Yesterday she definitely only stayed for two hours or less, as I was in the house before she arrived and came back two hours later and she had been and gone, pocketing my cheque for £24! She has done this several times before so she probably thinks it is easy money. I am definitely a wuss in that I didn't mention it beforehand, but now dp and I are getting fed up with it.
She probably covers a larger area than I could do in two hours (having tried it myself when she was away over Christmas) but not to the same extent, i.e. yesterday after she had definitely vacuumed and mopped the wooden floor downstairs there were still pockets of dust in corners and under the hall cupboards.
I even suggested to her when she started that 2 hours might be better, because it seemed to me that she was fitting me in around a rather busy schedule. But she said no, she would come for 3 hours.
Our only communication is by text message, unless I leave a note for her when she comes in. Plus I often don't know what day she's going to come as she's supposed to come on Mondays but usually texts me late in the day to say she will come another day. So I'm thinking of texting and saying that I know she only came for two hours yesterday, and she can choose whether to only be paid for two hours or for me to find more work for her in our house... which would be very easy, for example it would be lovely to have someone else change the bedclothes each week, or occasionally wipe out the fridge, or clean out cupboards etc...
Ultimately I would love to have a different cleaner, one I can communicate with and feel that she's actually working for me rather than doing me a favour when she does come round! (The last one we had was wonderful and would use her initiative to clean windows etc if she had a bit of extra time, but she went back to Hungary last year.) But I feel I should give this one a chance to improve... maybe I'm just being a wuss again, what does everyone else think????