Cancelling Domestic Cleaning Contract

Cancelling Domestic Cleaning Contract

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Vaud

50,450 posts

155 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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OP, what does the contract say about liability?

It sounds like you remain the employer of the cleaner.. they are just the "sourcing service"?

Black_S3

2,669 posts

188 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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Tell them they haven't fulfilled their side of the contract by providing a cleaner when agreed in the contract so you're going elsewhere. If they bother getting funny, point out to them that trying to enforce the contract while failing to provide a cleaner for over a month is clearly going into this: http://www.which.co.uk/consumer-rights/regulation/...

I doubt you'll hear from them again.

Edited by Black_S3 on Wednesday 2nd August 22:51

dacouch

1,172 posts

129 months

Wednesday 2nd August 2017
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xxChrisxx said:
But it's not 40% for just an advert is it... It's a 40% premium for warranting and insuring the job.

So when they send a cleaner that lacks dexterity and smashes one's finest Ming Vase, one has recourse.
The chances are their insurance excludes claims for damage to the item being cleaned (At the time) as it is a common exclusion for Cleaning Contractors. It's possible to remove the exclusion for a fairly large extra premium and an excess of £500++

In my experience of the market, most cleaning contractors do not pay the extra unless they are required to by a lucrative contract that stipulates they must have it or they have had their fingers burnt on a large claim from a customer that was not covered due to the exclusion

romeogolf

Original Poster:

2,056 posts

119 months

Thursday 3rd August 2017
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Contract Cancelled

Thanks all for your replies. I've cancelled the contract and agreed to pay the first 13 weeks' fee of £77. A few personal issues were causing anxiety about the agreement and I wasn't comfortable with it, so paying the fee felt like good value to have one less thing to worry about.

SantaBarbara

3,244 posts

108 months

Thursday 3rd August 2017
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Why should you have paid that Fee when they had failed to deliver the agreed service on time?

herewego

8,814 posts

213 months

Thursday 3rd August 2017
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SantaBarbara said:
Why should you have paid that Fee when they had failed to deliver the agreed service on time?
They hadn't failed, OP asked for a cleaner once a fortnight starting in August and they offered one on the 2nd.

Edited by herewego on Thursday 3rd August 11:53

Joeguard1990

1,181 posts

126 months

Thursday 3rd August 2017
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I'd personally take them to the cleaners and make sure they iron out any issues.

I'll see myself out