How many hours for a cleaner

[Mazuslongtoenail]

I’ve never had a cleaner before but am considering it.

How many hours would be reasonable for:
lounge
kitchen diner (8m x 8m though so the floor takes me ages)
office
play room
5 beds
4 baths (although one not used)
utility room

And also how do people work it with ‘big’ cleaning like ovens, windows etc? Do they never get done by the cleaner or do you tag an hour on every now and then?

I'd say 4 hours a week for a surface clean including windows. I just do my own oven.

I think 5-6 hours.. that’s a lotof rooms and bathrooms

Oh and is weekly or fortnightly for longer better?

I don’t think there’s much dust after only a week and personally I dislike cleaning that often. I prefer it need doing (but not be gross). But a cleaner may be different.

As a guide, for a 4 bed, 3 bath house plus toilet, small kitchen and large lounge/diner.

I have 4 hours fortnightly and top up myself in between, nothing major but just wiping up as I go along and that kind of thing. It's myself, DH and adult daughter.

Between 4-6 hours. That's a lot of rooms and also depends how messy your house is. If surfaces are clutter-free then it's obviously much easier to wipe over and if children's bedrooms are tidy and clothes picked off the floor it's easier to hoover etc.
For jobs like oven cleaning it's best to call in an oven cleaner as they have the specialist cleaning materials and tools to do a better job.

ream of 2 for 3 hours

The house is generally tidy, apart from the playroom so it would force us to keep on top of that. And it’s also pretty minimalist and tiled throughout the ground floor so hopefully that would make it simpler.

I think 4-6 hours would be doable as long as it was fortnightly - is this generally acceptable?

Weekly would be too much I think. We’re not loaded, to get a cleaner would mean not doing something else.

But I would like us to have more quality time together instead of us both cleaning so much. When we do it, it seems to take longer as you get dragged into side jobs as well.

5 ish hours but it depends on your house. No ornaments speeds things up considerably for instance. All cleaners are different in what they will and won't do. I'll tackle pretty much anything but i can't do an oven as well as a specialist cleaning company.

Our house is a little smaller but we pay for 5 hours per/week. If we wanted anything big done, we pay for more hours on top.