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To ask cleaner to replace damaged item

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AdoreTheBeach · 13/12/2018 11:22

I have a lovely new kitchen, including a pricey range (pricey to me). I have professional cleaners (a company) that cleans. They come any time in the day and as a cleaning team, I don’t know how many and precisely who is coming. This is for context.

One of the cleanest this week damaged a small item in my range. They messsged me about it and said they would replace. Long story short, after a number of emails to place I bought it, replacement parts company (listing shows a whole pack of these parts, not just one), I eventually got the code to order just one of these replacement parts.

As I have a lot in in my own business with fun up to Xmas (orders to fill), house to sort (various tradesmen) and xmas shopping still to do, feeling a bit stressed with how much to do. Often having to do try to build in post office runs to collect packages into my busy schedule.

AIBU to have given cleaner link to order (and pay for) replacement part, organise receipt of delivery/collect)? It’s not pricey, about £25. For me, it was really more about the hassle of just one more thing to do.

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cloudtree · 13/12/2018 11:23

Do they have insurance for breakages?

AdoreTheBeach · 13/12/2018 11:36

I was told st the time of hiring that they had insurance (was told they do as they’re a company). Although I haven’t asked to see their policy.

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BarbaraRoyale · 13/12/2018 11:37

YANBU let them order it

Pachyderm1 · 13/12/2018 11:45

I wouldn’t expect my cleaner to pay for something accidentally broken. Accidents happen. And if it’s something valuable, I have home insurance for that reason.

Celebelly · 13/12/2018 11:49

Personally I would find it more hassle to arrange for someone else to buy it than just do it myself (has it really saved you much time in the end given you already did all the back and forth?) but YANBU if they have offered to pay for it. For £25 I'd probably just write it off, though, if they are otherwise reliable and careful, as I'd rather just order it myself and know it's the right thing and has been done.

Letsmoveondude · 13/12/2018 11:49

I’d expect them to have dealt with it from start to finish. The replacement of what they broke.

After all, if I broke something at work, I would set about replacement on behalf of the client as I broke it.

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