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[quote=Anonymous]I think you should definitely ask, or have your husband insist. Blame everything on your allergies, which is probably true: it's the dog and not the grime. You can't really be allergic to grime, OP, because if the dander is trapped you can't breathe it in. So don't tell them that :-) Tell them the dog dander is trapped in the house and only a deep clean can get rid of it.

The issue is... I think there is a high likelihood they might refuse. Older people are really set in their ways, and if they don't have a cleaning service already, they may be part of the large number of elderly folk who just don't want strangers in their house. My parents hate having strangers in their home. They got rid of their one and only housecleaner when I was a young teenager, saying they didn't really need her and didn't trust her. They grudgingly accept the visits of a physical therapist, because it was prescribed for my father's serious chronic disease. But a cleaner? I've been pushing for years and they keep refusing. My mother is also very frail and would benefit from the services of the same therapist, but even though he comes twice a week for my father, she hasn't mustered up the courage to ask him if he can work with her as well! I mean, they're really far gone in their little asocial bubble...

I'm wondering what they'd do if I hired a cleaner to come to their house as a "surprise". Would they freak out? I think they would. But it's to getting the point where I might just have to do that.

Anyway. Best of luck, and if they refuse to clean the house, stay in a hotel and only do very short visits. [/quote]

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