To get a cleaner to give the house a good clean once a week or once a fortnight?

[BunnytheFriendlyDragon]

I've never had a cleaner but struggle to get everything done so I am wondering whether it would be worthwhile to get a cleaner in once a week or once a fortnight to give everything a good clean,

May I ask how often you have your cleaner in?
What do they do?
What does it cost?

We have every other week for 2/2.5 hours, we pay £12 per hour. I would love to have her weekly but can’t really justify it at the moment financially… one day ;)
She literally blitzes the house, surfaces, hoovering and dusting. She is amazing.

Weekly four hours.

£64 from an agency.

Definitely, mine is a godsend. Once a week for 3 hours, 40 quid. Kitchen, bathroom, all hoovering , mopping hard floors, polishing and dusting, makes everything shine, and I have no idea how she makes a duvet so flat. When she was on holiday for a month in August, I was bereft. She is lovely and so much better than me.

Cost depends on your area. £30 for 2 hours a week, clean bathroom and kitchen, dusting, hoovering (all floors and sofa) and wash floors.

It’s important that you know what you want them to do and discuss this in advance and make sure it’s realistic for the time frame. I don’t want my cleaner to make unmade bed or tidy at all, I just want her to spend her time cleaning so this is what she does.

I have cleaners that come in EOW, six hours one week, four hours the other so about 10 a mont in total. £13.50 ph. They are brilliant and do all the deep cleaning that I CBA to do. I keep on top of tidying and washing, and I surface clean EOW - that's fine by me!

Once a Fortnight general tidy around as she went putting things into piles ( I mostly started to do this myself in advance and then started working on getting it so things were not left around) , she’d do all flooring hoover or mop. Surface tops/window sills all wiped down, bathrooms, if we wanted beds done we’d leave the bedding out. She’s so do cycles of wipe down of floorboards, kitchen tops, interval doors etc,

So roughly £12-15 an hour... I live in Yorkshire.

I would want (off the top of my head)

Kitchen cleaned
Bathroom cleaned
All carpets hoovered / all floors cleaned
All surfaces cleaned / dusted

A friend mentioned her cleaner changes all the duvets. This appears to me as I find it a chore but also don't like anyone to touch my bedding

Do they bring their own equipment or use ours (sorry if this is a stupid question!)

It's the pulling furniture out to clean / hoover and dusting around the skirting boards so I can just give it a quick once over daily.

I had my own cleaning company . Essex
£10 an hour using their products
£12 an hour using mine
I didnt fo out to anyone with a Shark Vacuum.. I'd take my Henry charging the £12
With dogs I found it took 1.5 hours. Without dogs 1 hour
This would include .. all floors , swept / hoovered/mopped . All surfaces dusted . Bathroom spotless and toilet cleaned, any washing up I'd do it, any washing to be hung out I'd do that . Beds made , blinds dusted. skirting a quick dust over ( not much build up over a week ) this was about 3 years ago
I'd now charge £15 an hour and wouldn't go outside a 3 mile radius
I know another cleaner who can't see sick that was up the bowl of a toilet and the wall .I could smell it a mile off .. I went over the work and when I pulled the cleaner up on it their response I didnt see it .. there is seeing it and seeing it .. you need a person that cleans properly and takes pride.. which I do

We have a lady who comes once a fortnight. £30 for 2/2.5 hours, in the North of England - 4 bed: she does a deep clean of the kitchen and bathrooms, including mopping, takes bins out, and dusts and vacs everywhere else, then mops the hard floors downstairs. I follow a loose version of The Organised Mum Method the rest of the time and try and make sure the house is tidy the day before she comes so she doesn't have to move anything to clean.

I used to have agency cleaners once every fortnight. No duvet changing, but a good clean of the whole house, especially high-traffic areas like bathrooms and kitchen. It was wonderful, for about 48 hours the house was sparkling…then my lovely family started spilling things again!

