How much to pay for a "deep clean"

[BadHenry]

Dp and I are moving into a new house

We want to get it cleaned before moving in and have been quoted £143 . Its a 3 bed terrace, not huge. The cleaning company reckon we'll need 2 cleaners for 5 hours, so that's over £14ph. Cleaning the carpet (in the one room that is carpeted) would be £28 extra.

We usually pay £10ph for our regular cleaner, but these guys will have to bring their own cleaning products, tbf.

Is this reasonable? Or necessary??

Any advice would be appreciated!

[specialsubject]

what would you work for?

seems a perfectly reasonable cost.

[JugglingLife]

10 hours in total to clean an empty house? Is it in a terrible state because that sounds an awful lot. We had our 5 bed deep cleaned a few weeks ago, they pulled all the furniture out, emptied shelves and put back etc and that was £175, I guess total man hours around 10.

[Sunnyshores]

I think thats seems fair for a really good deep clean. As well as the normal dusting and wiping down, i would expect them to: clean windows in and outside, clean oven, hob, extractor - this alone could take 5 hours.

[wowfudge]

Sounds quite attractive to me! Ask them to provide a breakdown of everything they will do.

[ElleDubloo]

We just moved into a 4-bedroom house and paid £350 for a deep clean, including carpet cleaning (most of the house is carpeted). Another company quoted us £550 for the same job. I'm really glad we did it, because they got the place clean enough that we were happy to start putting things into cupboards/wardrobes and start using the kitchen straight away.

[hippospot]

I paid £240 for an empty 3-bed house. It was absolutely immaculate and well worth it.

[ReallyNotAMorningPerson]

Do you think £14 ph is too much? Particularly when they'll be using their own products that need replenishing and over 10 hours will be significantly depleted?

My mother-in-law was a cleaner and I'm sorry but I object to these threads that suggest that just because they don't have a degree, the hard and often unpleasant manual labour that cleaning necessitates doesn't merit paying more than peanuts.

We pay consultants who come in and do questionable amounts of work at my office £850 a day (per consultant). £143 split between two people for a full day's work is really not that much.

[ReallyNotAMorningPerson]

Just to add - not all of that £14ph chunk will even be going to the cleaners. The cleaning company will be siphoning off a large percentage.

[OwlOffshore]

Sounds perfectly normal to me. Just check what exactly they will do for that - oven, extractor fan, all windows?

[OwlOffshore]

Oh, and the insides of kitchen cupboards and built-in wardrobes etc....

[googlenut]

Are these worth doing for a house you are living in? We don't have a regular cleaner but thinking of treating myself to a deep clean.

[Wishful80sMontage]

Think that sounds very reasonable might get my house deep cleaned if that's the going rate

[CookieMonstersAngryTwin]

I think that sounds fair, I'd pay it tbh.

[Viviennemary]

It doesn't sound too bad to me. In fact it sounds very reasonable. Deep clean or one off clean is usually £15 or can be as much as £20 per hour.

[BadHenry]

Thanks for the input, all.

Just to point out - I'm certainly not suggesting that cleaners should be paid peanuts. I've just never had a deep clean before so no idea how long it should take or whether it is worthwhile. It seems that you guys think it is though!

[ReallyNotAMorningPerson]

Glad to hear OP .

My post sounded a little harsh in retrospect, didn't mean to be. Just that other posters before had suggested that (peanut-paying).

[Viviennemary]

I think you'll be really pleased with the result and will be glad you've gone ahead. And you'll be moving into a lovely clean house.

[FieldTrip]

I'd consider that £143 well spent. £14phr is cheap if you're going through a company.

[BadHenry]

Just booked it

Thanks all, and no worries imnotamorningperson

[bilbodog]

one bit of advice - I had this done to a house I moved into and the cleaning company used their own products - the house smelt like a public lavatory for over a week! Find out what cleaning products they use - just in case.

[FannyAnne64]

Resurrecting this post as I've just started work as cleaner for well known company (MM) to tide me over. Cleaning offices but did a 'Spring Clean' last week to help them out. It was actually an end if tenancy clean so more of a deep clean - I usually get paid £9.50 an hour but got £11 an hour for the Spring Clean. I've now been asked to do another but when we got there it's another end of Tenancy and it's disgusting and a possible health risk - this one is like something of the TV show Extreme Cleaners. Im going to do it but will be asking for at least £15 an hour in future - AIBU?