To ask how much you pay for your cleaner

[hotchoco]

Can I ask how much you pay for your cleaner and how much work do they do and the size of the home.

NE Hampshire, £15 an hour, 3 hours a fortnight. 4 bed 2 bath house. A small army of 4 lovely ladies turn up and whizz through the house in 45 minutes. They don't have time for extras like wiping down kitchen cupboards, but they clean every floor and every surface. If I had to choose between them and the kids it might be a struggle

£15 per hour (4hrs). Which honestly, I think is too much.

£13ph for two hours a week but there's two of them so it's £52. They come in their own van and bring all their own products. The only thing of mine they use is my cloths and mop.

£15 per hour for 3 hours. Comes twice a week -£74 per month

Mine comes alone and doesn't bring her own supplies. Now based on everyone else's comments I feel I may be paying slightly too much for Greater London. Plus I continued to pay her during the first national lockdown. Mmh...

@lboogy

Own supplies is pretty unusual. And on the pittance that some are paying would be impossible.

£12... I provide eqipment

£75 a minute.

Our £12.50 is each cleaner per hour. They come as a pair twice a week for a couple of hours. Two means moving furniture is easier. They bring their own supplies including hoover, mop and bucket.

£35 a week 2.5 - 3 hrs. East midlands 4 bed

@lboogy

£15 per hour for 3 hours. Comes twice a week -£74 per month

Sorry these sums don't add up?

4 hours at £12 per hour. 4 bed, 3 bathroom house.

[quote AhNowTed]@lboogy

Own supplies is pretty unusual. And on the pittance that some are paying would be impossible.[/quote]
@AhNowTed own supplies seems standard from what I'm seeing in this thread. I remember when I was looking for cleaners originally and all of them provided their own supplies. I went with my cleaner because I got a good vibe from her.

All of my cleaners have used their own supplies. Pretty normal IME.

£22 for 90 mins weekly. She doesn't get round the whole house, she gives the kitchen and one of the bathrooms a good going over, sweeps and sometimes mops the whole downstairs, and vacuums the stairs.

@lboogy

I think these are cleaners from a cleaning company.

Mine is a trusted person I've known for 30 years who's cleaned for us for 20.

If something happened to them, I wouldn't replace them with molly maids or whatever.

Does a fabulous job, far better than I could.

We pay £80 for the job every fortnight, and supply everything.

They are worth every penny.

£14.50 per hour. 4 hours a fortnight. 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, one downstairs loo, kitchen diner and living-room. She makes up the beds too (I strip them). Our house is not tidy... she does a fantastic job of cleaning around our mess and leaves everything spotless.

@MessAllOver

Thank god.. someone who appreciates their cleaner, pays a decent rate and has a realistic expectation of how long it takes.

£15 an hour
Does 3 hours every 2 weeks
3 bed semi - but only cleans 1 bedroom

@AhNowTed. I love our cleaner (probably more than DH a lot of the time). She's easy- going, doesn't mind us hanging around the house, adores my DS and even babysat for him for 15 minutes when I needed to pop round the back of the house and show the roofer where our roof was leaking. My heart leaps when she arrives and she never fails to leave a sense of order and calm in our house.

I was really miffed before Christmas because I asked DH to get some chocolates to go with her Christmas bonus and the idiot came back with Milk Tray. Our cleaner is Eastern European so I can't imagine she appreciated that rubbish .

All those complaining about what people are paying their cleaners, the cleaners more than likely state that rate when you contact them? I’ve never negotiated one down.
Going rates SW England around £12-£15ph and some will provide products others won’t for the same price.
I find they clean well the first few times then get lazy, I am yet to find a consistent one.

@Babybaby432

Maybe you need to look elsewhere, and not generalise about cleaners.

There's plenty of posters here thoroughly happy with their cleaners.

They're usually the ones that appreciate the job that cleaners do, pay them a decent rate, and appreciate the hours it actually takes to clean their homes.

@AhNowTed @UsernameSaved

That is HER given rate, not set by me - and yes I overpay each time actually, and also always round up to the nearest hour regardless of if she starts late or finishes early.

£13 - 3 hours a week. 4 bed hse but we have it tidy for her so she sweeps, mops, hoovers, cleans bathrooms, kitchen and polishes. We’re realistic about how much can be done in that time.

[quote Snally82]**@AhNowTed* @UsernameSaved*

That is HER given rate, not set by me - and yes I overpay each time actually, and also always round up to the nearest hour regardless of if she starts late or finishes early.[/quote]
The fact that it is her rate doesn't make it any better.