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Aibu to my new cleaner

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Holdmysandwichplease · 03/01/2021 21:33

Hired a new cleaner last month, for context our house is 5 beds, 2 bathrooms and a shower room. However 2 of the bedrooms and 1 bathroom are used for guests only and therefore haven't been used for a good 6 months 😔 so basically they just need a hoover and dust every now and then but certainly I don't expect them to have a full clean every week. Anyway to my point! Cleaner comes every week for 2 hours and I mainly ask her to focus on a general kitchen clean (small kitchen maybe would take me an hour if I really went for it!) and our family bathroom. The shower room i tend to clean myself as its attached to our bedroom and I never ask her to clean that. I like to clean my own room. Other than that she sometimes runs the hoover round or does random bits of cleaning after the kitchen and bathroom.

Recently my husband has pointed out she doesn't always do a thorough job, for example, the shower glass always is left with marks, the shower itself isn't cleaned (as in the actual shower head) and last week my son had got quite muddy so had a bath and I've just noticed the bath tiles have mud on them so she clearly hasn't cleaned them properly. She also hasn't cleaned the microwave the last 3 visits.

Aibu to think she needs to be a bit more thorough? Or aibu and 2 hours isn't feasible to clean the bathroom and kitchen?

I don't want to stop her coming, especially in the current situation when I know times are hard for everyone (including us as dh has lost a lot of business!) but now I can't help but notice what she hasn't done. I don't want to nit pick either so please tell me if I'm being ur! Thanks !

OP posts:
Merryoldgoat · 03/01/2021 23:34

I think 2 hours is enough for a good clean of bathroom and kitchen including microwave but nothing else if you want a spotless finish.

If I want to get my shower screen completely free from watermarks /limescale it needs:

Normal clean
Then viakal scrubbed in and left for 10/15 mins
Rinsed off
Dried
Polished with glass cleaner

Obv can do that with other jobs on the go but I would expect a full clean of tiles, bath, sink, shower and screen plus shelves, surfaces, window and loo and floor brushed and mopped (plus polishing of trinkets) to take 30-40 mins

Kitchen is more in depth and bigger so I think 2 hours for thorough clean of both rooms and nothing else is right.

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