AIBU to ask about employing a cleaner

[Cottagepieandpeas]

I'm really keen to find a cleaner but it's proving a bit difficult.
I've put a message on our local Facebook & had one response. She doesn't work for a company but says that she works around our area.
She's quoted £15 per hour (but hasn't asked me any questions like size of house). I feel £15 is probably the top end of what I was hoping to pay (I'm not in London).

Would you ask her for references - and if so how would you do that - ask her for names & contact details of poeple she works with? Or a written reference that she supplies?
Or would you just not both with references?

So she is charging by the hour and therefore it doesn't matter how big the house is but for reference, mine is four beds with two long haired cats and a whirlwind DS and my cleaners charge £15 per hour for 3 hours (between them - they're here for an hour and a half). For that they clean the bathroom/loos, kitchen and Hoover with a bit of dusting but they don't always have time to do all the extra stuff like window cleaning etc which they only do if they're here when I'm on holiday. My point being is that I think this is reasonable.

Thanks that’s helpful.

Cottagepieandpeas I clean for an elderly couple started a few years ago, I charge £10 for 3 hours each week, I clean the bathroom, kitchen, polish, mop and hoover, also do any ironing that they need doing, which is a fair bit each week. When I started they didn’t ask for any reference or contact details other than my phone number.

Can you ask around people
You know for recommendations??

Our cleaner does 2 hours for us, and charges £30. She cleans 3 bathrooms, hoovers and dusts everywhere else, and mops through the hard floor areas (large 4 bed detached). She provides all her own cleaning products and brings her own hoover.

It keeps our house at a good basic level of clean and then I can do more thorough jobs at the weekend like cleaning windows, the fridge etc.