AIBU to expect a cleaner to clear hair from plug holes without being asked?

No your cleaner shouldn't unscrew your plug holto clear away the hair, honestly just do.it yourself or put drain cleaner down.

I have adhd, so had a million jobs and cleaner is one of my favourites.

But really, just work out your priorities and highlight what you need...much easier than the cleaner trying to guess and everyone sees stuff differently!

I would expect them to clean it but I wouldn't expect it to be found because I would have cleaned it before they arrived. Not sure how to answer the question, really!

Yabu. I take all the hair out of the plug holes before my cleaner comes. And I clean any poo/wee my children have left on the toilets. I wouldn’t expect her to do these gross jobs.
ovens are separate, I have a specialist who comes every few months and it takes him ages.

Plug hole hair should be dealt with as you get out of the shower.

That's not 'cleaning' FFS. Cleaning is wiping surfaces, vacuuming, dusting, mopping hard floors and if a deep clean, cleaning door frames, light switches, windows etc.

I agree that oven cleaning is a separate specialist job if its dirty or greasy.

Cleaner threads are starting to remind me of those wanky write-ins that used to grace the back end of magazines, where the bored and unfulfilled could waste a good part of their day (or night) whining into the ether.

Truth is, no one really cares, and it's low hanging fruit. I dare say it keeps eyeballs on the dizzying amount of ads in these parts.
Everyone and her dog has a cleaner, even cleaners have cleaners. it isn't a step up the ladder, it just means you have a very hairy arse that no one in their right minds would envy. .

I've never had a cleaner, but this attitude that your home must be clean before the cleaner arrives would put me off considering hiring one. How are you to know which jobs you're 'supposed' to do yourself and how far to go? At what point is it enough? According to many on MN, it does seem that some of the less pleasant parts of keeping the house clean—the very ones I'd most like to avoid doing—are the ones that you shouldn't expect the paid cleaner to do.

Yes, hairy clogs are disgusting. That's precisely why I'd be paying someone else to do it for me—if I weren't too uncomfortable with asking someone else to do it for me, which is part of why I'll just continue to do it myself.

If I did have a cleaner who performed the more disgusting housework for me, though, I wouldn't be thinking they're beneath me, just that they're providing a service that I either can't do myself or really don't want to do myself. I'd think it must be worth it to them, or possibly that it doesn't bother them at all. Same as if I hired a gardener to work up a sweat pulling weeds I didn't want to deal with or a plumber to fix a hopelessly clogged toilet—or a doctor or nurse having to look at and treat disgusting ailments and injuries. Many jobs have unpleasant parts to them. Assuming no-one is forced to take a job if they hate it, that's just life.

I feel sorry for cleaners. It’s like people think they are underdogs.

Clean your own soapy scummy pubey plug holes. Ffs

Eww, I would never expect my cleaner to do that.
And give her a bloody chance. I appreciate the first clean takes longer, but I’m sure she’ll get round everything in due course.

The cleaner should do this it’s her job! She can wear gloves and use a tissue to pull out of plug hole. Can’t believe the number of people saying you should do it

Really? What a strange impression to have formed.

I love having a cleaner. The hourly rate was more than mine for at least ten years after I started working as a doctor. Because they’re running a business, and their service is of value.

I certainly wouldn’t leave a plug hole full of hair or a toilet covered in poo or urine for them because those things are things you deal with as part of being an adult. You don’t leave that stuff for days until the cleaner comes. And you make sure the house is tidy so they can actually do their job: clean.

I also brush my teeth before going to the dentist and don’t turn up to the hairdresser with filthy hair I haven’t washed for days. Then they can do their job, that I’m paying for, and I’ve continued to do my job of being a functioning adult. This really shouldn’t cause anyone any particular stress.

If all your skirting boards and blinds are dusty and plug full of hair, 6 hours probably isn't long enough for getting the whole house spotless.
I don't use a cleaner but as far as I know oven cleaning is something you book specifically, not part of ordinary cleaning.

You just leave things full of hair until the cleaner comes? Surely not?

It’s absurd. I had an amazing (Polish) cleaner when I was in London. Used to pay her £15 an hour which back then was more than minimum wage and she would do the job so well. She cleaned everything when I was unwell and stressed and the house would get into a state.

Since moving out of London I’ve had to deal with this kind of nonsense with cleaners where at this point yeah I’m better doing it myself.

To add that or what if you have chronic fatigue, mobility issues or some other illness.

No - and nor would I expect a cleaner to clean my toilet. Gross jobs should be done by you; it's just common decency.

Yuk clean your own plug hole. My cleaner does laundry for us and changes sheets but I always clean the plug hole

This is why I don't have a cleaner.

Seemingly you need to both tidy and clean before they get there, give benefit of the doubt if they do a rubbish job, not expect them to do very much, make sure there's nothing even slightly manky for them to clean, be fine with them leaving early and the second they leave, drop everything to transfer the money, even if you are at work.

It sounds far more stress than it's worth.

Clean your own plug holes. You sound manky.

Who do you think cleans hair out of plug holes in hotels and holiday lets? Individual guests at the end of they stay? No, it'll be a cleaner.
Some of these responses are funny!

I don't think it's unreasonable to expect it to be done but you really need to give the cleaner a specific list of things you want them to do, literally like a tick list, especially if you feel that some things are being missed. Try again with these cleaners and if you feel they are not doing what you have specifically requested they do then I'd suggest finding someone else.

I’ve been a cleaner for 14 years and I would expect to (and have) pull hair out of plug holes. I have rubber gloves and don’t mind. I also clean toilets whatever the state.

I have never cleaned the inside of an oven and never been asked to, only the hob and fronts. This generally needs heavy duty chemicals and coverings/masks etc. as they are tough to do and there are specialists companies that come in to do this and charge an arm and a leg.

No, that's disgusting. That is solely the responsibility of person with long hair.

(I remove the hairy hubert every time I wash my hair).

Agree

This!

plug holes are mega detailed cleaning

skirting boards I would include in a detailed clean which I don’t think this was

6 hours isn’t detailed time for a large house that hasn’t been cleaned in a while