House Cleaners

You in Edinburgh Jambo? (That's not such a random question as people might think!!)

I do admin work for a cleaning company, rates for domestic cleaning are £12.50 per man hour, so two cleaners in your place for an hour would be £25.00. If you're looking for something cheaper then you'll need to go down the individual route rather than a cleaning company...but remember it's unlikely that Mrs Bloggs will have liability insurance should she spray Mr Muscle inside your PC!!
 
Thanks for the feedback everyone. It seems really affordable and worthwhile. I just want vacuuming, polishing, cleaning floors, kitchen and bathrooms, at a push clothes washing. If they can do that in a couple of hours a week for under £100 a month then its a bargain.

And it means when I find a wife I'll have a £100 saving.... :D

Vampyre said:
You in Edinburgh Jambo? (That's not such a random question as people might think!!)

I do admin work for a cleaning company, rates for domestic cleaning are £12.50 per man hour, so two cleaners in your place for an hour would be £25.00. If you're looking for something cheaper then you'll need to go down the individual route rather than a cleaning company...but remember it's unlikely that Mrs Bloggs will have liability insurance should she spray Mr Muscle inside your PC!!
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No. I'm in Glasgow actually but cheers for the info.
 
Our 2 cleaners are full time employees each working 5 hours a day 7 days a week. If i recall correctly they get £11k/year + free rent in our guest house at the end of the garden.
 
wormwood said:
7.50 an hour and it's not worth it? If I was a cleaner I wouldn't work for less than £12 an hour absolute minimum. The problem with people in jobs like these is they are far too willing to settle for a low wage when in fact people would probably be willing to fork out quite a bit more.
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You honestly think a cleaner should earn £23k a year? It's unskilled manual labour at its very simpleist. They charge £7.50 an hour because that is what the market will tolerate.
 
[TW]Fox;15306081 said:
You honestly think a cleaner should earn £23k a year? It's unskilled manual labour at its very simpleist. They charge £7.50 an hour because that is what the market will tolerate.
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You reckon ? ;)

My Sister has a cleaning company, she starts at £15/hour, some work is £20+/hour.
Yes you can have one of the dodgy agency staff push a mop around for 5 hours and nick your stuff, or you can hire someone who makes sure the £20K you spent on a bathroom or kitchen was actually worth it.

It's also really hard work, I did it for a bit to help out and in a few weeks I was the fittest I've ever been :eek:
 
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We have a cleaner that my mother started to use and the landlady is a friend of the family and as such the network was spread to this house as well.

We get the house cleaned every two weeks, but we're tidy and keep the house clean in between but it's just for a more "deep clense" and all the nook and crannies.

However having a cleaner doesn't mean you should live like a slob either...
 
[TW]Fox;15306081 said:
You honestly think a cleaner should earn £23k a year? It's unskilled manual labour at its very simpleist. They charge £7.50 an hour because that is what the market will tolerate.
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I'm just a gardener and I charge £16 an hour, my jobs pretty unskilled labour but I will continue to raise my rates. As I see it a cleaner isn't much different other than the fact she will have more work in bad weather and Winter. I really don't see why someone sitting in an office twiddling their thumbs should earn more than someone doing hard graft.

The market will tolerate £12 per hour for a cleaner, trust me.
 
[TW]Fox;15306081 said:
You honestly think a cleaner should earn £23k a year? It's unskilled manual labour at its very simpleist. They charge £7.50 an hour because that is what the market will tolerate.
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And then you're surprised that the cleaner spills bleach on your carpet and runs away. A good cleaner (with references and insurance) is worth a lot more than £8 an hour.
 
wormwood said:
I'm just a gardener and I charge £16 an hour, my jobs pretty unskilled labour but I will continue to raise my rates
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One my best mates is a gardener and he charges £18 an hour

Plus this below on top of his £18 per hour
£10 extra for every hour he drives his van
£4 extra for every hour his uses his mower/rototiller/hedge cutter/ etc etc
Plus fuel charges
 
wormwood said:
The market will tolerate £12 per hour for a cleaner, trust me.
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It'll depend where in the country you are I suppose, supply, demand and market saturation sort of stuff. £12 an hour probably isn't terribly unreasonable I'd agree based on how I'd value my leisure time but in other areas of the country the rates will doubtless differ.

I'm not entirely sure how much the cleaner who does here gets paid, generally we try to keep the place fairly clean anyway but whatever we are paying it is well worth it.
 
bugger, i just wrote out a nice long post to go and hit the blooming back button, so this one is going to be a little rushed :(

we charge £12 per hour at minimum for a regular (i.e weekly) cleaning service. this shocks some customers as there is far cheaper alternatives but as the saying goes, you get what you pay for.

you could get a self employed person in to do this which is usually the cheapest as the only person to pay is the cleaner, no middle person, but it's quite a risk as the cleaner will have noting to lose, if something goes wrong then they can just run/not turn up, steal etc. most of our regulars come to us as they tired of bad service from self employed and just want to go to work to come home and find a clean house, no other hassle.

you can go with an agency which is usually the middle ground in price but in my opinion this is the worst choice. typically you pay the cleaner money, go out and buy the supplies, and also pay the agency. fingers crossed you'll have a sucessful cleaner that stays with you for years, and if so whats the continued agency fee for? you can end up paying £60 per month for no reason other then years ago the agency found you a cleaner. cleaners for agencies usually respect the agency far less and don't respect the job as much, though at least with an agency you do have insurnace in case things go wrong. i worked for an agency before and know others that have and there is very little they do to check the cleaner as the agency just needs someone to clean a property quickly.

imo the best option is to go with a company that hires the cleaners and does everything for you. you'll end up paying more but it's much easier for customers to not have to bother with anything to dowith the cleaning, not even think about paying staff, getting the chemicals/equipment as this is all supplied usually, as well as the cleaner gets holiday pay, pays taxes, and has a responsibility to the company so will work hard to please all customes.

one way people make a mistake is they assume that as cleaning is easy work (which it usually is in modern houses) cleaners shouldn't get paid much, forgetting that they then are handing over keys to their house and just assume a low paid cleaner is going to be an honest person who respects the home owner.
 
Having a cleaner was the best money I think I've ever spent.

Ours in London is £30 every fortnight for our kitchen spotless, living room/dining room swept/mopped, both bathrooms done and dusting.

Never go back to cleaning!
 
I pay £30/week for my cleaner, three storey house in the centre of Hertford. Damn well worth the money too.
 
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