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To ask what jobs you won't do as as a self employed cleaner

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Fuckitbucket13 · 23/05/2018 19:58

I've just set up as a self employed cleaner & already have a few clients some brilliant some not so.
I have one client who sits at the table when I'm cleaning the kitchen, She actually said to me once "it must be hard cleaning when I'm sat here" I said yes so she's sat there ever since, she used to leave the room. I find it so uncomfortable.
Another had me cleaning her maggot filled cupboard & expects me to do it every so often to keep it clean. She points out cobwebs, I'll ask where & there's the tiniest thread of one.
One client (who thank god) is generally working when I'm there always insists on having a clear out around me when she has a day off, her & hubby in & out of rooms I'm trying to clean.
Aibu to expect people to clean there own (maggot filled) cupboards? Or to expect an empty room when I'm cleaning?
Is there anything you've been asked to do but refused?

I'm a bit soft & don't really know when to say no or if it's just expected that as cleaners we always do as the clients want.

Any words of wisdom from long term cleaners?

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Fuckitbucket13 · 24/05/2018 14:42

@storm4star yes that's them!
@msdudley I'd just got back from travelling with no job, my friend asked me if I'd like to clean for her, no! But it was money so I did. I then got a few more clients, word of mouth is great. I am a good cleaner though which I know sounds daft but you'd be amazed at how many people just cannot clean!

Most of my clients are very tidy & very nice. I'm rubbish at hiding my thoughts so if any if them try & boss me about too much my face shows I'm not happy (though I try to hide it) if you don't trust me to clean then sack me.

Strangely I don't mind a bit of a mess I always think I'm there to make the clients life easier & that's what I try to do. I don't mind picking laundry up or flushing the odd stray log down the loo (that's a different thread) I cannot stand sick though so would refuse to clean that up.
But as you may have noticed my main bug bear is I REALLY like an empty room.

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Fuckitbucket13 · 24/05/2018 14:45

@Hefzi skinning a rabbit? I'd have told them in no uncertain terms to fork right off!

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IHaveBrilloHair · 24/05/2018 14:48

My cleaner doesn't do ironing or the outsides of Windows, she told me that when she started.
I'm always here when she is which is why she's become one of my best mates!

Hefzi · 24/05/2018 18:18

They were proper lovely apart from that, OP - a rather grand, very elderly couple with an incredible home but living in very reduced circumstances: and frequent guests who insisted on leaving tips for "the staff" ie me (their once-a-week for an afternoon cleaner)

But I really couldn't do the rabbit. There wasn't an Internet connection so I had no idea even how to start Grin I did take it home and got my DF to do it though!

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