Going rates for house cleaners?

[Anonymous]

I am looking for someone to clean my house once a week or every other week, and was wondering what the going rate is for such a service? Thanks.

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on how big your house is. I think it can range anywhere from $80-180.

[Anonymous]

We have a 2500 sf SFH that is pretty uncluttered and pay $100 per cleaning (twice a month).

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Yes, depends on the size of the home, how many BRs, how many BAs, where you live, and what you ask them to do.

I have $1600sq feet 3BR 2.5BA, uncluttered home that I actually clean before them come (not scrub, but make sure EVERYTHING is in its place) and pay $85 every 2 weeks. They change the sheets and make the beds, but do not do laundry or windows. It is the best $170 I spend each month and would trade my TV before I traded the cleaning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, depends on the size of the home, how many BRs, how many BAs, where you live, and what you ask them to do.

I have $1600sq feet 3BR 2.5BA, uncluttered home that I actually clean before them come (not scrub, but make sure EVERYTHING is in its place) and pay $85 every 2 weeks. They change the sheets and make the beds, but do not do laundry or windows. It is the best $170 I spend each month and would trade my TV before I traded the cleaning.

Hi,
would you mind sending me the contact info of your cleaner at [e-mail]. I'm way over paying for my once a month service. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

We pay $143 for a small house every three weeks. It's a service so they grossly overcharge. But I didn't want to deal with payroll, liability, etc.

[Anonymous]

I use Cleaning Authority. For a 1600 foot, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath townhouse. They charge $92 every other week. I've been extremely happy with them, but it depends on franchise. I have had them in other DC locations and haven't been as happy.

[Anonymous]

5-bedroom house, four floors (including basement), single family dwelling - plus laundry (& ironing) and bedding. we pay $100 per cleaning twice a month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:5-bedroom house, four floors (including basement), single family dwelling - plus laundry (& ironing) and bedding. we pay $100 per cleaning twice a month.

That's a deal!

[Anonymous]

We pay $125 per bi-weekly cleaning. Our cleaner/housekeeper stays 6 hours, sometimes longer and does a great job. We had been paying $85 for a team of 4 cleaners but were really unhappy with the quality - some weeks they cleaned really well but other weeks they didn't. It was frustrating. The lead cleaner was really receptive to feedback and things would improve but then things would deteriorate. Our home is 3 levels, 4 bedrooms, and currently cluttered with baby gear and toys (someday maybe we'll have a clutter-free home little the PPs!!!) We seem to have finally found someone who meets our needs better (i.e., someone who helps organize in addition to deep-cleaning, attentive to detail, has no problem cleaning toddler fingerprints off the windows, etc.).

[Anonymous]

We also pay $125 weekly for our housecleaner who stays about 6 hours and straightens our house in addition to cleaning it (we have 3 kids so it always looks like a bomb went off on Wed. nights before she comes). After the third kiddo came along, I gave up any pretense of "pre-cleaning" my house for the housekeeper. It's a 3300 sq 4 BR 3BA house.

[Anonymous]

We have a 3br, 3ba rowhouse that is 85 years old and thus tough to clean because of uneven surfaces. Husband is an untidy person, our dog sheds buckets, and our cats are somewhat tidy but shed a little. We're among the tougher houses to clean, in other words.

Our cleaner comes every two weeks and cleans two of the three baths (we don't use the basement one), all living areas, scours kitchen, vacuums everything, washes and folds all of our laundry, strips and re makes beds, waters the garden, sweeps the deck, and walks the dog for $125. We didn't ask her to walk the dog-- she just likes him. But it's a great service to have.

$125 is supposedly considered high for a rowhouse, but between the dog hair, the laundry, DH's messiness, and the dog walk, it feels like a great value.

[Anonymous]

I'm afraid I'm really overpaying, according to these posts. We pay $125 every other week for a group of 4 women to come and clean our small but 3 level 4bdr/3.5bath home. We don't have kids yet and our home is very clutter-free. DH is very neat. They do all floors (almost all hardwood) lots of windows, bedding for master bdr and sometimes guestroom. They will finish laundry if there is a load already in there when they put in the sheets, but they don't actually do our laundry. Never any dishes to do. Wow, as I type I'm starting to think that we're not getting out money's worth. When we started with them we were paying 75 or 85 for a tiny 2 bedroom condo, so when we moved we thought the increase was appropriate. But it sounds like there is so much more to base the price on other than the size of the space they are cleaning (i.e. kids toys everywhere, shedding dog, laundry, sticky fingerprints on all surfaces, etc.) They don't even go into 2 of the bedrooms because they are basically storage closets until we get the nursury set up. Pout.

[Anonymous]

to those who are paying 100 for a multi-bedroom house - is this in DC itself and how many hours?

we live in a one bedroom and originally agreed on a price based on $20 per hour - she takes 4 hrs and does do a lot - washes, dries, folds all sheets adn towels and any laundry that's out plus two floors worth of hardwood floors and she does a great job and am really happy with her work - but still feel like $80 is a lot compared to what I'm seeing here...thoughts?