I booked a local cleaner today to do a deep clean as for ages I’ve been just cleaning where I can see.
I have a medium sized 4 bed house, 3 doubles, 1 box room. I bathroom, 1 en-suite and 1 cloakroom. 2 reception rooms and a large kitchen.
I specifically wanted all skirting cleaning, window frames where needed and the shower given a good clean.
2 cleaners, 3 hours. So 6 hours of cleaning.
They turned up 15 minutes late, left 15 minutes early. Nice ladies but chatted an awful lot. I went around afterwards and the bathrooms were still a little dusty in places, floors still had some hairs and dust. They’d used lots of zoflora 🤢 so everything smelled strong but they missed completely the second reception room apart from a cursory dust and their idea of mopping the hard floors was two squirts of some fluid and a quick wipe with the mop head in the middle of the room.
The stair handrails weren’t cleaned, some pictures were still dusty along the top. Chests of drawers and bedside tables not cleared off or wiped. Shower tray itself not cleaned but the glass was.
I didn’t feel they were particularly thorough, there were dog biscuits under the TV cabinet and the sofa was covered on dog hair. The carpets had been vacuumed though.
You could see the house was cleaner but id tidied everything away so all they had to do was clean.
I think I expected a deeper clean that I would have done myself with furniture pulled out etc. The 3 hours / 2 cleaners was £90.
Was I expecting too much in the timeframe (even though they actually were only here 2.5 hours) I’ve never had a cleaner before and I don’t know what to expect. Not sure it was worth the £90? Any thoughts?