Is it fair to charge someone for a full two hours for a job that might not take the full amount of time?
Edit: thank you for all the responses! I am very new to this, have only been doing it a year and I'm insecure about my work still so that's why I don't charge a lot, I'm scared of people thinking I didn't do a good enough job. all the replies have been very helpful and I just sent her a message saying it's $75 minimum for two hours, if she cancels on me I don't really care because I don't want to scrub floors anyway haha.
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I run my own cleaning "business" where I basically clean and organize for people. It's usually things like deep cleans (which I love because it takes the longest and feels the most rewarding.) I currently charge $25/h because I'm still new to it, I started off charging $20.
This woman wants me to come by and scrub her floors by hand and I took the job because I'm basically taking anything I can get right now. She messaged me pictures today and the space is pretty small and she said she wants no other cleaning done besides the floors. Now there's a chance that it does take me a full two hours to scrub these floors, but in the case that it doesn't, I feel like the job is not even worth the bus ride over there or the use of my products, or the wear on my body (I'm also disabled). I am considering telling her that I would need to charge her for the full two hours, which would be $50. I say this because the other day I went over to a woman's house and she didn't have enough work for me to do to last more than an hour and a half, so she ended up paying me $37 and I left feeling like the job wasn't even worth it.
Is it fair to ask her to pay for the full two hours? How do I navigate this/frame it? How do you guys charge for things like this? Am I being greedy lmao?