And Merry Maids for the win

[klwilliams]

A few months ago I hired a housecleaning service called The Maids to come do a deep cleaning on my house. This is fairly standard for a service like this, as they like to get everything to a good baseline before starting regular service. The Maids did a good job, but there were some weirdnesses. They dusted behind the books in the bookcase, then pushed all the books back up against the back of the case. Wrong. Also, as I've mentioned before, the turtles like to leave red smears on my white carpet. I'd tried to clean the carpet before The Maids cleaned, using one rug cleaner that had worked at my old house, but this time didn't work. The Maids left the stains there.

Today, The Merry Maids did a deep cleaning. Not only was everything spotless and in its place, they also cleaned the spots in the rug without being asked. Hooray! I've hired them to clean once a month. I'm very pleased.

Comments

[galeni.livejournal.com]

You don't push your books to the back so you can double-stack?

Good housecleaning is invaluable. You're very smart.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Excellent. Sometimes it is just a question of adjusting to each other.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

On the shelves that I double stack, I put a 4"x 4" against the back of the shelf and stack books on top of and in front of it, spine out, thus giving me two levels of books - essentially an extra shelf. That way I can see everything on the shelf and get to it easily.

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful to come home to a clean house!

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

There's nothing like coming home to a clean house that you didn't have to clean. That leaves your energy for other things, including special projects that you cannot have others do.

[helblonde.livejournal.com]

Ah, sweet housecleaners, how do we love thee? Let us count the ways.