to think 4 hours is enough to clean a 4 bedroom house?

my cleaner doesnt do my entire 4bed house in 4 hours, but she does do most of it ( I havent asked her to do my bedroom yet)
She tidies as well as cleans, and im pretty messy. Shes fabulous

I have 2.5 hours a week for a 4 bedroom house and TBH it's not quite enough to get everything done, but mine manages to clean 1 bathroom and downstairs loo, hoover throughout, wash kitchen and bathroom floors, empty bins and clean the kitchen sink. Usually there is time for either window cleaning or dusting.

When you say including one cupboard, does that mean everything out, door and shelves scrubbed etc, or just a wipe over the outside of the door. Kitchens do tend to build up a film of grease which takes ages to shift without using products that are so abrasive they will damage the finish, so I could imagine that doing a whole kitchen would take about 4 hours if they were doing it to that level of cleanliness...

It totally depends on the level of cleaning needed surely?

If the house is OK-ish already, not messy or cluttered, and you are really just going over surfaces & floors then 4 hours should be enough time. If you need to deep clean anything, then no - nowhere near enough time.

I imagine cleaning out a cupboard would have taken quite a while?

I disagree, I have been cleaning for 18 years now and on an initial clean we would have a fraction of the work done in just 4 man hours.

However after the intial is done 4 hours is plenty for the whole house fully serviced.

3 bed detached with kitchen extension. In 2 hours my cleaners clean kitchen, clean bathroom, wet dust and clean glass in 2 bedrooms (3rd bedroom is my DH's work study and isn't touched), clean downstairs loo and hoover and mop throughout-all to a very high standard. Your cleaner is taking the proverbial piss.

As a cleaning company after we have done the initial clean four man hours is usually enough to provide full service in most homes (we work in teams but can work out our man hours obviously).

The initial clean is different though and no matter how tidy it takes our teams about 8 to 12 man hours to complete and initial clean to our standards, it's very hard intensive work to get a home professionally clean but after that the maintenance cleans are relatively easy.

We will put a team of two in a house for the best part of the day on an intital clean.

3 floor townhouse. In 3 hours cleaners do 2 bathrooms, vacuum hallways and lounge and sofas (cat hair) and do the kitchen and mop utility room.

They only dust if they have time and will vacuum other bedrooms if have time. With another hour I think they would be able to vacuum everywhere and dust...

My cleaner does 2 hours a week. My house is a small 2 bed.

Hoovers and mops living room/kitchen/hallway.

Wipes cupboards/appliances in kitchen.

Cleans bathroom top to bottom.

Hoovers stairs and 2 bedrooms.

Cleans inside windows.

She's a machine and is well worth the money.

In 3 hours my cleaner does 3 reception rooms, kitchen, hall stairs and landing, 2 bathrooms. Also irons 5 shirts. All done to a high standard!