Maid Mistake- MAD!

When I was in college I had a bar box table that I paid cheap money for but then paid to have recovered. My roommates ruined that cloth in a month. Spilled drinks, burn marks, food, even vomit... just gross.

I recovered the table, got a heavy duty cover for a 9 foot table (for the extra overhang), had a guy in Juarez (was going to UTEP) put some grommets into the edges for 5 bucks, and ran a cable through the grommets and padlocked the cover so tight around the legs of the table you couldn't get it off.

Maybe a bit of overkill for your needs. :) Just get a cover for your table and tell the cleaning service to stay away from it.
 
jalapus logan said:
For what it's worth, John Brumback sprays his entire pool table cloth down with Pledge on a regular basis. I've seen him do it. He swears by it. I can say that it does make the table play faster. He holds the can about 2 feet above the bed and sprays it as evenly as possible.

Note, I don't do it myself though, as I can't bear the thought of it.
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I know another player who also does this to speed the table up and mess with others.
 
Not a bad idea if you want the balls to slide. The problem here is the can had one of those modern type nozzles where the stuff sprays out of the cap. The stuff collects on the cap than evenutally a big goober spits out and stains the colth. Use only old style can/nozzles.
 
You can use the Woolite two ways. With each, dilute with water. Either use a clean sponge and use the Woolite to clean the spot or put it in a spray bottle. You may need to get the cloth fairly wet to pull the pledge out. The Woolite will not hurt the cloth as it is for wool. Let the cloth dry naturally after using a clean towel to wick up as much moisture as possible.

I clean my cloth every six months willl Woolite. It is great to have the real clean cloth and it keeps the cloth tight on the table as it will shrink it eash time you use it. I think it helps the cloth last longer as well.
 
So, if you don't ask them to do the Basement "which they don't usually include" then there wouldn't be pledge on the table and no post.

Is that correct?

Are you or your partner disabled where you can't clean the basement yourself? That's the best answer, if you have an area with a high value, or something like a pool table which you don't want touched, cover it and put a big note on printer paper PLEASE DON'T TOUCH. And make a few hours on the weekend where you go down and clean the basement yourself. Is that possible, or no?


Black-Balled said:
so...yesterday was maid day at our house and we double the bi-weekly ding for them as a Christmas bonus. We do ask them to do the basement, which they don't usually include.

Our pool table is down there and they got Pledge on the cloth. I am pretty pissed about it, but the table did need recovering about a year ago. I am sitting on a text to the lady who runs the show, letting her know that the error could cost ~$500 to correct, but I am not going to ask her to pay the cost.

Worried that she will respond defensively and stop providing her services. We have a decent rate that has not changed is 5+ years. I cannot recall a time when they failed to show up without rescheduling and they do a better job than I would.

With the cloth in its current state, not such a big deal. But it cannot happen again, especially once the cloth is replaced.

Can anything good come from my telling her of her crew's error? Should I keep it to myself or tell her?
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Was it that Phantom you took me for a ride in?

What a loss.



alstl said:
My maid did something similar. She was polishing my vintage Rolls Royce and accidentally got some of the polish on my Mercedes Benz. I was going to give her one of my Balabushkas for Christmas but she can forget it now.

From now on only the butler touches my cars.
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I had a cleaning service for over 20 years and also played my share of pool. That stain looks like someone set the bottle of oil, like liquid gold, and it absorded into the cloth. Pledge also has an oil product. Never suppose to set your supplies on any furniture for that reason. Next you will see wet rings on your wood furntire where the glass cleaner has be set. I would let her know for your sake, her sake and all of her other customers sake.
 
tommyceilings said:
So, if you don't ask them to do the Basement "which they don't usually include" then there wouldn't be pledge on the table and no post.

Is that correct?

Are you or your partner disabled where you can't clean the basement yourself? That's the best answer, if you have an area with a high value, or something like a pool table which you don't want touched, cover it and put a big note on printer paper PLEASE DON'T TOUCH. And make a few hours on the weekend where you go down and clean the basement yourself. Is that possible, or no?
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Of course I can clean, but why would I?

I don't have an issue with them cleaning the table, but I think it is reasonable to not expect the cloth to have Pledge dripped on it. Not sure they read English anyway.

The reason the maids were in the basement is because we double the money we give when they clean at xmas. We feel we might as well ask for the extra cleaning to add a little value to the money we are going to spend anyway.
 
I would just let them know that you do not want them touching the table and just do it yourself, its just wiping down the rails anyway.
 
inside_english said:
...trying to get over the fact that you have a maid...;)
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That's funny. This is exactly what has been stuck in my mind as I read the thread.

Anyway, certainly let them know that in the future clean the basement but not the pool table. Explain why and let it go.

Then, call your insurance co and see if something like this is covered.

That's what I'd do anyway.

On second thought, you might as well check with the butler, maybe he knows how to re-cloth the table. :thumbup:
 
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3andstop said:
That's funny. This is exactly what has been stuck in my mind as I read the thread.

Anyway, certainly let them know that in the future clean the basement but not the pool table. Explain why and let it go.

Then, call your insurance co and see if something like this is covered.

That's what I'd do anyway.
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What would be funny is cleaning my own house when I can pay $85 to have a crew come over and do what would likely take me about a whole day to do solo!

The table needed recovering anyway, so I am not gonna chase the maids away by going after them for the mistake.
 
Black-Balled said:
What would be funny is cleaning my own house when I can pay $85 to have a crew come over and do what would likely take me about a whole day to do solo!

The table needed recovering anyway, so I am not gonna chase the maids away by going after them for the mistake.
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Get Granito Basalt, electric blue, this time, B-B.

...and having a non-player cleaning the table is NOT a good idea.
If a maid knows what '2, hit and the pick' means.....
....she can clean my table.
 
bigshooter said:
If they have done a solid job for a good price for all those years I would overlook it and not say a thing. Cover the table when they clean the basement, problem solved IMHO.
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+1, good answer Bigshooter.

I think it's cool though that you put some thought and concern into how you approach it. I would tell them in the future though that the table in not on the list of items to clean!
 
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