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?

Oh sorry what she does: (large 3 bed house:

Full clean bathroom
Full clean kitchen
Full clean hallway
Dusts three bedrooms and living room
Hoovers and mops the whole house
Ironing
Any other bits as needed time allowing

She’s lovely and completely trustworthy.

Weekly. 4 hours.

£50. Private cleaner.

#merryoldgoat .. I'd charge extra for ironing.
I wouldn't even factor in ironing as part of cleaning
I can get 40 items ironed for £21 .... I'd rather pay the money

@HaveANiceFuckingDay

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 !!

No, what I’m not understanding is how you’re cleaning any house to a decent standard in an hour. Unless it is spotless to start with.

I used to have a fortnightly cleaner and it was wonderful! Go for it.

Every week 2 hours pw, £12.50 per hour. I love her. I’d stop feeding one of the kids before cancelling her 😂

In the two hours she does family bathroom, en-suite, downstairs toilet, kitchen and hoovers throughout including stairs and floofs cushions to make the sofas look pretty,

Mine comes once a week for 3 hours, £45. We have a huge 5 bed house, 4 reception rooms, 5 loos(!). She always does loos and kitchen, and Hoovers, and then sort of prioritises whatever is worst. This week she cleaned the outside of some patio doors as they were so bad they were annoying her , occasionally she pops my washing on the line if she has time. She is wonderful and I think I love her.

4 bed (although 2 are studies), 1 bathroom. We had 3 hours every week and it was like coming home to a show house.

Kitchen, bathroom, dusted throughout, hoovered throughout, clutter scooped into single piles in every room and beds changed.

I miss her... Divorce put a hole in my finances.

Well this all sounds fantastic and not that expensive.

I would probably try every other week to start with and see how that is. Sounds like 2-3 hours fortnightly would be no more than £100 a month...

Even 2 hours a week would be doable

Ok great how much for a nanny?!

@HaveANiceFuckingDay

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 !!

That’s not the issue… the issue is you saying that all houses with dogs take 1.5 hours and all without take 1 hour. Houses vary massively in size, surely you’re not saying that a 5 bed, 3 reception room house without dogs takes an hour to clean? It takes our cleaner 4 hours a week. And that a 2 up, 2 down would also take an hour?

In Ireland. Four hours weekly, €15 an hour. She does a good job (although we also have a robot vacuum cleaner so she does not have to do much vacuuming).

Oh, house is four bedrooms (one used as a study), three bathrooms (two are shower rooms only).

5 bed (although 2 are studies), 2 bath, 3 loos.

2 hours per week - £15

Deep clean of kitchen and bathrooms. Hoovered and mopped throughout. Other rooms wiped and polished.
Worth every single penny.

Go for it 👌

£15 PER HOUR 😳

2 hours a week but I clean at the same time. 5 bed 3 ensuite and 1 bathroom. 2 bedrooms are used as study (wfh) and hobby rooms, 1.used as playroom and 2 used as bedrooms.

I tidy up ahead and then, dust and hoover living room and do half kitchen diner, I start at diner end and hoover hall and kitchen and mop hall and kitchen.

My cleaner does the ensuites and bathroom, hoovers and dusts upstairs, skirting boards, cobwebs, hoovers down the stairs, downstairs loo and kitchen including gloss cupboards.

Ps it is amazing and means that by 11am on a Saturday my whole house is clean.

I'm in West Yorkshire, my cleaner charges £30, she's been coming to me for about five years every week and it's about 2 hours-ish.
I have a 4 bed (1 a guest room so not used much) with study, two bathrooms, a downstairs loo, dining room, living room and kitchen, on three floors. I keep a pretty clean and tidy house anyway but she is fabulous and it feels even cleaner when she's been. She's coming up to retiring now but her daughters are taking over so I expect a bit of a raise in price.
It really is worth it, though I must admit I feel a little awkward if I've been working from home and try and ply her with tea and cake!

We have cleaners in once a week on a Tuesday lunchtime. House is 4 bed with a large kitchen diner and 2 teens - those rooms don't get done!!

They do lounge, kitchen, bathroom, en-suite, toilet, our bedroom, Hoover upstairs and stairs, steam mop downstairs and talk nicely to the dog, who loves one of them because he once managed to get a chocolate out of her uniform pocket and he's always hoping for another.

They're a small local company, just the 2 of them. It takes them somewhere between an hour and a half to an hour and three quarters and costs £50. I'm disabled so cant do stuff that's up high or down low or involves a lot of standing, and that's mainly what my pip goes on. It's great cos dh works long hours and we don't really want him doing chores the whole time he's home.

We keep the place pretty tidy through the week anyway but have a good tidy up on Monday night. About 15 mins from all of us together gets everything cleared and I try to do some cooking for the rest of the week on Monday through the day and then the hob gets a good clean too, but it depends on how I'm feeling.

6 hours a week - £75 for cleaning and ironing. Includes:

Four bedrooms
One bathroom, two loos
Three reception rooms
Kitchen
Hall, stairs and landing

She also does the inside of windows (but not all windows every week, it’s a rotation)

Floors mopped or hoovered, dusting, polishes mirrors etc

Things that I would still need to do are wash down doors (all ours are painted white and we have children with grubby hands), and heavy furniture would need to be moved and cleaned under/behind as part of a deep clean, normal things like clean fridge and oven and stuff like that.

One basket of ironing done.

It doesn’t mean that I don’t do any cleaning. I still seem to spend ages tidying and keeping on top of day to day stuff. I also make sure that I’m organised enough so that all laundry is done and then ironing is ready for the day she comes.

But it makes a huge difference and our current cleaner is just fantastic.

My cleaner is a godsend now I'm back at work... 3 hour per week @ £12 ph... she gives bathrooms and kitchen a deep clean, hoovers and dusts rest of house, ad hoc indoor windows/ mirror cleaning/ skirting boards etc and other jobs she notices need doing (luckily she take initiative wrt what needs done)... I don't ask her to change beds, but she always straightens them up as clearly our bed making is substandard 😂

It's great and means I just have to wipe surfaces in kitchen daily, quick hoover once a week or so, quick wipe in bathrooms/ bleach loo once or twice a week before I shower and that keeps on top of everything.

Do it! You won't regret it...

Twice a week, but my house is big (7500 square feet).

3 hours twice a week. She cleans, tidies, changes the beds and puts the sheets on to wash/dry, irons, and a rotational deep clean of inside of kitchen cupboards or whatever

I would like to have a cleaner who does "deep clean" in 2 hours in a 4 bedroom house to the extent many of you listed....

I mean realistically, how long just a hoovering takes in a big house? And you say your cleaner does the bathrooms, and moops all the floors and dusting all surfaces?

I mean, it sounds nearly impossible....

How long it takes when you do it yourself? what do you expect as deep clean?

I never had a cleaner so I dont know what they can do, but when I am cleaning, 2 hours for a "deep clean" of a 4 bedroom house sounds like a ridiculous expectation, imho