Extra tasks beyond square footage
Kitchens, bathrooms, laundry, and restocking take disproportionately longer per square foot than open living space. Price them as separate minutes, not folded into a flat rate.
Free cleaning estimating tool
Price a cleaning job from labor and supplies up.
Turn square footage, cleaning production rate, extra tasks, drive time, and crew cost into a per-visit price and a monthly recurring price for house, Airbnb turnover, or commercial cleaning.
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Cleaning estimate calculator
Build a per-visit and monthly price
Pick a cleaning type to load typical defaults, then adjust with your own rate and costs. Share the result with a client or copy it into your notes.
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Crew time per visit0 hrs
Direct cost per visit$0
Expected profit per visit$0
Price breakdown
Labor$0
Supplies and equipment$0
Overhead$0
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Use the result as a planning baseline. Verify square footage, clutter, pet hair, add-on rooms, access, and local pricing before quoting a job.
Cleaning pricing guide
Costs commonly missed in cleaning bids
Turnover timing pressure
Airbnb and short-term rental turns often run on a fixed window between guest checkout and check-in. Rushed turns still need the same laundry, restocking, and inspection steps.
Clutter and condition
A lived-in home with clutter, pet hair, or a first deep clean takes longer than a maintained space on a recurring schedule. Adjust production rate or extra minutes accordingly.
Supplies and consumables
Cleaning chemicals, paper products, trash bags, and restocked guest supplies for turnovers are easy to underprice when quoting from memory instead of tracking actual cost per visit.
Cleaning estimating notes
How to turn the calculator result into a job you can run profitably
Separate first clean from recurring clean
An initial deep clean takes meaningfully longer than a maintained recurring visit. Quote the first visit separately instead of applying a recurring rate to a job that needs extra time.
Build in inspection time for turnovers
A final walkthrough, photo documentation, and damage check protect against disputes with hosts or property managers. Price that time instead of treating it as free quality control.
Price access and trust separately
Key management, lockboxes, alarm codes, and after-hours commercial access all add coordination overhead that a simple square-footage rate does not capture.
Track real minutes per room type
Bathrooms and kitchens vary far more in actual cleaning time than bedrooms or hallways. Logging real per-room minutes over a few jobs improves every future estimate more than a generic rate.
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