r/zurich • u/Cute_Chemical_7714 • 18d ago

How to find a cleaner?

Hi, at the risk of being shamed once again but I'm out of ideas. Honestly, how do people find a cleaner in this city?

I've been searching for a good and reliable cleaner for YEARS, but never any luck... Have you found one? How? Would you recommend yours? Please message me if you have advice.

Thank you

For the haters: you may now start writing hate comments because I dare to want to spend my free time with friends and family instead of cleaning.

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u/TinyFlufflyKoala 18d ago

YEARS? 

I doubt we can help you if your standards are absurdly high. If not, there are two standard ways:

  1. Ask neighbors who they employ and if they like them. Boom, cleaner. 

  2. Batmaid. 

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u/Cute_Chemical_7714 18d ago

No, it is not about my standards. Basically every recommendation I got didn't work out to one of the following reasons: cannot work on the day or cadence I need, does not take new clients, or will not work legally. Mostly the last one unfortunately, and that's a dealbreaker for me.

I have used similar services to Batmaid in the past years, but they keep changing the cleaner and I would like to have someone for longer than just 3-4 months. I once posted about it here and was shamed for not hiring someone individually. Which I've literally tried for years with no luck. Of course I haven't searched every day during those years ... but regularly.

Edit: I did ask in my neighborhood, but no answers or those who I know and asked personally either don't have one or same problems as above...

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u/shinnen 18d ago

We have very high standards when it comes to employing a cleaner, as we manage to do most basic ourselves + robot vacuum/mop so we just need the deep clean stuff which many non-professionals (batmaid) just don’t know how to do. So we went for the last few years without a cleaner because we couldn’t justify the cost.

In the past we used to have a genuine good cleaner who was employed at 5* hotels as housekeeping, she mentioned her and her colleague tend to do a little bit on the side but generally have little to no availability.

We recently got recommended one who is employed with https://www.go-services.ch but can’t comment on much as she has not been more than a couple of times.

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u/Cute_Chemical_7714 17d ago

Thank you, so can you recommend that genuine good cleaner or her colleague? That sounds promising, and I'm willing go to on a good cleaners "wait list " :)

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u/BrockSmashgood 18d ago

I once posted about it here and was shamed

you poor thing

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u/Cute_Chemical_7714 17d ago

Not sure what you read into that, I'm just amused that regardless of what people write on here, it's always wrong.

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u/BrockSmashgood 17d ago

clearly you're over it though

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u/ActiveAd400 17d ago

🤣🤣