AIBU to sack cleaner after Dettol spillage and she didn't tell me???

[Stinkycleanhouse]

We have just got home after being away and our cleaner came yesterday.
She has spilled what seems to be an entire bottle of Dettol in the kids room, washed it, left it and didn't tell us.
Why it was being used in there I'm not sure, I think more likely she was carrying it and dropped it.
We got back, all windows shut and a boiling hot day today as could smell the Dettol stink as soon as we opened the front door.
I texted and asked and she said yes she has spilled in in our child's room but washed it so no stain and went home.
Surely the fumes are dangerous from Dettol?
We've opened the window and moved her in with us for tonight but how on earth do you get the smell out?
It absolutely stinks.
Aibu to sack her?

OP, is there some medication that you haven't taken enough of or taken too much of?

Have you been drinking the dettol OP? What an overreaction.

Even if she had told you, what could you have done? Ask your elderly neighbour to take in your cats when her own cats don't like them?

Please keep us updated trough the night op .... just so we know you're alive

Through *

Doom that properly made me laugh!

Well I'll go down in flames; too much antibac sprayed by my slightly OCD husband can trigger my asthma, though only supermarket own brand, I don't have problems with Dettol. So I don't think the OP is barking. Still not a sackable offence though.

Just looked up the effect's of Ingesting Dettol, AKA Chloroxylenol in a study it sees a very low percentage of people died but the ones that did were quite old and had a cocktail of other medicines as well obviously out to top themselves. No one it appeared died on just the fumes.

Why don't you analyze what your poor cleaner is bringing in and approve it first?.

And do not believe all you read on Wikipedia either!

SunFinished, my grandmother definitely used to put it in the bath for us kids. Also used most of a bottle on every scratch and scrape we had. That shit burned! However it was a remedy for everything physical (as was Lucozade to everything medical). If smelling Dettol could kill, I would have died several times over in my grandparents house.

Op, you are very unreasonable.

after looking into it more found inhalation of it is also toxic to humans!

No, you didn't. You found one case where a man who was addicted to Dettol and had buckets of it around his house died, and even then it may well be that he died because he actually ingested it. If it was that toxic to humans people wouldn't use it for baths, would they? And there would, as an absolute minimum, be massive warning signs on the bottle and instructions to open windows etc when you use it.

Surely, if you or your family ( including elderly cats) were allergic to something you would have mentioned it when you hired her? Likewise done some research on pet - friendly cleaning materials if you were bothered by particular brands, and asked her/supplied her with ones you found acceptable?
How could you even think about sacking someone for spilling something accidentally, then clearing it up?! She probably did not even think to tell you, because she is a normal human being, with worries, interests and preoccupations like everyone else. I would never have thought the smell would linger for two days, I bet she didn't either!! Real dettol you say?! You are lucky to employ someone who does not use budget brands if she supplies her own stuff!! I mean this in a nice way, please have a think and get over yourself.

The cat warning is because it's fairly common for people to bath their cats in neat dettol rather than pay for flea treatment. And of course cats will groom themselves following a bath so get skin, ingestion and inhalation exposure.

It does kill the fleas, but only because the cat is also dead.

I wouldn't necessarily expect a cleaner to know what is and isn't toxic to cats, I have a cat and you can poison them ridiculously easily. Lilies, house plants, paints, most cleaning products, chocolate the list of stuff is endless. I don't allow lilies and I wouldn't have toxic house plants in the house but most of the stuff I still have we just have to be super careful with it. I can see why you're worried but I think you've realised that sacking the cleaner would be an overreaction. It might be worth having a conversation with her explaining that cats are very easily poisoned and making her aware of some of the common things that can harm them. I'd also ask her to let you know if anything similar were to happen in future. She's probably never spilled it neat before and thought she'd cleaned it up. She probably didn't realise that the smell would be so strong, I wouldn't expect that. I use dettol but I've never spilled it before so wouldn't know that it would linger quite so badly.

Just fucking sack her then! You clearly want to! Jesus wept.

You weren't there for her to tell you. I don't think she have got Interpol on the case. It's not nerve gas. get a grip.

Are you on glue Dettol?

Sack her and clean your own bloody house from now on,

As to moggies one young relative gave our cat almost half a bar of plain chocolate it didn't seem to bother him at all, mind you he has the constitution of a Dinosaursus ;!

Did you get the grip I sent OP?

I love the smell of Dettol.

YABU.

How ridiculous.

It was an accident, how the fuck was she meant to prevent the smell when you were on holiday which means all windows/ doors are shut.

It wasn't exactly shit or sick.

You sound like a bundle of joy as an employer.

Are you in the UK op?

It's August, surely a slight drop in temperature from having the windows open is a small price to pay to get rid of the smell.

I think you're getting a bit of a hard time, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect a cleaner to mention they'd spilt a whole large bottle of something on a carpet. They should know that it can be hard to get a carpet clean first time and that you might need to treat it further

Are the cats dead yet?

No? Then it isn't going to kill them.

Don't sack the cleaner.

You sound exhausting.

God I'm hanging a sensory blank and can't remember what dettol smells like. Major panic. I can get TCP in my olfactory but not dettol,