Cleaner

I have a cleaner for two hours every fortnight. In that time she thoroughly cleans the kitchen, bathroom, hall, my bedroom, lounge and garden room/ dining room. Then each visit she will clean one of the two spare bedrooms or my craft room or anything else that I suggest like windows or blinds.

I pay £13 an hour and live in Bramhall, near Stockport.

I could not manage without a cleaner now due to greatly reduced mobility so am very grateful for her help.

Are the cleaners who are charging so much working fir themselves or from an agency of some sort?
When I was looking for a cleaner if I spoke to an agency they asked fir £20 ph plus, with them getting half of that sum and the cleaner the other half. I could not have afforded that and wanted the cleaner to get all her money without a ‘middle man’. I make no comment about tax, we didn't discuss it.
My cleaning lady lives round the corner and I hope to keep her fir as long as she keeps doing the work.

Once a week, 2 hours for £40, our supplies/hoover, Suffolk.

I have two cleaners - mother and daughter - for one and a half hours a week and I give them £40.

We have had cleaners for ever and the cost has gone up enormously. We now pay £30 per week for 2 hours. She does upstairs one week and down the next.

Depends where you are. Not just local economics but travel times to factor in. If they have to drive to you they need to factor that in to the costs, both petrol and time.

Cleanings a full time job for many now not just a bit of extra money and they have to make a living wage.

Around here they ask for anything from £12-£15 an hour. It is very difficult finding one who enjoys her job.

To be honest I don't blame them - I wouldn't enjoy it either!

I don't have a cleaner as live in a small 2-bed flat but when I had a big house nearly 20 years' ago now, the cleaning lady was paid £10 an hour, the going rate at the time.

I really don't know how low-paid people have managed over the years with the rising cost of living and stagnant wages.

It is very difficult finding one who enjoys her job.

When chats about cleaners come up I think of my hard working Mum who took on 2 cleaning jobs after retirement. One job she loved, the other not so much.

She cleaned a 3 bed house for a couple and enjoyed her weekly session there. They really appreciated her efforts and told her they looked forward to coming home from work to a gleaming house.

The other house was occupied by 2 teachers and 3 children. And they were an ill mannered, slovenly bunch. Before cleaning the bathroom sink she’d have to remove their toothbrushes. They’d all brush their teeth and throw the brushes into the sink instead of back in the holder.

The kitchen cupboard would be empty and she’d collect 20-30 mugs from their bedrooms, some of them mouldy from lying since she was there the previous week. Not just the teenage bedrooms. The parents were as bad. One morning the teenage daughter had left a used sanitary pad lying unwrapped on top of her tv !

I live in W London and pay mine £12.50 an hour for 2 hours. Some of my furniture is easily moved but nothing is unless I mention it. Also this present one does not go near corners and that is what I cannot manage.

Around here they ask for anything from £12-£15 an hour. It is very difficult finding one who enjoys her job.

£15/16 an hour in my area, Stockport, if you can get a reliable one.
I had a treasure for many years but can’t find a decent one now.

I should have said that I’m in Torbay. I think she will charge a higher rate for any new ones from now on. Sometimes I ask her to clean the windows but usually it’s general cleaning and floor washing (bathroom and kitchen.)

Forgot to say in South Gloucestershire.

£11 an hour for 2 hours fortnightly and I provide everything.

Mine comes to my small flat fortnightly for two hours and brings her own products and vacuum cleaner, for which I pay £12.50 per hour.

£15 an hour in South Bucks. She comes for 3 hours once a month.

£15 per hour in S E Essex, mine uses my products as I am fussy.

Might depend on on location. I am on outskirts of London.
My cleaner asked £11 ph and uses my hoover and cleaning sprays etc. Those working through an agency rate will be quite a lot more.
She comes 2 hours every fortnight and cleans /hoovers bathroom and shower room, hall stairs landing and another room if there is time. Have never had a cleaner til now. I like it.

I’d think at best £15 per hour I’m in West London it might be less where you are.

Depends where you live OP it would be around £12/15 per hour here in rural Cambridgeshire