To get a cleaner and ask how much you pay for yours?

[DreamsOfDownUnder]

I'm a single mum of one, working part time whilst family have her. I also like to do things with my baby and by the end of it I'm shattered. I know it needs to be done, but I detest housework and have zero motivation.

How much do you pay and how often do you have them?

Seriously thinking about getting one, I binned Sky so I have a bit of extra money each month now (£120).

£27/week (3 hrs) , plus qtrly agency fee. Works out about £10.50/hr. Cheshire area.

We have a 2 hour clean fortnightly at £14ph in a 2 bed and 3 bathroom house in West Midlands

Midlands, £22 for two hours weekly. £1144 annually when you account for tips and bonuses sometimes but some weeks she doesn't come.

Drives me nuts that friends with Sky and expensive contract phones tease about this - it's a life changing advantage to me!

I have a cleaner for 3 hours once a month and pay £10 an hour. She's ok but pretty unreliable. I'd like to have her for 2 hours every fortnight but I don't think she'd be reliable enough. I let her in and then go out for 3 hours.

I pay about £30 every two weeks and wouldn't be without them. It frees up so much time for the kids and I can do more work. Not to mention they do a MUCH better job than I do. I'd rather buy less food than give them up.

£12.50ph here for 2.5hrs per week.

We're getting one, fortnightly for 2hrs it's £61 a month in London

More reasonable rates on here than I thought 😁

£12 ph, 2.5 hours every other week. She is a saviour - do it!

£10ph in Manchester get 2- 2.5 hours. Previous cleaner always left early and did a bad job but at least it kept me organised and beds laundered. Now got a new one, same rate.

Some agencies here charge 12.50 but cleaning products are included. Its a rip off as cleaner gets minimum wage and agency does nothing.

Totally depends where you live. We pay ours £16.50 an hour and that is a cheap rate for round here (South East). We get them for two hours every fortnight and I definitely think it's worth it so that I can just do the bare minimum to keep on top of things and the cleaners do the deep cleaning.

£10 an hour for two hours a week. Small 4 bed house but she only does two of the bedrooms.

It's liberating. If you can afford it, do it. It's great to know that however untidy I might make the place, underneath it's clean. And the best bit - she changes my bedding, including the king sized duvet! (I live alone and hate wrangling that duvet cover!)

Mine charges £18 a hour, she does three hours a week, she cleans but she also does laundry. Worth every single penny.

I think I’m over-paying - we have a cleaner who comes weekly - 2hours £35. We are Lancashire/Cumbria border.

People paying 10ph you are underpaying your cleaner. The only cleaners I know that charge 10ph are working cash in hand. This is actually quite rare. Please pay your cleaner a decent amount. I charge between 13 - 16 per hour. This has to cover my wage 8.21 per hour, fuel, insurance, products, accountancy and any holidays. It really pisses me off that people pay their cleaners so little.

£50 for 4 hours

"People paying 10ph you are underpaying your cleaner."

I pay my cleaner what she charges. She is in control of her own wage.

I pay £10/hr and she does EVERYTHING...kitchen counters, mops, vacuums, dusts, cleans blinds, bannister, windows, mirrors, tv screen, walls, polishes furniture, etc etc etc.

I absolutely love having her and would definitely give up something to keep her if our finances changed. I love coming in after she's cleaned and everything looks brand new and it smells so clean.

I use Housekeep and it's really great, they look after my key and it's really flexible. I have a regular 3 hours fortnightly (3 bed terrace) and have the odd extra clean if we have guests or I'm swamped. It's all managed online and I have the same cleaner, he's really lovely.

If you use a referral link you get 2 hours free to try it out (I get £10 credit too):
housekeep.com/enjoy-free-cleaning/?coupon_code=QUKDZGSI

@donajimena
I didn’t choose her hourly rate-she did! If she wants to ask for more that is up to her.

Forgot to add: it's £13.50 per hour in London which is pretty normal I think.

Are there jobs that cleaners specifically will or won’t do? Eg I have cats and while I’d never expect a cleaner to clean a litter tray, they might need to move it / clean under or around it. Or would that be considered unreasonable?

We pay £42 for three hours every fortnight (London).

Oh and yes she has a key but I was at home for the first few sessions before giving her a key.

I have a 3 bed and have a cleaner for 3 hours every other week. I do barely anything in between!

It's enough to give the whole house a go over but not enough for any deep cleaning.

It's worth every penny.