To watch tv whilst the cleaner cleans

[rosieposies]

Have a back injury so we have got a cleaner in to help out.

Am currently in the living room and the cleaner has come in. I am watching TV whilst she cleans. I am torn between being really comfortable (found a good position for my back) and enjoying this segment on This Morning and feeling like a bit of a dick as someone is essentially cleaning around me.

This is my first experience of having a cleaner so I am feeling quite awkward about the whole thing anyway and am not really sure of the etiquette. Should I leave the room and let her get on with it in peace?

Stay where you are. Your paying her to clean, I'd assume she'd say if you were in the way?

I wouldn't do it in normal health but your back problem is the reason she's there. Relax

With a bad back, that's fine. Until I read your excuse reasoning I was

Interesting. I have a similar issue and am looking to hire a cleaner- but I’m home all the time so good to get a feel for what is reasonable or not.
I have severe mobility issues, i can’t just go out because a cleaner arrives.
Personally I’d stay as you are, doubt you’re in the way

When I had SPD I hired a cleaner but stayed in the bedroom the whole time so she wouldn’t know I was in 😳

Having been a cleaner I'd much rather that than the home-owners who hover around making akward small talk.

Thanks guys, that makes me feel a lot better. I think when I hear her get the hoover out I will make a disappearance. The sun has just got his hat on so will pop into the garden.

When she got here I offered her tea and told her to help herself to squash etc, and showed her how to ask Alexa to change the radio so hopefully she feels comfortable.

@trailed haha!! If I'd have known falling down the stairs would mean OH would let me get a cleaner I'd have done it earlier

@ellen she's out of the living room now, to be honest I am the only one that appeared to feel awkward, she just got on with it. It's actually quite nice to have someone pottering about once you get used to it.

@freudian Thats a great plan for next time!

@moita ok I'm so glad you said that, I wasn't sure whether I should be making conversation.

I know how much I hate it when the hairdresser does it so I shall just let her get on with it.

This is exactly why I dont have a cleaner - I dont seem to be able to do cleaning in any meaningful way, but I hate the idea of someone I dont really know being in my house as I worry things might go "missing" but I also know Id feel terrible being in watching someone else doing my cleaning :/

No way could I lounge whilst the cleaner cleans!

A bad back is fine though.

As long as you don't brush the biscuit crumbs onto the floor while she's watching, you're fine. Also, don't leave random change out to see if she nicks it, that's an arsehole trick. I used to find it in vehicles when I drove other people's assigned vehicles, so I would leave a 2p bit with TWAT in tippex.

@disgrace I don't really know what the last bit of your post is about but it didn't even cross my mind to do that.

I had two lovely cleaners here yesterday, they cleaned around me as I fed baby and sat with him sleeping on me. I felt a bit awkward but they seemed quite happy and my house is beautiful now. I've never really had a cleaner before but they definitely put me at my ease.

I'd leave the room.

rosie: I'm an HGV driver. Quite often, I drive other people's vehicles in which personal property has been left. Some of them leave spare change to see if gets stolen. It's a form of what I call " the housemaid's noose", where employers test the honesty of their domestic staff. Not good.

When I had a new born both times I would sleep if the baby slept while cleaner was in. So I certainly wouldn't judge!