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

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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).

As PP have said, my cleaner also set her own rate. If she had said £12 or £13, that’s what I’d be paying. Everyone else I know with a cleaner pays 9–10 £ph

Having a cleaner is the best money I have every spent! I hate bloody cleaning. 2 hours a fortnight for £20. Tiny flat we could probably clean in an hour at the weekend. But I bloody don't want to spend my 'down time' cleaning and bickering with/nagging dh to do his share. Cleaner = Bliss. And I can manage to keep on top of the tidying and general cleaning when i don't have to think about scrubbing behind the toilet.

£26 for 2 hours, once a week. She does kitchen, bathroom, living room, hall and the downstairs bedroom. She doesn’t do the 2 upstairs rooms, one is my husbands “office” and I wouldn’t make anyone clean that tip!

£20 for 2 hours a week. She always does the kitchen, bathrooms, floors and then varies other things in a rotation.

I'm up north and my cleaner charges £10 an hour. We have her for 3 hours a week in a 4 bedded house but she doesn't do the bedrooms or utility room. She does do all the ironing however which is great as I have a back problem and can't stand or bend over for any length of time.

I love my cleaner. It’s about £14 an hour and I have 3 hours a week. It now means I tidy up before she comes and our house is no longer a state. We’re only 1 month in but me and my husband have stopped arguing about the house. We could probably do with 4 hours to get everything sorted but we’ve been alternating the starting room so that gets a deeper clean each week.

£26 for 2 hours, once a week. She hoovers the whole house then does basic kitchen and bathroom clean.

Allegedly we then do dusting etc but i don't think i ever have and she must think we're so lazy. And we are 😆

Totally worth it

We have a key box outside the door and she has the code.

I went through an agency. I feel bad that she gets paid less because of the agency cut so i pay her holiday pay for weeks we're away or she's away eg summer holiday, Xmas. She gets £9 an hour and the agency get the rest

YANBU
Mine charges £8.50 per hour and I pay the agency she works for £30 per month. I actually just pay her £10 per hour though... she does the whole house, changes bed sheets and does the ironing and it takes her 2 hours (3 bed house)
Totally worth every penny.

2 hours twice a week
£12 an hour
Best thing ever

I pay £12 an hour and have 4.5 hours a week plus 2 hours of ironing every week

YANBU
Mine charges £8.50 per hour and I pay the agency she works for £30 per month. I actually just pay her £10 per hour though... she does the whole house, changes bed sheets and does the ironing and it takes her 2 hours (3 bed house)
Totally worth every penny.

YANBU
Mine charges £8.50 per hour and I pay the agency she works for £30 per month. I actually just pay her £10 per hour though... she does the whole house, changes bed sheets and does the ironing and it takes her 2 hours (3 bed house)
Totally worth every penny.

YANBU
Mine charges £8.50 per hour and I pay the agency she works for £30 per month. I actually just pay her £10 per hour though... she does the whole house, changes bed sheets and does the ironing and it takes her 2 hours (3 bed house)
Totally worth every penny.

Mine does 2 hours once a fortnight. I pay her £20 which is what she asked. She's really good. My mum just doesn't get it at all. It I think it's money well spent.

So sorry about all those posts - mn was really playing up on my phone earlier!

Maybe the 10ph is all they asked for but unless they are working cash in hand you are still taking advantage. FFS stop being so bloody tight.

Maybe the 10ph is all they asked for but unless they are working cash in hand you are still taking advantage. FFS stop being so bloody tight.

Don’t be ridiculous. It is above the living wage and what the self-employed cleaner has set his/her rate at. It’s not taking advantage.

Mine is amazing, we are in West Dorset.
She charged £10/hr but I give her 12/hr for 3 hours weekly, it's cash in hand as she doesn't have a bank account, and i notch it up to £40 for 3 hours, but she always does over the time and i dont pay holidays, so it works out.
She is wonderful, one of the old school , great pride in her work..
Dad worth the money. She is a treasure.
BYW I upped her salary because she is so treasured. She has a key and I trust her implicitly.
She does no bedrooms ( 5 large bed house) as the DCs have to clean their own and we clean ours. But it's a big house to keep clean and I love her.

I pay my cleaner 35 quid a week to clean a one bedroom flat. She also changes the towels and bedsheets, does some laundry, washes up, buys and changes the kitchen roll etc. She's great!

I'm looking for a cleaner and find myself getting more and more cross with cleaners who charge £12-£15/hour (London) and do a shoddy job. Whilst many mumsnetters seem to be of the belief that cleaners who are paid cash pay tax on this I'm not so sure! Perhaps if they work for an agency but independent cleaners who are paid cash every week I doubt they pay tax on this.

I'm in two minds whether to post on my local au pair group asking if anyone wants to earn more money by doing some ad hoc cleaning. Does anyone else use an au pair or student for cleaning? Does it work for you?

People paying 10ph you are underpaying your cleaner
I also pay her when she's on holiday or off sick

Kittecats. Its NOT above the living wage. I pay for insurance, petrol, bookkeeper, holiday pay out of my gross. Stop being so tight. The pp who pays holiday and sick.. be careful thats almost employee status.

We pay £35 for 3 hours. She is most definitely self employed, she is not my employee. I don't pay when she's on holiday, or sick.

The by the government suggested minimal amount plus 10%.

Mine earns £10pr for 2x2hr slots, cash. I buy cleaning products. I change beds, do laundry/ironing and clean windows. She does bathrooms, vacuuming throughout, dusts, cobwebs, and mops floors. Every so often, we have blitz clean one room, or I do.