What goes into your cleaning quote — and why the price is reviewed by a person
6 min read · February 16, 2026
A transparent breakdown of how we price a clean, why the final number is emailed for review, and how to keep it down.
Cleaning prices feel opaque from the outside. They shouldn't be. Here's exactly what we're calculating when you fill in the quote form, and why a human checks it before you see it.
The inputs
Bedrooms and bathrooms are proxies for time, not for size alone — bathrooms are the most labour-intensive rooms in any home. Service type sets the scope, frequency sets how much backlog we expect to find, and add-ons are simply extra time blocks.
Why a person reviews it
Two identical floor plans can take wildly different amounts of time: pets, occupancy, clutter level, last professional clean, hard water, stairs. An automatic number would either overcharge careful households or set our helpers up to fail. So the calculator estimates, a real person reviews, and only then is the final price released to your email with the rules and policies attached.
How to lower it honestly
Move to bi-weekly rather than monthly — shorter gaps mean less time per visit. Do the fifteen-minute prep. Bundle add-ons like fridge and oven into one visit per season instead of ad hoc. And keep the same helper: familiarity is worth real minutes.
Your price reflects time, not guesswork — and you review it in writing before anything is booked.