What pros/cons have you found in using them?
Thanks!
The minimum order value can be a problem. With their £10/month subscription service, it drops from to £40.
Ocado's customer service is excellent, and they're very good at timekeeping — you just schedule an 1-hour delivery slot.
Pro - food comes to you and you only get what you want (not random hungry puchases). Con - you have to be in when they arrive, unsure what the windows are.
Laundry - I was living in NE London at the time (about 3 years ago) so I used http://www.theironingboard.com/ There must be more of these around in other parts of town.
Pro - somebody washes, dries, folds and (optionally) irons your clothes. Con - ???? (OK so it costs money instead of time, what you think is good value in this department is probably very subjective, and you have to be there to accept delivery, but they did deliver in the evenings :)
Cleaners are an odd one because you're allowing someone access to your property, often when you're not there. It may be best to find a trustworthy cleaner by word of mouth.
Cleaners are £8-£10/hour (in SW London anyway), ours takes 2.5 hours for our 3 bed flat. They'll often do ironing too.
Couldn't ever go back to living without a washing machine though!
Haha, agreed :-D
Of course they didn't have fancy web frontends, but they still picked up and dropped off laundry (charged by weight), cleaned the house every week or two, delviered groceries (most UK supermarkets will) Etc.
These things are not expensive and take much of the annoying drudgery out of life.