My husband and I will be away on a week when we have a regularly scheduled cleaning. Our housecleaners often come and go without us here, but when we leave for more than a day or two we shut the house down and it’s too complicated for someone else to open it up and then shut it back down. What do you expect from your clients when they leave for vacation, or for other reasons can’t have them come in and clean? I’ve considered asking for a make-up day in December, when I could use extra help anyway, so they aren’t losing income. But I am open to any thoughts, including just paying them for the missed service. To note, they’re very busy so I’ll give them two months notice. I know it’s common practice to just call it a skip, they don’t come in and I don’t pay them, but surely they budget for the income they think they’re going to have, just like anyone else does, and they can’t just run out and get a client to fill a 2 1/2 hours hole in their schedule. Thanks for any experience/thoughts you can share.