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8 Bad Habits to Avoid When Hiring A Hamptons House Cleaning Service
Everyone knows that getting your house cleaned is up there on the list of ways to pamper yourself. You don’t have to lift a finger while a crew comes in and cleans your home from top to bottom and better than you can imagine! Cleaning your home is just a chore to you but to your cleaning service it is their career. The next time your house cleaning service comes to your home try to keep these 8 things in mind to make their lives a little easier!
1. No Notice Cancellations
If you are a upstanding Hamptons house cleaning service you have a regular schedule that you try your best to keep. To keep your schedule on track there are many things you need to do but the most important is plan ahead. If you call the day of or even the night before to cancel you have now changed the schedule for the next day and arrangements need to be made. At C’s we put our schedules together a week in advance and we greatly appreciate that our clients let us know in advance when they need to cancel. As a business we do realize that emergencies do come up and do our best to accommodate our clients. If you need to cancel a cleaning date it is appreciated if we are given as much notice as possible.
2. Calling For a Same Day Cleaning
This ties in with number 1; during the winter it may be possible to fit you in on the same day in the Hamptons. However in the summer this is almost impossible, which happens to be when we get most of these calls. The Hamptons area experiences a huge bump in business during summer months. Once again, we understand that things happen and last minute decisions require calls at the last minute. The problems that can arise when calling last minute include: service quality, price, and special requests. If we have never cleaned your home before we have no idea how long it will take and that affects the price of your cleaning. If you tell us you only want a certain amount of time and our cleaning technicians think they need more to leave your home up to our standard we cannot guarantee that the home will meet our standards. When we welcome a new client into our company we get to know them on a personal level; whether they like their towels folded in half or in thirds, if they want their bed tucked under or not, and which items to pay special attention to. If you need a last minute cleaning we may not be able to give you the service that we give our regular clients, with special care to your every need.
3. Special Requests
We love special requests from our clients but we may not be able to complete them if they are not given in advance. When given notice about special requests we can allocate the time needed, we have had clients who could not understand why it takes longer to do extra requests. We now have forms for our clients to fill out, when they are not out we can complete any special requests and detail house cleaning projects.
4. Clutter, Clutter, and more Clutter!
Like many house cleaning services, we charge by the hour. If our cleaning technicians have to spend time picking up and putting various items away that can take away from the allotted time for the cleaning of your home. Of course if this is part of your regular cleaning, there is no reason to worry. Just keep in mind that in order to vacuum a floor properly the surface needs to be clear of items. This is where a catch-all basket could come in handy; instead of having your cleaning technician search for the home of an item they can simply place it in a catch-all bin. Dusting can also become time consuming if there are knickknacks covering furniture. These are just some things to keep in mind if you are on a budget for your house cleaning service.
5. My home should only take a couple hours to clean…
This is a huge issue we run into. There is a difference between cleaning your home yourself and having a house cleaning service come in. A Hamptons house cleaning service is professionally trained to clean your home from top to bottom. I remember when I first started working for C’s and I thought I knew how to clean; I didn’t. There are so many things that get overlooked when cleaning your own home, simply because the thought doesn’t occur to you. We are all trained to know what could easily get overlooked. For a detailed description what a cleaning service offers take a look at our Green House Cleaning.
6. Our “clean” is on a whole different level.
Clean Definition by Google – “Free from dirt, marks, or stains.”
Clean Definition by C’s – Absence of dirt, sand, dust, and disinfected of daily germs having surfaces sparkle. Resulting in that “Ahhh, time to relax” feeling. Warning: May cause free time to appear.
A Hamptons house cleaning service will come in and clean your home from top to bottom in a single visit where typically household chores get done on a daily basis to avoid being overwhelmed. When different chores get done each day certain things can get overlooked unless you have a routine down. Things such as baseboards, ceiling fans, light switches, trim around doors and windows, closet floors, under the stove, behind the bed, etc can get missed regularly but that is exactly where the dust and germs go to hide. This brings us to the next item…
7. We are Professional House Cleaning Technicians not maids.
Cleaning a house has become a science. Many surfaces cannot be cleaned by just any product without damaging the surface; wood floors have to be washed by a damp, not wet, mop to avoid damaging the floors. Our cleaning technicians have a “attack plan” for every house they walk into. We are trained to sanitize, protect, and clean. House Cleaning has become a skilled trade where the more you clean the faster and more precise you can clean. Certain things such as a pillow that is crooked, towel not folded properly, skewed picture frame, and even bottle labels not facing out start to make or break how a house is presented.
8. Talk about awkward!
When something goes missing in a house the maid is usually the first suspect. Over our 20 years in business we have run into this problem many times and it usually turns out in one of two ways:
1. It turns out they misplaced it themselves and later remember where they put it. Sometimes we get the phone call letting us know they find the item but other times when we arrive for the next scheduled house cleaning we notice that the item has been found.
2. Our crew stacks papers, remotes, and any other miscellaneous things to make the house look neater and it ends up in a pile on accident. The item is rarely far from where it started.
Please understand that we are part of a service industry and take our profession seriously and would never violate your privacy and trust by taking something of yours.
We would love to hear stories from other house cleaning services about their pet peeves! Leave us a comment!
