I can't do the "picked up" and you can't hire anybody for that, as far as I know. I vaguely remember there were lots of things my mom did, all of which smelled bad, after rooms were picked up, though, and I imagine it's at least as much work as the picking up process.
I've done that. My mom insisted for years that I could just hire someone. One agency agreed they'd send someone who would (they just put everything in the way of cleaning into the trash). Then we ended up hiring a hoarder cleanup company, who weren't as bad, but still not... helpful.
I cleaned hotel rooms for a large national chain for three or four weeks one summer and it nearly killed me. At the time I was a nineteen year old who ran about 40 miles a week.
It takes practice, and if you're doing 16 rooms a day, a lot of physical energy.
And if you've ever talked to a really great housecleaner about their job you know it also takes an eye for both detail and the big picture that takes years to hone. There are lots of jobs I think I could probably learn to do but cleaning houses isn't one of them
Yeah, this is also very true of hotel cleaning. We were expected to clean 16 rooms in 8 hours, but not every room took the same amount of time, and you didn't know what you were going to face behind each of those 16 doors. Tidy business traveler? Family of four that left popcorn everywhere?
I watched a couple videos of professional cleaners explaining what they do a while back and even after that and watching them do it, I was unable to replicate.
And I want to get back to the skill part: I'd never done it before, but most of the people I was working with had worked their way up to the national hotel chain from cheap motels (not that the pay was much better, but conditions were). You have to know how to budget your time and work efficiently.
Lol I'm pretty certain I'm bad at cleaning, but my grandma used to be a cleaner and even at the age of 99 her house is perfect and I could never...
Yeah confirmed, there is no "cleaning gene"
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It takes practice, and if you're doing 16 rooms a day, a lot of physical energy.
Yeah confirmed, there is no "cleaning gene"