Is this incredibly expensive for a cleaner?

[Tinselandlights]

We have moved and left behind our old cleaner. We were in London and paid her £30 to clean our two bedroom tiny house. It took her just over two hours.

We've now moved to a four bed house (two double rooms, two tiny rooms upstairs), and have gone with a cleaning agency. They are charging us £91 a month for two hours a fortnight (two of them come every fortnight and do an hour together, once a month upstairs and once downstairs). It seems as though we need more hours from them to get a decent clean, but at roughly £45 a visit, they are on about £22 for an hours' work - is this incredibly expensive or usual? I appreciate they need to live, pay office staff and their pension etc, and this does include cleaning products but it seems loads!

I have previously worked as a cleaner so am not trying to get away with paying less than market rate, but our house isn't massive and they aren't even cleaning one of the bedrooms as my DH is using it as a study.

I think this is high too, my cleaner is 12.50 an hour. It’s becayse you are using an agency. Just advertise on your local face book page for someone to be recommended.

@pollylocketpickedapocket

I’m a cleaner in the north, I charge £20 an hour. People pay it because I’m reliable, experienced, insured , provide references from long term(5years +) clients etc. Pay peanuts get monkeys.

What’s peanuts? I pay 12.50 and my cleaner is excellent. That’s her rate, she’s certainly not incapable.

The cleaners are still getting peanuts, the agency is creaming off the top. Better to pay a good rate directly.