We're moving out but want to find our cleaner a job

[macmac]

Hi all

We currently live in Streatham Hill but my cleaner will travel as she also cleans for a friend in Penge. She's a lovely Ukranian lady and as of January we are moving to Kent so will no longer have a job for her. I would love to find a job to replace us with as I think she is such a nice person and works REALLY hard. She is amazing with my kids as well and will cluck over them when she sees them. She's also really thoughtful and bought them some little presents for them on their birthday. She is a mother too but her kids are young adults. She currently cleans for me once a week for 4 hours at ?10 an hour. She would most likely do ironing etc but I have never asked her as our I just need her to clean! Would anyone like to take her on from Jan? She comes on a Tuesday from 9 until 1pm. I haven't told her we are leaving yet but wanted to tell her that I had found another job for her. She doesn't speak much Emglish but we still muddle by and I've got know her quite well over the last year. I initially used google translate to show her what I needed doing which she really appreciated! I would ask friends but everyone I know who wants a cleaner has one.

Please let me know and I can talk more and give details. Thanks very much

[Joannajaneforesthill]

Hi there!

We're looking for a cleaner (in forest hill) to start in February, for 4-8 hours a month.

Do you think this would work?

Ideally we'd wNt someone to clean on a Friday.

Thanks

[macmac]

Hello!

Thanks for replying. I'll be honest - I'm not sure that this is enough for her and she's looking for a weekly slot. She currently does 16 hours a month approx for us so ideally I'd love to find her the equivalent. Of course the new person has to like her and vice versa so nothing is set in stone but I want to be able to give her the bad news and then the good news of a contact and a smiliar job etc.

Re the day it would be something you'd have to negotiate with her as I'm not sure what else she does other than clean for my friend on a Monday in Penge. Is there anyway you would want weekly rather than monthly? I know we pay her ?40 and that is quite a lot but even if it was ?30 I think she'd be OK with that.

I will bear this in mind but if it's OK I'd like to try and find a bit more for her.

[Beryl20]

Once a week: yes. 4 hours @ 10 an hour: yes. January: yes. I even speak passable Russian, so language not an issue. BUT: we are on the East Dulwich/Peckham Rye border (closest train Peckham Rye), wouldn't it be too far for her?

...Looking for a new cleaner, because our current one keeps letting us down: not turning up without as much as an explanatory text and her cleaning leaves a lot to be desired.

Maggie

[macmac]

Maggie

I'm sure she would love to take this job - she travels anywhere and is VERY reliable. I have never known her NOT turn up and if she can't make it - there's only been one occasion - we rearranged and it was fine. I am seeing her on Tuesday and want to tell her - I will send you a personal message with her mobile no once I've done this if you are OK with this? I would be sooo happy if you took her on. She would love it if you can speak to her in Russian too - she's so sad about what's happening in the Ukraine and I try to talk to her but it's so hard! She's really warm and kind.

Thanks sooooo much - you've made my day!!!

[Beryl20]

Hi again:

RELIABLE and THOROUGH is what we're looking for (no ironing, by the way).

We don't mind which weekday, or what time of day the cleaning happens as long as it DOES, once a week, bar genuine once-in-a-blue-moon emergencies. Nor do we mind waiting for her till after the New Year: we have persevered with our current arrangement for over a year, so another six-eight weeks won't matter as long as we can see the light at the end of this particular tunnel and also so that we can give our cleaner a decent length of notice. Our current cleaner has simply taken too much on and isn't coping. One of her jobs is looking after somebody's children; as you can imagine, every school holiday her schedule with us falls apart.

We'd only take on a recommended cleaner - this being a private house - but our friends' cleaners are all fully booked and we haven't viewed turning to a cleaning agency for help as an option. You obviously treasure your cleaner and have gone to the trouble of advertising on her behalf, so I see this as a recommendation.

The house is a typical terraced Victorian affair: 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a large sitting room, a medium sized kitchen. it's situated between Peckham Rye station and East Dulwich Rd.

4 hours a week @10 an hour is what we've been paying, so no problems there.

We are a household of 3 tidy-ish professional women (no children) who would rather pay a cleaner to do the loos than discuss "whose-turn-it-is."

We all have (coincidentally and serendipiteously; not the reason why we share the house) Polish backgrounds and we all can speak a smattering of Russian, or at least understand quite a bit of it. Even though the language of the house is English, we all could communicate with your lady in some form of pidgin Polo-Russian (I'm FAIRLY certain!)and I, for one, would welcome the opportunity to practise my linguistic skills, gulp.

So this is what your lady would be letting herself in for.

We're not time wasters, we are genuinely interested, so please do have your Tuesday conversation with your lady and let me know the outcome!

Maggie

[macmac]

Hi Maggie

I will speak to her on Tuesday and then PM you. She is thorough and I'm very happy with what she does. I got her through my friend so she was a recommendation. We are a family of 5 so the house is quite big 3 floors - 5 beds, 2 baths plus downstairs and she does a great job in the time. I always love coming home on the days she cleans. It makes my job so much easier as all I do for the rest of the week is hoover the odd time when my kids feel like being messy, which is most of the time!

Will be in touch and thanks once again

[Beryl20]

This sounds excellent.

I may cry for joy if everything works out!

Thanks again, I'll wait for your DM.