How much would it cost to outsource ALL housework?

[silvercuckoo]

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.

If it's diabetes and in the south east/Greater London I would be interested in a role for that money!!

I think the nanny tbh is where you are going wrong! I have friends that nanny, even the ones that don't do household chores clean up after the kids/whatever activities they are doing!! I can understand why the house would be trashed if she's just leaving everything!!

I would change childcare, get a nanny that's perhaps a bit more money but that will do washing/ meals and general tidying/organising and children's admin such as doctors, eye appointments etc.

I would then get a cleaner in for 2/3 hours twice a week to do a deep clean/ hoover round, mop. I have a 3 bed house and it takes me an hour a day to tidy/hoover and mop up and downstairs clean two bathrooms. And then probably another 1/2 hours to do deeper cleaning bits such as sort kids toys, wipe down windows, deep clean sofas etc!

Dog walker as you are.

Deal with your own admin once kids are in bed - I am guessing once kids stuff/appointments are taken care of your own stuff won't take too much time. Perhaps 1 hour a week?

DP (in both senses of the word IE he's my work partner and also the father of our children) has just had minor hysterics reading this thread.

His take is (and actually I think I'm vaguely agreeing with him) If you want full scale housekeeping, book a full scale housekeeper.

Surely this depends totally on location and house size, we had a two bedroom flat so cleaner for two hours a week £20 a week plus part time nanny approx £500 a month kept things nice enough. I guess if I wanted to do less general tidying then an extra 4 hours cleaning / tidying. Both me and DH working full time and kids in school for context.

And the nanny would definitely tidy before she left. Maybe a few bits to wash up and didn't generally cook beyond boiling pasta / oven food. I wouldn't be happy to come home to general kids mess when you are paying for a nanny unless you get home in the middle of something but our generally would plan and be able to get things cleaned up.

Friends who have nannies none of them do housework as such but the certainly clean up after themselves and the kids.

OP - I think you are getting a dud deal here. It must be pretty depressing coming home to a really messy house. Not cleaning is one thing, fair enough, but whoever is looking after children needs to take responsibility for dealing with the mess they make - that’s just common sense.

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

Hell yeah - I love my cleaner!

Sounds like non tidying nanny is part of the problem

The nanny-=housekeeper I can udnertand but £1k a month on a cleaner I can't. How big is your house??

My life insurance people put it at 60k a year - this my job including the admin. H and I had a scare last year. To replace me and allow him to work we realised we needed a live in housekeeper who would care for the children - h leaves around 4 30 am for work monday to Friday.