How much will a cleaner achieve in 3.5 hours roughly?

[4littleones]

I am going to start having a cleaner, for 3.5 hours per week.

We have an average size 3 bed house. Nothing fancy. There are 6 of us so it's a bit "full" which I know can effect how easy it is to clean. However generally the floors and surfaces will be fairly clear when she gets here.
We have agreed on a checklist system so we both know where we are.

So now need to make the list!

I know I would like:

All of downstairs hoovered, hard floors mopped, dusted, kitchen surfaces cleaned. Downstairs toilet room cleaned and upstairs family bathroom.

Is that enough do you think to fill 3.5 hours? We are having to make cut backs to be able to afford the cleaner, so want to get our moneys worth. Without coming accorss as a slave driver!

I do 3 hours a week cleaning for an elderly lady who has a 3 bedroom house that she does occasional B&B in.

In that time I will hoover the whole house, dust, mop the floors in kitchen/bathrooms, clean the bathrooms (there are 2 and a cloakroom), shake out rugs, make her bed and the B&B beds if they need it, and then I usually get 30 mins spare for an 'extra' thing every week (like the cooker hood, or polishing her dining table, that kind of thing).

My cleaner does 3 hours, we have 5 bedrooms , 2 bathrooms, downstairs loo. She hoovers/sweeps right through and mops the hard floors. Cleans all bathrooms. Dusts throughout (more thoroughly downstairs than up and I often tell her not to bother going in the spare room.) I strip the beds and leave out clean sheets which she puts on.
Does that help a bit?

We used to have a three-bed with one bathroom and a WC and my cleaner would do everything on your list plus hovering the bedrooms in 2 hours.

We have now moved into a four-bed with 2 bathrooms and a WC and the two hours is a bit tight (the place is a mess though, we're not unpacked and there's random furniture all over the place at the moment). I'm currently thinking of upping her hours to 2.5 or 3 hours so she can get everything done properly and maybe have some time left for extras.

I would suggest giving it a month so she's got up to speed, then have another chat about additional things you'd like her to do or what she could suggest based on how she feels it's going.

thank you.

Bit excited about this thread, was just about to ask the same question! Thank you OP and posters.