Things that have shocked me as a cleaner

[CleaningDiscoveries]

I have 15 clients a week

95% use ‘disposable ‘ wipes

90% don’t recycle (I root through their bins & recycle but it’s obviously only 1 day a week)

In fairness I didn’t start the thread to bash clients. I’m a cleaner employed to clean your home so leave it as you wish.

My point was more that I didn’t realise so many didn’t recycle. All these homes have a big blue recycling bin that you put everything recyclable into. You don’t even have to separate.
It feels odd dragging binliners out of bins & seeing glass bottles in them.

Loo brush & cloth ? How did we clean them before wipes ?

drywhy I agree. There's no way after a 14 hour shift I'm coming home and tending to all that. Im exhausted as it is. Some people are so sanctimonious it's unreal.

If you want to spend your time scraping poo off things and washing reusables, that's great and I'm glad you're doing a +1 for the environment. Unfortunately people have different lifestyles, needs and challenges.

You could use toilet roll and bleach spray to clean your toilet if you don't like cloths.

Lots of people work long shifts. It doesn't mean you can check out of the responsibility of looking after our environment for your own children. It's their future.

I have booked a deep clean for tomorrow. 4 hours. I'm so excited. I haven't told my partner. Wrong of me to take the credit for it? 😜

What a puckered face, shit judgey thread OP.

Yeah lots don't work shifts where they walk 20k steps and haven't had a break or eaten all day so I'm going to do what's best for my mental and physical health so I can be the best parent to my child thanks.

I don't drive, I dont smoke, i recycle everything, I reuse reuse reuse, I buy from sustainable sources, I avoid plastics... I do more than a lot of people so won't be made to feel guilty about something that I would consider pretty important to my quality of life.

@MsLucyHoneychurch I have always used pillow & mattress protectors. They regularly need washing- especially on husband's side 😳 My mattress is 5 years old and is spotless.

@bramblesheep I use toilet roll to clean the loo. Spray then wipe with the loo roll.

End of tenancy clean on a house where 3 men lived - the toilet seat had that much wee on it (old and dried) that it was stained yellow and under the seat was like a thick yellow and brown substance that stunk!

They weren't called Neil, Vivian and Rick, were they?

I'm surprised how untidy people are. Absolutely no judgement here. I'm awfully messy. I find it heartening to know I'm not alone.

Nope, but I CBA'd. I use fabric softener except for towel loads, so the cloths would sit there for a few days and I'd run out of them, not a matter of just chucking it in the washing machine

Does it matter if you use fabric softener ? I always do,just shove my cloths in with any wash I'm doing.

Same dame, I dunno if I'm supposed to be washing them differently from other stuff but I don't

Does it matter if you use fabric softener ?

Yes, I think it makes the microfibre ones super slippery.

I just use cotton dishcloths....the bathroom I do sink, then shower and bath. Lob in the washing with the towels and flannels.

Repeat X2 a week.

Loo I stick done cleaner in, and then spray top, seat and rim wipe down in that order with loo roll and flush. Do this daily when kids are in bath or shower.

Easy peasy, surely?

Fabric conditioner reduces absorbency on towels

I would ban wipes - biodegradable (not!) or otherwise. Huge impact on the environment and expensive!! They leave a chemical mess all over your surfaces. Eco cloths and eucalyptus oil - trust me, your house will never look cleaner or smell nicer.

Fabric conditioner reduces absorbency on towels

But is fine on cloths

People love to use excuses. We've all got our own shit to deal with but one thing I'm bloody certain of is that we are destroying our own environment. I don't want that for my children or theirs. There's always a cop out to be had and some people can't wait to grab it rather than put themselves out for an extra ten minutes.

Fabric softener makes cleaning cloths less able to soak up water.

@DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen I missed off the etc after towels 🙄

It’s not shitty or judgemental

If you have recycling facilities I.e the same bin men that collect your rubbish- RECYCLE.

Use toilet paper & a shower to clean your arse - you don’t need ‘flushable ‘ wipes

catching not excuses, reasons. I 'put myself out' in many many ways so please don't act like I've got some super easy life and I'm just being lazy. I'm sure I could find fault with your eco footprint, something I do better than you, but I wouldn't judge because I accept some things cause hardship that can really affect quality of life. I'm more for being angry at the business doing a thousand times worse than a struggling mum just trying to have ONE thing that little bit easier for them.

Yup. That's why I put them in with the towels on a hot wash with soap powder and a splash of laundry cleanser in the conditioner compartment.

Towels and cloths are super clean and absorbent.

Wipes are such a massive waste of money. Cloths are £1 a pack and last ages. Or a cut up old towel is free.