Do you make a drink for anyone who comes to do a job in your house?

[batmanladybird]

Eg window cleaner
Cleaner
Person servicing the boiler
Plumber
Etc

Yes
A hot chocolate or half a cup of wine if they do a really good job. Some times I even give them a box of chocolates or biscuits to eat. My mom always used to give our old cleaner old books and toys that were never used as well.

Yes, I always offer drinks and biscuits.
If they are working in my house all day I will make them their lunch(soup, rolls n sausage)
Window Cleaner gets a can of Irn Bru.

I have six builders out front at the moment, and four painters downstairs. As I am two floors up at my desk (and yes, Mumsnetting as I'm waiting on a reply to something and can't settle to other stuff), I have left a box of tea, a bunch of mugs, sugar, milk jug and a packet of biscuits next to the kettle.

The building firm in particular has been here so much over the past nine months bought a wreck of a house that has needed a lot of work that they're virtually family now.

Anyone working inside the house (electrician, bathroom fitter, British Gas man) we offer a cuppa or a cold drink to.
Except the cleaners because they bring their own cold drinks. But if we have chocolates or sweets out I always say for them to help themselves.

Anyone doing a big job outside (patio cleaning or the gutters) do get offered but not the window cleaner because they just turn up, get done and leave.

Oh, and our usual decorator gets a bacon sandwich on a Friday morning as well as regular hot or cold drinks, but he is DH's best mate!

Pretty much except window cleaner I rarely here when he comes and it's not for long

Always offer.

Except the window cleaner who has more of a 'turn up when he likes, do the windows and leave without saying a word' approach.

yes.
If it's a one off, short job DH or I make one for them.
DH wil keep offering more.
I make them aware that I don't do that so if they want more they need to ask. I simply don't have headspace to remember to keep asking.

if they are staying for longer they are shown where everything is so they can help themselves.

For years my window cleaner would wash dd's face through the glass. She was beside herself when she saw him coming and it was her job to go out and give him a can of Irn Bru.
Now that she's at school he did ask if I wanted my face washed😂😂😂 I leave the can on the step when I see him now. On school holidays dd is back to getting her face washed.

Yup, always. And I include the window cleaner in that - he always comes to our house first in the winter as he knows he'll get a hot cup of coffee! Must be the coldest job in the world, sloshing freezing water around when there's snow on the ground.

I offer but am almost always refused. I don't know why. Once we had workmen fixing our drains who refused drinks from me several times. PIL came to visit and I went out to the shops and returned to find the workmen in the kitchen happily drinking tea with MIL.

I live in a small and friendly road with lots of retired and stay at home mums.When the road was being dug up for work one summer it was swelteringly hot. So we all took it turns to take cold drinks, ice lollies out to the workmen. Some of us made cakes as well.
One young man told his mum it was the best road he'd ever worked in.

I have offered but most refuse as someone else said, most people say they brought their own 🤷‍♀️ So no not any more

Yes, always.
As someone who visits other people I would say that 80% will offer, 19.9% won't. The other 0.1% complain about people asking and that the single teabag they used was draining their pension.
This was the same person who was going to charge workers to use the toilet.
Tight as a camels arse.

Yes, a glass of claret and a little lunch along the lines of picture, the bin men love it!

And the paper boy gets this.

Never the window cleaner - it's outside and he doesn't take that long. I have offered my cleaner in the past but she doesn't want one and she's fine with that so I don't offer. If I have a tradesman in doing a job all day then I do then.

@Flubbah

I used to but not nowadays because of Covid transmission.

Eh? How is covid transmitted by making a drink for someone? My friend works in a very busy cafe, do I need to warn her about this risk. Maybe you can explain a bit more at what stage of the process there is a transmission risk?

Yes mostly but our window cleaner only does outside so no for them, as we don't really have any contact when they're here. Sometimes I'm not even in. But people who come in the house or were going to be working in the garden all day or something, I always ask, although since Covid, no one has said yes.

In fact the last company I had in had a thing in their pre-appointment e-mail saying not to offer them a drink as they would have to politely decline!

Always
And biscuits

Always! We always give the gardener lunch too.

I offer tea, coffee or a cold drink if they are going to be here for an hour or more. Not the cleaner though. I offered the first few weeks and then showed her where everything is and asked her to help herself if she wanted to. I'm spend most of my working days on calls and most weeks I only just manage to wave at my cleaner as she comes in.

Not the window cleaners. They just arrive, do it and disappear. Half the time I don't even realised they are here.

I don't offer my cleaner one any more because when I have in the past she had been clear she brings her own. I've also been clear she is welcome to help herself if she wanted to, but she never does.

Others, e.g. electrician working on things in the house, yes we do.

Window cleaner - no, he's outside and only here for half an hour.
Cleaner if I'm making one, though I've told her she's welcome to help herself.
Others yes, I offer. But I've got guys here for weeks now and just tell them to help themselves. Some are better than others - I'd expect them to bin the teabags (not leave them in a pile in the sink) and put the cups in the sink. I've just found one in a bathroom cupboard!