Should certain workers be expected to clean up their mess at the end of the job?

We had a stucco guy come and fix cracks around our house. He left a mess of old stucco pieces and lots of drips of the new stucco all around our house, on our porch and on furniture that was around the house. Shouldn't clean up be included in the deal?
Should certain workers be expected to clean up their mess at the end of the job?
That subject should be covered in your contract.


Some of the mess you mentioned can be expected and I would not expect them to clean up every little piece, but it the deck and furniture were not covered prior to the work being done, that you should address this issue with them.



Reply:By and large, as a matter of principle, yes.





However it sometimes depends on the contractor, wether he has been paid or not, or if it was work done by the owner/operator or an employee/subcontractor.





If you have an actual contract instead of a handshake deal read it; it probably says "broom clean" in there somewhere. If it does hold them to it.





Either way a call to the company will probably bring someone back out to clean up the mess.
Reply:When that happened to my father I called the company and said, I know you needed to be somewhere right after you got done at my fathers, please don't forget you didn't have time to clean it up and you need to come back and do that as soon as possible. This gets the message across and yet doesn't accuse the man of being a slob or jerk. The guy was there that afternoon and cleaned it up very nicely and apologized to my dad.
Reply:No, unfortunately that's not included in the job.. apart from getting rid of boxes that thy brought and are not needed and stuff that's on the floor and needs to be thrown out.. they should remove that but for cleaning up the little bits.. no, that's not part of their job.. sad but true.. they are skilled workers but not cleaners...''
Reply:Ideally yes. If he is a small private company and he is the owner. Talk to him. If it' a larger company talk to his superior... let him know about the mess. They may not clean it perfectly to your standards, but an attemp is definately appreciated.
Reply:Yes, it would be the professional thing to do by picking up after himself. He should of left it like he found it.
Reply:yes, he should clean it up, if not, don't pay him till he does!



Reply:I would say no.
Reply:Yes if it's in the contract.