Hourly rate for domestic cleaner?

SUGARSPICE

Hi All.

Would you charge the same if you were to domestic clean on the weekend?

Thank you.

InsideInsurance

Weekends you'd imagine would carry a premium.

We were to pay £10/hr to the cleaner and £1.50 to the agent (from memory) but were never satisified with any of the people provided - mainly due to reliability.

Personally I would much rather a fixed price. The one we did keep for a month or two kept stopping to watch TV and generally was slow. In principle I'd have little issue with them spending 30 minutes watching TV if I was paying a fixed £25 to do the agreed tasks but when I'm paying by the clock and they take 45 minutes to clean the bath (which she'd been told not to do anyway) and then she stands watching TV its annoying to say the least

findingmyownway

We pay £10/hour. She cleans, irons, empties the dishwasher, generally does whatever needs doing

Februarycat

I have been trying to set up as a cleaner for about 6-8 months now but no luck. I put an Advert on Gumtree and Preloved, but no luck. I was thinking of charging £10 per hour and £8.50 for over 60s, Im in Lincs area, perhaps I should lower the rates a bit. I do work as a cleaner in the evenings but only get £6.30.

I'm thinking of trying newsagents or Tesco window to advertise next and see if this brings a few more customers.
Will keep trying as I need to earn some extra pennies

Bambi15

Februarycat wrote: »

I have been trying to set up as a cleaner for about 6-8 months now but no luck. I put an Advert on Gumtree and Preloved, but no luck. I was thinking of charging £10 per hour and £8.50 for over 60s, Im in Lincs area, perhaps I should lower the rates a bit. I do work as a cleaner in the evenings but only get £6.30.

I'm thinking of trying newsagents or Tesco window to advertise next and see if this brings a few more customers.
Will keep trying as I need to earn some extra pennies

Hi there,

Just came across your message and couldn't help but reply. I hope you are making some headway now. But I've recently started an ironing business, It's going ok at the minute (so far touch wood). The best way I found for me was to get some leaflets printed and I physically distributed them myself. (Hard slog but it worked) I've still got around 2000 left to do. And will be ordering some more to extend my area. I got 5000 for a really good deal on- line.
I found that posting ads in the local paper didn't work quite as well. Anyway it was just a thought.

I hope it all works out for you.:)

Februarycat

Bambi15 wrote: »

Hi there,

Just came across your message and couldn't help but reply. I hope you are making some headway now. But I've recently started an ironing business, It's going ok at the minute (so far touch wood). The best way I found for me was to get some leaflets printed and I physically distributed them myself. (Hard slog but it worked) I've still got around 2000 left to do. And will be ordering some more to extend my area. I got 5000 for a really good deal on- line.
I found that posting ads in the local paper didn't work quite as well. Anyway it was just a thought.

I hope it all works out for you.:)

Thanks Bambi, not done the leaflet route yet, but might try that way next. I have got interview next week for more work, so hoping I get it, even if its just a few hours a week. Good luck with the ironing business

geoffky

Some of you are selling yourself very short...I pay the window cleaner £10 and it must take ten to fifteen minutes on a good day...Remember these people can afford it otherwise they would do it themselves.

thorsoak

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whodathunkit

thorsoak wrote: »

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Always a good idea not to quote spam posts.;)

thorsoak

whodathunkit wrote: »

Always a good idea not to quote spam posts.;)

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