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Cleaner, is this reasonable?

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Hoghedge10 · 27/09/2022 12:43

I know cleaner threads have been done to death but...
I'm in the West/South West and will be looking for a cleaner in the next couple of weeks does this sound OK?

It's a fairly large house and takes me about 4/5 hours to do myself but that's a decent clean although not skirting boards windows (they are done once in a blue moon tbh). I'm not sure how long this would take a professional?

I want:

Full clean of two bathrooms
Polish/wipe down all surfaces in 8 rooms
Bit of tidying/setting straight - any things left out that shouldn't be either put away or put in a big basket for me to deal with later.
Hoovering 9 rooms
Mop 4 rooms
Full clean of kitchen
Dusting round ceilings
Generally cleaning anything that looks grubby.

The rooms are pretty standard size and while I'm planning to keep it tidy during the week I don't plan on doing any extra cleaning so will be a full once a week clean for a cleaner if you see what I mean.

I'm thinking 4 hours once a week @ £60 for the whole thing. Is this reasonable both for time and cost?
Is the list above of what I would want doing reasonable as well, or have I missed stuff/asking too much?

OP posts:
MarieBaroneIsMyMom · 27/09/2022 15:39

Quweenie · 27/09/2022 15:22

£20 for three hours? Or £20 per hour, for three hours?

Oops, my wording was very unclear.

£20/hr. So £60 per week.

courgettigreensadwater · 27/09/2022 15:40

Generally you don't get to say. They do. They come round, assess and tell you how long it will take each week and how much they charge.

Blueberrywitch · 04/10/2022 12:55

Our cleaner does light tidying of the sort you describe, rearranges cushions etc - which I thought was normal? However she spends 3 hours on a 1 bed 2 bathroom flat and doesn’t manage to clean the bathrooms properly in that time - so unless ours is particularly bad or yours is a super hero - 4 hours for a large house wouldn’t be enough unless they were rotating between tasks (eg only did bathrooms every second week). I’m pretty unhappy with our cleaner though but she’s getting on and we seem to be stuck with her so I just end up cleaning the bathrooms after she goes with gritted teeth.

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