to ask if you have a cleaner?

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And if you do, how often do they clean your home and what do they do?-hold the sarcasm on that one, I'm after a task list

3-4 hours a week - big house
Hoovers - hallways, stairs, living room, dining room, family room, conservatory, DSs bedroom
Dusting - hallway, dining, living
Complete top to toe clean - kitchen, breakfast room, 2 bathrooms, downstairs wc & utility
Windows - 2 rooms a week

I haven't got a cleaner; I was a cleaner though for a few years a while ago.

It was always 2 hours once or twice per week. Surfaces,sinks and loos cleaned. Wood surfaces dusted/polished. Bins emptied. Hoovering, skirting boards, moping. Washing up done, cushions plumped. I stayed with 4 of my clients for the whole 5 years i was cleaning.

'Extras' can vary from house to house:
Bit of ironing.
Clean fridge out.
Water garden.
Putting towels and bath mats in the wash.
Beds stripped and changed. (I must admit the bed changing on i only stayed at for 6 months as i hated doing that. It was a 6 bedroom house for a start, and i just found it too smelly, back breaking and unpleasant for the money).
In one place part regular morning was to move a race horse from his paddock to the field! Lovely in the summer.

I used to get £10 per hour min. Often including a coffee and a little chat :)

2hours a week, dust, vacuums, bathroom and kitchen clean and general tidying.
I pay for extra hours if I want bigger jobs doing, she's my angel and I adore her.

5 hours a week. I tidy the house and she comes and cleans it from top to bottom. She is extremely thorough and it leaves me free to spend quality time with kids and DP. I change the beds once a week. I have just started using a launderette too. There are 5 of us and we have a lot of washing to get through. Probably 8-10 loads a week with towels and bedding etc. I take it in and it takes 24 hours to come back. Mostly ready to put away as it is folded and doesn't need ironing. Costs between £18 & £22 per week. It would take me a few days to work through so I think it is a bargain.

3-4 hours a week for a large 2 bed flat. £40 a week in central London.

Deep cleans kitchen and bathroom
Cleans wooden floors & skirting boards
Dusts and hoovers the whole place
changes bedsheets
Does the ironing - normally about an ikea bag full
Clean one set of windows - we have loads of really big windows so each week she does the windows in one room on rotation
Also does things like clean the oven, fridge, cupboard etc on weekly rotation
And just general cleaning, sorting, puffing up sofa & cushions etc - she has a real eye for detail and is very proactive

She is fantastic - so worth it, every Friday I come home and the place looks like a hotel!

Yes I have a clean, she comes 2 times a week for 3 hours.

Hovers, cleans wooden floors, dusts, cleans oven/hob, changes beds 1 time a week. Cleans mirrors, does the skirting boards once a week. Cleans bathroom and un suite. Inside of the Windows also get cleaned

Mine does 2 hours a week which includes hoovering/ mopping all rooms, cleaning 2 X bathrooms, the kitchen and a quick dust if there's any time left.

3 or 4 hours would be ideal but we just don't have the disposable income for that much time.

It's really helped here, I don't work out of the home but do have 4 children so just knowing the floors and bathrooms are clean makes me feel a million times better. I also hve to tidy for the cleaner so the house is much tidier than it was before she started.

Nope none. When I first joined mumsnet I was baffled by this. I have not a penny to my name and thought it was some very posh thing to have a cleaner in your house, but turns out a lot of people do it.

My house just stays a shit tip while I work full time. Do a big clean on a weekend which probably looks like your houses on a bad day!

You lucky buggers haha.

Once a week, she does between 2.5 and 3 hours and I pay her £30. She does the downstairs (lounge, playroom, hall, kitchen/diner) every week, does the stairs, upstairs landing and family bathroom, then does 2 out of the 4 bedrooms, alternating them. She brings all of her own cleaning products including this steam mop thing for the hard floors but uses my hoover.

20 hours a week over 3 days. Deep clean on Mondays and normal the other 2 days with ironing every time.

Just got a cleaner. She comes every other week and has been twice. We have to have a minimum of two hours, that's all we've booked. £13 per hour. Small local family company.
Our cleaner hoovers and dusts whole house (including skirting) (3 bedroom, 1980s semi). Cleans kitchen and bathroom. Does inside of any window that needs done and the two 15 panel glass doors. Polishes mirrors. Deck scrubs and mops kitchen and bathroom.
Brings own products, uses our dyson, mop and deck scrubber.
If she finished that will do ironing. Eventually aim is to have her every week but have to budget.
Has been amazing. I used to leave the deck scrubbing until I couldn't leave it any longer - now it's getting done regularly! This has meant I've been able to do other cleaning jobs when it's my week. So house is looking great and just two cleans in I have already felt the benefit with the DC and had more free time with them. It suits us, now.
I live by the Vulcan ideal. IDIC: infinite diversity in infinite combinations!

Yes and its the best £80 I spend a month.

2 hous per week.

Changes the bedding, does a throough bathroom and kitchen clean and mops, dusts, hoovers the rest. Changes bed and puts the dirty sheets on. Hangs up wet washing and put saway dy washing.

Love her.

No cleaner 3200 sq ft of house to clean - takes 6 hours to do the basics.

Housekeeper works 6-7 hours a day split shifts.

She does everything: sorts, tidies, laundry, ironing, changes beds, helps with dinner.

She's very experienced: when I employed her I tried to give her am list - she looked at me witheringly, said why don't you see how I get on for a couple of weeks and if you're not happy we can use your list. The list was never seen again