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A Win-Win – Reduce Your Cleaning Services Costs
Finding a house cleaning service that not only gives you a great cleaning but also saves you money each month is not easy. Most companies offer a whole range of services and these services can be costly if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Very few people know, however, that there are ways to save money on these services.
This blog will cover a few ways to lower cleaning services cost in Houston Tx without affecting the quality of cleaning.
Choose your House Cleaning Frequency Wisely
It is always wise to review what you’re getting for your bucks, it doesn’t matter if you’re looking for recurring service, deep cleaning or move in/out.
If you’re willing to get your house cleaned more often so you will have the time needed for family and friends, you can start with getting weekly or biweekly cleaning which are the most popular frequencies in house cleaning, then take your time to weigh your options and budget.
Now, if you’re okay with keeping up with your home on a regular basis, you may rethink the weekly or biweekly routine and hire the cleaning service to clean every 3 or every 4 weeks. However, if you’re really into cleaning just hire the cleaning service to do a really good deep cleaning every 3 or 4 months.
This all means that if you are willing to do some of the work, no matter what type of frequency you choose you can still reduce the cleaning services cost.
Leave the Kids’ Rooms to the Kids
Growing up, all kids are asked to clean up after they play to instill discipline. Well, this teaching may just help you save up on cleaning costs as well. After all, clearing up after themselves will be the only way to get a clean room – since the service obviously won’t clean it.
You can further motivate your child to put their stuff where it belongs, so they know where to find it the next time. This skill, once learned, will help the kid in the long run and will have a positive impact on their personality as well.
Take 10 to Tidy Up
Once implemented, this 10-minute hack can save a lot of time and money on cleaning. Before the cleaner arrives, visit each room in the house and tidy up scattered things, putting them in their respective places.
After all, only you know best as to what goes where. The cleaner most probably wouldn’t know and would either keep asking you or put them in places where they don’t belong, and you would have difficulty finding them again. Plus, if the cleaner doesn’t have to worry about putting things back in their places, their focus will stay on cleaning.
Keeping your cleaning services cost down is really easy with minimum effort on your side. If you need help with a tidy Up routine, here is this interesting blog to help you. Remember, house cleaning services base their rates on time spent at your home “cleaning” and these rates can be adjusted at any time if they see a substantial increase in time.
Have the Cleaning Company Clean What you Don’t Want to Clean
Sometimes you’re okay with doing certain cleaning tasks in your home but there are other things that you definitely want to avoid. Based on our experience people prefer to deal with cleaning their bedrooms and/or dusting the home rather than scrubbing showers, toilets, kitchen ovens and cooktops and mopping floors!
So when hiring a cleaning service, discuss your preferences and see if they can accommodate your needs.
Let Go of the Unused Space Cleaning
Usually, we have areas or rooms in our house that are left unused for long periods of time, theater rooms, guest rooms, work rooms you name them, so if that’s the case with you, go for cleaning those rooms as needed or twice a year to clear up the webs and dust, ignoring it for the rest of the time.
Rotation of Room Cleaning
As in the previous point you may not need to clean the entire house every time. Skip the areas and rooms that are easy to clean and are low maintenance every other visit. If you have a 2-story home you can choose to clean the upstairs every other visit. Try any of these rotation methods and see if it suits you and your house.
Not having to clean up all the rooms during each visit would lower your cleaning services cost in the long run.
Plan Ahead and Avoid Fees with Last Minute Cancellations
Hiring professional house cleaners saves you time and effort. However, house cleaning companies have some needed fees that you want to avoid so you can save money. Let’s review the most common.
Lock out fees: if the cleaning crew arrives at your home but they can’t access your home for any reason the company may assess a lock out fee to offset the cost of sending a crew to your home (wages, gas, mileage, insurance, etc).
Skipping fees: depending on the cleaning company, skipping fees apply if you want to skip your service within a certain period of time, let’s say 24 or 48 hours before your scheduled appointment. Why is that? This set period of time (48 or 24 hours) helps the house cleaning company find another house to clean in your usual cleaning spot.
Having a consistent schedule for employees is crucial to retain them. If they don’t have a consistent income they will certainly be looking for a different job. This also translates into less training for new hires and more consistency in the cleaning process. So plan things accordingly to avoid any last-minute cancellations and of course minimize your cleaning services cost.
The Bottom Line
After reading this blog post, we hope that you are able to see the different ways to reduce the house cleaning services cost when hiring a professional. You might be saving money if you clean your house yourself, but that doesn’t mean you should.
Not only is hiring a professional cleaning service a great way to make sure your house always stays clean, but it’s also a great way to free up time for you to spend with your family and friends.
So if you are interested in getting a free quote on a cleaning service for your home, please click the button below this post or call us at 281- 671 4550 during business hours. We would love to hear from you and we would be more than happy to help and we’re always happy to discuss our services and pricing with you.
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