Clenaers

[Newname4now]

Will you be arranging for your cleaner to come back to work?
If so what if any arrangements are you making, other than to obviously be out.
I'm torn.
Had to keep working myself as have rest of household. Have continued to pay cleaner.
Concerned if I'm honest that I increase her risks of becoming unwell as well as the family.
What are you doing? If you are a cleaner what are your plans?

Some of the guidance published this evening says that specific guidance about some categories of workers including cleaners will be published later this week.
Mine is on standby to come back on Friday. She is young & healthy. We are 40s but otherwise healthy. The risks seem quite low for both of us.

I think I may hang on for the guidance then, thank you.

Also has to be balanced against how utterly crap our lives are with DH & I working 14+ hour days, 2 primary aged DC at home and none of our usual support structure in place. If I can gain back at couple of hours each week by no longer having to clean the loos and other essentials against the seemingly small risk increase, I'm going to go for it. It could make a big difference to how we get through the next few months

I certainly agree that we all need as much balance in our lives as possible. I hope it alleviates some pressure for you.

You could suggest disposable gloves as they walk through the door, face mask and glasses. Wearing 2 layers of clothing so when they leave the house they can remove top layer and put straight in a bag. No one being home while cleaner is in or everyone upstairs while she's downstairs and vice versa.

I'm not absolutely sure on this but in theory couldn't the virus be on every surface in the house and unless you touched it and then touched eyes, nose or mouth you wouldn't actually catch Covid-19? If it was on something moveable (carrier bag, bin etc) then that's slightly different and more along the lines of someone coughing or sneezing and the spray making it travel. Regularly washing hands with soap even gloves would also limit transfer within the house and to cleaner if it's in the house and not touching face should massively reduce the risk shouldn't it?