u/Clean-Da-World

I completely stopped getting requests for about the past week. I figured it was due to the slow season.

Then I read on another thread (lost it, sorry) that you should try pausing and unpausing your account because of TR's glitchy, shitty system.

I did that not expecting much and literally 20 minutes later I got two new requests back to back after a week of nothing.

It could be a coincidence, but I kinda doubt it. Give it a shot if you're struggling with lack of requests and let me know how it goes.

Just got off the line with support. Not pictured is a screenshot of me having "apartments" in my skill preferences deselected, which I have for months now, since Mods won't approve picture post.

According to the support line, they have "no way to block apartment requests", and it's "not available in their system to do so". So why bother having this in their system?

I do cleanings in a major city. I dislike apartments usually because they're completely inaccessible, no parking, and I usually have to lug up my equipment up three flights of stairs. I just don't like them. I don't prefer them. So I have this handy box unchecked.

Lo and behold, 90% of the freaking requests I get are apartments. I additionally already have it stated clearly in my bio NO APARTMENTS so don't suggest that to me.

It's just annoying that they even offer this "option" and apparently according to the support employee it doesn't matter at all!

His suggestion was to move my "no apartments" into the first line of my bio. Yeah, I guess that'll help, but it's a bit rude, huh.

Scheduling error..?

Hey guys, there's this task I don't want to do for tomorrow at 10:30am. I asked the client to cancel for metrics but they of course have not responded

I want to wait it out and see if they cancel on their own before the task

I'm just curious because Taskrabbit says "schedule before 11:59pm tomorrow" but the task is literally for 10am tomorrow.

Basically, what will happen if I let the time pass for the scheduled task? Will it hurt me as long as I forfeit before midnight, even though the task is scheduled for that morning???

I just really want the client to cancel themselves 😭 but they just aren't doing anything lmao

New client suggested for next time I use a "good natural smelling spray to make the place smell fresh" when I'm done.

I've never used a product purely to make the place smell good after cleaning? The whole place is carpet, I'm thinking maybe getting one of those carpet powders that you put before vacuuming? Any other suggestions? Lol.

I'm a cleaner and I have my own housekeeping business as well.

I make it very clear in my bio I don't organize or declutter and that the house has to be picked up before I arrive. My basic scope is dusting, kitchen/bathroom, vacuum/mop and other deep clean tasks if requested like interior oven, windows etc.

I still get tons of people who book me and say "yes I need you to pick up all my kid's stuff in the living room and bedroom and also do my dishes and also reorganize something or another".

I also get lots of requests from people whose houses are straight up biohazard looking when they request which frankly, I don't deal with. Like hoarder level.

So I forfeit a lot of tasks. But then I saw somewhere cancelling too many tasks can get you booted from the platform. I never cancel tasks, I forfeit before I accept.

I understand that hurts my metrics -- that's fine, I still have my own regular clients.

But am I am risk for being DEACTIVATED for forfeiting too many tasks?

Thank you!

Especially if it's a larger building that has a parking garage someone has to open for you, seven flights to take the elevator up and then the clean often takes a shorter amount of time anyway so it's less money. Or god forbid no elevator and gotta climb up a flight of stairs. And all the spots are reserved so you have to park on the street. Idk, maybe I'm being weak and bitchy but I might stop doing apartments lol

Hey y'all, I recently started my own biz after leaving the company I started at.

I prefer a flat mop (not a spin mop) to use and I bought a cheap one from Amazon (sue me) and I broke tf out of it by pressing down too hard scrubbing lol.

Any recommendations for sturdy flat mops that won't break and take a microfiber cloth? Doesn't need to be collapsible

Hey y'all! To preface I worked for a few years for a very small cleaning company (one owner and two other cleaners including myself) and have recently started my own solo cleaning business.

The way I was trained and the way we cleaned showers was to rinse, scrub with Dawn and rinse sinks/showers.

The thing is we never dried them out after... just left it wet. OCCASIONALLY if it was like a dark tile wall in the shower we would buff it, and then of course obviously drying glass shower doors.

Lately though I've been seeing cleaning videos from other people where they dry all the sinks and tubs with a a microfiber from top to bottom. I'm just curious because we never went that far.... Many times just leaving the tubs/sinks/showers wet?

My question is, is that typical? Is it that big of a deal or should I start drying everything out?? I'm wondering because apparently no one ever had any complaints but I'm wondering if it's not a "perfect" standard? And if I should change my procedure.

Any other tips regarding shower cleaning and how you do it would be welcome as well :) just trying to expand my knowledge beyond that one company!

Thank you

Hello! I'm a new tasker and I do exclusively residential/commercial cleaning.

I have a job coming up that starts at 11:30am and I'm wondering if I include the time it takes to get up to the unit.

Let me explain. Access to the building is downtown in a major city in a large building with an expansive parking garage. The steps are as follows:

1. Park my car in the loading zone
2. Take elevator to 12th floor to retrieve key FOB and parking pass
3. Go back to loading zone, get my car and drive into the parking garage up 4 levels to reserved spot
4. Grab all my stuff and walk across to elevators and go back up to the unit

I already know this area is massive and crowded so I imagine it'll take me 10-15 minutes to do all of this before I actually start the task.

So, should I include this in the task time? Or just start my time when I actually make it through the door?

I only ask because when I did Rover it was common consensus to include this kind of "set up" in the job time, but I want to know if that's commonplace on this platform as well.

Thank you!

Hey guys! Let me start off by saying I have been in the industry for several years and recently decided to go off on my own as a solo cleaner.

I have tried Facebook groups, Nextdoor, and posting my flyers around town. Asked friends to let me know if they know anyone who needs a cleaning. Offered discounts for first-time clients. Have had an extremely difficult time finding clients. I won't bother getting into details, I knew when I started this would be hard.

So I'm interested in trying out Taskrabbit to maybe get clients. Has anyone tried this before? Is it reliable, worth it etc.?

I'm aware they take a fee and I'll probably have to be underpaid for a bit but again, it's just to get the ball rolling, exposure, etc.

Thank you.

THIS IS NOT A SOLICITATION! I am humbly asking for advice on locations that I can try to put my boots to the pavement to advertise my new small business.

I only recently learned it's illegal to put signage on telephone poles here (originally from Seattle lol).

I posted some flyers in the local Safeway's and QFC's on their community boards, as well as some dog parks. Library does not have a community bulletin board.

Unfortunately since I moved here not long ago, I don't actually have much of a "word-of-mouth" advantage yet, so I'm trying to go old school while I'm also setting up my social media, website, Google business profile, etc.

Anyone know where any community billboards are, or appropriate places to leave/hand out business cards? Would it be inappropriate to cold-call local spas, exercise studios, etc.? It's for a house-cleaning business if that matters (already so competitive ifykyk).

Also... how much do you guys hate door hangers?