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My wife has just gone back to work almost fulltime, and she is extremely keen on getting a house cleaner in once a week to take the pressure off the home duties (which we both do a share of ). Obviously with 3 kids under the age of 7, our house can resemble a war-zone on a fairly regular basis.

Im not sure how i actually feel about getting a stranger in to clean our house - i can see positives and negatives.

The obvious positive is that the missus will be happy...

This is all entirely foreign to me,so just after any advice/stories/experiences anyone has regarding cleaners, good or bad.

My live-in maid only works 3 days a week so I can sub-lease her

We get our house clean fornightly through Jims Cleaning

Jimmy_041 wrote:My live-in maid only works 3 days a week so I can sub-lease her

I smell a rat here Jimmy...

Cos that's my wife !!!

She did tell me her husband always smelt of Woodstock and linament

A good family friend cleans our place once a fortnight. And for the same reason as you Felch, it's too much to ask the missus to do it, even though she's on maternity leave.

We get charged $15 per hour and the lady is here for three hours. We've got a fairly big house so it does take a while to get around to each room.

For me, it's definitely worth the money. I'd rather spend the $45 than have to clean bathrooms and loos each Sunday or have the missus flat chat with the kids having to worry about it.

As far as privacy goes, this lady has been a professional cleaner in Adelaide since before I was born, so we have no concerns about that either.

If you want, I can give you her number. I understand she's pretty busy but you never know. I'm close in proximity to you as well.

Yeah we have 2 ladies come around fortnightly and go over it thoroughly, doesnt cost that much and gives us back part of our weekend to spend with the Boys...only thing I hate is getting the house clean so they can clean it!!

Our house is reasonable size too, so i think we would be looking for a similar arrangement Gadj. If you could PM me the details, that would be great.

Dutchy, knowing my wife, she will be exactly the same. She would be worried the cleaner thinks she is a bad mother and wife, and would spend hours cleaning up before hand !!!

Mother - in - law...

Does the only jobs I hate doing. Folding washing & putting 'em away !

Everything else is easy....

We use Bizzi Beez. Mainly coz they supplied referees and a police check and were the keenest for the job out of 10 outfits that were contacted. Had them for 5 yrs and never had a problem.

Squawk wrote:We use Bizzi Beez. Mainly coz they supplied referees and a police check and were the keenest for the job out of 10 outfits that were contacted. Had them for 5 yrs and never had a problem.

My experience with Bizzi Beez was the same. I would recommend them.

Don't start me on this subject!

Are you the house bitch?

SJABC wrote:Mother - in - law...

Does the only jobs I hate doing. Folding washing & putting 'em away !

Everything else is easy....

Until she see the receipts from the Crazy Horse and checks the history on your computer.....

Jimmy_041 wrote:Until she see the receipts from the Crazy Horse
and checks the history on your computer.....

That's no problem for me. My mother-in-law works at Crazy Horse.
She's the horse !

Get your old man to do it Felch..... He has heaps of time on his hands

mate, now that you have given away the coaching caper.......................you should have plenty of free time to clean the house!!

You 2 Haven blokes are absolute comedians, thats some of your best work...

Thanks EVERYONE else for their advice and comments...

Youll be able to do it on Mondays...isnt that your day off?

bazza1 wrote:Youll be able to do it on Mondays...isnt that your day off?

Ah, no...hence the term 'day off'...

I do actually do some housework on those days...just not normally to the standards my wife expects !!!