For those with a cleaning person...

Virgo17 · December 2014

How often does he/she come?
What do they do while they are at your house?
How long are they at your house?

litzo27 · December 2014

A team of 2 ladies. Comes every other week. Spends 2.5-3 hours (and they work non-stop) and do full clean of 3 bathrooms, vacuum/mop/dust everywhere, change sheets, kitchen (stove and microwave but not oven or fridge). I make sure I have stuff like clothing and toys picked up so they don't have to do that. They don't do windows/baseboards/ceiling fans etc. But overall are pretty thorough.

traveltheworld · December 2014

We've had quite a few different cleaning lady/team arrangements. Our current arrangement is every 2 weeks, 3 hours per visit, 1 cleaning person (so 6 man-hours in total). Our house is about 2,000 square feet - she does all the floors, toilets, vacum, etc.

Previously we had a team that came every 3 weeks - also 6 man-hours in total. Sometimes it was 2 people and sometimes it was 3. But we pay per "man-hour" and it was always 8 hours per visit.

jenn43 · December 2014

We have one person that comes every two weeks. She does bathrooms (1.5), vacuums, dusts, sweeps and mops, and wipes down the kitchen incluing microwave and stove. She also changes the sheets in the master bedroom and washes the dirty ones. She dusts the blinds, but does not clean the windows. We pay for the day, not how many hours she is there.

sdlaura · December 2014

We have a team of 2 people that come every 2 weeks. They do kitchen, 3 bathrooms, floors, dusting/blinds, and straightening and spend about 3 hours. Then they rotate other small things - like every other time they'll wipe down the inside of the fridge or deep clean the dog bowls

I haven't ever given them instructions on what to do outside of what not to do (like don't lift up the FLOR tiles to clean underneath and don't dump the compost pail in the trash). I've considered having them come every week and add on laundry and sheet changing, too, but I haven't made the move yet.

lujain · December 2014

We have 2 maids come every 2 weeks for about 2 hours. They vacuum the furniture, clean the floors, the outside of the kitchen appliances (and inside the microwave), scrub the bathrooms, dust, change the linens, do the dishes, and make our lives so much easier.

jcath · December 2014

I have a team of 2-3 people that come in for 2-2.5 hours once a week. The house is picked up and clutter free, they deep clean - kitchens, bathrooms, floors, dusting. They don't do laundry but will change sheets if you leave a clean set on top.

My idea would be a deep clean every other week and a clean that would come in the off weeks and pick up, organize, do laundry etc but I can't seem to find that person.

2chatter · December 2014

One person, every other week, stays between 3-5 hours (3 bathrooms, high polish wood floors).

She cleans the house (I know, right?). She randomly does "extra" stuff like cleaning the fridge or fans or baseboards. I wish they made a "my cleaner just came" candle so I could experience at least the scent more often.

Kewii · December 2014

We have one person once a week. She does everything from dishes to laundry and is usually here from 10-4. Though sometimes I think she stays longer to see the baby

We pay a monthly rate.

MommyAtty · December 2014

I have one person who comes every other week. It takes her 5 1/2 hrs, which completely freaked me out until reading this thread. (Thanks, ladies!) She cleans bathrooms, kitchen including all appliances except the fridge, does all floors, dusts, gets rid of cobwebs (we have a crapload of cobwebs and cannot figure out why teeny tiny spiders love our house), dusts ceiling fans, and will change bed linens and throw the dirty linens in the wash.

VitaLuna · December 2014

One person that comes every other week. Cleans kitchen including sinks/stove, wipes down outside of appliances, scrubs bathroom/toilet/tub, vacuum, mop. He does an "extra" thing each time, depending on what is needed (dusts blinds, wipes baseboards, washes windows, etc). He's there 2-3hrs for 3 bedrooms and 1 bath.

NADA-H · December 2014

I have an agreement with my cleaning person, she didn't come through a company it was a personal hire.

She comes once during the weekend for 4 hours and cleans the apartment (bathrooms, kitchens, floors, dusting, mopping, the works)

she comes twice during the week for 2 hours per visit after I come back from work and she helps me with laundry (hanging/folding) dishes (washing/filling/empting dishwasher) and food prep (chopping veg/meats/washing stuff while I cook/cleaning the stove once done)

these are our basic schedules for when she comes but they varry sometimes depending on what we are up to that week.

alli2672 · December 2014

I have one person that comes 4 days a week for 5 hours/day. This is kind of a rough outline of what I wanted her to do when I first hired her. She doesn't clean our bathrooms, but does just about everything else. She also just helps out with stuff, and will call repair people and be there when they come by, set the table if we are having friends over for dinner, etc.

