How much do you pay for a cleaner?

[cardy]

We have decided to get a cleaner, 2-3 hours a week will probably suffice. I have no idea what is an acceptable rate of pay/how much do they charge. The type of cleaning would probably involve cleaning the bathroom, hovering upstairs, cleaning the floors downstairs and some dusting and polishing.

What do you pay? I am in a city outside London if that make a difference.

I am a very ordinary woman whatever that means, but having a cleaner has really made a huge difference. It costs us £8 per hour and she comes for 4 hours per week. It means that I am not constantly trying to catch up with the cleaning and at least once a week the whole house is tidy!!!

I charge £8 in Buckinghamshire for a normal clean
£10 if they want ironing , windows or oven cleaning.No one has complained!

so as a cleaner would you go to an ordinary house - walk in see complete shit hole - i jest not- and say " sure i'll work for you?"

Thats what mine did custardo..and she is still with me!!

Well I guess you would have to pay for more time if it was going to take time to tidy up every week. My last cleaner said that is what she really hated, where she couldn't even start because she had to go round every room picking stuff up.
If the house is tidy (ie nothing much on the floors), so s/he can just whizz round with the hoover, then I really don't think anyone would turn down the job on the basis that the house wasn't posh enough.
I have been in houses where you would want to wear a mask, and many would balk at cleaning them, but just a bit tatty - that's life, isn't it?

To be honest Custardo,as long as the place isn't crawling with maggots,mice or rats yes I do.I suggest I work on one room at a time though as you can't clean properly doing bits here and there

£25 per week here, for around 2 hours work. Is nigh on impossible to find a cleaner round here tho, so they get away with murder!!

I really couldnt cope without one and was gutted to lose mine when I moved house. We definately arent posh, but we do work and are both fairly lazy :-)

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I live in China, and have a cleaner that comes round one afternoon a week, for 4 hours at a time. I pay her RMB350, this works out around 30 pounds per month. I thought it was well worth it of course, until recently, when I have discovered she has not been cleaning properly, only 'surface cleaning' it serves me right for being a lazy cow I suppose...At least my boyfriends work shirts get ironed properly, thats the important thing.

Please help I clean for £7 an hour in a very untidy and cluttered house. I do 5 hours a day I also do in this time 2-3 hours ironing am I short changing myself I don't know how to approach the subject of a pay rise

Hi Smal

I pay £10 ish for cleaner and £5 for ironing, so 2.5 £10 =£25, plus 2.5 £5.00 = 12.50 means I would be paying .... errr
£37.50 for your work, where as you are getting £35.00 correct?

I would say a £1.00 per hour increase is ok. Just pop it in writing that you are increasing rates to.. w/e from etc. I had 2 price increases and never had a problem with it. We all get payrises after all.

Can any recommend a cleaner in the romford area?

I work 9-5 and study tues/thurs evenings, by the time the weekend comes im EXHAUSTED! So I do the basic stuff but the house isnt as tidy as I'd like.

Would be truly grateful for any recommendations.

Dear ladies, I see the prices you are saying like £10-£12.60 it's really a robbery. Please if you need a cleaner contact me-£8.50p/h.If you recommend us to somebody, price per hour will be £7.50.We are 4 girls working all over London and we make the life of lots of women like you more easy. You can always rely on us.
Best of luck and if you need help...We are here! :)

I used to pay £10 per hour to a cleaner who was absolutely incredible - some sort of one woman whirlwind. I didn't resent a single penny and would gladly have paid £12 per hour had she asked (instead I would try to give her Xmas bonuses, good holiday pay, round up etc).

I now pay a rubbish cleaner £9 per hour then I pay £10 per hour to the one who comes the next day to clear up after her.

If my rubbish cleaner asked me for a pay rise, I would take the opportunity to be brave enough to tell her I no longer need her. As it is, I feel responsible for her: she keeps telling me that she is looking for more work but I cannot in all honesty recommend her to any of my friends. On the plus side, she is a lovely girl. If only she could clean......or put away her own tea mug even .

My DH says I can ruin a good servant in a week as I never like to ask them to do the dirty jobs and am always telling them to have a little sit down.

I have feminist angst about employing other women to perform low grade domestic tasks.

I paid £45 for just under an hour, once a week.(two people cleaning at once). This was with a cleaning agency...total rip off.

i am looking at starting a cleaning business up in morecambe, i was looking at charging £7 pre hour for weekly cleans, £8 pre hour for fortnightly cleans and £9 pre hour for spring cleans. any help would be be very much appreciated.

I used to pay 10 pounds per hour in SW London (private cleaner).

I am now in the SE and I pay 24 pounds for 2 hours (through a company though so a bit more than a private cleaner).

£7.50/hr for 3 hours/week. Private arrangement.

For that, she empties DW if needed & repacks, cleans kitchen sink and work-tops, sweeps and mops downstairs floors.
Hoovers and dusts all rooms.
Wipes around bathrooms.
Tidies clutter into piles for me to put away.
Changes sheets if needed

When we are away on holiday, she does inside windows, wipes woodwork & other occasional bits & pieces.

She's a gem.

It's well worth going with an agency, when my cleaner has been off sick or away on hol (so inconsiderate ;) ) I get a new one to replace her even with a couple of days notice. I use this one in Pinner but think they do surrounding areas too. Get 2 hours week for Jin to work her magic for £10.50 an hour

We pay 52.50 a week. Massive house but now feel I'm being totally ripped off

This thread is 5 years old.

Oh, feel like a right tit now

Hi

If you live in the LU1- LU7 area Luton,Dunstable Leighton Buzzard. there is a cleaning service that is excellent value for money. Same cleaner every week.

www.timeforyou.co.uk/Home-Cleaning/Luton-and-Dunstable

wow I'm amazed at cheap cleaners as we looked into it a couple of years ago (live in kent) and it was min £12 per hr and average £15 p hr that we could find, and that includes induviduals not agencies. We decided it was just too much for us and I had ishoos trusting someone not to break anything