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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had a housekeeper break the marble top on a $10,000 antique table in half purely because she was an idiot. We still didn't try to charge her. You need to say no and find a new job ASAP.[/quote]

No.  You were the idiot.  If you have an item that expensive then you either clean it yourself or hire an expert to clean the table.[/quote]

Then no one with antique furniture could ever have household staff ...
Homeowner's insurance covers this stuff, but at the 10K mark, you have to decide if it's worth it to make the claim and possibly lose your insurance.[/quote]Broke a marble table in half? How? Did she drop a piano on it?[/quote]

She tried to detach the marble top from the wood bottom to polish it. (Something we 100% never asked her to do; it never even occurred to me someone would think this was possible.) In trying to do so, she knocked the whole thing on its side and the marble split in half. It may have had some kind of undetected weakness previously to crack like that (we got it from my Grandma and it dates to the 1870s, apparently) or it may have just hit the floor at a really unfortunate angle (it dented out wood floor too). In any case, we didn't want our insurance to go up, so we didn't claim anything; we hired someone to essentially plaster glue it back together and, because of marble's natural color variations, it's not that noticeable unless you're standing over it (when it definitely is). [/quote]

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