Finding and Hiring a Good Housekeeping Service
Do you despise cleaning and find keeping a clean home a frustrating endeavor? Or are you a professional spending long hours at work or you have a large family and find it difficult to cope with the demands of work/family respectively which leave you with very little time to yourself, let alone anytime to spend cleaning your home? Or are you allergic to certain chemicals, which are often found in home cleaning supplies, or you find it difficult to perform certain cleaning tasks due to age or incompetence? If yes, then hiring a housekeeping service or maid is the perfect solution for you!
Now, the question is how and where to find and hire the best and most reliable home cleaning service or maid? If this is your first experience of looking for housekeeping services, then it is a good idea to ask your friends and relatives who already use a maid or home cleaning service about who they use. Ask them about how much they pay their maids or housekeeping staff and on what basis (monthly/hourly) and how often do they come to do their job.
You can also find a lot of home cleaning services both on the internet and also in your local directories. Some maids may work for themselves, but if this is your first experience of using a house cleaning service, then it is always best to go with a home cleaning company which employees many maids or cleaners and has been around for at least a few years now. Such companies usually take extensive references for their maids, as well as possibly check the criminal records and background of their employees before hiring them, so this will give you a sense of safety in the knowledge that your maid is trustworthy.
When you call or meet the house cleaning service ask them all the questions that you need to ask in order to be able to hire the most appropriate and reliable service for you. Here is a list of some other questions you must get the housekeeping service provider to answer before you hire them:
• Ask them for references and check the references to make sure that their previous customers have had a good experience with the company.
• Ask them if they check the backgrounds and criminal records of their employees before hiring them. Ask them to provide the particular name of the company who does their employee background check for them. If they cannot provide you with the name of the company, then the home cleaning service provider is not even directing employee check.
• Ask them if all their employees are bonded, insured and carry workers’ compensation. This is quite an important point which you as a customer need to be aware of.
• Ask and determine whether the company is insured. If the company does not have insurance and one of their employees gets hurt in your house, commits a crime or something gets broken then you are responsible for paying the damages and this will affect your homeowners insurance.
Jonathan Trott is a shrewd consumer who loves writing on consumer and personal deals topic such as Maids, house cleaning service and housekeeping services.
