Cost of domestic services :)

[Piglet]

Can you assist me with a bit of market research please?

What hourly rate would you/do you pay for the domestic help i.e. gardening, grass cutting (if different to gardening), cleaning, handy man type work? It would be helpful if you could give an idea of where in the country you are (or a pikey/posh differentiator!)

....and no, not that sort of domestic services!

Cheers

Edited by Piglet on Wednesday 27th October 22:18

[Phooey]

Gardener - £10-£12hr. Used 2 in the past - both fking useless.

Nottinghamshire

[Beardy10]

Cleaning in London is somewhere between £6 and £12 an hour. If it wasn't for the influx of all the Eastern Europeans in the last 10 years who are willing to work hard it would probably be twice that...it's been that rate for twenty years...what inflation ? In fact it's probably the only thing I spend money on that hasn't at least doubled in that time!

[razor11]

Our current cleaner is 10quid an hour and she is pretty average.

We got a quote a couple of days ago for a replacement cleaner and they (yep 2 of them at any one time) wanted 16quid an hour......for cleaning....each....!

Our gardener now charges 10quid an hour and is excellent value. (Eastern European)

We are based in a big city in N Yorkshire.

[Victor McDade]

Cleaner - £7/hour, Gardener - £11/hour. North West England.

Both recent immigrants.

[Piglet]

Cheers for these, more welcome

[Busamav]

We pay £7.50 / hr for a Polish whirlwind to clean the house , 2 hours a week .

[H6CJF]

£8.00 p/h - Midlands. Non professional cleaner (local lady of retirement age + )and crap. Don't know why we keep her.

[Ali_D]

razor11 said:

Our current cleaner is 10quid an hour and she is pretty average.

We got a quote a couple of days ago for a replacement cleaner and they (yep 2 of them at any one time) wanted 16quid an hour......for cleaning....each....!

Our gardener now charges 10quid an hour and is excellent value. (Eastern European)

We are based in a big city in N Yorkshire.

Where did you find a big city in N Yorks. There's a couple of little ones.

[Mojooo]

10 max.

mind you i prefer having fixed prices for things as opposed to pay per hour.

[LeeME3]

Cleaner £9 ph - private arrangement, she's useless

Cleaner through cleaning company, £12 ph, equally useless.

So now the place just gets dusty and if it annoys us we open another bottle of wine - it's cheaper, more enjoyable and equally effective.

Edited by LeeME3 on Thursday 28th October 15:05

[Dr_Rick]

Cleaner - £7/hr for 2hrs per week
Agency - £about the same

Gardener - paid f**k all, but is due to be given a tractor mower for xmas

Based just outside Glasgow

Dr Rick

[Cheburator mk2]

Cleaner - £8/h - recommended by friends, quite good 5hrs x week
Babysitter - £9/h - recommended by friends, 12hrs x week

Both from E Europe

Blackheath (SE London)

[s3fella]

I need a Polish or Latvian lady to help with some chores around the place.

[Merlot]

I started a similar thread some time ago but just for a cleaner. The general advice was £7-£10 an hour is about right, I'm in Sussex.

[williaa68]

Gardener / general handyman, Sevenoaks £10 an hour. He's good, and local.

[manic47]

In Northants, and paying a cleaner £8.50 an hour for a weekly clean, plus the same rate for ironing that she takes away.
That said, she is fairly useless though...

[dazzalse]

Cleaner £10.00
Gardener £10.00
Grassman £8.00 (Tractor mower though so not hard)
Babysitting £8.00
Window cleaner £85.00 (every qtr)

[princeperch]

Cleaner 8.50/hr.

zone 2 London

[andy43]

Cleaner £7.
Butler £8.
Chauffeur £9.
Chef £4.50.











I wish.

Edited by andy43 on Friday 29th October 09:48