Home much to pay a cleaner?

[PrettyCandles]

In Berkshire.

Any suggestions?

More than £7 an hour because that's how much ours gets in East Yorkshire.

I've just taken on a new one who is brilliant at cleaning, charges £8 per hour in London. I used to pay the old one 6 and then gave her a raise to 6.50 as she'd been with us ages.

So probably £7-£8/hour, I suppose?

In Oxfordshire £8 ph!!

£12 in the Cotswolds! Not that I have a cleaner but my friend is one & charges that much. She can't keep up with all the work that comes in for her

My friend charges £9/10 hr in Somerset but that's more for house keeping rather than a straight clean I think.

I pay mine £30 a morning which is roughly 3 hours (South East) if the same jobs take longer or shorter time I always pay her the same

Seems like it's actually cheaper in London (for once - something has to be cheaper here!) - perhaps because there are so many more migrant workers here?

Everyone's cleaners here are from another country - mine is a lovely Polish girl.

I'll never forget the time, in our old house, when DW and I vaguely talked about getting a cleaner and the only other person we knew who had one was one of her colleagues. She found out the cleaner's name and address from this person and she lived.... on our road.
I think that was trying to tell us something.

When, of course, a cleaner ought to be living in a mud hut

The cleaner who has been recommended to me is British - which probably means that she will expect higher pay than a foreign worker.

£10 here (RG10)

if you find a good one for less, let me know!

Damn these British cleaners and their minimum wages! Where's all the foreign labour to exploit round here, that's what i want to know?

I know some people with Polish cleaners who say they work really hard.

There must be an opening for an Eastern European cleaning agency to call itself "Clean and Polish".