I think it’s worth it, I don’t have cleaners now and really miss them. Think I paid about £60, agencies are obviously more expensive.

Oh just seen your last post - she brings all her own supplies and equipment, but is happy to use the stuff we provide if preferred (we have an eco friendly hob cleaner we like for instance).

With dogs I found it took 1.5 hours. Without dogs 1 hour

What took an hour or 1.5? Surely not every house you cleaned?

OP I’m a cleaner, bring all my own cleaning products and equipment, incl mop, bucket and Hoover. £13/hr. I don’t do visits for less than 2 hours (despite many potential clients thinking I’d love to haul my ass and all my gear to their house for an hours work! )

I do pretty much anything a client asks except oven cleaning. (I do the hob and outside of door) I change beds and put on washing, hang out, do ironing.

Be realistic. Far too many people don’t realise how long it takes to clean properly And expect miracles in an hour.

I'm on maternity leave at the moment and struggle to do everything now but thinking a cleaner might be a treat for when I go back to work

B comes in every Wednesday for 3 hours. I tidy on a Tuesday evening so she can clean. She does straighten up as she dusts / cleans. She scrubs the bathroom, takes bath mats and towels down for laundry. She changes my bed and DDs and puts bedding for laundry. She dusts and hoovers, mops all my hard floors downstairs and cleans my kitchen. She also dusts skirtings and cleans inside of windows and mirrors. Without her I really struggled to keep on top of everything. It costs me £42.50/week.

#MrsRobbieHart .. with dogs there was hair everywhere which took longer .. one client the dogs had their own bathroom.. the hair alone off bath , floor and shower took 20 minutes .. dog hair ( I have a dog ) and it needs more attention
Nope to oven cleaning , I'd do oven hobs but draw the line at ovens .
One client I went too the house was immaculate.. not a hair in the sink or a crumb on a carpet .. I did struggle to fill the hour to be honest and felt bad I was charging to clean a perfectly immaculately clean home .. It was only the husband I ever dealt with , i think it was more company he wanted than cleaning .. I'm also a qualified carer and would have charged the same to go for an hour as a carer and have a cup of tea and a chat than clean if that's what they wanted

I agree, @MrsRobbieHart. My cleaners took about 2.5 hours and did a great job. It’s not worth skimping.

To add I supply my own products and she tells me if I need anything else. I have a dog so there is a lot of dust (he is non-shedding but he gets dirty and it dries and comes off him as dust).

with dogs there was hair everywhere which took longer .. one client the dogs had their own bathroom.. the hair alone off bath , floor and shower took 20 minutes .. dog hair ( I have a dog ) and it needs more attention

Yes but you said ‘it’ took 1.5 hour with dogs, 1hour without. What did? Not the whole house clean surely?

Yes the whole house ... to clean it took longer for the dog hair to hoover up / mop / get on my knees to scrub the bathroom floor because of shedding .. I'm failing to understand how its inconceivable to take longer to clean a house with dogs than to clean a house without dogs .. the hair !!

Fortnightly 3 hours, I work from home so wouldn't want the interruption weekly. 1500sqft ish house. It's enough but does need doing by the end of the fortnight!

(£12ph they supply products)

Weekly for three hours - £40

Two weekly isn’t enough for my house.

I'm amazed that anyone could clean a whole house in 1 hour, even a small 2 bed house. People who can do that must be very fast and very fit.

I think most people would take at least 2 hours just to hoover, dust, mop hard floors, clean bathroom (incl toilet, bath or shower and sink but not scrubbing all tiles) and clean kitchen sink. But maybe professional cleaners are just much faster. I admire them, they really earn their money.

4 hours every other week - it’s the best thing ever
No laundry or beds, my choice
mostly uses her own stuff , sometimes 2 come so they use our Hoover
Large 3 bed with 3 cats no kids, so lots of fluff 😆
I have it super tidy when she comes so she can concentrate on cleaning not tidying
$ not relevant as not the UK