Recommendation for cleaner/cleaning company?

[weeglenny]

Hi

I've finally given up and decided to get a cleaner , so am looking for recommendations for a cleaner/cleaning company, I'm guessing to do 3-4 hours per week...

Have any of you Edinburgh mums got any good, or bad, experiences of different companies? I'm down near Leith, so would need one for that area.

TIA

I use a company called Belle Casa: 5388458. I pay £19.50 each week to the cleaner for 3 hours work and also a fee to the cleaning company (about£2 an hour. The cleaner I have is fantastic. When she goes on holiday or is off sick the company will arrange for someone to come in and clean in her place. we have had a few minor blips (ie/ the company not getting the keys back to the cleaner when she came back her hols) but they will refund the agency fee if they are at fault.

I also get my ironing done - bliss!

Don't be about getting a cleaner - it is the best thing I did when I went back to work. It is so lovely to come home on a friday to a sparkling house - with clean floors - lovely! Means dd isn't sampling teh dust balls hat were multiplying in the corners! And it means that I spend my precious free time with her rather than scrubbing toilets!

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I use Belle Casa as well, they are pretty good about making alternative arrangements if cleaner is unwell etc.

Obviously it is cheaper if you can get someone directly and they are good and dependable.

Thanks for the replies meep, christiana and rookiemater

I think I'll give Belle Casa a try first, I like the idea that if the cleaner is ill that they'd send someone else round.

I'm not back at work yet, start back in September, so I've no excuse really for not doing the cleaning myself at the moment, except that I somehow never get round to it and now that DS is crawling I'd like the house to be a bit cleaner.

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that makes me feel better christiana I just hate cleaning, so I use any excuse not to do it lol

I wish I'd got a cleaner when I was still on mat leave - I hate cleaning floors/hoovering and they were just grotty and it would just stress me out!

Go for it weeglenny - it will be worth it!

Cleaners rock and help to reduce the number of marital disagreements in our house.

Although it is still me who always gets out new bedsheets, puts washing in machine ready to hang, makes sure dishwasher is switched on and sorts out piles for ironing. Ooh I'm a pampered princess aren't I.

Sorry I did intend to make a useful point there. If you go through an agency then do make sure that if your cleaner isn't reliable, or you aren't happy with them, that you use the agency to sort it out. They are effectively getting £2.25 an hour for not doing a lot, so don't feel you have to have any difficult discussions if the cleaner isn't working out. Just ring up Belle Casa and let them sort it out, or get your scary DH ( well this works in our household) to do it.

lol thanks for the encouragement ladies

rookiemater, good tip about the agency thanks, I guess I'm a bit nervous about having someone clean about the house so things like that are good to know

thanks again

Stay away from Bella Casa. Customer satisfaction is not important to them at all. You get the poorest services from them. They are just horrible.