Cleaning Prices

[CurryLover55]

I had a lady come round to give me a quote for a one off “ deep clean”. I have a semi & I wouldn’t want her to do 2 of the upstairs rooms so it would be hall, lounge, kitchen, stairs, landing & our bedroom. She reckoned on about 6 to 8 hours. For a “ normal” clean she charges £14 an hour. She’s quoted £160. That would include all the places you don’t always clean like skirting boards, tops of cupboards, in between tiles etc. Does that sound reasonable? If she takes 8 hours it’s £20 an hour.

And the bathroom

Reasonable

I’m sure a cleaner can come along and explain the logic, but I don’t understand why a “deep clean” costs more per hour than an ordinary clean. Surely an hour’s work is an hour’s work regardless and the fact that more cleaning of more surfaces is required is reflected in the length of time she’s there, and so more money is earned for a “deep clean” because it takes 7 hours rather than 3?

Unless your house is a very unpleasant hovel and she’ll be literally on her hands and knees scrubbing ingrained dirt from the floors, charging £6 extra just because you’ve called the job a “deep clean” seems unreasonable. Your “deep clean” house could actually be cleaner than one of her ordinary fortnightly cleans which she charges less per hour for.

I’m a cleaner and don’t charge more for deep cleans (in fact I often charge less as give a discount for booking a full day)

However a deep clean is much more physical work, moving furniture, on knees scrubbing for long periods, up and down stairs with basins of hot water, more hoovering and mopping. It really is far more exhausting than a standard clean and there are fewer breaks over 8 hours of work than 4X 2 hour standard cleans. So yeah, I can understand why others value that work at a higher price. It’s literally more work.

If I had good recommendations for someone then I would pay this. I agree it is hard physically moving furniture etc.

Reasonable