it's only poo or aibu?

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We've recently moved and got a cleaner. She's very nice but I'm not that impressed. She scours the kitchen within an inch of its life and skims the rest. For the last 3 weeks I've noticed that DP's toilet and the teen's toilet have poo stripes. SHe has cleaned the toilet but not scrubbed the stripes. Is this not a bit out of order? We can't have loo brushes because DS loves them and charges round the house with them aloft.

I once worked for a woman who left her pads in her pants when she put them in the wash, so I do know what it feels like to think, jesus, meet me half way.

But still, is a bit of a scrub not part of being a cleaner?

What's the average hourly rate for a cleaner? £10 or £12 depending on location?

Servants are a bit more expensive I'm afraid.

Are you training your partner as well?

She is provided with rubber gloves and scrubbies. What's the difference?

What are scrubbies?

Oh, I bet she is so grateful for the rubber gloves!

You need a brush to get skid marks off.

Rusty I wasn't a cleaner, I was an au-pair in the US.

Ilovesooty we adopted him 2 years ago, so we are still working down a list of priorities. He did cook dinner for us tonight.

Im still trying to get over the fact the op "can't have loo brushes"

YABU.They should remove their own faecal matter.

So why isn't your partner trained? Did you adopt him as well?

Maybe the partner came free with the toilet?

Oh right, just googled scrubbies. NOT suitable for toilet cleaning.

I expect your cleaner will be relieved when you tell her you no longer require her. My friend's mum is a cleaner and happily gives her notice to people who treat her like a slave, or as she puts it 'leave them to wallow in their own filth'

By scrubbies I mean sponges with a rough green surface for exfoliating ceramic.

I've worked as a cleaner and have cleaned shitty toilets, now a nurse and still clean shitty toilets if I have to.
You need to provide a loo brush though.

I don't quite think you dserve the bashing you're getting, but it's clear to me that you don't hold by the unspoken rule that individuals clean up their own skiddage.
The cleaner shouldn't have to do that really, at the very least you should provide a brush....and your menfolk are in need of housetraining.

Look I absolutely agree that individuals should clean up after themselves. I clean up after myself and when we shared a bathroom I cleaned up after them or frogmarched them in there and made them do it themselves.

Disposable toilet scrubbing brushes eg by Toilet Duck are your friend. I loathe conventional toilet brushes, they are vile germ breeders.

pictish skiddage

Omg I wouldnt rubber glove scrub my own loo and would be hugely ashamed to leave it for a cleaner!!

Loo brush and keep it in the utility locked away if necessary.

i think you are treating the cleaner disgustingly actually and i say that as someone who has been a cleaner and who is now considering employing one.

this smacks of 'one simply cannot get the paid staff these days'

i hope you realise YABU. completely.

i am interested what you will want cleaner to do with green scourer after she has cleaned the pooey toilet with it?

Erik

i would have to colour code - just in case the cleaner accidentally uses the wrong scrubbie for the family dishes....

ooops.

Eric, presumably you have chosen a different profession then?

Why am I responsible for everyone else's shit? .

It's only poo! If she's squeamish about it, then buy a pair of gloves that are a different colour to any others in the house and use them just for the toilet. I tend to wipe off anything I see lingering (no matter who left it) with some toilet paper and then when I clean the bathroom, it's bath/sink first and toilet last with the bowl bit last of all and then scrubber straight in the bin. To be honest I only use gloves if I've been using bleachy type cleaners because I don't want to irritate my skin. Adhoc skidder removal can be done barehanded (same as when I change nappies/wipe my 3yr olds bum) and then I give my hands a slightly longer wash than usual.

Toilet brushes are revolting - how anyone can bear to leave a poo encrusted brush festering in their house is beyond me...

every now and again, i toy with the idea of being disowned by my family and hiring a cleaner (or doing it in secret), i would be less fraught and screamy shouty if i had one i think.....

....then i read threads like this, and i realise the sense in my family disowning me for it

why is your cleaner?