How much do you spend on a cleaner a month?

[Dilemma4ever]

My friend gets a cleaner in twice a week - 4 hours each time - and ends up spending £600 a month on the cleaner (in London)

I am disabled and would rather spend the small amount of energy I do have doing things that I enjoy rather than cleaning - I don’t know why people have to always be so judgey about cleaners. It’s like anything else- if you don’t want to do it, get someone else to! Who cares.

I pay £17 per hour (Norfolk) and she does 2.5 hours a week. Mainly bathrooms and floors as those are the bits I struggle with.

We pay £15 ph - works out about £180 pcm

Cleaner here 🙌 I can honestly say none of my customers have me because they think it is beneath them! People have cleaners for all different reasons and thank goodness for me they do.

£66 for 4 hours so either £268 or £330 a month

£258 p/m for 4 hours a week.

We’re starting with a cleaner after Christmas, it’ll be every other week for a few hours and £110 a month. I don’t think cleaning is beneath us but we are busy with work and 2 DCs and we can afford it so why not make our lives a bit easier?

I don't think it's beneath me, nobody I know who has a cleaner thinks that. I have a cleaner because the last thing I want to do when I finish work is clean.

My cleaner costs me £160 a month, she does 4 hours a fortnight.

My cleaner comes once a week for two hours. The house is always tidy and never dirty. She hoovers and mops floors but we clean the windows indoors and wipe surfaces. The floor area is big though. £30 per week to the cleaner.

21 an hour, 3 hours a week so around 250 a month

£264 a month. 3 hours fortnightly.

£76 a month. Two hours a fortnight.

£400.00 a month. I have her do 2.5 hours twice weekly.

£75 fortnightly for 3 hours.

I’d like her every week for 2 hours instead, but alas, she’s amazing and her diary is jam packed.

I get someone in 4 times a week. I pay her £20 an hour. She’s lovely, it’s a good flexible role for her which she’s happy with given there aren’t that many jobs that could fit around her caring responsibilities. She gets paid holiday and sick leave etc.

I work long hours and this way every day i come home to a calm organised home and every second I’m not at work I get to spend as quality family time. Before we had our lovely lady evenings and weekends were spent parking the kids in front of an activity so i could do hoovering or change beds.

Zero guilt.

What? It has nothing to do with thinking it's 'beneath me', I just am too busy! What a strange response.

£20 per hour, 4 bed detached house, DH and I work FT in our business that we run out of the house and have 2 busy kids. Cleaners are a luxury, without them we wouldn't be able to have time to exercise during the week. At the weekend we have animals to clean out and elderly parents in law to visit and help care for. So I am ever so grateful we can afford cleaners so at least we get the Sunday free to rest or have family time. Without them we wouldn't then have to spend Sundays cleaning. Cleaners come in a pair and do 2 hours weekly so £80 per week = £320 or £400 a month depending on if it's a 4 or 5 week month.

£120/month.

Cleaning isn't beneath me. I don't live in shit between the cleaner's visits. I'm just incredibly busy and was very close to burn out so something had to give.

£59.50 for 3.5 hours a week, so it works out at about £260 a month. Family of four in the South East.

£30 a week for two hours. Worth every penny.

I don't understand why people on this site are so strange about cleaners. I have noticed it before. Nobody would expect someone to do their own plumbing or wire their own house, so why should it be weird to outsource cleaning? I can only assume that it is envy.

Zilch. When kids were young I think I paid a lady £30 every month, ( going back several decades ).. Now they've disappeared I sort of keep on top of it , with tidying and hoovering help from DH.

£35 for 2 hour visit, fortnightly visits so £70 per month. I’m very grateful for the help, DH and adult DS work long hours and a bit of assistance stops so many arguments over cleaning. Certainly not beneath us.

Quite.

Most of the waggy judgy finger pointing comes from other women who would think nothing of outsourcing ‘men’s work’ - like how many men do we know who service their own cars or do their own plumbing?

But god forbid women outsource housework because we want to spend our time in paid employment or - even worse - having hobbies or doing other things with our time. Suddenly we’re lazy stuck up witches.

31.25 a week.

east Anglia for 2.5 hours a week.

honestly she’s a godsend.

£300 a month in london, 4 bed house