How to Price Home Cleaning Services
Before you start your home-cleaning service business, you will need to figure out how you will set prices for your services. There are some factors you need to consider when deciding how much to charge for your home cleaning services.
- Research competing businesses. Find out how other home cleaning businesses charge. Contact a few cleaning businesses in your area to inquire what they charge for their cleaning services. The information you collect from those companies will help you decide what to charge in order to stay competitive.
- Take a walk-through of the area that needs to be cleaned. Contact your client and request to have a look at the house. Take a pen and notepad with you. Count the number of rooms, floors and bathrooms and any other areas that the client wants cleaned. Write these down. Take note of any clutter which might stand in the way. It will take longer to clean the house if there is a lot of clutter in the area.
- Find out the number of people that live in the house. The more people that live in a house the more mess that is created. Write down any special instructions and cleaning product your client wants you to use, which can make your price higher.
- Estimate how long it will take you to finish the job. Calculate how much time you will need to complete the job. If the area to be cleaned is particularly messy, you may need a longer time to clean it thoroughly the first time. If your client asks for weekly service, then each weekly cleaning may require less time than the initial cleaning. In this case, you may charge higher for the initial cleaning than the weekly cleaning.
- Add up your total hourly rate, the price of your cleaning products and fees for any special cleaning requests or instructions. Present the total price to your client.