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Recurring maid service and one-time deep cleans — local crews that show up on schedule and clean to a checklist, not a guess. Pick your metro for our recommended crew, local pricing, and answers to common questions.
On the Eastside, the cleaning crew we vouch for uses background-checked staff and flat per-visit pricing.
Disclosure: the crews recommended on this page are part of Trusted Local Network — we have a commercial interest in them, and you should weigh that. Nobody pays for placement, and the pricing and hiring advice here is the same advice we would give about any crew.
Homeowner guides
Straight answers, no upsell — what a job should cost and what to ask before you book.
A bathroom can look clean from the doorway and still fail every check that matters. Here is the five-minute walk-through that tells you what you actually paid for, the spots a rushed job always skips, and what is damage rather than dirt.
Read the guide →Call three cleaning companies about the same house and the numbers can land nowhere near each other. That is rarely anyone being greedy - it is that the three of them are quoting three different units, on three different assumptions about what state the house is in. Here is how cleaning is actually priced, which inputs move the number most, and how to line two quotes up so the comparison means something.
Read the guide →Whether to tip a house cleaner depends almost entirely on who receives the money - an independent cleaner setting their own rate, or an employee of an agency taking a share. Here is how to tell which one you are hiring, and what to do in each case.
Read the guide →A move-out clean is really a deposit-return job, and most people book it without knowing what is on the list. Here is what the service covers, what your landlord can and cannot legally charge you for, and one recommendation per metro - ordered geographically, not ranked.
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What a deep clean covers that a regular visit skips, and when it's worth paying for the more thorough service.
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A realistic cleaning schedule by task — daily, weekly, monthly, and seasonal — so nothing quietly turns into a big job.
Read the guide →The questions to ask about insurance, supplies, pricing, and consistency before you let anyone into your home.
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