Maybe you are thinking about hiring a cleaning service, but you have some concerns about how it will affect your bank account? Yes, you are paying for someone else to clean for you, but have you considered the ways that hiring professionals to scrub and dust for you might actually be saving you money?
Of course, having a cleaning service come in and take care of your home regularly means that your home will look and smell fresh. And regular house cleaning services mean that you can cross household chores off of your to-do list; things like dusting or vacuuming, that either consume your time or get pushed to the wayside when life gets too busy.
But how is it that one of the major benefits of hiring a professional cleaning service is that it saves you money? Let’s take a look at how bringing in the pros to scrub and mop is beneficial to your household budget.
So What Does it Actually Cost?
One of the major things that keep people from hiring professionals to clean their home is fear of the cost. Cleaning services prices vary, so what is it going to cost you?
While the cost all depends on the size of your home, and how many rooms you have, or specific services you’d prefer, and while different regions have varying rates, there is a way to estimate the price you might pay. (Of course, there’s nothing wrong with asking us for a free estimate consultation, either!)
Organizations like Angie’s List and Care.com estimate that the cost can vary between $100 and $175 for house cleaning services, depending on where you live and the size of your home. Cleaning services range in price, but many people discover that hiring a cleaning service for their weekly cleaning costs somewhere around $120-$150.
All of this can change depending on the size of your home, or extra services you might request. But now that you know what it might really cost you to bring in the professionals, let’s break down how this could lead to big savings in the bank for you.
Calculating the Cost of Your Time
Cleaning service can make a big difference in your life solely in the amount of time you save by not having to clean your home on your own. When you save time, you’re saving money too– because your time is worth money. But how much?
Let’s take a look at how much you save by hiring a cleaning service. How much time does it take you to clean your home?
Perhaps you earn around $50 per hour. If it takes approximately five hours to clean your home as well as a professional cleaning service does, this 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 cleaned by well-trained professionals, not only are you saving five whole hours of your own time, but you are saving around $100 as well.
Each time you leave the cleaning to us, you save money, and you save your valuable time as well. Even if you make $30 per hour, you break even in your investment if you pay $150 when you have your home cleaned. But? You also save 5 hours of your time. And those hours add up.
And if you’re able to use those extra 5 hours to work? You earn money during that time. It’s that easy to build these regular professional cleanings into your household budget.
Hiring a Bonded, Insured Cleaning Company Can Save You Bigtime
When trying to find the right cleaner for you, it might seem like it makes more financial sense to hire an independent cleaner. While their weekly fee may appear to be less, many of these self-employed house cleaners or private maids do not have their own insurance. This could end up costing you far, far more in the future.
When you hire an uninsured, independent cleaner, you also bring risk into your home; the risk of being financially responsible. If -or when- something gets broken, or in the unfortunate event that someone is injured while they are cleaning your home, you would be financially accountable for replacing items broke, or for paying medical bills or making up lost wages.
However, when you hire a cleaning service that cares to insure and bond their company and their employees, if something is broken, the insurance company handles the replacement of it. These companies– like ours, have worker’s compensation in place.
This means that if someone is hurt on your property, there is a plan in place, and a reliable source of funds to pay for medical bills or lost work.
When you hire a bonded, insured cleaning service, you don’t have to pay if something goes wrong.
In some states, when you hire an independent cleaner you also have to pay for insurance to have them come in and clean your home, costing you more.
Money Saved in Cleaning Products and Supplies
Investing in cleaning products can be just that– an investment. If you clean your house yourself regularly, you know that it takes a lot of cleaning products, which can add up quickly.
How much? TheNest.com estimates that an average family spends quite a bit on cleaning products: $40-$50 every month. This can cost as much as $600 every year– just in cleaning products!
And if you use a specialty product, like a specific cleaner for your hardwood floors, this may cost as much as $10 per month, or another $120 every year.
There’s no need to spend $720 on cleaning supplies each year. One of the benefits of hiring a cleaning service like S&G Cleaning Services is that we provide all our own cleaning supplies when we take care of your home. We use the safest environmentally-friendly products when we clean, so you save money on supplies and get peace of mind, all at once.
While you will probably need to keep a few cleaning supplies at home to manage messes between cleanings, when we clean for you, you’ll go through fewer supplies overall, saving you big time. And less money spent on cleaning products means more money in your wallet.
We are pleased to provide the best residential cleaning service in the Short Hills, New Jersey area, saving families money while providing them with exceptionally clean homes. And the families we serve couldn’t be happier about the extra change in their wallet or their work that we do.
Do you want to see how we help you save time and money on your house cleaning services so you can worry about the more important things in life? Get a free estimate today and let’s start saving you money!
