We hired tidy a month in advance for a cleaning service we would need this weekend. We filled out their forms and indicated the areas we wanted cleans per the app and instructions. We even took rooms off of the cleaning service that were not needed, and items on each of the room to reduce the amount that needed to be clean focusing on specific issues.
Immediately upon booking we were given a cleaning person. Who somehow had a "family emergency" that they knew about a month in advance. That's fine we were given someone else by the name of Olga.
Assuming that we filled out the questionnaire and creating a map of our home and indicated what needed to be cleaned, confirmed a cleaning person, and receive no other communication we thought everything was fine.
Upon arrival the woman, Olga, was immediately reticent to complete the service. We are in a 950 square-foot two bedroom two bath home. Only one bedroom need to be cleaned. And we do not have a separate kitchen dining room living room they are pretty much run together as one room. It is a small home.
She spent over an hour mopping the bedroom floor, but not moving any of the rugs, and only cleaning part of the bathroom. She then complained about how long it took her to just clean those two things. I have done this myself we do not have a lot of items, the dusting and vacuuming is 30 minutes top. She supposedly scrubbed the shower but there is still cleaning dusting products everywhere. If it was scribed it was not rinsed yet she ran the water for 15 minutes.... The sink is clean, the toilet is clean, but the cabinets were not dusted and there are still cobwebs behind things.
The floor of the bedroom was mopped, but the rubs were not moved, and the corners and behind things are not dusted.
The list then begins to expand from there. She left exactly at 4:30 which was 2.5 hours that she was here. She did not do the tubs, she did not wipe the cabinets, she only cleaned half of the windows, she did not dust any of the fans or any of the requests we had on our list. There is dust on top of the doors, and the baseboards around the house were uncleaned. She was short and had no stool or ladder, so some things are only half wiped; And clearly she used the same rag to wipe surfaces, and things like television screens because there are smears on everything!
She did not refer to the list. She then became angry about the list and suggested that Tidy did not know what it was doing. She said she was only hired to "tidy up" not clean. We paid $150 or more! I left 3 hours of work to make this happen!
She did items that I asked her specifically not to do and we're not checked on the list, which she scoffed at, such as the dishes; however even then she did not put them anywhere that they actually belong for some reason putting cups with bowls and plates with cups. It actually was a little disturbing as she didn't do what I asked, did what she wanted, including things I asked her not to do, and then put them in the wrong place clearly having opened both cabinets.
She rapidly left and then suggested I hire her on a Friday when she has time off to do "personals," so she coils get all the money... I don't know who's house she cleans but it is clearly not done right.
When I complained to tidy they gave me a $15 credit for another service. They did not address my issues. They asked me to leave a review and a positive comment about the woman who cleaned the house. And there's no way in hell that I'm going to ever hire them again. This was the worst cleaning service I've ever had in my life. And my adult life is almost 30 years. This is a terrible expensive and overrated service do not go to them read more