House Cleaning Cost Calculator – Understand Your Home Cleaning Price
The House Cleaning Cost Calculator on MyTimeCalculator helps you estimate how much a professional home cleaning or maid service might charge for a visit. By combining your home size, number of bedrooms and bathrooms, the type of cleaning and any extras, it produces a transparent estimate of hours and cost.
While every cleaning company has its own pricing system, most use a similar logic: they estimate how long the job should take and multiply by an hourly rate, then add extras and apply any recurring-service discounts. This calculator mirrors that process in a simple, easy-to-understand way.
1. How the House Cleaning Cost Estimate Works
The calculator uses three main building blocks:
- Cleaning productivity: Approximate square feet cleaned per hour.
- Hourly labor rate: Total hourly cost for the cleaning team.
- Extras and frequency: Add-on services and discounts for repeat visits.
First, it converts your home size into an estimated number of cleaning hours depending on whether you choose a standard clean, a deep clean or a move-in/move-out clean. Then it multiplies by your chosen hourly rate and adds any extras such as cleaning inside the oven or fridge. Finally, it applies recurring-visit discounts and optional service fees or tax.
2. Cleaning Productivity by Service Type
A key factor is how quickly cleaners can move through your home. Deep and move-out cleans are slower because they are more detailed. The calculator uses simple benchmark values:
Standard maintenance clean: about 600 ft² per hour
Deep cleaning: about 400 ft² per hour
Move-in / move-out cleaning: about 350 ft² per hour
Bedrooms and bathrooms usually need extra attention, so the calculator adds a small amount of extra time for each additional bedroom and bathroom beyond the first pair.
3. Estimating Hours and Base Labor Cost
Once the cleaning speed is known, estimated hours are:
The base labor cost is then:
You can adjust the hourly rate field to reflect prices in your area or the quotes you are seeing from local companies.
4. Extras, Add-ons and Frequency Discounts
Many cleaning companies charge extra for certain services because they are more time-consuming or require special attention. Typical examples include:
- Cleaning inside the fridge
- Cleaning inside the oven
- Interior window cleaning
- Detailed baseboard cleaning
- Light laundry or washing bed linens
The House Cleaning Cost Calculator lets you tick each extra and adds a typical flat charge to the visit cost. You can think of these as placeholders for the add-on fees you see in real quotes.
For recurring visits, many companies offer discounts because upkeep cleans are faster and more predictable. The calculator uses approximate discount levels:
- Weekly: about 20% discount
- Every 2 weeks: about 15% discount
- Monthly: about 10% discount
These discounts are applied after adding extras but before any optional service fee or tax percentage.
5. How to Use the House Cleaning Cost Calculator
- Enter your home size: Use a reasonable estimate of the square footage you want cleaned regularly. You can exclude unfinished basements or areas that are never cleaned.
- Enter bedrooms and bathrooms: Include any bedrooms and baths that need to be cleaned as part of the visit.
- Choose the cleaning type: Use standard cleaning for regular upkeep, deep cleaning for a detailed seasonal clean and move-in/move-out for empty homes or turnover cleans.
- Choose visit frequency: One-time for a first visit or estimate, or weekly / bi-weekly / monthly if you plan ongoing service.
- Set the hourly rate: Adjust the hourly rate if you know typical pricing in your area.
- Select any extras: Tick extras like fridge, oven or windows to see how much they might add.
- Optional service fee / tax: If you know your local tax or fee, enter it as a percentage.
- Click “Estimate Cleaning Cost”: Review the estimated visit cost, hours, base labor, extras, discount and effective hourly rate.
6. Using the Estimate When Comparing Quotes
The calculator is designed as a neutral planning tool. When you request quotes from local cleaners, you can use the results to:
- Check if a quote seems unusually high or low given your home size and cleaning type.
- Ask whether supplies, equipment and taxes are included in the price.
- Compare how each company handles extras like fridge, oven or window cleaning.
- See the value of frequency discounts if you schedule recurring service.
Remember that companies may also factor in travel time, minimum charges, number of cleaners in the team and their own experience with similar homes.
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House Cleaning Calculator FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers to common questions about how house cleaning costs are estimated and how to use this calculator when comparing quotes.
No. This calculator provides an estimate based on typical cleaning speeds, hourly rates and add-on charges. Real companies set their own prices, may have minimum visit fees and can adjust for special situations. Use the result as a benchmark when you request quotes from local cleaners, not as a guaranteed price.
Deep cleaning usually includes more detailed tasks such as scrubbing baseboards, descaling fixtures, cleaning behind furniture and thoroughly wiping cabinets or appliances. These tasks take more time per square foot, so the calculator uses a slower cleaning speed and the total estimated hours and cost go up compared with a light maintenance clean of the same home.
The hours are based on simple benchmark assumptions and may differ from what an experienced cleaning team can do in practice. Homes with heavy buildup, clutter, pets or lots of decor typically take longer, while very tidy homes may be faster than the estimate. The result is best used as a planning tool, not as a promise of exact timing for your home.
Weekly, bi-weekly and monthly customers often receive a lower per-visit price because their home is cleaned more frequently and is easier to maintain. The first clean may still be priced as a deep or initial clean, but follow-up visits usually require fewer hours. The calculator reflects this by applying an approximate discount to the visit cost for recurring service options you select.
That depends on how companies in your area present their prices. Some quotes are before tax or exclude service fees, while others show a single “all-in” price. The optional percentage field lets you add a service fee or tax estimate on top of the visit cost so you can see an approximate total out-of-pocket amount if those charges apply where you live.
Yes. You can run the calculator twice with different hourly rates or assumptions to see how changes in price or visit length affect the estimated total. You can also compare your calculated effective hourly rate with what you infer from each company’s quote and estimated cleaning time to understand the value of each option more clearly.