How much would it cost to outsource ALL housework?

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Asking more out of curiosity, but still.

How much do you think it would cost to outsource all daily household chores (apart from those that are pleasurable / hobbies, like light gardening or walking the dog in good weather?)
Say two young children, single adult, 4 bed house. Cooking, cleaning and tidy-up, laundry / ironing, shopping, household admin etc.

You’re paying your cleaner £1000 and the house is still filthy?

Of course you are.

I can tell you how much the dogwalking per day ought to cost, if you tell me how many dogs, what breeds and ages, and are they safe off lead. And do they need to be driven somewhere else for the walk?

I pay my cleaner £100 a month, and it's clean!

If your cleaner does 10 hours cleaning plus 5 hours dog walking a week and you're paying her over £1000 a month that means she's getting circa £17 an hour which is steep for a cleaning rates.

And yes why IS the house filthy after 10 hours of cleaning a week? That’s someone cleaning every week day for 2 hours consistently.

What kind of a state was your house in that needed ten hours cleaning in the first place, and then is still filthy?
Quite bad, I have two under 5 who are at home half of the day.
I guess it may be just the time I actually see the house. She cleans in the morning, and by the time I come home at around 8pm it is destroyed again.

My house is big and I now have six hours of cleaning (2 lots of 3 hours a week). It isn't immaculate but its clean until the DC get home

I can tell you how much the dogwalking per day ought to cost, if you tell me how many dogs, what breeds and ages, and are they safe off lead
Dogs aged 6, large gun dogs, one safe off lead with good recall, one prone to running away. Lowest quote I got was £25 per walk for two.

*£1k a month for a cleaner...

And the house is still filthy - even weirder *

This, that’s bizarre

I’m a cleaner. Sign me up for the £1k a month please !!!!!

Cleaner - 10 hours a week including ironing, changing beds, putting washing away £120 pw
Dog walking - 2 labs £24 per one hour walk. This includes pick up, one full hour dog walk, showered off with hot hose and dry. Trained gun dogs.
Shopping - delivered by Tesco when we're home. Meat is delivered from the local farm.
I do household admin - it takes 20 minutes a month. I never understand how people can spend hours on "household admin"

If your dogs are trained to the gun why does one not have good recall?

We're about to employ a cleaner - bloody hope he or she isn't going to cost us £1k per month

Seriously, we're looking at 3hrs per week to dust and vacuum a 3 bed house, clean the kitchen and the bathrooms, at a cost of around £12 ph. We aren't expecting the cleaner to do any laundry, ironing, pet care etc, we just want to know that the house will get a good scrub every week irrespective of whether or not we are able to get to it ourselves.

It all depends if you work. We used to have a cleaner for 3 hours a week and ironing for an hour a week and that was ok. Now that I am at home, the house is a constant mess as we are in it all the time. The only way to keep your house clean and tidy is to be out of it as much of the day as you can!
Cleanliness is different to messiness though. Our house is clean, but messy with stuff. Some people have very tidy houses but they are dusty, showers not scrubbed etc!

If your dogs are trained to the gun why does one not have good recall?
Gundogs as the breed category, not trained under the gun. Both had obedience training, but one is just in the top 0.001% on the hyperactive scale, bordering on crazy. I don't know how to explain. Excellent behaviour when one-to-one, or in a quiet familiar place, but once in the park and there is something in the air...

Cleaning is £12ph here, for the dog walking we agreed £20ph. I did not expect the total to be that much, just had the realisation when sat down today to look at the November's financials (and I do not have this week's invoice yet obviously, so just estimated it).

We also agreed that for the first month she just records her hours - i.e. how long does it take her to do this and that, and then we planned to discuss it and agree a fixed timetable. I just cannot understand where I mis-estimated my household needs.

It’s a bit pointless then, having her clean
for hours for it all to be messed up in the same day.
Who is looking after the children? Can’t they take them out? Tidy up after them?
For £1k I would want a sparkling clean house permanently.
I pay £120 a month and my house is clean.

You need a rethink as you are clearly throwing money down the drain...

Do you mean it’s S till five filthy Op? Or that it’s a bit untidy with toys etc by the time you get in? That’s two different things and you can’t really prevent the second, but the first would be a problem if you are pay8ng a cleaner.

Should say do you mean it’s still filthy. Stupid phone.

OP you are paying your cleaner waaaay too much. 5 bed house, 3 kids 2 adults and a dog - £20 per week

Your safe reliable dog would be £10 per walk per day, with 10% discount if it's 5 days a week (ie £45 week). Your slightly insane dog... have you tried a head collar? If so and it worked I'd do the pair for £18 a day or £81 week for a five day week. This includes transport to and from a good place for off lead rushing about and 5 minutes per dog washing and rubbing down when they've been rolling in mud. (Which is what gun-dogs particularly Labradors like to do). This is a properly insured police checked etc etc established since 2003 dog walking/daycare business, in southern England, but not London, and I know my prices are well within midrange for what I do in my area. Cleaners round here vary between £9 and £15 for the self employed and £18 - £20 for the corporate Molly Maid types. General opinion is avoid the corporate Molly Maid types though.

So you don’t mean filthy you mean a little messy??

Weird thread

Hold on - are there cleaners who tidy as well??! Is this a thing?

Would gladly pay £1k a month for tjat

And I’ll still walk the dog myself

Get rid of the dogs and children and live in a nice clean house!

But £1k a month seems like a lot. Our cleaner does two hours a week. One upstairs, one down. Bathrooms and carpets are decent for the week, kitchen a spruce after cooking but not mopping etc.

Mind you, we get ours free with our job, so I can’t help on costs.

I have been thinking about this myself - but on a much, much, much smaller and cheaper scale!!

My Dad is very elderly and just out of hospital and I am really struggling to find time to do everything and be everywhere. I was just thinking today what can I possibly outsource?

Laundry - take it all to local laundrette and dump it for a service wash and dry - £30 pw. We have a lot of laundry due to dogs/winter/muddy feet. There is a laundry service that picks it up and delivers it but I don't mind dumping it on the way to and from places.

Cleaner - 3 hours pw at £12ph - £36 pw.

Shopping online and delivered obvs.

Dog walking - I thought hard about this but 2 Jack Russells in London £30 per hour per day? Plus I like walking them.

I also outsourced paperwork admin (snail mail) at £20 per hour - 2 hours pw - £40

That's made a huge difference.