If you have a cleaner: how many hours do you hire them and what do they do?

[PuffinNose]

Fed up of my house. The tidiness varies but it rarely feels clean.
I'm wondering if finding the money for a cleaner is actually worth it. Or if it would still never be properly clean because we couldn't hire them for the necessary amount of time. I live in a two up, two down.
I know the price varies depending on where you are but would anyone mind telling me how much they pay, how many hours that buys and what the cleaner actually does in that time please?
Thanks.

A 2 hour session x once a week.

My house is a lot bigger than yours but she doesn't do all the rooms.
She is a whizz, and fantastic.
She vacs..2 landings + long hallway + 2 sets stairs + lounge + dining room + 2 bedrooms
Dusts lounge and dining room
Cleans 1 large bathroom (bath + sep shower + toilet and sink) + 1 largish shower room (shower, toilet, sink) + 1 downstairs toilet + sink
Usually tidies one room (1 of my dc's room, depending who is home / not asleep)
Blitzes the kitchen - surfaces, hob, cupboard fronts
Washes up a load of stuff
Mops kitchen + all bathrooms
Then usually does one extra job for about 1/2 hour - depending what I ask her to do.... occasionally ironing, occasionally blitzing a cupboard or something, usually doing one of the rooms she doesn't do as routine.
She charges £10 an hour. (Midlands)

Wow. That is a huge amount Back. If I could do that in 2hrs, I wouldn't feel like I need a cleaner! In fact, translate that to my house and it would be spotless!

4 hours
£11.50ph

Like BackforGood, she doesn't do the whole house as we don't live in every room now (oldest two have left home).

Big kitchen/dining/family room - vac & mop floor, clean sides, hob, splashback tiles & table.

Utility - vac & mop floor, clean sides

Hall & porch/vestibule - vac & mop floor, clean mirrors & dust furniture (piano, table etc)

Downstairs loo - Vac & mop floor, Clean mirrors, tiles, loo & basin.

Sitting room - Vac floor, dust wood, clean mirrors.

4 piece bathrooms x 2 - vac floor, clean all mirrors & tiles, clean bath, basin, loo & freestanding shower.

Also vacs all halls, stairs & landings + 2 big bedrooms.

Once a month she also does insides of windows, skirtings and high dusting. So for example, week1, she will do the standard list + windows. Week2, std list + skirtings etc. That way she isn't trying to do an extra hour+ of work at the end of the month. If I have extra jobs, I leave a note for her.

I don't ask her to change bed sheets or do my ironing. Though she probably would. She doesn't clean ovens (though I wish she did). Overall though, she is fantastic.

Sorry, forgot to say that she comes once a week, on a Friday. It is so lovely having a clean house for the weekend.

I provide cleaning products & tools, too. That suits me, as I know they won't damage some of my more temperamental surfaces.

She does two hours a week, used to be three but she couldn't fill the time.

Strips and Changes one or two beds depending on how many have been used.
Hoovers all three levels and in each room.
Polishes/ mops hard floors i.e. Kitchen and downstairs hall.
Dusts each room, cleans mirrors , polishes etc
Cleans three bathrooms
Wipes down windows when she thinks they need it.
Cleans kitchen, sink, hob, work surfaces, stools, cupboard doors etc.
Does a cobweb sweep.
Empties bins throughout house and in kitchen and takes rubbish and puts it in outside bin, puts new bags in.

Ten pounds an hour, I provide most materials, she brings her own Hoover, clothes, and bags for small bins, plus bleach as I don't buy it. Not sure where she uses it to be honest.

Thank you all.
Right, I'm going to have a word with husband. He'll object and right now isn't the right time but as cleaning always comes down me...
TMI He blocked the toilet last week (it's tempremental). He sorted it but left it a state so I asked him to clean it. He says he did but it's still filthyunder the water line and because "he doesn't like doing it" and because he says he has already done it and I won't buy a toilet brush (yuk!) he is refusing to.
So I'll have to clean it.
I'm sure he is purposely incompetent eg handing jumpers on the line by their shoulders so I don't ask him yo do stuff.