What does cleaner do with cleaning products?

[Purplelemon7]

Bit off an odd one but my cleaner seems to go through a standard size cleaning product every 3-4 weeks and now a new bottle of method multi purpose spray that I gave her has gone missing. It’s all a bit weird!

Weird how? Do you think she's stealing it?

Decant smaller amounts if you are that bothered. Or speak to her.

Mine seem a bit heavy-handed with certain products, I assume they just use a lot of them. My home is clean, beyond that I don't really care.

But then I also have an addiction to Spanish floor-cleaning products literally, an entire shelf full of different scents and they never touch those, and I think they judge me for having so many. So it balances out!

It depends how dirty your house is. And also if they is only one multi surface spray for everywhere, of course it is going to be used quickly. Big kitchen? Multiple bathrooms/en suite? Is she using it for window sills as well or do you have another product for that?
Method products don't cut through grease/limescale brilliantly, so more needs to be used to get a decent result.

There multiple products.

I didn’t know that about the method products!

It’s weird because it seems to be a recent thing (she has been with us for about two years). Just found it odd that a new bottle that was given to her the other day has disappeared!

She tipped it over?

You could try asking her.

Just ask her, honestly she won't be offended. I'm a cleaner, and I'd far rather a client asked me what I'd done with a bottle of spray than was thinking I'd pinched it!

I use a multi purpose spray a week usually, plus other cleaning products. I can imagine if she's cleaning a whole house then it would be used.

''I have an addiction to Spanish floor-cleaning products''

Now that's something you don't read every day!

@Laiste

''I have an addiction to Spanish floor-cleaning products''

Now that's something you don't read every day!

ONE OF US, ONE OF US

Asevi, Brumol, Disiclin and Xanpa are my gateway drugs brands of choice

Wait wait wait where do you get these Spanish floor products from and why are they so good?

Recommendations please, feel free to be lyrical!

My cleaner gets through loads too. It's possible to clean well with less product but it takes longer and much more elbow grease. I'm completely fine with her using modern conveniences to save her elbows! In the victorian age cleaners would get injuries like "housemaid's knee", thank goodness we have Cillit Bang now

To be honest, performance-wise they're objectively no better than anything you can get here. And they're probably absolutely stuffed full of chemicals, so not eco or green at all.

Right, now I've got the usual MN caveats out of the way...

I tend to google Spanish cleaning products and find suppliers that way. There are a few companies that import them.

There just seems to be a lot more choice of scents than UK brands or supermarkets. Lots of very clean, soapy scents. There's a parma violets one, mint and orange, lemon, lavender, floral and a few rosey ones.

@Creamcrackersandricecakes

Just ask her, honestly she won't be offended. I'm a cleaner, and I'd far rather a client asked me what I'd done with a bottle of spray than was thinking I'd pinched it!

I don't have a cleaner now but in the past I did and she was equally free with the sprays, I did once comment about a bottle of a quite expensive branded spray being used in a week, I can't remember the exact wording I used but it did get a frosty response.

Clearly she did not get the memo that cleaners aren't offended by such questions, maybe you should be having a word @Creamcrackersandricecakes if you are in charge of all cleaners

Damn you OP, I just ordered a load of Spanish floor cleaner because of this thread! 😅😂

Okay so I’m going to start with a naranja cleaner by asevi!

She’s probably using it for cleaning :)

I can definitely see how a good cleaner would get through some spray so quickly. If she's cleaning your home well then I don't see the problem. I'd imagine that if you can afford a cleaner, you can also afford a bottle of spray for her to use.

White vinegar takes care of most cleaning needs; that's about all we use other than a bit of bleach for the loos.

Our home is clean.

I think people are missing the point. The cleaner has been with the OP for 2 years. This massive consumption of products is very recent. Assuming the house hasn't suddenly grown, it is odd

If you really think your cleaner is stealing £1/£2 bottles of cleaning products from you then you might as well find a cleaner you actually trust.

A new bottle every month is hardly outrageous and one bottle going ‘missing’ in 2 years is causing you to post on the internet?
Maybe it spilled, maybe she dropped it and broke the spray mechanism, maybe she left it somewhere random by mistake and it will turn up.
For the ones she uses up faster now, maybe the standard size has reduced (has happened to a lot of products) maybe the formula is different and she needs a lot more to cut through the dirt.

@Purplelemon7

Bit off an odd one but my cleaner seems to go through a standard size cleaning product every 3-4 weeks and now a new bottle of method multi purpose spray that I gave her has gone missing. It’s all a bit weird!

What like a bottle of flash every month?

You're being ridiculous.

So basically you think shes stealing from you?

Mine got through 2/3 of a bottle of toilet cleaner when I first put it out. Thought it was odd. It then got used at a sensible rate and got used up in the next 2 or 3 cleans. I think she must have spilt it??

Don’t give her method to clean with.