I booked a deep clean of my studio flat and an oven clean.
The quote for the deep clean was one cleaner for 5 hours. The cleaner called me to say they were finished after 3.5 hours. While cleaning had been done, I wouldn't call it a "deep clean": the cooker hood and kitchen blind were still thick with grease; laminate flooring in the bed area hadn't been cleaner at all; I'd cleared the top of the bathroom cabinet and fridge prior to the cleaner's arrival, but these had not been cleaned; and the tops of some doorframes had been missed. I ended up noticing and cleaning these areas myself over the next few days.
The oven clean was booked for the same day, but I got a call on the day to say the cleaner was ill and we re-booked it for the following week. In discussing the re-booking time, I said I had a supermarket order arriving 2-6pm, and that I didn't want it to clash as my kitchen is very small. I asked how long an oven clean would take and was told 1-2 hours Therefore we booked the clean from 12-2pm. The oven cleaner still hadn't arrived at 1:35pm, and as it would have clashed I had to cancel the booking, I asked to cancel it. There was some quibble about refunding me the £75 fee for the oven cleaning, but I did get an agreement the next day to refund it due to being advised to book the cleaning for 12 in order to avoid the clash with the delivery at 2.
While I understand that people get sick and sometimes bookings have to be re-scheduled at the last minute, and that traffic can cause delays, cancelling on the day, then being nearly two hours late for the rebooking and not at all proactive about letting the client know about it is a poor way to run a business. I'd also question their quality control process, as the deep clean was not to the standard I had hoped for. read more