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I need a cleaner to clean my house and do my ironing. I have no idea how much cleaners cost. Can you please enlighten me? Thanks

I pay £11 an hr and she brings her own cleaning materials. Having done some research this is roughly the going rate in my area (Bristol). HTH

I pay £10/hour in Surrey and provide all the cleaning materials.

Hiya, I'm a cleaner in Berkshire and charge £13 an hour with or without equipment

£11 an hour and I provide the stuff - Berkshire. Sounds like I might have got her cheap

gingerkirsty Can you recommend your cleaner? I'm in Bristol and finding a good one is a bit of a mission.

Bloody hell £11 - £13 an hour! That's an awful lot of money which I assume the cleaners don't pay tax on !

i pay £10 / hour in west yorkshire.

she uses my hoover and product but brings (and takes away) her own clean cloths / dusters etc

£7.50 an hour here in South Wales.

She brings her own hoover but uses our cleaning solutions, cloths etc

We pay £7.50 an hour and a fiver contribution a fortnight to cleaning materials, she buys bath cleaner, glass cleaner etc.

We're in Edinburgh.

I pay 10 p/h (provide cleaning materials)

Moos my cleaner pays tax and is insured.

Are you trying to imply something?

I pay £12 an hour And cleaners bring everything but bleach. (Sunderland)

Wordsonascreen - yes I am implying (rather than trying) that there seem to be an awful lot of very expensive cleaners going about and I know for certain the majority don't pay tax. This means someone charging £13 an hour for cleaning woujld be on an hourly wage of approx £16 per hour (if she were paying tax). That's a very good wage and I don't think a cleaner (no matter how good) should be paid the same as a junior doctor.

Don't you think that's a bit high for a cleaner?

The only way that you can know if your cleaner is paying tax is if it's done through a company - most of the people posting here don't do that.

I do mine through a company and I'm pretty sure the cleaners don;t get anything like my hourly rate.

Dh's auntie never paid tax on her cleaning money, and used to moan she never got holiday pay!!

Because she never paid a full stamp she now gets pension credit, she is considerably (sp?) better off than mil and has 3 holidays abroad a year. If mil's correct she also gets free council tax and a higher cold weather payment.

Mil is very catsbum mouth about it all!

Gloucestershire - 12 per hour and I supply cleaning products. I use a company and I pressure the cleaner is on minimum wage per hour.

I worked as a cleaner for many years. I also paid my tax myself every year.
There is really no reason to presume the worst! Some of us are honest.