Is there a cleaning service that will actually clean the floor?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. You are expecting too much out of low wage house cleaners if you want them in their hands and knees scrubbing your floor. That’s not reasonable.

Im the pp with cleaners that do this. I dont pay a low wage. Paid all through pandemic and they didnt come before getting vaccines. I have seen them do the floors with the towel etc. we have small tile areas and its pretty quick and very efficient. I alsso use a steam mop between their cleanings so its not completely filthh.

OP here. I would love to use a steam mop but I have some kind of vinyl planks. The house fills up with fumes if I try to steam mop.

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You need an old German grandmother to clean your house. Scrubbing floors on hands and knees is what my mother does. She also irons sheets. Unfortunately she’s not for hire.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. You are expecting too much out of low wage house cleaners if you want them in their hands and knees scrubbing your floor. That’s not reasonable.

I’m happy to pay more though I think I pay okay now. But how do I find cleaners who will actually get down and scrub the floor when nobody is home?

Have you told them you want the floors cleaned with a scrub brush? Or if they work through a company, call and ask if this service is available. I've cleaned houses in the past-I'm happy to clean the way the person employing me prefers, but I wouldn't know if you prefer a scrubbed floor or prefer a mopped floor (and would be annoyed that you had to pay for the extra time it took to scrub) unless you say something. It insulting to the cleaners to assume that they won't do the work as you have specified if you aren't in the home. I'll scrub a floor with a toothbrush if you are clear that's what you want and are willing to pay for the time.

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Homes around me have wood floors. Scrubbing like you describe would ruin them. Your cleaners are probably much more afraid you will complain about damage. I think you need to be clear about what you expect but be willing to pay more to get it.

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My brother did well in his television production career and was able to retire at 52. He is a weirdo clean freak and he now cleans houses for $30/hour cash. He gets into crevices you didn't know you had. He is booked solid. Too bad he is in San Francisco.

Ask around.

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You are not paying enough to get this type of cleaning. Go to ServiceMaster or ServPro for scrubbing on hands and knees.

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What type of floors? My kitchen has hardwoods…

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You will ruin the finish on hardwood this way. Our previous house we had to refinish because the obsessive previous owner mopped every single day. Also if you aren’t wearing shoes how on earth are your floors so dirty? Also why is everyone here obsessed with floors and shoes?

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My housekeeper did this, but she also took a LONG TIME. Like 2 hours to vacuum then 2 hours to mop.

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I was born in a country where floors are mopped daily with warm water and soap. But most people there have tile floors!

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I do my own cleaning. I have a Shark steam mop that gets the wood floors clean pretty well.

I agree with you that to get them very clean, you have to get down on your hands and knees. But I don't have time for this so only do this for the wood floors in our kitchen which get extra dirty.

It wouldn't have the same effect, but I'd love some kind of Roomba device to get things cleaner when I can't do it myself. But I am not sure if I'd find it worth the money or dont know what to buy .

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Just tell the cleaners you need the floors properly clean. I was having an issue with our cleaners leaving the wood floors dirty. They were mopping, but clearly not well, as a wet paper towel came up gray after wiping the floor right after they left. I told our guy this, politely, and just said that I need them to be actually clean. I don’t care if they are on their hands and knees or not but since then, the floors are clean.

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I love my o cedar spin mop for cleaning our wood floors. I use it with just a very mild detergent (Mrs Meyers). It does a great job and leaves very little water. It doesn’t do the baseboards but I don’t think that has to be done very often. I just do it when I have the mood.

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...and now I know why I don't outsource cleaning even at 300K HHI. I wash (no need to scrub) kitchen and bathroom floors weekly. High traffic wood floor areas also get a wash. Lower traffic wood floors only get washed (as in: move all furniture, take up rugs, wash floors) occasionally.

I agree that wood floors can't really withstand harsh treatment and scrubbing/washing.

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Anonymous wrote:I am convinced that no house cleaner gets on their hands and knees. Honestly, I’ve decided to keep cleaning my own house. There are other things I can outsource, and even though it takes forever and is a ton of work, I hate paying cleaners and then being frustrated by the job they do.

For floors, I sweep/vacuum/swiffer and then use the Bona wet jet floor cleaner. It does a fantastic job and getting a REALLY clean. Bonus that you can get washable, reusable pads for both the Bona mop and swiffer.

Is it absolutely necessary to clean floors on hands and knees? You do understand that this is not well suited to the human body.

I can’t think of another way to really scrub floors and get into all the corners and in the grooves of baseboards, etc. If there are amazing, easy to use/clean tools I don’t know about, I’d love to hear about those instead. But I’m sure my cleaners wouldn’t use those tools anyway.

Grooves of the baseboard? You aren't walking on the baseboard.