What do you charge/pay for ironing?

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I used to do ironing alongside my cleaning business 8 years ago, I'm now going back to ironing for extra money but unsure what the going rate is these days

Previously I charged one customer £10 a hour as I did it in her house along side the cleaning and other customers would be £20 a basket full

If you use a ironing service what do you pay ?

Oh I'm in SE (Berkshire)

I'd expect to pay hourly cleaner rate ie £15. Don't really know how much ironing id expect for that though. From memory sending out a shirt is £2 or something so I'd expect to get more than 7 shirts done for that if you were doing collared shirts. Not sure if that helps!

Don’t use such a service. But a neighbour advertises as one basket, max 30 items, £20. Midlands area.

I used to pay £15 a basket. And that could have items rammed in there.

Tbh if i did it id charge similar. As i iron fast. Ive just done 2 baskets, hung and put away in an hr. Inc 6 collar shirts, chef whites, and then everyday items. (im a saddo that irons everything!)

£25 for 40 items

I’m also in SE, Berkshire. For many years’ I had a lovely cleaner who used to do some ironing, after cleaning, time permitting. I now have a new ironing person that I drop off and collect my ironing from....... Well, there’s ironing well and ironing badly. My ironing person irons badly. Like I would iron the children’s school uniforms in a rush, late on a Sunday evening for school next morning. So it doesn’t really matter how much you pay, if they’re no good, they’re no good. I need to find a new one. I am paying £1.00 per shirt, more for bedding.

Thanks for replies, I'm actually a great at ironing and can iron fast, I've just quoted someone and she seemed happy do going to stick with £20 a basket, that includes up to 5 mens work shirts and any shirts over that will be a extra £1 each as they are the most time consuming