If you have a cleaner what do is the extent of their service?

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Have one coming next week for a quote. Jus R wondered what to expect so I don't either get over charged or make a tit of myself in what I expect her to do in x time.

Just for a rough idea... what does your cleaner do in how many hours? And what do you pay for that?

Thanks 😊

£10 ph. She used to come for 2 hours weekly and for a small 4 bed / 2 adults and toddler, she was able to:

Complete the ironing for the week
Hoover whole house
Steam mop the kitchen and bathrooms
Clean our ensuite

And then maybe one other job like dusting downstairs, cleaning the oven, cleaning kitchen surfaces incl doors

Now we've increased her to 3 hours a week and she pretty much can keep the whole house at a really decent standard of cleanliness. All I do is the daily tidying, dishes and putting clothes in machine and taking them out to dry

Hope that helps

Thanks that is helpful

Our cleaner charges £10ph and in 2.5 hrs a week she vacuums and dusts everywhere, cleans the bathroom and kitchen, steam mops downstairs, polishes mirrors etc, changes the bedding (3 beds) and does various things like clean the fridge/clean out a kitchen cupboard. Our house is a 2 bed Victorian with lots of nooks and crannies to dust.

I pay £10ph for 2 hours a week.
She has a list of stuff she does every week, then always asks me what else I'd like her to do that week.
She told me at the beginning it would take her a couple of weeks to get 'into her stride' and she would get a lot quicker. So what took her 2 hours the first week she now does in about an hour and a 1/4 to and hour and 1/2.
So my cleaner will do things like ironing or changing sheets if I want her to.
However, many cleaners are self employed and different ones will do different things.
Quite a few won't move furniture, for example (heavy lifting) or climb on steps or a stool to clean windows - as outside their job description, and becomes a health and safety issue. OTOH, I know a couple of older friends, whose cleaners do all sort of things to look after them / help them out - more of a 'home help' service than just a cleaner.

There are lots of threads on here where people get upset that their cleaner does less than the 2 hours {or whatever} they pay them for, so decide in your mind if you want them to do set jobs or if you want them to work fixed hours. There are also threads that cleaners don't do things to the employer's particular standard, or liking. Personally, I just love walking in to the house being all clean and fresh smelling. I only pay her for 2 hours so there will be stuff she hasn't done, but she seems to get about 4x the amount I would get done if I timed myself doing 2 hours cleaning, and I don't even have to . It's lovely!

I was thinking of asking her to do a big clean once a month rather than weekly. I'd like things like my doors, door frames, skirting boards etc cleaned. Basically all the jobs I hate doing I don't mind hoovering and mopping the floors I have a teen a primary schooler and a toddler in the house so I Hoover constantly and usually have to mop every second night.

Ok so this is the list of like done what do you think?

Bathroom cleaned inc shower door
Doors/handles/door frames disinfected
Kitchen counters sink and doors cleaned
Stairs hovered
Bedrooms dusted

I actually hate cleaning so much I honestly do the bare.minumin I have to and I find it so hard. It doenst come naturally to me at all. My sister's home looks like a Show home and my house looks like a uni halls.

Can I just say, I’m amazed how much cleaners get done in such a short time? looks around shit tip 😳

You hoover constantly and mop ever other day, and yet say you do the bare minimum ?
Disinfecting door frames and handles, etc. isn't a jb on my radar......

I think your standards are pretty high

Honestly they're not. If you could see my house you would not be saying that 😂😂 the only reason I Hoover and mop so much is because my 2 year old would have been poisoned by now if I didn't 😂 I had to scrape marshmallows off my floor earlier today.

My cleaner:

Hoovers whole house apart from office
Steam mops all hard floors
Cleans kitchen
Cleans bathroom, ensuite, downstairs loo
Dusts whole house apart from office
Sometimes cleans windows inside and glass in doors

£10 p/h self employes, we provide everything. House is a very large 3 bed (more like a 4 bed in square footage as we have big rooms). She does 3-4 hrs weekly (usually 3-3.5, occasionally 4).

Ours get £12 per hour, they dust obvious surfaces, clean kitchen and bathrooms (one family and one en suite) and the down stairs toilet, they mop hard floors and vacuum carpets in rest of house and are here weekly for two hours. We had agency cleaners before these started and they quoted a minimum 3 hours, think they had higher standards or felt there were jobs that had to be done. We couldn't afford three hours a week, so are just happy with a two hour blast, and they get far more done in that time than I would manage, so all round I'm delighted.