This page does not publish a price list, and it is worth explaining why rather than pretending it is a policy quirk.
A number published without seeing a home is either so wide it is useless, or it is a headline figure that changes once someone actually arrives. Both are worse than explaining how quoting works so you can estimate your own situation and compare offers properly.
The four things a quote is built from
Every legitimate quote is assembled from the same four inputs. If a company is not asking about all four, the number they give you is a guess.
1. Which service
This is the largest factor by a distance. A deep clean includes an entire detail phase — grout, tracks, frames, vents, hard-water removal — that a standard clean does not contain at all.
A move-out clean adds every cabinet interior, closet and appliance interior. Post-construction cleaning adds repeated passes for fine dust. These are different jobs, not different sizes.
2. Bathrooms
Bathrooms are the highest-effort rooms per square foot in any home: shower, glass, grout, a toilet worked completely, a vanity, a mirror, and a floor with edges — in a small space where every surface needs a different product.
A three-bedroom home with three bathrooms is a bigger job than a four-bedroom with two. Lead with the bathroom count when you ask for a quote.
3. Condition
The same house in two different conditions can differ by a factor of two. This is what the first-visit premium reflects.
Clutter counts here as well. Surfaces covered in belongings have to be cleared, cleaned and reset item by item.
4. Frequency
Recurring visits cost less per visit than one-off cleans because each one starts from a home cleaned recently. There is no accumulated work, so the job is genuinely smaller.
Part of that is a smaller scope of work rather than a discount at all, and part of it is the standing recurring rate published on the service pages. Both are real, and they are not the same thing.
What size does — and does not — do
Square footage is the number people lead with and it is a surprisingly weak predictor.
Extra floor area is fast to clean: open living space is largely vacuuming and mopping. What adds real time is additional rooms with fixtures — bathrooms above all, then kitchens, then heavily used rooms.
Two homes with identical square footage can differ substantially in price if one has two bathrooms and the other has four.
Hourly versus fixed quoting
The two models distribute risk differently, and it is worth knowing which you are being offered.
Hourly means you carry the risk of the estimate. If the home takes longer than expected, you pay more. It is flexible and it suits open-ended work, but the final figure is genuinely unknown until the job is done.
A fixed quote for a defined scope moves the risk to the company. It is easier to budget against and generally better for the customer — but it only works if the scope was described accurately. Ask what happens if the home turns out to be in worse condition than described; a straight answer to that is a good sign.
Comparing two quotes properly
The lower number is very often the smaller job. These are the questions that make a comparison meaningful.
- 01Is this the same service — deep versus standard — in both quotes?
- 02What is explicitly excluded, and what would each addition cost?
- 03Is this a first visit or a recurring rate? Ask for both.
- 04How many people arrive, and for roughly how long?
- 05Is insurance and bonding in place, and is everyone background-checked?
- 06If a room is not right, what is the window for saying so and what happens then?
Where cheap becomes expensive
There is a real floor to what this work costs, set by wages, insurance, screening, products, equipment and travel. A quote significantly below the local range is usually cutting one of those.
The two that matter most are insurance and background screening, because they are invisible until something goes wrong. An uninsured cleaner in your home is a risk you are carrying yourself without having agreed to.
The second common shortcut is time. A price that only works if the team is out in half the realistic duration produces a surface-level result and a home that needs recovering again in a month.
Spending less without lowering the standard
There are legitimate ways to reduce cost that do not involve finding a cheaper provider.
Reduce scope rather than time: exclude guest rooms you do not use, or drop specific rooms from alternate visits. Move to a schedule, because recurring visits are smaller jobs. Clear surfaces and floors before each visit, which genuinely shortens the work. And get the home to a baseline once, so you are paying for maintenance rather than repeated recovery.
The most expensive pattern is booking an emergency deep clean twice a year. Two full recovery jobs often cost more than a year of maintenance visits, and the home spends most of the year in poor condition.
