To buy my cleaner an extending duster

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I probably am being unreasonable but it's bugging me.

Had my cleaner for 2 months generally ok but what's really bugging me is her inability to clear cobwebs from the corners of the rooms, on the ceiling. I've mentioned them 3 times now. First time she apologised, second time she said she couldn't reach them and the third time she apologised again. And yet she still hasn't done anything about it.

I may be giving the impression I live in a old creepy mansion, I don't. It's a standard Victorian house so the ceilings are fairly high but not obscenely so. I get the cobwebs by a telescopic duster or the hose of the hoover, and I have done it when the cleaner hasn't (before people accuse me of being lazy).

But would I be unreasonable to buy her the type of duster I have, so she has no excuse?

If you already have one, why do you need to buy one? Can't you just show her where you keep yours and how it works?

Why isn’t she just using your long duster?

What? Why can't she use the one you have???

My cleaner uses all my cloths, brushes etc

Maybe she has a fear of spiders and is too embarrassed to say so? My SIL has terrible arachniphobia and freaks at the mere sight of cobwebs.

I’ve voted YABU because you could just leave yours out in a really obvious ‘here I am’ placefor her to use.

She uses all her own stuff which is why I thought to buy her one. I could just leave mine out though!

I guess I was more asking Ng am I unreasonable to show her it and expect her to use it. Or find another solution to the cobweb issue.

I'd not considered she might be scared!

What other solution is there to 'the cobweb issue'
Poor woman couldn't have cleaned them without the proper equipment
Buy the equipment
Show her what you want done, how you want it done, how often you want it done
You are her employer. You can reasonably ask her to do anything that falls within her remit
But only if she has the equipment to do it

Just tell her she can use your duster to get the cobwebs.

Does she carry around her own hop, broom, vacuum, etc? (I honestlyu don't know what's normal for domestic cleaners.) If she does then a long duster is a curious omission.

Well, of course if she's said she can't reach them it's reasonable to show her where your duster is!

I live in a Victorian house too OP and have high ceilings. I find the hoover pipe long enough to reach cobwebs with particularly with the extension thing. I ve got Henry. I thought most cleaners use Henry? He stretches everywhere

Why wouldn't you just say "I know the ceilings are a bugger, I've a long duster in the cupboard, feel free to use it". You have really over complicated this

Why wouldn't you just say "I know the ceilings are a bugger, I've a long duster in the cupboard, feel free to use it". You have really over complicated this

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Show her the long duster. Demonstrate its use. Job's a good'un.

Yes she has a Henry. It should reach.

safariboot yes, she carries everything around with her. When I employed her she said she prefers using her own things.

When she said she couldn't reach them I told her I used my hoover hose or a telescopic duster. I then sort of expected she would use her hoover or look at getting an appropriate duster.

About a million years ago I had a cleaning job on the sessions when I wasn't in university... I'd never seen a long handled ceiling duster until one of my clients showed me.

I have no issues providing the duster, it's just she said she wanted to use her own things.

I now have one of my own for the hallway and one room that have ridiculously high ceilings!

I’m sure she’ll make an exception for the corners! Just leave your one handled thing out for her with a note giving a direct instruction.