A home maintenance service is often associated with the more affluent part of society. This might be true of a permanent house-keeping staff but more than ever there are affordable home maintenance services available. While everyone would like to be able to manage their own home cleaning chores, there are many things that stand in the way of this happening such as if your life style is too hectic, you have small children and work fulltime, or if there are several people that you flat share with that result in an uneven distribution and level of acceptable home cleaning.
Flat sharing is one area that benefits greatly from a home cleaning service. As household bills will generally be lower because of many people sharing a house or a flat, adding the monthly or weekly cleaning bill to the combined bills will not amount to very much per flatmate. It could be as low as £2 a week for professional cleaning services. Whether you go with a well known service like Merry Maids, a home tidiness facility found on a quick online search or a browse through Craigslist, there are multiple options available to look into. Perhaps too many! One way to limit the search is by going with a well known home cleaning service like Merry Maids. However, the more established or with a higher security rating, perhaps having all their employees CRB checked, will ultimately raise the hourly rate of the cleaners you employ. Another method of finding a trusted home cleaning provider is by word of mouth. Do any of your friends or even acquaintances use a cleaning service? Getting a referral from a trusted individual can help limit the search for a reliable house cleaning service.
One of the reasons that house cleaning forces have become so prevalent and affordable is the influx of immigrants from EU member states. The reality of affordable cleaning services comes at the price of paying a low standard wage for cleaners. Those registered with professional bodies will be paid at least the minimum wage, but independent house maintenance services, or those operated as a private business, may undercut other services by working for less than the national minimum wage. If you are worried about the ethics of underpaying for your house maintenance services, do some investigation into the standard wage of the service you are engaging in. This way you can have peace of mind about the service you are receiving.