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Old 01-02-2010, 07:53 AM
 
Location: Where the sun likes to shine!!
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My stepdaughter has a cleaning business in the NC mountains so I can tell you what she just told me. She also makes her own Eco friendly cleaners. If you aren't well known and you just put your name in the paper they get about $15.00 and hour. If you are better known and are bonded and insured it's about $20-$25 an hour. If you go with a franchise service it is about $35 an hour.

I would imagine pricing is flexible depending on the house and what you expect to have done.

I used to clean houses in the Hamptons when I was young back in the late 80's. I got $60-$75 per house and it took me about 2-3 hours per house. I also did the towels and sheets. I had one house that a bunch of Doctor's shared for the summer. They had young children and I would find dirty diapers under beds and overflowing and spilling out onto the bathroom floor. That wasn't the kids fault that was the adults who were pigs. Scary to think they were Doctors.
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Old 01-02-2010, 02:11 PM
 
Location: NY metro area
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I pay my service $85 weekly. It's usually 3 people and they're here for 2 hours. I'm not impressed though and I really need to find a new cleaning person or service.
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Old 07-27-2010, 05:47 PM
 
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It depends on the square footage of your home it varies by area as well Mod Cut Link

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Old 07-31-2010, 10:57 AM
 
Location: I gave up being nice for Lent.
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I clean OP houses. I charge $20 an hour and Im worth it. My clients say how many hours and how deeply they want their house cleaned. I start with the most important rooms and work until their time is up. Most of my houses are every other week so I rotate cleaning lesser used rooms. That way if you just want light cleaning I get further. I think an hourly charge works out better. That way peeps get what theyre willing to pay for. If you want me to make your beds and put all your stuff away and wash your clothes then thats what you pay for. I also do other stuff like organizing, light maintenance stuff, landscaping, painting lawn furnitue wahing windows etc.

I agree the neatnicks are harder to clean. They dont seem to unsestand that if a surface has a little dirt or a lot you still have to clean it the same. Also I dont just wipe stuff off. I clean and polish. Personally I prefer to clean the dirty peeps houses. They get excited when they come home to a house thats been spit shined.

I just dropped one of my neatnicks cause I got tired of the nitpicking. Life is too short and besides that I have a waiting list. I dont expects woops of joy from my clients like in the commercials. But when Ive polished a bathroom until you can see your self in the tile I dont appreciate being told the overflow hole in the sink isnt clean enough.
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Old 07-31-2010, 10:58 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Yeah...we pay by the job...100 bucks for straight cleaning (no laundry, etc), which takes about 5 hours...that's pretty good wages if you think about it!
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