Average Cost Of Hireing A Decorating Company For Christmas

Do you have everything you need for the festive party season? Or will you have too many guests to fit around your dining table? Are you a few plates short of a dinner service, so to speak?

If so, don't fret. These days you can hire everything from glasses to furniture for stress-free entertaining. Here's what you need to know.

Glasses

Whether you're planning to serve champagne, beer, sherry or wine to your guests, you can hire extra glasses free of charge from a number of places. Waitrose doesn't ask for a deposit but there's a £1 fee per broken glass. You'll need to stump up a £20 deposit to hire glasses from Morrisons but the charge for breakages is less, at 50p per item. Or you can borrow glasses in multiples of 12 from Majestic Wine if you leave a deposit of £1 per glass. Majestic has a handy calculator on its website to help you work out how many glasses you will need.

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Crockery and cutlery

If you want to hire china and cutlery for a party at home, you're best off searching for a smaller, local firm. This will help reduce delivery costs or avoid them altogether if you collect and return yourself. Larger event hire firms usually have a much higher minimum order value, which makes them less suitable for home entertaining.

If you live near the border of Surrey and Hampshire, try At Home Catering Hire to hire china, cutlery, tableware and table linen, or Norfolk China Hire if you're based in Norfolk or Suffolk. Lancashire Catering Hire rents out a similar range of items to customers in Lancashire, The Lake District, Merseyside, Greater Manchester, Cheshire and Yorkshire.

Expect to pay around 10-17p per plate and check if washing up is included in the hire charge.

Ask at a local wedding venue if they know of any tableware hire companies in your area if you can't find what you're after online.

Furniture

If you have more guests than seats and don't want Great Auntie Mabel sitting on someone's knee, you can hire chairs from £1.99 each from furniturehireuk.com. A basic 6ft trestle table (to seat 6-8 guests) costs £4.70 to hire for a week, coffee tables are available from £6.62 a week, and sofas start at £35 a week.

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Tablecloths

Make sure the Christmas table looks the part with crisp linen. If you don't have the right thing, visit linenforhire.co.uk to hire tablecloths, napkins, runners and chair covers in a variety of colours and fabrics. Costs vary depending on the size, colour and fabric you need and how long you need it for. But the best bit is that you don't have to wash a thing before you return it!

A cleaner

If your house needs sprucing up before – or after – your guests descend, and you don't have the time or inclination to do it yourself, book a one-off clean. Merry Maids offers a 'mix and match' deep clean service that lets you pick the rooms that need attention. A deep clean of your spare room will set you back £15.75, while a medium-sized living room costs £39.38.

If your oven could do with some less-than-tender loving care after its annual appointment with the Christmas turkey, call in the professionals.

Try Ovenclean, which charges around £50 to clean a single oven or £65 for a double oven. Alternatively, search for a professional oven cleaning service in your area using the postcode search tool on the website of the Association of Approved Oven Cleaners.

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