Hi Maggie!
I'm quite lucky with the holds, as my other half works shifts and my mum and dad are happy to help with sitting, as the kids are 9 and 13 they don't need much amusing, they make their own (like arguing with each other lol).
Yes I did make the mistake of charging the same rate as the domestic, won't do that again! Also underestimated the amount of time taken to do the job, but I am charging her for an hour les than it took.
I still have the keys to the property, have texted her to say it is finished (on my part that is), but haven't heard from her for over a day now (strange as she was going to meet me at the property at the end of the final clean yesterday).
I dunno if these Builder's cleans are worth the hassle, as I had another to do on Thursday, a fair bit away from where I live, and when we got there the Builder's hadn't finished and the carpet layers had been in and laid the underlay (which shouldn't have happened until after we'd been in a cleaned), so we had to leave (what a waste of my time and effort.............as I had to pick up one of my girls who can't drive, to help with the job, and then drop her back.....in total about 1 1/2 hours driving around etc).
Maybe £15.00 an hour is the way to go for me..........if they won't pay it then it ain't worth doing, is it?
Hope work is good for you too!
Cheers!
Jan