Have you been thinking whether you should hire a cleaner? Maybe you’ve been thinking about this for a while. Do you have busy weeks, without the time to take on the housework like you want to? If family life is crazy without even thinking about juggling work alongside that, let’s have a look at why you should hire a cleaner.
Worth The Price
Cleaners are generally fairly affordable. If you are busy with work and find it hard to keep on top of the house, or simply don’t want to use your spare time to do that, domestic cleaners can be £10 or £12 an hour. Let’s say £25 a week for two hours. This works out at £100 a month to hire a cleaner. Cleaners do this for a living and will likely blitz through the work much quicker than you will.
You also have distractions that will pull you away between vacuuming the living room and mopping the kitchen floor. So you might take four hours to do what someone ese can do in two hours. You need to ask yourself what your time is worth. If you’re making decent money at your job and would like to enjoy some time with your partner and kids rather than wiping skirting boards and polishing shelves, a cleaner could be for you!
Hire Someone You’re Comfortable With
You need to trust your cleaner. If you work out of the house you might need to give your cleaner a key. Similarly if you work from home you need to be comfortable to be in the house with the person. You need to trust that they will look after your keys, respect your privacy and that you feel happy with them being in your home. As well as properly look after your Solid Wood Flooring. You need to be happy with their work too.
You don’t want to be paying for someone to come into you house and spray some furniture polish around, whilst reading a magazine and texting their mates. You want to make sure you’re getting what you pay for. With this in mind, it’s worth asking friends and neighbours for recommendations. Or asking for a one off clean before signing up long term, to check you are happy.
For Specific Reasons
We decided to hire a cleaner before we had baby number three. We knew we would be busy with kids 1one and two, as well as work and adapting to our new lives. We got a recommendation from a friend and after meeting the cleaner, we agreed weekly for the first three months and then fortnightly for the next three. Six months of help was a good idea to just help us adapt to having three little ones to look after. You could have specific reasons for hiring a cleaner and you’ll find one that can help. It could be for elderly relatives who can no longer manage it by themselves, or maybe even to clean your office.
When you hire a cleaner you free up your time to do other things. You are also paying for someone’s affordable services, allowing them to make a living and run their business dreams. That time you would be cleaning can be used to make memories with your family, or perhaps even make extra cash.
If you are questioning whether you should hire a cleaner or not, look at the cost the amount of time it would save you and what you could be doing with that extra time. We all need a little bit of a helping hand now and again. This is a great way to help you get on top of your house and give you a little bit of life back.
