£10 an hour for a cleaner - does that sound a lot to you?

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I am in London, mind

I paid 5 an hour in Surrey in 1994/1995 if that helps.

I am in Surrey and that is what my friend charges.

oh dear, maybe I'm being a bit mean. I was expecting it to be £8/hour.

Guess might just have to agree to 2 hours a week as opposed to 3

I'm in London and pay £7 an hour if that's any help?

what part of London akhems?
I'm in LB of Islington

Mine is £13/hr (Bath) - I pay £52 for 2 people for 2 hours every other week - mad, but they are good and never let me down. I think £10 is going rate and doesn't seem too bad for London sadly.

I would say £10-£12.00 is an average price for a good cleaner, especially if she brings her own equipment. Slightly less if no cleaning equipment and hoover.

Yes, it does sound alot.

No, I am sure I paid more than that in London when I loved there, 7 years ago.

depends -does she do ironing as well? its what I pay adn i'm in sw london

Minimum wage and self employed paying their own NI and also dead travel time between clients I would say £8.00 per hour is more or less what you would expect to pay.

It's what I pay, plus materials, in London. I'd expect slightly cheaper if I had more hours, but I just get 4 hours once a month or so - agencies never offer that but every agency cleaner has always left her mobile number for us!

I'd say that's higher than average but not totally unusual.

I clean holiday homes and get around £10-12 an hour, more if a day clean, £100.....so I thonk £10 an hour is ok.

I pay £8 ph, mum pays £9 ph (neither are through an agency, though). In London.

£10ph seems quite alot to me but I pay £9ph and a "team" come to the ouse so are only here for 1.5hrs max. I pay for 3 hours cleaning and 1 hour ironing a week.
It does seem mad that my nanny at just over £8ph is less!

I do home cleaning and Ironing. I charge £10 an hour. Thats in surrey. I don't think its a lot

Yes, 2HotCrossBunsInTheOven - that's why I'm a little shocked. It's more than what I'm paying my nanny!

That's what my friend gets (in Surrey). Another friend paid an agency and they charged £16.50 an hour.

I pay £8.50 hour for a cleaner in SW London. She's not through an agency and I provide all the products.
How many hours a week is it for? I have heard of agencies charging a sliding scale depending on hours worked per week.

what kind of cleaning do cleaners do? am always intrigued as owuld love a cleaner but wouldn't know what to ask them to do. do you go out while they are there or quiety mn go about your business?

i actually used to be a cleaner for a friend of my mums but she had the tidiest cleanest house ever...i did clean but there was never any dirt!

I charge £10 - £12 per hour depending on whether they want me to supply cleaning equipment or not.

I also do ironing and would not do it for any less, as it is hard,physical work and some of the houses are grim!

Your Nanny is presumably working a decent number of hours a week, so it makes sense that her average rate is less than someone only coming a couple of hours a week. Plus the Nanny eats your food and consumes other things in the house etc.

£8 per hour here, SW London. Cleaner not through an agency, but I've been paying this rate for several years now.