Our Prices
The on-going cost is made up of two elements. One, the cleaner's pay ( usually around £7.00 - £7.50 per hour ) and two, our retainer fee ( £2.65 per hour ).
The retainer fee covers our day to day expenses such as providing insurance cover for accident, breakage and fidelity bonding, holiday cover if required and of course the ongoing recruitment and vetting of suitable cleaners.
Your cleaners rate of pay depends on what she is asked to do and possibly how far she is asked to travel. She might also make a small charge if she is required to supply any materials or equipment.
New Rates from 1st April 2010: The typical hourly rate for a cleaner in your area is £7.00 - £7.50, but it does depend on your exact requirements as well as the cleaner, this being the case you simply add on our retainer fee of £2.65 per hour to whatever the cleaner's charge is to achieve the overall cost, e.g., £7.50 per hour plus £2.65 retainer fee equals a total hourly rate of £10.15.
Please Note: The rate above is based on a minimum of 2 hours cleaning on a weekly basis, if you prefer fortnightly or one off cleans there is a higher charge.
Because of the increased difficulty to source and retain cleaners for fortnightly or monthly cleans - together with the fact that our insurance cover is provided on a 52 week basis, we charge a higher hourly rate. FORTNIGHTLY cleaning is £11.75 p.h.
The hourly rate is collected in the following manner, we split the £11.75p.h into two separate payments, the bulk of this rate, in this case £8.75 p.h. goes directly to the cleaner, and the balance left over of £3.00 p.h. which is our business fee, is collected quarterly by Standing Order in advance.
The quarterly business fee for 2 hours per FORTNIGHT is: £39.00, for 3 hours per fortnight: £58.50 and for 4 hours per fortnight: £78.00. When added together, the amount you have paid the cleaner over the 3 month term together with the remaining balance (our business fee)which is collected by Standing Order equates to £11.75 per hour.