How much do you pay for a cleaner?

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Hi everybody - do you have a cleaner, how many times a week does she/he come, what do they do, how long do they take and what do they charge - I live in the Glasgow area so although I would like to hear from everyone obviously anyone in my area would be great!

£5 an hour
3 hours twice a week so 6 hrs

Same here - £5 per hour, twice a week - 4 + 2 hours so 6 hours too. The best £30 I spend in a week

£5 an hour

She does the ironing, hoovering, polishing, dusting, windows, alterations and sometimes babysitting.

oh and a bit of gardening.

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Will be £8 an hour

£9 per hour (£7 per hour to cleaner and £2 per hour to the agency)....

Live in Salisbury / Southampton area

She does 3 hours per week which at £27 per week is pretty much the same as some of these lucky folk pay for 6 hours per week. IME around these parts you would no more fly to the moon than find a cleaner for as little as a fiver per hour.

£24 for three hours, agency.

We have a four bedroomed house (two doubles, two singles) and all the floors (wooden) get hoovered and mopped, the bathroom cleaned and furniture polished. If there is extra time blinds etc can be cleaned.

When it is written down it doesn't sound much but we are renovating just now and some weeks the dust is horrendous, even after we've been cleaning ourselves, everytime you have something done the dust seems to take days to settle.

Once a week, 2 hrs, £20 per hour but that woman is unbelievable, arrives with all industrial gear and l hour later all the house from the dogs door to the windows is not only clean but asceptic!!

£7 an hour,2hrs a week.She basically does floors.woodwork,dusts,loos,kitchen,but does not do the whole house(4 bed) ,mainly does a thorough job either upstairs or down alternating each week.
Spends a lot of time talking to ds but generally worls hard.
Like HMC i live near soton and couldn't find a cleaner for less than £7/hr

We are lucky enough to live next door a hotel/pub and have found our last 2 cleaners from there. Their standards are really high and as they are next door anyway they are really happy to come to me and clean for a couple of hours i found i could negotiate the rate because it was convenient for them and also i dont pay agencies on top.

wow i didnt think they were so cheap in some places. Think I will go back to work and get a cleaner!!

8 pounds per hour and she does 6 hours once a week.

£7ph in Hampstead (London NW3). Only 3 hours a week for basics - hoover everywhere, clean kitchen, bathrooms and take out rubbish. Anything extra if time. I used to have 6 hours a week but felt I was wasting my money as it didn't look significantly better and now I'm at home I'd rather do a proper job of dusting, cleaning bannisters etc myself (well, one of these days ) Lots of people round here pay more but it isn't necessary and I refuse to pay more unless someone is really good and stays with us a long time. I've had a couple like that but not at the moment AND I don't want them in the house more than 3 hours a week as I'm at home with the baby.

£8.50 per hour, 3 hours a week - London. Middle class guilt about employing someone to do my dirty work for me means I'd pay more if she let me ....

£11 per hour through an agency, she does 3 hours a week but also does the ironing. TBH it's worth every penny, has had an amazing positive impact on our marriage. Handily, the woman who runs the agency lives across the road so I think they probably try extra hard to keep us sweet. The cleaners are all CRB checked which is quite reassuring as we're in an area with lots of burglaries etc. We're in the north-west BTW.

I should get one... ironing mmmm dusting mmmm

£7.50 per hour, 2 people for 2 hours ie 4 hours in total. It is great to come home to a clean, tidy house even if it's only on the surface. Cleaners are like gold dust around here (Hampshire) so the problem tends to be finding one rather than how much you have to pay. Several friends use au pairs who are looking for extra cash to do their cleaning and that seems to work well.

£7 per hour four hours per week (London). She does the basics - dusting, hoovering, kitchens & bathrooms. She also has a complete obsession with using kitchen towel rather than a duster / cloth, which drives me mad. She can get through a whole roll a week. I've mentioned it, but to no avail. I now hide the kitchen towel in the garage before she comes.

Azure do we have the same women LOL. Mine also uses my special beeswax spray on everything including glass & TV . GRRRRRR even though I have asked her repeatedly to use glass cleaner on glass !!!!!

I'm in the Glasgow area and my mum has a cleaner who comes in once a fortnight for a couple of hours. She comes with someone and charges £15/hour - but that's effectively for 2 (wo)man hours. It's a two bedroom house, and she cleans, mops (all wooden floors), hoovers (rugs!), polishes (lots of glass panelled doors), dusts, cleans windows, does the kitchen & bathroom. No ironing, just cleaning. She uses her own cleaning materials and is like a whirlwind.

Mum's on the North side (near Milngavie) but Pauline works anywhere in Glasgow. We're on the South side and I arranged for her to come weekly to our house (an hour a week), but after two weeks dh put his foot down and insisted that I stop her as he didn't see the need for a cleaner.

batters, she is a goddess, isn't she?

£25 a 'session' (usually about 3 hours).

She only comes every 2 weeks because we can't afford it every week but WELL worth it. I skip round the house after she's been, revelling in its shinnyness.