Cleaning before cleaning woman

[Pipandmum]

Is it unreasonable to spend an hour cleaning before the cleaning woman comes? Maybe it’s more tidying. We are not a tidy family and the weekend definitely is not spent doing much housework, and the kids at home mean things can really slide and therefore when she comes Monday mornings I spend a long time preparing for her - I can’t be the only one that does this!

Ha yes I do know she’s not there to tidy! But I notice a lot of my friends husband’s don’t get it and think it’s the cleaners job to pick up after them too!
And yes it does force me to maintain a certain amount or order - though I didn’t have one for a couple years and I was never reported to the environmental health authorities 😂🤣.!

OP you are definitely not the only one to do this! We have tidy up before the cleaner comes every week. I want the cleaner's time spent on the actual cleaning, not the putting away of stuff.

I tidy, and change the beds if it's been a couple of weeks. DH scrubs his skids off the toilet pan and I clear any pubes out of the bath. Well, you did ask!

Flushing the loo is my only definite thing I hate not having been done (although appreciate that homes with little DC it can be forgotten once in a while). I have dropped a customer in the past for leaving a loo full of period blood and a used sanitary towel on the side. I'm good at what I do, have customers queuing up and I don't need that level of disrespect!

WTAF??!! Jesus, who does that sort of thing? Basic standard of hygiene to flush a loo and bin sanitary products. Such disrespect as you say. Good for you for not putting up with it.

Of course you have to tidy first, the best part of having a cleaner is feeling pressured to tidy for their arrival! It's the best motivation for me!

Knowing the cleaner won't clean her room otherwise is the only thing that makes my 11yo dd tidy!

I'm a cleaner! It does help us if clients tidy, just cos it's easier to get in and properly clean. But equally it's ok if they don't !

I always did this and then realised I didn't need a cleaner at all, because I quite like cleaning after all it's tidying up I can't stand

I tidy. I know where things go. I hate cleaning. They clean. Win win all round.

You aren’t cleaning you are tidying. Usually you pay by hour so by tidying you save money eg to vacuum floor takes 10 mins but to pick clothes up and put them away and then vacuum would take 30mins. Everyone should tidy op not just you, it’s an easy concept for even little kids to understand, the cleaner can’t clean your room if there is stuff all over it.

I always tidy up everything to make it easier and so I know where everything is