If you employ a cleaner

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What jobs are they generally expected to do?
Or if you enlist the services of a cleaning agency what do they normally do?
How much does it cost to employ a cleaner say, once a week?
Anyone employ a cleaner themselves or does anyone clean peoples houses for a living?
Any advice welcome.
TIA

Anybody?

vacuum
wash wooden/tile floors
clean bathrooms
dust
clean cooker, sink, worksurfaces etc

I pay 8 quid an hour in London

My cleaner (from an agency) costs me £32 for 3 hours once a week (in the Midlands). I think we get a slighlty discounted rate because we've been with them a long time.
The normal stuff they do is hoovering, dusting, cleaning kitchen surfaces and floor etc, cleaning the oven, cleaning the bathrooms.... Pretty much all the routine housework.

at my request, my cleaner also does the odd bit of laundry for me and ironing too though this isn't standard. I pay £7 ph. She also makes beds if I ask her to.

The cleaning agency are supposed to provide a good cleaner with refs etc, send replacements if she is unavailable, sort out insurance claims for breakages etc (though ours was useless for that, saying the first £300 was to be paid by the cleaner, and who could actually be nasty enough to enforce that?)

It's a godsend when you're working and have anew baby.

We have two cleaners at £15 ph each (South East). They are insured & police checked. Jobs done:

Dust/cobweb ceilings/hoover
Wash hard floors
Clean bathrooms
Kitchen surfaces/table/chairs/fridge doors/aga/cupboards doors/dust china on dresser etc.
Wash-up when necessary
Clean out grates when necessary
Inside windows (sporadically)
Sweep front porch & rear hall
Tidy boot room
Clean brass door handles every month or so
Front door ironwork as above

Occasionally we have an all-hands-on-deck silver cleaning session sat in the kitchen, gossiping and drinking coffee.

I pay £30 a session in London; if the DSs and DH have left the place in a tip that's about £8 an hour, if everyone's been out / well behaved then it's more generous

tidies toys to make space and then cleans floor
does any random washing up
ironing
cleans bathroom
makes beds
dust
clean cookers, worksurfaces etc
organises someone else to come and clean in her place when she goes back to Columbia for a long holiday once a year (this is great)

If I know the place is going to be relatively clean I will sometimes ask her to clean the oven/ windows etc

she has moved house with us twice now, and that leads me to think there is a fairly strong possibility that I am paying more than the going rate

I pay about £10 an hour (£50 a session which is 5-6 hours).

Dust
Hoover
Clean bathrooms/toilets/showers
Wash tile/wooden floors
Clean Kitchen
Clean windows inside one room each week
Ironing (about an hour)

In surrey btw

It is not necessarily that you are paying more than the going rate,Fridayschild, for the reason she moves from house to house with you. She may be happy with the money she gets, but happier with the way your house is to clean, it obviously suits her. I used to be a cleaner and some people/houses are just 'good' to clean others are nightmares!! I moved from house to house with one customer and she was actually paying just under the amount all my others were paying.

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I'm a house-cleaner by current necessity (my son comes with me and that's the deal). I charge £6.00 per hour (North Somerset). However, I only clean self-employed people (i.e, pubs, dog kennels, etc), with the exception of a single man I clean for who gives me £20.00 a session for essentially doing nothing, because he's so spotless anyway.

As a cleaner ,job satisfaction comes from cleaning a pig sty. There is nothing on earth more boring than cleaning a tidy place.

But to get to the OP, a cleaner would be expected to clean floors, hoover, dust, etc.
Cleaning interior spaces, ovens, cupboards, etc., is acceptable providing you've been asked to do so. We don't like to go through personal papers.