Are you considering hiring a cleaning service but worrying about how it might affect your bank statement? While you might be writing a check to someone else to clean your home, chances are you actually are saving money when you hire professionals to handle your dirty work for you.
There’s no doubt that having a cleaning service take care of your home regularly leaves your home smelling and looking fresh and dust-free. And it definitely means you can cross things like “mopping” and “dusting” off your list each week without having to lift a finger.
But how can paying a cleaning service put money in your wallet? Let’s examine the cost benefits of hiring professionals to spruce up your home.
First, Let’s Look at the Cost
One of the first things to consider when hiring a cleaning service is usually the cost.
Of course, the cost all depends on the size of your home and how many rooms you have. Additionally, different services cost different amounts, and different regions throughout the country may have varying rates as well.
Various organizations, including Angie’s List and Care.com, estimate that depending on the size and location of your home, weekly home cleanings can cost anywhere between $100 and $175—with some outlying exceptions. Cleaning service prices vary, but most people will find that hiring a cleaning service for weekly cleanings will cost somewhere around $120-$150.
Of course, this all can change depending on how many rooms you’ve asked the cleaning service to handle each week.
But now that you know approximately how much it might cost to hire a cleaning service, let’s break down what it could really cost you—and how it could mean big savings for you.
What Does Your Time Cost?
Hiring a cleaning service to come in and clean your home for you can make a big difference solely in the amount of time it saves you by not having to clean your home. Your time is worth money. But how much?
You can estimate how much you save by hiring a cleaning service based on the amount of time it might take you to clean your home.
Let’s say you make approximately $50 per hour, and you guess it might take somewhere around five hours to clean your home as well as a professional cleaning service. That means it would cost you about $250 in your own time to clean your home. And if it costs you $150 to have your home professionally cleaned, you’ve saved $100 and five hours of your own time. You’re saving money and time at once.
Even if you don’t make $50 per hour but instead make $30 per hour, you break even in your investment if you pay $150 to have your home cleaned, but you save five hours of your time too.
If you’re able to work instead, you actually earn money too, making it easy to build those house cleaning services prices into your household budget.
Save Money in Cleaning Products
Investing in cleaning products can be majorly expensive. If you are doing all your own cleaning, you are probably going through lots and lots of cleaning supplies each month.
In fact, TheNest.com estimates that an average family spends $40-$50 per month on cleaning supplies—or what can equate to around $600 per year.
Cleaning supplies add up. If you use a specialty floor product, that can be another $10 per month, or an extra $120 per year.
But one of the benefits of hiring a cleaning service is that many, like Clean My Space CT, bring their own cleaning supplies when they come to take care of your home. While you still will probably need to keep some cleaning supplies at home to manage messes between cleanings, you’ll require much fewer supplies, and you won’t go through them nearly as quickly.
And when you spend less on cleaning supplies, that’s more money in your pocket for house cleaning services—or anything else.
Save Money with a Bonded, Insured Cleaning Service
Initially, it may seem to make more financial sense to hire an independent cleaner. Their upfront cost might appear to be less, but many of these self-employed house cleaners or private maids do not have their own insurance.
Hiring an uninsured, independent cleaner invites major risk into your home. If something is broken or a cleaning technician gets injured on your property, you are financially accountable for replacing the broken items and could be held financially responsible for paying medical bills and lost wages.
Hiring a cleaning service that is insured and bonded means that if something is broken, the insurance company will handle replacing it. And with workers’ compensation in place, anyone who is injured has a reliable source of funds to pay for medical bills and lost work—and those funds don’t have to come out of your wallet.
In some states, hiring an independent cleaner means you have to pay for insurance to have them come in and clean your home, costing you more.
Pay Yourself—In Time Doing What You Love
The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that women spend two hours and 15 minutes each day on housework and that men spend one hour and 25 minutes on housework.
You can free up some of this time by hiring a cleaning service.
And when you hire a cleaning service, you pay yourself too: in time. Hiring a cleaning service frees up hours each week to pursue your passions, to spend time with your loved ones, and to reduce your stress levels.
Scientifically, having a clean home is a powerful psychological tool. It lowers anxiety. Having a clean home keeps you markedly healthier and happier, and what could be more priceless than that?
Clean My Space CT is thrilled to help families save time and money each week—and the families we work for are just as thrilled. It’s why we started Clean My Space CT initially: Our mission has always been to provide service and value you can count on, leaving you more time to spend with the ones you love.
We love serving families in Bristol and the surrounding areas, helping them save money and leaving their homes impeccably clean each week.
Can we start saving you money? Request a quote today, and let’s start putting more money in your bank account.
