Is your cleaner still visiting?

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Hi I am not sure if IABU but I’m thinking of cancelling/pausing our cleaning company.

They haven’t been for 4 weeks anyway (2 weeks isolation and then 2 weeks for Xmas hols where the company closes).

There are 3 of us working in our household and we all work in key jobs. I personally would feel so guilty having to take the time off if I was sick or isolating due to contact with the cleaners - which if you are pragmatic is really not an essential service.

Apart from work and the cleaning company we haven’t been in contact with anyone outside our household or work places for months. The cleaning company send 2-3 cleaners a week (often different people) and I’m getting nervous about having them in our house. AIBU to cancel them for a bit?

I appreciate that it has been a really tough year for small businesses and because of this we kept the cleaning company visiting all through the November lockdown and paid them during the first lockdown.

So, if you have a cleaner - are they still visiting? And if you were in my situation would you cancel?

For info 2 of us work in frontline nhs (one is on standby for nightingale) and one runs small business with 14 staff that are working flat out. All staff in the small business are working significant overtime and they have cancelled/postponed holiday to next year. So we really can’t afford to be off work!

If we could all be out of the house I would still have her coming. My secondary DS will be at home though so I will cancel her until he's back (whenever that might be!). Will obviously still pay her though. I am gutted about it!

Yes, ours is still coming.

No, in your situation I probably wouldn’t cancel the cleaner - cleaners are losing a lot of work at the moment and they aren’t exactly well paid. I would just ensure that I didn’t come into contact with them when they visited.

That said, I wouldn’t be thrilled about them sending 2-3 different people every week - in assuming that’s why you’re coming into contact with them, because you need to show the new people where things are? We used to be with a cleaning company that did that (long before Covid) and we had to get rid of them because it was such poor service.

We’ve decided to keep them coming but to go out to walk the dog for a couple of hours whilst they are here, to reduce contact.

Mine is. She wears PPE and and I hide out in the bedroom with the baby and shut the door and she doesn’t clean that room we just stay in there and leave her to it. She is off this week but that was pre planned holiday for her birthday.

Yes, single cleaner been coming since end of1st lockdown and we've only cancelled her once due to children at home self-isolating. We both work from home, but shut ourselves in one room which she doesn't clean, and she knows just to let herself in. All windows and doors open, so it's blooming freezing but house gets a good airing and she goes crazy with the bleach and detol!

Mine still comes and doesn't seem bothered about covid in the slightest - no mask, doesn't seem to want to distance from me. I stay well away from her though, I actually go out when she comes round these days

We've just gone into tier 3, ours have still been coming and we just make sure we're not in the same room with them when they clean it.