To ask how much you pay for your cleaner?

[CeeCeeMacFay]

Just been quoted £90 for a 4 hour clean (weekly not one off) for a 4 bed, 2 reception room house in a town in the Midlands. House is very tidy and mostly clean, one teen dc, one dog. We require thorough cleaning of kitchen, bathroom and downstairs wc, hoovering throughout, dusting etc just normal cleaning no wrong. I though this was abit steep but prepared to be corrected.

[CeeCeeMacFay]

No ironing! Not wrong!

[PIPTribunalPanic]

£9 an hour here in South Wales

[IHaveBrilloHair]

£10ph.

[CaliforniaDream]

That seems really steep. I'm in Scotland and pay mine £10 an hour. In the south you sometimes see people paying up to £20 an hour but that's rare and I've never heard rates as high as that!

I would see what the living wage is in your area and then be prepared to pay a couple of pounds an hour over that as a fair wage. There will be lots of cleaners around willing to work for much less than £22.50 an hour.

[IHaveBrilloHair]

Affluent town nr Glasgow.

[MrsKoala]

Round here the individuals charge between £13-15 ph but the agencies charge more. I called one once and they said a 2hour clean (2 cleaners for an hour) would be £52. I was so shocked i spluttered 'Sorry, £26 pounds per hour!!' and the lady on the phone indignantly told me yes, this was reasonable and no one else had commented that it was a lot.

[wildgarlicflowers]

£10 ph, although to will pay more for an agency. Pricey recommended cleaners are the way to go.
Your quote found expensive for 4 hours

[wildgarlicflowers]

Sounds

[NightAndShiningArmour]

In the midlands. £13/hr for a 3 hr clean EOW.

[IHaveBrilloHair]

The going rate here is around £12th, but I'm on mate's rates.

[wildgarlicflowers]

We live in the south in a supposedly affluent area

[Hobnobsarenotfordunking]

£7.50 an hour in the east midlands.

I know mine is very cheap, I know of others paying £10-15 an hour.

[CeeCeeMacFay]

Thanks, that's what I thought, it was an agency. I was thinking more like between £10-15 per hour. I will be increasing my hours at work in September so was hoping to cut some slack with the cleaning but not at £90 per week!

[NightAndShiningArmour]

I’ve been pushed into more expensive “one off” cleans, but that does sound p-taking as a repeat clean.

[Wannabecitygirl]

£12 here, south wales

[NightAndShiningArmour]

CeeCee... Midlands is big, but if you’re east of the M1 I could PM you my agency’s deets?

[Pibplob]

£15 / hr in the south east is about average. I think £22.50 is a bit steep.

[ShotsFired]

South.

£12/hr and she brings/uses all her own stuff and equipment. Individual self employed.

[Luisa27]

It’s steep?!!!

We’re in the Cotswolds about 20 mins out of Oxford, and pay our cleaner £15 an hour - she’s absolutely amazing and much sought after in the villages around here! All my friends in Oxford pay around £12-£15 pr hour
My sister is in Parsons Green and pays a similar hourly rate

But I hear the ‘cleaning companies’ charge significantly more...

[Cacofonix]

£10/hr in SE London. Yours sounds really expensive!

[Jojoanna]

£10.00 an hour , SE

[theunsure]

£10/hr in the East Mids but we provide everything (materials, hoover etc).

This is a self employed cleaner though, not an agency. I was previously with an agency and it was £13-£15/hr (but the cleaner didn't get that!) but they provided own kit.

£22,50/hr is an almighty rip off I'd say!

[Harry2006]

I charge £11 per hour, provide my own cleaning products in the West Midlands. I also know someone who charges £14 per hour. So yes i think that is steep.

[MrsKoala]

Actually, i just remembered it was £48 for 2 hours - so £24 ph. But still

[RailReplacementBusService]

In my area of London you’re looking at £10-12 ph, more with most agencies. Possibly £9 if you will settle for someone with very little English.

Lack of reliable cleaners who speak ok English is a perennial complaint on the local Facebook groups. Brexit will make this far worse.