Regular cleaning is something that we in England have grown accustomed to. As a mother of four, as you know I am entitled to a government pension and that's fantastic, but taking care of 4 children is not an easy task by any means. My oldest is now 11 years old, but my youngest is my daughter which is 2 years old and she's a handful. I "can't wait" for my oldest son to go into puberty, that's going to be a blast. Ever since my second child was born, my husband has always been such a sweetheart and has always told me to get a cleaner to help around the house. This is why we started looking for regular cleaners that could be of help to me while I was busy with my second baby. The truth is that I didn't really need the cleaners that much back then, as I had a enough time to manage our home easily. I wasn't going to pass on the opportunity though, as we were stable financially and there was no real reason not to use the services of a cleaning company.
That's how we employed our first regular cleaning lady. She was a really nice lady from Poland that we got a hold of through our neighbors. Her name was Layla, or at least that's how she introduced herself. Throughout the first two years of our contract if you could even call it that way, everything was fantastic, she worked well and my home in Banbury, looked and smelled fantastic. We even recommended her to other people and they were impressed as well. I didn't think that we'll have any problems with her, until on the 3rd year we found out she was steeling from us. We caught her because my husband kept leaving money in his work pants and at one point he asked if I was the one taking them from him. We were so disappointed from her and although we probably should have told the police, we spared her that, because of the good work she did for us.
That was really a bummer, but I was already pregnant with my 3rd child and things were about to get real hard at home. With my husband being on work throughout Europe all the time, I needed to get some sort of help at home and unfortunately Banbury isn't really known for the thousands of cleaning companies, so our options were limited.
The second cleaner we found
As I mentioned finding cleaners might not be an easy experience if you live like me in Banbury, but it probably is if you live in a city such as London or Birmingham. We were able to get a new cleaner with the help of my mother in law. She asked around her wealthier friends, because apparently people in Banbury don't really require cleaners as much as I thought, but at the end, we finally got a new cleaner to come to our 4 bedroom house. Although we looked everywhere from Yellow Pages to the Banbury Chamber of Commerce we simply didn't find what my mother in law did with a bunch of her firends. The new cleaner they send us was really great, but she worked for a company and wasn't available all the time. I thought that it will be easier to use a company cleaner, but it turned out to be harder, because if I need her ASAP, I need to contact the office of the company first and get a hold of her through them.
This is the reason why I didn't really like working with her even though the work she did for us was splendid.
Just a couple of years ago, when these so called "New age cleaners" arrived I thought to myself. This is the absolute worst that could happen. There was this company called Mopp that I was told about, by my friend in London. Then there was Hassle and a bunch of others, that I, a simple Banbury girl couldn't use even if I wanted to. Not that I did want, knowing that it will combine the two worst things, but I would have done it just for the test. The closest I could find to their business model was a local company which had a system similar to the one offered by Mopp and Hassle. It was still a local company, which worked for a large company or something like that. I found them on the web searching for end of tenancy cleaning Banbury, actually, as when this happened me and my husband were just relocating to another home on the other part of the town.
That's how we employed our first regular cleaning lady. She was a really nice lady from Poland that we got a hold of through our neighbors. Her name was Layla, or at least that's how she introduced herself. Throughout the first two years of our contract if you could even call it that way, everything was fantastic, she worked well and my home in Banbury, looked and smelled fantastic. We even recommended her to other people and they were impressed as well. I didn't think that we'll have any problems with her, until on the 3rd year we found out she was steeling from us. We caught her because my husband kept leaving money in his work pants and at one point he asked if I was the one taking them from him. We were so disappointed from her and although we probably should have told the police, we spared her that, because of the good work she did for us.
That was really a bummer, but I was already pregnant with my 3rd child and things were about to get real hard at home. With my husband being on work throughout Europe all the time, I needed to get some sort of help at home and unfortunately Banbury isn't really known for the thousands of cleaning companies, so our options were limited.
The second cleaner we found
As I mentioned finding cleaners might not be an easy experience if you live like me in Banbury, but it probably is if you live in a city such as London or Birmingham. We were able to get a new cleaner with the help of my mother in law. She asked around her wealthier friends, because apparently people in Banbury don't really require cleaners as much as I thought, but at the end, we finally got a new cleaner to come to our 4 bedroom house. Although we looked everywhere from Yellow Pages to the Banbury Chamber of Commerce we simply didn't find what my mother in law did with a bunch of her firends. The new cleaner they send us was really great, but she worked for a company and wasn't available all the time. I thought that it will be easier to use a company cleaner, but it turned out to be harder, because if I need her ASAP, I need to contact the office of the company first and get a hold of her through them.
This is the reason why I didn't really like working with her even though the work she did for us was splendid.
Just a couple of years ago, when these so called "New age cleaners" arrived I thought to myself. This is the absolute worst that could happen. There was this company called Mopp that I was told about, by my friend in London. Then there was Hassle and a bunch of others, that I, a simple Banbury girl couldn't use even if I wanted to. Not that I did want, knowing that it will combine the two worst things, but I would have done it just for the test. The closest I could find to their business model was a local company which had a system similar to the one offered by Mopp and Hassle. It was still a local company, which worked for a large company or something like that. I found them on the web searching for end of tenancy cleaning Banbury, actually, as when this happened me and my husband were just relocating to another home on the other part of the town.