1) Clean kitchen daily (including dishes) – (45 minutes/day) 3 hours
2) Laundry – 10 loads a week (wash, dry, put away) – 4 hours
3) Ironing – 1 hour
4) Cooking – 3 hours
5) Groceries (purchasing, putting away, washing and chopping fruits and veggies) – 2 hours
6) vaccuum playroom daily – 1 hour
7) General tidying (making beds, changing sheets, just sort of putting things away) – 1 hour 20 minutes
8) Sweep back patio/water plants twice a week – 30 minutes
9) Sweep sidewalk and clean front porch and outside doors twice a week– 30 minutes
10) Vacuum bedrooms and downstairs living room weekly- 1 hour
11) Sweep and straighten up dining room daily – 40 minutes
12) bigger organizational project (putting away summer clothes, getting rid of too small clothes, sweeping out the garage, cleaning windows, helping put up Christmas decorations, etc.) - 2 hours

Virgo17 · December 2014

alli2672 said:

I have one person that comes 4 days a week for 5 hours/day. This is kind of a rough outline of what I wanted her to do when I first hired her. She doesn't clean our bathrooms, but does just about everything else. She also just helps out with stuff, and will call repair people and be there when they come by, set the table if we are having friends over for dinner, etc.
1) Clean kitchen daily (including dishes) – (45 minutes/day) 3 hours
2) Laundry – 10 loads a week (wash, dry, put away) – 4 hours
3) Ironing – 1 hour
4) Cooking – 3 hours
5) Groceries (purchasing, putting away, washing and chopping fruits and veggies) – 2 hours
6) vaccuum playroom daily – 1 hour
7) General tidying (making beds, changing sheets, just sort of putting things away) – 1 hour 20 minutes
8) Sweep back patio/water plants twice a week – 30 minutes
9) Sweep sidewalk and clean front porch and outside doors twice a week– 30 minutes
10) Vacuum bedrooms and downstairs living room weekly- 1 hour
11) Sweep and straighten up dining room daily – 40 minutes
12) bigger organizational project (putting away summer clothes, getting rid of too small clothes, sweeping out the garage, cleaning windows, helping put up Christmas decorations, etc.) - 2 hours

Do you mind me asking the going rate for this type of help? In addition to general cleaning, it would be great to have someone help with laundry and groceries/meal prep.

alli2672 · December 2014

I live in a low cost of living area where a lot of people work for minimum wage. I initially paid her $10/hr, and have increased it to $14 over the last few years. I do give her 2 weeks of paid vacation and paid holidays. When I put the initial ad in the newspaper, I got 60-70 replies at $10/hr for PT housekeeping.

At the time I hired her, I had been paying $100/wk for someone to clean the house and do 1-2 loads of laundry, and probably another $40-50/wk for take-out because I didn't have time to cook. So we took that into account when looking at our budget for more help.

Mustardseed2007 · December 2014

alli2672 said:

I have one person that comes 4 days a week for 5 hours/day. This is kind of a rough outline of what I wanted her to do when I first hired her. She doesn't clean our bathrooms, but does just about everything else. She also just helps out with stuff, and will call repair people and be there when they come by, set the table if we are having friends over for dinner, etc.
1) Clean kitchen daily (including dishes) – (45 minutes/day) 3 hours
2) Laundry – 10 loads a week (wash, dry, put away) – 4 hours
3) Ironing – 1 hour
4) Cooking – 3 hours
5) Groceries (purchasing, putting away, washing and chopping fruits and veggies) – 2 hours
6) vaccuum playroom daily – 1 hour
7) General tidying (making beds, changing sheets, just sort of putting things away) – 1 hour 20 minutes
8) Sweep back patio/water plants twice a week – 30 minutes
9) Sweep sidewalk and clean front porch and outside doors twice a week– 30 minutes
10) Vacuum bedrooms and downstairs living room weekly- 1 hour
11) Sweep and straighten up dining room daily – 40 minutes
12) bigger organizational project (putting away summer clothes, getting rid of too small clothes, sweeping out the garage, cleaning windows, helping put up Christmas decorations, etc.) - 2 hours

oh. my. gawd. That sounds awesome!!!

And I thought I had it good with upping our housekeeper to 1x per week instead of every other!!

Ours stays for 3-4 hours, depending (I think it mostly depends on what time she has free). It's a woman and her husband. They do the sheets and towels (sometimes we leave laundry in the dryer on accident, and then she folds those clothes), all the floors (mop, vacuum), kitchen surfaces, bathroom surfaces and toilets, dusting. I try to pick up but they do organize a little if a counter top is cluttered. On a rotation (that I don't know) she cleans the fridge, microwave, base boards and some other deeper clean items. She does any dishes in the sink.

reb84 · December 2014

I had a service, but it ended up being more of a hassle for us than a help. It was a team of 2 monthy. The first month was a deep clean and it was great, well worth the $$. After that we wanted basic cleaning like dishes, vaccuming, bathrooms, kitchen, sweeping. While I was on Mat leave I happened to be there for their visits. The team was there less than an hour! The second time I was there the lady said they only did one side of the sink for dishes (I have a shallow sink) and there were still spots on my kitchen floor.

DH and I stresed every month because of the clutter (2 kids, a dog and 2 working adults) and they didn't pick up our clutter, just worked around it. I think I'm going to look into a daily maid or something so my clutter gets picked up and the carpet (we're renting, I hate carpet) gets vaccummed more often.

ridesbuttons · December 2014

Every other week.

She is there for 4 or 5 hours.

Vacuum, dust, bathrooms, dry mop floors, cleans kitchen pretty thoroughly. She works steady for that time, the house is large. DH is OCD so house is always tidy and clutter free.

We pay $80-$100 per visit. We provide all of the cleaning materials. She leaves a list if we are missing anything.

It is money well spent. I do not think about cleaning my house at all.

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