to get pissed off with my cleaner for building towers?

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Yes - towers of books on my coffee table. I have 2 piles of books - you know the usual type of coffee table books.

She will polish it and then put the 2 piles into one big one. Then add newspapers and anything else she can lay her hands on.

I get home every night and put it back into 2 piles. She then changes it every day.

I measured it yesterday and 'the tower' was
20 inches high.

AIBU or do people have 'towers' on their coffee table?

Riven - pleased to hear that.

you don't need to dust the frigging bedroom if you're having a dinner party though! (unless it's one of them more interesting parties I guess.....).

We used to clean the 2 large bathrooms, large lounge, small lounge and large dining room at work in about an hour (including dusting and hoovering under chair cushions ) and changing the table clothes (and it was a huge care home where those places weren't all next to each other.

I see someone has mentioned 4hrs to change the beds.

If you've got enough money to have a huge house then surely you've got enough bedding to not need to get the sheets back on the bed that day? So - 4 beds, 1/2hr.

and dusting doesn't really take that long anyhow - even in a huge house......unless you're polishing every single time as well.

Mind lifes too short even for dusting round here

oh and if it's making beds - well 4 beds - 15 minutes (even if sheetss rather than duvets)

We have plenty of bedding, but the bedding which was washed does need to be ironed. We have a very large bed (larger than a superking) with 2 duvets on in the winter (one in the summer), 8 normal pillows, and 2 large square ones, plus DSs beds, and if we have guests, a fourth bed. That is quite a bit of bedding to wash and iron.

Yes, my bed is a bit extreme, but I have ALWAYS been into bedding and pillows (I had 5 pillows on my uni single bed). My quirk, and DH has always loved the way I have made beds and is willing to faciliate it being the way I like it.

I'm very picky about dusting because I am allergic to it, so it needs to be done very thoroughly, and often.

yes but even ironing it and putting new ones on doesn't take 4hrs. It takes all of 30 seconds to put the washing machine on!

Thoroughly or not - unless you're polishing still doesn't take that long. Pillowcases take 10 seconds to iron - which only leaves a couple of sheets and duvets - which even I can do reasonably quickly.

sofaqueen your cleaning list is not dissimilar to mine actually (tho I only dust 1x a week) but there is no way it takes me 4 hrs a day.

An hour a day, max, plus maybe an hour of ironing every 2-3 days.

Mind you I don't have 8 pillows on the bed (only 2 people in mine )

Mind you as I have noticed before, and indeed observed on here, I do things rapidly. Must be my professional training

the remark about 2 people in my bed, suggesting you have more in yours, is a joke, obviously

(well you never know with MN atm)

You've already been told the answer about 5 times. Once again, 4 HOURS IS TOO MUCH. You're spending £10,000 a year on this. That would be about right for a 8 bedroom house, all rooms being used, all with en-suites. I used to run a domestic cleaning company with 150 clients and 11 staff. I know this stuff.

If you're in someone else's house for 4 hours every day, of course it will start to feel like your own a bit. Of course you will start to "take over". Of course you would start forming opinions about where stuff should go.

"She is very good" - Of course she is, she spends 20 hours a week doing a job which should take maybe 5 or 6.

Doesn't the fact that she is putting your stuff away and arranging your books into towers suggest the actions of someone who has too much time on their hands?

You've had your answer. Act on the advice or ignore it and stop complaining.

hf12...
You said you were going to post the pics of the towers.
Where are the towers?
I want to see the towers!
I have been enjoying your threads enormously.I love a bit of mischief making.

Lol at this thread. I like hf - ever since she came on a thread about apeeding on the mototrways and said something like 'I regularly drive in excess of 150 miles an hour' I thought she was a good value MNer

Lol at Yachting World and towers of books. You should be grateful that cleaner doesn't tastefully arrange your magazines in a fan-like fashion.

My favourite cleaner story is the one where they stopped cleaning because my house was too dirty and my kids 'disrespected' my house by making it messy.( I was living away and 'kids' were late teens/twenties) I had cleaners because I have messy kids.
I have had lots of cleaners. Most of them have been either lazy or bonkers or both. My partner has very good cleaners who can't do enough for him and his house is always spotless. My last cleaners perceived me to be rich and lazy and therefore abused me by not cleaning properly (or at all, really). I do my own cleaning now. I don't think cleaners like cleaning for women but don't mind cleaning for men.

I have a lovely cleaner (and I am female) but she doesn't come for 4 hours/ day. We are not that dirty!

Wind up

the cleaner here does ALL what your cleaner does in a pretty big house in London

today she did my ironing as well (my own clothes as well as the childrens)

she does 4 hours 3 times a week and the house is always immaculate