Cleaner Price! AIBU?

[Wyntersdiary]

So i was looking for quote for a cleaner and most of them came back at what i thought it would be, between 10 - 15 PH except one... £25 PER HOUR for just 1 person! i couldnt believe it , i wish i could get paid £25 an hour to clean someones house.

End of tenancy clean ... £95 for 2 hours!!!

This is all for just cleaning a bathroom, lounge and kitchen .. in a small flat as i said bedrooms didnt need doing... im shocked.

@NoWordForFluffy

The people on this thread are?

They are claiming that it costs them upwards of £95 to clean wherever they lived after a tenancy. I've yet to see one person say they did it themselves. Hence the most.

No need to get snippy over what I said. I never said they were messy, but there's likely to be something you need to do at the end of a tenancy, once you've removed all of your stuff and if that includes furniture, you've got that to clean behind even if it's just hoovering. Not like you're just going to pack up and leave without having to do any cleaning at all. Well some people do, but that's not the point of this thread.

You can just do it yourself though and I don't see why people don't. Saves you money and its easy enough. If you've already got a cleaner coming in because you can't do it yourself, the cost should hardly comes as a shock.

[quote KeepingPlain]@NoWordForFluffy

The people on this thread are?

They are claiming that it costs them upwards of £95 to clean wherever they lived after a tenancy. I've yet to see one person say they did it themselves. Hence the most.

No need to get snippy over what I said. I never said they were messy, but there's likely to be something you need to do at the end of a tenancy, once you've removed all of your stuff and if that includes furniture, you've got that to clean behind even if it's just hoovering. Not like you're just going to pack up and leave without having to do any cleaning at all. Well some people do, but that's not the point of this thread.

You can just do it yourself though and I don't see why people don't. Saves you money and its easy enough. If you've already got a cleaner coming in because you can't do it yourself, the cost should hardly comes as a shock.[/quote]
You don't see why people don't do it themselves? Because often a tenancy will say they have to go professional and they think they have to maybe, rather than understanding they don't have to.

So 'most' means 'most people on this thread'. There is a difference in meaning between those two things!

You can just do it (end of tenancy clean) yourself

I have done end of tenancy cleans where the letting agents have insisted that they show proof of a professional clean with receipts and a certificate from a carpet cleaning company. This is a clause written into their tenancy contract.

Some letting agents will insist on tenants using the cleaning companies on their approved list and ask for proof. I've no idea if the tenant can dispute that and clean it themselves but most just comply with the letting agent's stipulations.

There is a risk that the tenant spends all day cleaning, the letting agent decides it's not to standard, books a cleaning company and the cost is deducted from the deposit?

They can't insist you use a certain company. Or that you clean to any greater standard than they gave you the property in (see the inventory).

If they've asked for a professional clean, before forking out, ask for their invoice for the same before you moved in. If they don't have one, they can go whistle.

Also, as long as your clean is a professional standard (take photos to compare to the inventory) then they can't just deduct. They'd have to win the right to deduct via the deposit protection scheme.

There's quite a bit of protection in place for tenants.

@SmileyClare it can be written into contracts but it isn't actually enforceable. Imagine if my agency asked me to book a cleaning company when I move out.
Some agencies deduct from cleaners fees say 10% to try and recoup from the fees that were banned. I know this as one of my agencies takes 10% commission from any work they pass me. I've had to put my prices up

one agency where I live actually made it onto a consumer programme. Insisted on cleaning with x company. X company belongs to the proprietors sister. Appalling letting agency.

Sorry I haven't had time to read the whole thread but in response to Ops original.post YANBU at all. Only on MN is it acceptable to pay £25 an hour for a cleaner. In my area which is fairly affluent it's £10-15ph. Nobody would get any business if they charged £25.

Interesting. It seems as though some letting agents are making up their own bending the rules then over end of tenancy cleans!