What household services do you pay for?

[peachybums]

I do everything at home and i think the only thing id really pay for is the carpets to be cleaned (very old wool carpets, do not trust myself to clean them lol). Everything else i could do myself.

I know a few of you have cleaners or housekeepers but what other things do you pay for doing around the home? For example oven cleaning, pushchair cleaning, pet sitters etc

We have a cleaner for 3 hours a week.
After building / decorating we paid a company to do a deep clean.
We have the carpets professionally cleaned a couple of times a year (in particular after potty training twins!)
Once or twice we've had a gardener just for a day when things have got out of control!

window cleaner, everything else we do ourselves.

oven cleaning
Duvet cleaning - my washing machine is just too small to hold my king size duvet

Everything else I try to do myself or with DH's help.

I will treat myself to getting our carpets cleaned - especially now that the youngest is potty trained.

Oven cleaning

Window cleaning

Carpet cleaning

Occasionally have a friends' cleaner come in to do a spring clean

window cleaner, that's it

nothing at the mo - too skint ;)

I did carpet cleaning - 24 hour hire, I doubt professional firm would have as much time to spend on the carpet as I have

We have a great cleaner four hours a week (or dp and I would go our separate ways I am quite sure!), carpet clean once or twice a year, occationally treat the car to a four man thorough clean inside & out. Otherwise we do everything ourselves.

Window cleaner
Gardener - he cuts the lawn and the hedges, and sometimes other stuff as we either have the right weather but no time or vice versa
Nothing inside the house - we can manage that ok! To my admittedly low standards anyway

I have a regular cleaner and someone who I send the ironing out to, plus a gardener

Additional window, carpet, chimney and oven cleaning all gets done by someone else.

Cleaner
Ironing
Window cleaner
Carpet cleaner
Tree surgeon
V occasional help in the garden
Animal sitter

I don't pay him - my landlord does - but I have a window cleaner.

I think im deprived and must tell DP about this thread haha.

Forgot to add we have a window cleaner to do our two huge windows at the front of the house as i cant reach but all the rest i do myself (we live in a bungalow). Could def do with a gardener and an ironer though ;)

Window cleaner

Sometimes send ironing out

Cleaner for 2 hours a week

Heavy gardening/tree pruning once or twice a year

Oven cleaning

I do it all I would love to have a cleaner!

I would like to get the carpets done (mostly wooden floors), but I never get round to organising it

I've never seen a window cleaner round here.

Carpets: tried to do it myself but looked like pants and impossible with DC underfoot, anyway.

Cleaner once a week for 3 hours: bliss!!

Don't Iron, cleaner can do the windows occasionally.
Paid for painter to repaint the fascia boards etc. (but that's more in the DiY realm).

Garden is DH's realm.

Cleaning
Ironing
Window cleaning
Decorating
Sofa cleaning
Oven cleaning
Big gardening jobs

Basically we used to have pink jobs (mine) and blue jobs (his) and I "contracted out" most of the pink ones when I had DS

Outdoor window cleaning.
Full shampoo of carpets every few years.
Gardening that is beyond our ability. (we weed, mow grass etc but get someone in with knowledge about pruning, laying patios etc.)

In the past:

All laundry done and dried at laundrette
Cleaning lady every week
Ironing
Carpets steamed
Gardening
Cookerburra (oven clean people)
Window cleaners
Duvets/Curtains professionally cleaned

Now and for the forseeable future:

Hmmmmmm. So that'll be just us then. (But it does make us fitter!)

Damn all these services I'd love to take out if only I wasn't so broke! I've already told OH once we have kids (we plan on 4) and are in a better financial position I'll be wanting a cleaner - I'll still be working FT, being the one to look after kids, walk dogs, make dinner etc. and have told him I don't want to have to do all the housework myself as well. First time I ever mentioned it he was a bit iffy at the idea - until I pointed out to him just how much I'd be doing and how realistically, with the best of intentions, he wasn't likely to find time to help me .

4 hours cleaning every week
1 hour ironing every now and again if it is out of control
oven deep clean 1x year
gardener 1 x year for 1 day sort out
window cleaner
curtains dry cleaned every couple of years

hmmm, duvets, yes should get them cleaned

We got rid of window cleaner as wasnt worth it.

I paid for a quick valet of car the other day and would go so again. Would love to have cleaner or professional declutter

Window cleaner

Hand car wash/valet every few months when the mud and dog hairs are getting out of hand

Occasionally handyman if I have a list of little DIY jobs - putting up blinds, shelves etc - I expect I could do it if I wanted to, but I'd have to go out and buy an electric drill and probably faff around for ages and end up with a wonky blind, but the handyman can do a whole load of little jobs in 2 or 3 hours.

When living overseas I used to have a cleaner one whole day a week, and she also did a lot of ironing. I rather miss that but can't justify it at the moment (only working part-time).