Cleaners wearing shoes indoors?

[francesfrans]

I’ve booked a cleaner to come this week and then every week following this to help my maintain the house and I’m finding it a struggle with a newborn and toddler with a partner who works away. We never wear our shoes indoors, to me this is grim. My friend who has a cleaner (different one) says her cleaner wears shoes indoors and says this is standard. Is this so? If it is I would probably rather not go ahead. We have brand new carpets and I don’t want dirt/germs/bacteria trailing in form outdoors. But on the other hand I could really do with the help. Anyone else who has a cleaner what are your thoughts on this and does your cleaner wear shoes indoors?

I’m not a shoes-off person and I would expect a cleaner to wear some kind of footwear while working, but I would expect that to be indoor footwear or for them to wear shoe covers.

So I would get yourself a stash of disposable foot covers to be on the safe side.

I don’t think you can ask the cleaner to work in her socks or bare feet.

I think there is a health and safety aspect of using hoovers etc without shoes on so ask for indoor shoes

Your home is her workplace. She needs to be safe at work.

Check what her insurance says before insisting.

I personally would not clean someone else's toilet/bathroom floor with no footwear.

I know! I don’t understand why this needs any sort of debate!

Ok if we're going to be pedantic, you you sign off a risk assessment of workers at work walking around with no shoes on? Especially if there are likely to be lifting hoovers/buckets of water.

Get over yourself.

Get those blue shoe covers.

As an Irish person I find this thread utterly bizarre.

Supply sliders / house trainers or give her a tenner to buy them.

Our cleaner use to wear outdoor shoes inside. I asked her to take them off. She now wears indoor shoes.

My current one takes hers off, the previous lady had house shoes and would change once in.
Is fine to request no outdoor shoes.