To ask what you would expect of a cleaner?

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...and what you would pay?

I've been asked to help an elderly neighbour out with cleaning, and a bit of shopping. She's giving me £20 for it- it will probably entail a few hours cleaning, and a couple of runs to the shop.

I've been thinking that if I get on well, I might try and get a few more clients and do it 'properly'. I am currently a SAHM, but my youngest starts school this September, and we could do with a few quid extra. there are also a lot of elderly people and young families in my area, and I don't know of anyone else who cleans.

So, if you were to hire a cleaner, what would you expect, in terms of

• what they actually do

-how long they do it for

• what products they use to do it
• their overall attitude/what they wear (I'm thinking a neat apron rather than the manky jogging bottoms I wear to clean my own house)
• what they charge per hour.

Thanks!!

The going rate in our area, Berkshire, is £10-£15ph

I am a cleaner in NI and charge £10 per hour. I do normal cleaning, laundry, ironing, pet bedding/litter trays. I also offer to help with decluttering and organising but so far no takers. I dont run errands. I use my own products an cloths unless asked to use the clients'.

It would depend, whether I was hiring a professional cleaner through an agency, one who is insured and has their own equipment, or whether I was paying cash in hand and I was providing all the equipment.

Which will you be? Self employed and through the books, or cash in hand?

My cleaner charges £10ph, wears whatever she likes, brings all her own cleaning equipment and products and dusts, hoovers, cleans bathrooms and kitchen and mops hard floors. She told me when she started how long she thought it would take her to clean my house and that's what I continue to pay her for. She is extremely lovely and always very responsive if there's an area I think she's missed or which needs more attention. HTH

Yanbu.

We pay £40 pw for what should be 4 hrs ironing and cleaning (but when I come home early on the days she comes, she never seems to be here at 4 hrs...). We provide all products and equipment.

She does a basket of ironing for us, empties the bins, and cleans (not particularly well but ok - bathrooms and kitchen get done quite thoroughly, the floors get hoovered/mopped, but she seems to have an aversion to dusting or moving light furniture eg. washing baskets to clean behind them). She's not the best cleaner I've had but is trustworthy and reliable so we stick with her.

She just wears normal clothes.

Mintyy

I think it would be cash in hand if I only got about 2 hours a week or something, but if it was quite a few I suppose I would have to be self employed?

Was thinking of setting up a facebook page and doing leaflets

Our cleaner does about 2 hours for £30 (South East). She's not CRB checked but it's her business so she has insurance etc. She uses our products but that's my choice because I'm fussy about chemicals in my house. She just wears jeans. She does all the basic stuff - mop hard floors, vacuum, clean bathroom and kitchen, dust, clean windows etc.

I was involved with employing a cleaner for my parents. She was paid cash in hand, had no crb/insurance etc. However she came via word of mouth - if you are sending out leaflets and advertising on face book you will be visible to HMRC and probaly need to register as self employed.

We paid our cleaner £50 for 5hrs clean spread over two days and a basket of ironing. She would basically do anything including wrapping presents and cutting my hair!

Please consider insurance, if you damage or break something it could cause a lot of agro - financial and emotional.
Best of luck

I used to have cleaners. One was amazing. She would really clean (properly!) and when I came home the house was gleaming

Had two subsequent ones which were rubbish. I like to come home and it loos like ashow house. I couldn't tell if they had been

My mum pays £20 for 2 hrs cleaning a week. Basic dusting, mopping and hoovering, washing up left over and general tidy. It's all she's got time for really and it's enough for my mum.

A clean house!

Seriously, YABU for asking a non AIBU question in AIBU.

I pay my cleaner 8ph plus I pay something like £4 pw to her agency which covers her insurance etc and means I can get cover if someone is off.

She wipes round all surfaces, hoovers, brushes and mops hard floors, thoroughly cleans the kitchen and two bathrooms and will change linen etc if I ask. She gets a lot done in two hours and is great.

My previous cleaner smoked, which Id never thought about and it was horrible - id come home to a house which was clean, yet smelled of fags. Bleugh.

HMRC spend a lot of time on Facebook looking for little businesses which aren't registered... Not a recommended course of action.

Mine is excellent, I get her to do the ironing(cos I hate it!) and other general cleaning, could be windows, dusting, vacuuming etc and I pay £10/hr which is good in our area. She uses my cleaning products because I'm a fussy cow :).