Cost of cleaners

[Myusername2015]

My local cleaner (who comes with great reviews ) has quoted me for £250 for a monthly clean (as she is too booked up for any shorter gaps) for around 5 hours of work. Does this sound reasonable ? I'm in the midlands and i thought it would be cheaper.

Has she seen your property?

I guess she’s quoting that as a regular deep clean, but I would consider that to be really quite expensive as an hourly rate. It may well take 5 hours but I’d be expecting £18-£22 an hour, not £50!

This. She’s charging you for a top to toe clean rather than her weekly maintenance rate

Good lord, my fabulous cleaner charges £17.50 per hour and I’m in the south east.

I'm in the south east (not in London) and the cleaners are £20 per hour.*

£50 per hour is insanely overpriced.

*I have an Airbnb rental and I pay the cleaner £30 p/h for that because it's not regular days/times, - she is really really happy with that rate.

We had a once a month cleaner a few times and it was 2 of them for about 2.5 hours - officially 3 - for £140ish but that wasn't the whole house, was downstairs plus upstairs bathroom. I think that's very pricey unless there's two of them.

P.S. for £250/5hrs, I'd expect an extreme level of detail, e.g. windows and window surrounds, inside kitchen cupboards, the washing machine drawer and seal, manual wiping down of all skirtings, full oven clean, etc.

Is this one person for 5 hours? If so that is expensive and she doesn’t want the job. It’s also not a lot unless your property is very small.

is she bringing her own products and kit.

if it’s 2 or 3 people for 5 hours and she has been out to look and she has exceptional reviews then trust her.

without product and kit £20-£25, with it £25-30.

The cleaner has obviously seen @Myusername2015 ‘a house and thought “Good heavens this is going to be tough”

or

She is pricing as an end of tenancy clean given it is only going to be a once a month clean

This sounds like when a tradesman overprices a job he doesn’t want. She’s clearly super busy already, doesn’t want to turn you down completely so has given an unrealistically high quote that she hopes you turn down. If you do great, if you don’t she’s earning £50 per hour!

That sounds absoluely extortionate. £50 an hour. Crazy price. Bit odd. Maybe she just doesn't want to do it.

So you would still have to keep on top of the cleaning really week to week coz I dont think you would want to leave your house a mess for a month the way you might do if you knew the cleaner was coming say every Wednesday morning. There will be loads of cleaners in your area .

£50 an hour is extortionate!
I’m in London here. Paying £20 ph

It could be for two people, OP hasn’t said.

I sounds expensive to me. I guess she doesn't need or particuarly want the work, but would take it on at the right price.

I got quoted £530 for a one off total top to bottom mega clean last year.

i didnt take it. I kind of wish I had!