How to go about getting a cleaner

[dorisbonkers]

Sorry for the stupid question but I've been living overseas. I live in a block of flats but no one else's cleaner can't fit me in. Apart from newsagents windows (plenty of masseurs, but no cleaners) is there a big website or some other way to get a cleaner?

(I really do realise I sound like a cretin...)

I should add that of course there are websites, but any you recommend!

i found most of my jobs from the local newspaper

gorblimey - have NO idea what the local paper is or where to get it (grimy sarf landahn new cross/peckham area)

I really am a nincompoop, aren't I

i found my cleaner through another mum at school who used her. that way i knew she was good

Another good way is your local shop /supermakt they generally have noticeboards that can be used by the locals. I put a wanted card and weeded them out by interview and refs of course. i got a lovely girl who we are still friends with after moving away from the area years ago.

try gumtree

Hi. I get my cleaner through Time For You Domestic Cleaning in Bristol and they have been brilliant. I think they have branches all over the country. We pay Time For You a fee for managing finding the cleaner and I think it covers insurance too and then we pay the cleaner another fee on a weekly basis. Website is www.timeforyou.co.uk . I got great comfort from the fact that they interview the cleaners in the cleaners home and so can check out exactly what state the cleaner lives in! and they also confirm identity and reference them too. If my cleaner is on holiday then they provide another cleaner. Have to say for me when I had my little one they were a godsend...so much so that I've kept using their service ...was supposed to be for 3 months and now am still using them 2 years later! Good Luck anyway ...hope you find a cleaner to suit you x

I got mine from here

Not had any problems, tried a few diff cleaners before settling on the one I really like and she's been with me over a year now