To think £90 a week is insane for a cleaner

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Just had a quote for a weekly clean from a cleaner who had previously done a deep clean on my house. £90 a week!

To be fair my house is odd and has some extra rooms as the previous owners extended it a lot (5 bedrooms (1 with en suite), 1 bathroom, 1 shower room, 2 lounges, kitchen/diner, home office and playroom.). It’s not a mansion though! It’s just a semi.

This cleaner has a PA and her own company, I think she must be pretty high end, I mean she must be charging a bit extra to cover the PA? Surely that’s too much?

Be careful about holiday pay hello. It could be argued she is your employee, which would mean you should be contributing to her pension and paying her via PAYE. You would be safer giving her a Christmas bonus, which could be for the same amount.

Only the bedroom with the en-suite doesn’t get used. The rest do, as I work from home and the office and one other room is used for work. The other bedrooms, lounge, playroom all get used.

My father has a cleaner for 10 hours a week, £15 per hour. South London.

**12 rooms

We just lost our cleaner and found that prices have gone up, I think possibly because a lot of local cleaners were from Eastern Europe, and some have returned, so there's more demand. £13 - £15/hour seems standard now.

So we pay £45 for 3 hours a week. That's a 5 bed, 2 bathroom house. However, only 3 of the bedrooms are cleaned on a regular basis, and the utility is only every few weeks too. If we had it all cleaned, every week, I think we'd be looking at £60-£70/week

I got a similar quote for our 15 room house from a cleaning company.
I ended up paying someone £40 for around four hours she used to get pretty much everything done:

Good cleaners are expensive. Good cleaners in expensive area of London are mega expensive.
I’d not expect to pay less than £10 an hour, so 9 hours a week would be about £90 pw.
It’s nit expensive.

Good cleaners are expensive.

While this is true not all expensive cleaners are good. If she comes recommended though I'd definitely expect to pay more than £10 an hour.

Our cleaner chargers £13.50 per hours but brings her own cleaning supplies and vacuum cleaner. She dropped her rare from £15ph as I don't think she was getting much work (SW England).
So it's £27 pw for our small 2 bed house.

Id clean you house 48 a week including eco friendly cleaning products lol

£15 an hour, 6 hours, seems reasonable for a good clean in a house of your size. Even then you wouldn't expect the bigger jobs like windows done every week

I think you're missing the point that you are looking to employ through a limited company. So her costs will be higher to cover business costs. The PA, insurances etc. Where most "self employed" cleaning won't have a dbs check or the correct insurance so they can charge a lot less

I used your fo domestic cleaning. The going rate atm is £15 per hour per person. So you should expect 6 hours with one worker and around 3 if two people turn up at the same time.

It sounds on the more expensive side, but not insanely so. I pay £60 (5 hours @ £12 per hour) weekly in London, that’s about 3 hours of ironing and 2 hours of cleaning for a 3 bedroom house (fairly large though and annoying spread out over 4 floors). Cash in hand though. She’s not a very good cleaner bless her (I have tried offering more time to help this but she cleans just as quickly and leaves early!) but is very honest and kind and I wouldn’t change her. If she retired though, I would pay more for an excellent cleaner, it is worth it IMO.