Hi folks. I am after a bit of advice as I am in process of starting up my own house cleaning/window cleaning business. I am researching thoroughly before plunging in. Have done this work before but in UK. I live in Maroochydore and will be offering regular cleaning service to clients with houses and apartments. For anyone who is lucky enough to employ a cleaner/window cleaner or for those cleaners willing to share financial side of things what is a reasonable rate to charge? Info particular to Sunshine Coast would be particulary helpful. I am looking at quoting by the hour and will supply all cleaning equipment and materials. Thanks for any advice anyone can provide. Sunny Brummie.

I'm sorry I have no idea bout hourly rates but just wanted to say good luck & I hope it works out for you

Thanks Pam. Have an idea of what to charge but wanted to know whether my amounts are over or I am selling myself short. I realise I need to match the local market. Just to throw my own thoughts in I was thinking arount $80 for a three hour clean. In three hours I can do a large house - four bedrooms, three bathrooms and toilets including shower screens, kitchen tops, splash backs, fronts of cupboards, sink and draining boards, polishing surfaces throughout house and vacuuming and mopping all floors. My quality of work is good but I work fast.

OMG in that time I can just about manage spare room, baby room, utility room & living area, I must be doing something wrong! (altho I guess you're not also looking after a 6 month old & feeding your Facebook addiction while at work.... )

Ha ha. No, there are no babies or social networking distractions. I know what I am like cleaning my own house whilst keeping one eye on junk daytime TV and facebook - I just go round in circles achieving not a lot. When I'm in someone else's home I plug myself in to the IPOD and don't stop till the job is done. Hubby doesn't believe me but it's true!

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I have a neighbour who has also just started a cleaning business and she charges 25$ an hour for normal household clean I think.A bond clean can be around 3-400$ but that takes a whole day of rigorous cleaning.Hope that helps and good luck btw she is based on Sunshine Coast too.

Thanks Shirl. That's around what I thought. Good luck to your friend. It seems there is plenty of work out there as more and more people are working lots of hours.

We pay the very nice lady who cleans our house $25/hr

In Sydney I pay $85 for 2 people - married couple - to clean a 3-bed 2-bath 2-storey apartment (so pretty housey, TBH) which is about 1.5 hours.

We pay our cleaner on the sunshine coast $25 an hour, she has a ABN ( tax number ) and liablility insurance.

In between doing my other jobs I clean for about five old dears.I charge $25 ph hour which is way more than what I get for cleaning my house..For that they get a good clean all over(their house,not the ladies)I vacuum and clean floors and they are always thrilled with their place afterwards.It also includes me listening for ten minutes about their aches and pains.I love doing it actually.

You don't need to be insured if you're earning under a certain amount of cash...

That sounds like good value to me! Why don't you ring up some other cleaners who are advertising, anonymously of course, to find out what they are charging?

Like the others on here I pay $25 ph BUT this doesn't include window cleaning or anything to do with the washing - even if I leave a note to say could she bring the washing in if dry/looks like its going to rain etc she doesn't. If you are going to do ironing this is also a separate charge and I pay on average about $50 pw - this is usually a large basket full. Window cleaning is very expensive here so don't undersell yourself if you are going to be doing windows.