Cleaning is not something that I particularly like doing. Cleaning is not something that I'm particularly good at. And cleaning, especially after 'holiday let' people, is not particularly the most pleasant job in the world.
Every Friday I clean two neighbouring holiday let properties.
I clean these because I was 'head hunted' by the owners. I've never been head hunted to do anything before so when these two owners approached me, obviously my self confidence was boosted to very high levels!!! They didn't even know if I could clean? I think they just thought, 'middle aged woman, living by herself, doesn't have anything better to do??? Cleaning holiday let properties in this town is very well paid - so I agreed.
Today cleaning two properties in the changeover time of 5hrs was a struggle. The holiday makers actually left at 9am so instead of the usual 10am-3pm changeover I had an hour extra. I needed it!!!
Property 1 was absolutely trashed.
The blind in the kitchen was broken and wouldn't pull up, most of the pillow protectors were very badly stained, there was more sand in the property than there was down at the beach, the oven, grill pan, tiles behind the cooker hob & most of the pans were caked in grease, the bins had all been emptied but then no bin liners had been replaced and so all the bins were full of horrible sticky stuff, the teapot was full of cold tea and teabags, haven't a clue how anyone could make a fridge/freezer so dirty but there were zillions of fingerprints on the outside and lots of 'spillages' on the inside, all the work surfaces everywhere were sticky and coffee or coke or something brown had been spilled all over the kitchen floor. Oh and the bath was the dirtiest I've ever seen it. Apart from all the sand in there, the bath sides and floor were filthy. Wish I'd taken some photos.
Property 2 on first appearances looked OK but........................
It would appear that the two teenage boys in there had been drinking beer and eating chips in the bedroom as I found the salt cellar in the bottom bedroom drawer and two half drunk bottles of beer next to the bed. Hope it was beer and they'd not been using the bottles to wee in???
The toilet flush was broken and they'd obviously just been taking the cistern lid off and faffing around with the insides of the cistern to flush it instead of reporting it to the letting agents.
There were lots of soft drink empty bottles under the beds, the sheets were....................... you don't actually want to know what the bedding was like?!
Amazingly the oven was quite clean - but the grill pan wasn't. There was so much grease in there that it took almost an hour to clean it.
It makes you wonder - do holiday makers actually live like this at home? Or do they just think - we're on holiday, whoopee doo - the cleaner can clean up all our crap????
'And if we break things it doesn't matter, cos we're going home and broken toilet flushes and broken blinds aren't our problem. Let's just leave them for the next holiday makers'.
Just as well I'm a very 'on the ball' cleaner isn't it?
I'd like to say that these items will be deducted from the holiday makers deposit - but they probably won't - because the holiday makers will deny all knowledge of ruining the above items.
It's the cleaner's word against their's.
................And as everybody knows - cleaners are the lowest of the low. Grrrrrrrrrr................
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