To be noisy and ask about your cleaner?

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What do you pay your cleaner per hour? How often do you have them? Weekly/fortnightly? How many hours? Do you value them? Are you happy with their work?

6 hours a week. £13 an hour. She uses my cleaning products and tells me what she recommends/wants to use.

Honestly? What difference does it make?

You don’t know where I live.
you don’t know my cleaner.
Shes never going to clean for you.

£19.50 per hour and she’s the best I’ve ever had. She was a nurse after leaving the army, but found cleaning to be ‘better hours’ and much better pay, according to her.

Why are you interested?

£13.50 per hour. London.
12 hours per week, laundry as well as cleaning.

SW London. 2 hours for £40. She's not very thorough and bloody expensive, but she's a lovely person, nearing 60 and needs the money, so she stays.

£14 an hour for twelve hours a week over two days. She cleans our 5 bed house, irons, changes sheets, sorts laundry, does extras like fridges, does beautiful gratuitous floristry (she did a course), has the odd garden foray, fusses dogs, has a natter/ tea/ biccies. Uses our materials and can take her time. I really struggle with strangers in my home, I do what I can to make it a nice job that she wants to stay in. She reckons it’s the best gig she’s has in years (was most recently housekeeping for NMW in a care home). I reckon she’s great value and we love having her.

Christ, spikey or what. Its not a compulsory question, no one gives a shit if you answer or not. People like to benchmark prices, service etc but I would have thought that was perfectly obvious.

£15ph, 2 hours every week. She brings all her own stuff. She does little touches, folding toilet roll , hanging towels, arranging my toiletries like a hotel, only small things but I like it. She has also rearranged a few bits around the house which look a lot better.
I’ve had some terrible cleaners in the past (all from agencies) and it’s taken me years to find a good one and I like that she’s independent

In London. She charges £13 per hour but I pay her £50 for 3 hours - she’s really good and I think she undercharges, especially with the cost of living crisis.

12.00 p/h in London. 2 hours per fortnight. Ukrainian lady (friend is hosting her). I use Google translate. I ask her to do deep cleans in a couple of rooms per week, the stuff that never gets done in our house like cleaning under beds, skirting, window frames and glass etc. We manage to keep on top of the rest ourselves. It's not an essential, it's a luxury which we have done without for ages, but we're doing it to help her out with a bit of extra money. I used to have a cleaner when the kids were younger and couldn't help but now we all chip in with the weekly stuff, hoovering, bathrooms etc. We're not super super clean freaks so I don't want or expect an immaculate house all the time!

£16/HR, 4 to 5 hours per week. Excellent and does whatever extras I ask for, but doesn't follow a list and has a habit of stuffing things in weird places even though we've asked her not to put anything away.
Separate laundry/ ironing 2-4 hours per week, just sorts everything out without needing input. I hang the last load and do a couple of loads on top that she irons / puts away.

£15 an hour, 6 hours a week over two visits.

I love her. She’s new to is and amazing. Very flexible with lots of initiative. Changed the lightbulbs in my kitchen a while ago.

£17.50ph three hours a week but I always give her £60 as she is fabulous and irons DH's shirts as an extra. She has been our cleaner for years and has in the past done loads of extra tasks that we have happily paid more for such as childminding when the kids were small and dog sitting.

£15 per hour, once a fortnight for 3 hours.
I'd love to have her once-twice a week but we just can't afford that right now.

Big Victorian house, still with most of it's original fittings. Lots of rooms, lots of glass and lots of wood panelling and tiled floors. And them there's the washing and ironing.

@usernamen where abouts in SE London are we talking?

Feysriana I completely agree! I've had cleaners over the years and all have folded toilet paper into triangles, arranged cushions on sofas and beds, even folded pyjamas. That is absolutely not what I want, I want you to clean thoroughly so I don't have to, not waste your time making the house look like a hotel.

I pay £50 for a clean. There are 2 of them and they are usually here for about 2 hours but I don't clock watch as long as everything's done I don't mind sometimes they are here a bit longer sometimes a bit less.
I love them. They do an excellent job, I always leave the house tidy for them and they come once a week on a Monday.

£12 per hour SE she does 2hrs a week term time only then 3hrs the week shes back after the holidays. We have an agreement though that if she needs to spend longer she can so she just texts me how many hours shes done and i pay her by bank transfer. She is amazing and doesnt need any lists or instructions.

SE23!

£50 for 3.5 hours. Cleaner gets our good decaf coffee, cake if I have any and my undying love and appreciation. Also £200 at Xmas and £100 at Easter. Cleaner is reliable, flexible and a self starter. No, you can't have her number. She could walk out on me and get £20 an hour in a heartbeat.

We have bright and beautiful cleaners sometimes two come sometimes three once a week £274 monthly they use method products (theirs) and their cleaning is excellent. They fold down the loo roll 😝 .. before then we went through so many rubbish cleaners we are so relieved

£14/hr for 2 hours a week. We have gone through a handful of cleaners and this one is fab. Very fast, and very thorough!

£15/hr East of England. Ive got 2 different cleaners - one set do a deep clean once a week, the other comes twice a week and does top up plus laundry, food prep etc. They're all OK, not amazing and all talk at me way too much, such that I try to avoid them. Previously I had Brazilian cleaner who was amazing and did to a hotel standard. I loved her.

How much can one house need cleaning?