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How much do you spend on a cleaner a month?

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Dilemma4ever · 14/12/2025 17:43

My friend gets a cleaner in twice a week - 4 hours each time - and ends up spending £600 a month on the cleaner (in London)

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StepAwayFromMyCrutches · 14/12/2025 18:30

SmaugTheMagnificent · 14/12/2025 17:45

Only 17% of UK households use a cleaner, so most people obviously think it is not beneath them to keep their own habitat hygienic.

ETA obviously some of this 17% will be people who aren't physically capable of cleaning, who are clearly not unreasonable!

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I don't consider it beneath me. I and my husband have full time busy, demanding and highly paid jobs and also have community roles which take up time outside work. As well as having kids. No point in earning it and not making the money work for us as we need it to.

I don't know where uou got your 17% from but maybe only 17% care enough about their habitat to be willing to outsource to professionals rather than not do it very well themselves. Or like many people, they do not clean at all. In other words, you have no fucking idea.

cotswoldsgal1234 · 14/12/2025 18:30

I am my Dads cleaner, which I do for 4 hours every Saturday. He pays me £25 per hour. That is the going rate round here. Oh and a bonus is that I work full time, clean my own house and keep so busy, that I have lost 3 stone this year. No need for a gym membership or mounjarro!

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 14/12/2025 18:28

£380 per month.

blankcanvas3 · 14/12/2025 18:28

£400 a month for four hours a week

Zanzara · 14/12/2025 18:28

C£2,000 pa/ £167 per month plus a Christmas bonus of two and a half weeks' money. She is highly respected, valued and loved.

proname · 14/12/2025 18:28

£300 a month in london, 4 bed house

Octavia64 · 14/12/2025 18:27

31.25 a week.

east Anglia for 2.5 hours a week.

honestly she’s a godsend.

couldthisbethenewname · 14/12/2025 18:26

UneAnneeSansLumiere · 14/12/2025 18:22

What? It has nothing to do with thinking it's 'beneath me', I just am too busy! What a strange response.

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Quite.

Most of the waggy judgy finger pointing comes from other women who would think nothing of outsourcing ‘men’s work’ - like how many men do we know who service their own cars or do their own plumbing?

But god forbid women outsource housework because we want to spend our time in paid employment or - even worse - having hobbies or doing other things with our time. Suddenly we’re lazy stuck up witches.

TiramisuTastesDreamy · 14/12/2025 18:26

£35 for 2 hour visit, fortnightly visits so £70 per month. I’m very grateful for the help, DH and adult DS work long hours and a bit of assistance stops so many arguments over cleaning. Certainly not beneath us.

RememberBeKindWithKaren · 14/12/2025 18:25

Zilch. When kids were young I think I paid a lady £30 every month, ( going back several decades ).. Now they've disappeared I sort of keep on top of it , with tidying and hoovering help from DH.

UneAnneeSansLumiere · 14/12/2025 18:25

I don't understand why people on this site are so strange about cleaners. I have noticed it before. Nobody would expect someone to do their own plumbing or wire their own house, so why should it be weird to outsource cleaning? I can only assume that it is envy.

JellicleCat · 14/12/2025 18:24

£30 a week for two hours. Worth every penny.

santasbaubles · 14/12/2025 18:24

£59.50 for 3.5 hours a week, so it works out at about £260 a month. Family of four in the South East.

NoSoupForU · 14/12/2025 18:23

£120/month.

Cleaning isn't beneath me. I don't live in shit between the cleaner's visits. I'm just incredibly busy and was very close to burn out so something had to give.

toomanydicksonthedancefloor1 · 14/12/2025 18:23

£20 per hour, 4 bed detached house, DH and I work FT in our business that we run out of the house and have 2 busy kids. Cleaners are a luxury, without them we wouldn't be able to have time to exercise during the week. At the weekend we have animals to clean out and elderly parents in law to visit and help care for. So I am ever so grateful we can afford cleaners so at least we get the Sunday free to rest or have family time. Without them we wouldn't then have to spend Sundays cleaning. Cleaners come in a pair and do 2 hours weekly so £80 per week = £320 or £400 a month depending on if it's a 4 or 5 week month.

UneAnneeSansLumiere · 14/12/2025 18:22

SmaugTheMagnificent · 14/12/2025 17:45

Only 17% of UK households use a cleaner, so most people obviously think it is not beneath them to keep their own habitat hygienic.

ETA obviously some of this 17% will be people who aren't physically capable of cleaning, who are clearly not unreasonable!

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What? It has nothing to do with thinking it's 'beneath me', I just am too busy! What a strange response.

couldthisbethenewname · 14/12/2025 18:22

I get someone in 4 times a week. I pay her £20 an hour. She’s lovely, it’s a good flexible role for her which she’s happy with given there aren’t that many jobs that could fit around her caring responsibilities. She gets paid holiday and sick leave etc.

I work long hours and this way every day i come home to a calm organised home and every second I’m not at work I get to spend as quality family time. Before we had our lovely lady evenings and weekends were spent parking the kids in front of an activity so i could do hoovering or change beds.

Zero guilt.

Flingotheflamingo · 14/12/2025 18:20

£75 fortnightly for 3 hours.

I’d like her every week for 2 hours instead, but alas, she’s amazing and her diary is jam packed.

UneAnneeSansLumiere · 14/12/2025 18:20

£400.00 a month. I have her do 2.5 hours twice weekly.

Popadomorbread · 14/12/2025 18:19

£76 a month. Two hours a fortnight.

Didimum · 14/12/2025 18:19

£264 a month. 3 hours fortnightly.

HorrorFan81 · 14/12/2025 18:18

21 an hour, 3 hours a week so around 250 a month

Papyrophile · 14/12/2025 18:17

My cleaner comes once a week for two hours. The house is always tidy and never dirty. She hoovers and mops floors but we clean the windows indoors and wipe surfaces. The floor area is big though. £30 per week to the cleaner.

Overthebow · 14/12/2025 18:17

We’re starting with a cleaner after Christmas, it’ll be every other week for a few hours and £110 a month. I don’t think cleaning is beneath us but we are busy with work and 2 DCs and we can afford it so why not make our lives a bit easier?

Bulbsbulbsbulbs · 14/12/2025 18:17

SmaugTheMagnificent · 14/12/2025 17:45

Only 17% of UK households use a cleaner, so most people obviously think it is not beneath them to keep their own habitat hygienic.

ETA obviously some of this 17% will be people who aren't physically capable of cleaning, who are clearly not unreasonable!

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I don't think it's beneath me, nobody I know who has a cleaner thinks that. I have a cleaner because the last thing I want to do when I finish work is clean.

My cleaner costs me £160 a month, she does 4 hours a fortnight.

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