Paying cleaner

I am sorry ... this is £2 MORE than she asked !!!

A brilliant cleaner is hard to find. Any sort of cleaner is hard to find!!!

Sorry it went too quickly.

I would either up to £35 or if she’s the sort that says no, no, I’d do a couple of bonuses a year of the extra I wanted to pay in a lump sum🙂

I pay my cleaning lady 50 euros for two hours. Well worth it for me as my health is not so good now and I like a clean house.

My Wonderful Cleaner has been with me for 24 years and I pay £75 for around four hours plus a substantial Christmas gift and paid holiday. Worth every penny!

My son is a gardener and gets paid much less...

£17:50 to £20 an hour is the usual rate here and gardeners can be anything from £20 to £40 an hour.
I would offer her £35 for her two hours, if she doesn’t accept, just a generous Christmas present.

keepingquiet

My son is a gardener and gets paid much less...

Then your son needs to rethink his rates. He has tools to buy and maintain, transport costs, personal liability insurance, NI and tax to pay. Too many people think small, independent companies should provide a service for next to nothing……..not right and not fair!
I am a trained and experienced tailor/dress maker and the number of people who think I’m prepared to shorten, alter, repair a garment for a pittance just leaves me speechless. I have machine to buy, maintain and insure as well as threads, zips, fabrics, fastenings, etc to supply. All comes at a cost.

I pay £30 for two ladies to blitz the place in an hour. They do a great job. I pay holiday money (ie pay them when we're away) and a Christmas bonus.

I pay mine £35 for 2 hours (that is the rate she charges everyone), and also pay 4-5 weeks holiday pay (Christmas, Easter and when she goes away in summer). She says that I'm the only one of her clients to do that, which I think is dreadful. Do people really expect others to work over Christmas, or to take time off unpaid - particularly a young mother who is doing it to fit around her children? Apparently a lot say they don't want her to come, but don't offer to pay. I suppose it's her own fault for not making it clear that she expects at the start of the relationship with a new client, but I don't understand why it's not taken as read, really.

I pay a neighbour to do about half an hour’s Hoovering once a fortnight. She started about4 years ago and I’ve never raised what I give her from £15. I was ill at that time and asked for help, she didn’t apply for the job, so I wanted to pay her generously.
She also looks after my cats when I go away. I wonder if I should increase what I pay after all this time but it’s still way above average rates?

Here in Norfolk the going rate seems to be £20 per hour. Last year, it was the same in Sussex for throwing a vacuum about the place. Interestingly, at the same time, community carers (I was one, with all the responsibility that that entails), were being paid £11 per hour!! Something not quite right.

I’m toying with the idea of getting a cleaner. A lady has put an advert in the local newsagents window looking for cleaning work. She quotes her rate as £18 an hour. Some friends pay £15 a hour. I’m quite happy to pay a little more as long as they are efficient and reliable.

Our cleaner charges £16.00 per hour. We have her 2 hours a week. She does upstairs one week, downstairs the next.

Our gardener charges £22 per hour.

A good and reliable cleaner is like gold dust, pay them whatever you can afford to keep them.

I pay £40 for 2 hours once a fortnight. Seems to be the going rate in Cumbria. We keep it ticking over in between.

Just a thought,I think maybe rates are a bit higher in areas where there are more holiday let's, many more jobs available.

Just put it up £5, maybe pay holiday pay if she goes the extra mile.
Excellent cleaners are few & far between, plus it’s donkey work, if done thoroughly.

kittylester

Our cleaner charges £16.00 per hour. We have her 2 hours a week. She does upstairs one week, downstairs the next.

Our gardener charges £22 per hour.

I would say cleaning is every bit as hard work as gardening.
My mums gets the grass cut every fortnight, he uses my mum’s equipment, £15 min tops & it costs £25 quid

15 mins I mean 🤦‍♀️

Mt61

15 mins I mean 🤦‍♀️

He doesn’t go the extra mile, pulling out any odd weeds😩

I pay £20 per hour. Our cleaner and our gardener are excellent and worth every penny.

I pay my cleaner £17.50 an hour, and will put it up as the cost of living rises. She generally charges £15, but since she started 3 years ago the cost of living has gone up a lot. I would be ashamed to try and pay less than I feel an invaluable job like hers is worth.

I'm really lucky - she loves cleaning. she even loves valeting the car (yes really, really). Making everything tidy and clean and neat.

Mind you, it's a happy unpredicted situation. We have a laugh and share a lot too, ie we just get on naturally. Give each other a good listening if needed, never mind the cleaning.

No shortage of cleaners in my large northern city. and some who will work for shocking low wages, I pay more than the gym does. I have her every week as its great to set to together to do more than cleaning - a bit of sandpaper and touch up some paintwork together? Share tips on cleaning products?

But I am, very, very fortunate indeed. I trust her, if she sees personal stuff I dont mind - she is open about her life.

My female gardener charges £22 an hour and we set to together, I do the light bits and bobs as much as possible.

I think £35 is a good idea.
Yes, I'd offer that.