giving it anti-hairball treats - rather than complaining about the cleaner. Cats do vomit, mine did a couple of weeks ago, thankfully not in or on a cupboard, but it’s not a good sign and cat owners should look at the cause as well as cleaning up.

Interesting, ive never had a cleaner and wouldnt want one either.

But makes me wonder what you can expect a cleaner to "clean" I wouldnt have thought a bit of cat sick would be out of bounds.

I think I agree with this to some extent. My cleaner is lovely. Some weeks she is a bit flakey and cancels. She charges by the hour and if she runs out of time to do something she will let me know. She always asks what I’d like to prioritise.

I have several bathrooms which my [autistic] teens are rubbish and keeping tidy so the night before she comes I always pop bleach etc in the loos to make them less gross when she comes and I insist my kids empty their bins and pick up their laundry off the floordrobe. I would never expect her to clean pet sick or pick up my kids dirty undies/socks etc. That is my job and in the exchange OP had, I would have immediately sent back a reply to the effect - ‘oh am so sorry for the misunderstanding. I hadn’t realised the cat had been sick as I was in a hurry this morning when I noticed the. My bad. Of course you shouldn’t have to clean that up!’ But that window has been missed now, I think.

Sleeps on top of it and spewed down it.

Cats are arseholes.

You knew it was cat sick, and you left it. One of my cats is a gross spewer and you can always tell when it's cat sick. If my cat regularly slept on top of a cupboard and I saw something mucky on that cupboard door, I'd know it was cat sick, because what else is it going to be? Head height wall cupboard doors don't get anything else on them.

My old cleaners were troopers and would clear up cat sick if they found it. I would never, ever leave it for them knowingly. In your text exchange, you should have immediately said, of course, I wouldn't expect you to clean up cat sick. I am so sorry.

You get through a LOT of cleaners. I feel like this is probably a you problem, not a them problem.

I can't afford a cleaner any more. My house is cleaned by me and my husband, to our very high standards. It takes WAY longer than I'd want to pay a cleaner for a week. You need to lower your expectations of what's possible. Or clean yourself. I quite enjoy it.

"One of the wall cupboard doors?" You mean the upper ones? How on earth did the cat manage to vomit that high up?

What it means is she is a domestic cleaner that expects to clean up everyday domestic dust and dirt, but doesn't extend this to cleaning vomit from cupboards. And that in her mind, a reasonable employer wouldn't expect her to and would deal with that themselves. And that when you didn't she spared your blushes by not mentioning that (in her mind) you left something disgusting as an oversight, so is surprised at you bringing it up. You may disagree with her perspective, but this is what she will have meant.
If you want her back you will need to contact her and acknowledge the lack of shared expectation when it comes to cat vomit and agree what happens with this going forward. Which will no doubt be you clean it up yourself.

this. I've had this last cleaner for almost a year, I've had several over the years and although this one isn't all that great she's one of the best at cleaning and I will say is by far the most reliable.

Wtf do u want? You say she's not all that great,but best at cleaning and the most reliable.
What actually do u want, these 2 qualities are about the top and bottom hiring a cleaner!
I clean and I definitely wouldn't go back if you spoke to me like that! And I. Wouldn't be cleaning your cats sick up

There’s things no one expects you to do when in the office, just like things you know are not part of general cleaning.
Cat sick falls under the category of biohazard waste, requiring special precautions and equipment. Simple as that. If op didn’t know - now she does, and she can apologise for not realising and fix this.

However, as said before there must be other things the cleaner is not comfortable with, for her to let the job go. And that is absolutely her right and not unprofessional as such.

ETA: in reply to @magnificentkittehQuoting didn’t work for some reason.

Many of the cleaners know each other, i think you will find yourself blacklisted. Looks like you are doing your own cleaning from now on.

I thought it was cleaning out donkeys’ stables too!!!

The OP is getting a hard time here. She paid someone to do a job. They didn't like her feedback and have flounced off. Not v professional. Mumsnet is very weird about people you employ to do jobs in your home. You're supposed to soend all day making tea and sandwiches for them and praising them to the hilt. Whereas if you work in an office then you shouldn't expect any leeway whatsoever.

I was a self employed cleaner when my boys were small, a couple of things that stand out from your post.
Cleaners usually charge per job not per hour, one flat I did would take me 2 hours to do everything but I charged it out as a job, not hours because sometimes it was a little messier etc so would take slightly longer. Once people get used to paying per hour they then don’t want to pay more if it’s taken you slightly longer, which is why per job is usual.
You should have stopped messaging when she replied that she had cleaned it but that she would give it a good clean the next day. Your reply should have been ‘thank you’ not that you thought she had forgotten because of the sick/dirt on the cupboard.
Your cleaner thinks you deliberately left cat sick on the cupboard for her to clean because you didn’t want to do it yourself, only you know if this is true!
As a cleaner I would have put gloves on and cleaned it as I would have assumed the cat had been sick after you had left, and things like that don’t really bother me. However I can totally understand why she didn’t because cleaning up animal bodily fluids isn’t part of her role.
You’ve gone through quite a few cleaners in a relatively short space of time, I worked for around 5 years for the same people and only gave up when my middle child went to school because I worked back in my original field. I would really have a think as to why this might be the case, I suspect it’s how you communicate with people based on the text conversation.

Me too! Would commas have helped? "I used to clean, donkey's years ago, "

Please start a business cleaning and enjoy the “easy job” it really is a piece of piss

and congratulations on your foreign cleaner, they are well known for being underpaid and doing shit work that English people would (quite rightly) tell you to shove up your arse

you are and the OP are the sort of clients I would drop like a sack of shit

Clearly I didn't mean an hour FFS. Are you OK?

I'm confused - why shouldn't a cleaner clean up dried cat sick? It'll only have been a small amount and it was dried. Isn't a cleaner supposed to clean? I'm sure cleaners have sorted out much worse than that.

Lazy cow yourself 🙄
Aint nobody pay £260 an hour for a deep clean.
My occasional cleaner, charges £16 an hour for a basic clean and £20 for a deep clean, she uses my cleaning supplies.
If people were getting paid 100s an hour for cleaning, no matter how specialised, I'd leave my job and become a cleaner!
Might do it regardless considering how easy it is 🤣
Absolutely hillarious

Which is fine. That part of the exchange went smoothly.

No,
I imagine the smell wouldn't allow you to do that,
But obviously OP didn't notice so why not just get on with the cat sick?
We all do things we find annoying occasionally at work

I don’t think you said anything wrong OP. You employ a cleaner to clean and you asked merely asked her to take to clean one particular room as she hadn’t fully cleaned it last time