Cleaner

[MrsMontyD]

I'm about to get a pay rise and I'm planning to use some of it for a cleaner, just to take some pressure off (I have health issues and work full time). Id like me and DP (also works full time) to have more free time evenings and weekends.

I have a three bedroom bungalow, one large lounge, kitchen, hallway, shower room and toilet.

I'm thinking two hours a fortnight to do all the basics, proper clean of the kitchen, shower room and toilet, dust (including light fittings, skirting boards etc, and vacuum (including behind beds) in the other rooms.

Does this sound enough on a regular basis?

The house is tidy (would do a tidy through before they started anyway) we haven't lived here long and decluttered as part of the moving process.

We have a classic 2 bedroom terraced house.
Our cleaners do bathroom, kitchen, hoover downstairs and upstairs, mop downstairs and dust easily in 2 hours (1hour if it's two people). And they do a really good job. We had another company previously and they also took the same amount of time to clean our house so it's not that the current ones are exceptional.

I have a large 3 bed. My cleaner was coming 2 hours a fortnight and only doing kitchen, loo and family room.

She now comes 2 hours a week and does everything, except my bedroom, Including bathrooms x3.

The last few weeks she has tidied the kids rooms as she has found herself needing stuff to do. But she's very good, and has a routine and knows my house well.

When we meet today she said she does skirting boards, doorframes, picture frames, switches etc.as standard.

I can only trust in her experience and keep it under review.

As I said I offered to pay her for a deep clean as a reset before she starts the weekly cleans and she said it wasn't necessary.