Advice on help with cleaning

[eliza1]

Hope it is ok to post this here. I live in Perthshire and would like to organise a cleaner. I have no idea how much an hour is reasonable? any advice appreciated. I am mum of two suffering with Pelvic Girdle Pain after last pregnancy.

Don't know about your part of the world, but I pay my cleaner here in the SW £7 an hour.

I usually recruit through ad in local newsagent.

You can also go through an agency, but it will cost more.

I am in woking and my cleaner charges £8 an hour. last one was £10 an hour.

try your local shopping centre boards. or try Netmums. my current and previous cleaners were both through netmums.

Sorry to Hijack

Hi Numberfour, i am in Woking too. Nice to see there is someone from my area on here.

eliza1 - good luck with finding a cleaner.

Take Care

I use an agency and pay £30 for one hour for that I get two or three cleaners who follow a job sheet which is an agreed list of jobs to complete, the list is flexible and can change as often as required.

Hi, Angel! Woking is such a small community in many ways that we probably see each other out and about!!

I also used an agency at one time but clearly I was being robbed: £49 for one hour, two cleaners.

I have a job sheet for my cleaner..... but have yet to summon up the courage to give it to her!! I drew it up because the previous cleaner did not do a good enough job and I made the fatal mistake of saying "You can leave when you are done even if you have not needed the full 2 hours". Less and less seemed to be done each week.

So, Eliza1, for what it is worth, my best advice is start as you mean to go on!

Hi again,

many thanks to all for your valuable help and advice.