Bit of a rant here,
And I'll preface this by saying that only women do this. Men keep out of the way or will go out to leave you space to clean. Maybe women feel some sense of embarrassment at needing a cleaner, I don't know.
Anyway...
When your cleaner is present and especially if the kitchen is something they clean on their visits, do not:
- Make hot drinks
- Put the dishwasher on
- Put laundry on
- Make a hot, cooked meal
- Try to "tidy up" or "clean off sides".
- Put clean crockery away
- Sort out old clothes
- Do any sorting of anything.
The reality is that many if not most people have a cleaner because they do not have the time or skill to clean properly. When you try to get ahead of me when I am there and you're not doing it properly, it wastes my time and your money when I have to wait, or do it properly after you. Anything you wanted to do should have been done before I got there. Anything left, I will sort. That is why you have a cleaner.
Please, keep out of the way in one room, or go right out of the house.
I'm about to tell someone that I won't be coming back as their wife won't stop doing this and she's now at home all the time.