Cleaners - can I have your thoughts, inspiration and tips

[CheekySwan]

I used to be an independent cleaner and COVID put a stop to that and led me down another career path.

Here we are, nearly 6 years later and I despise my job. I am thinking of quitting and starting up as an independent cleaner once more but really get into it. It's been a while and I need some inspiration.

How was the best way you got jobs? Socials, leaflets, WOM, etc.

What do you charge? (I am north of England), and how do you prefer to get paid?

What's a standard clean and what's classed as a deep clean?

Do you supply your own products, equipment, etc? (Cleaning products, clothes, hoover, mops, etc)

Do you have a car or a van?

What do you like most about being a cleaner and what do you hate?

Anything you particularly specify to clients you will or will not do? Any extra's you offer, laundry, ironing, shopping, etc?

Anything you wish you had known when you started that has made your life easier?

And most of all, do you love it?

It was 9 years ago when I started out and a lot has changed.

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our cleaner does four hours a week, brings all her own equipment and has her own vehicle. £20 per hour. Based in north west!

ours does 5.5 hours a week, cleaning and ironing, £20/hour cash on the day (south east), we provide all cleaning materials. She comes on the bus.

Mine brings all her own supplies. £20ph, northern England and has a massive waiting list of potential clients. If you're reliable and clean well, you can build a good business.

My cleaner provides everything except the vacuum cleaner and mop and bucket. Charges £20 per hour and comes twice a month. She told me that she does a minimum of 2 hours per visit.
I used to be a cleaner, didn’t do
deep cleans but was very thorough in my normal cleans. I would regard deep cleans as a pretty specialist thing. I told my clients that if I needed to take time off I would give notice when possible. After a bad experience with a client I started telling people that if they cancelled with less than one week’s notice I would require half the money. I didn’t enforce that, ever, but it would have saved a lot of stress had I done that with the bad client. ( She would phone me minutes before I was due to arrive with various excuses, such as sudden illness, having to fetch sick children from school, forgot I was coming and had arranged for visitors etc etc.
My cleaner has a car, gets her work by word of mouth , as did I after initially putting a card in the paper shop window.

Ours uses all our equipment so is a bit cheaper.