Do You Know Who Is Cleaning Your Home

Cleaning your home can be a real kill joy. Few people actually enjoy cleaning their own homes and even less people fully have the time needed to spend cleaning properly. Properly meaning cleaning the bathrooms, dusting the furniture and knicknacks, sweeping and mopping floors, cleaning the kitchen appliances and surface areas, and vacumming all carpeted areas and floor rugs. As a result of longer work weeks, dual working households, children, and extracaricular activities many have turned to hiring a house cleaner.

We see advertisements for housecleaning through all kinds of media sources like direct mail, door hangers, flyers on vehicles, even internet postings. Everyone seems to know someone who claims to be a professional home cleaner, but what defines a professional? Is a professional someone who advertises being licensed, bonded, and insured, or is it someone who has been cleaning for 10 years plus? The answer, someone is who meets all the city and state licensing requirements, is bonded, fully insured, and has solid cleaning experience.

Hiring a person who meet these requirements sounds complete, but have you thought about the importance of having these certifications in place? Being licensed shows commitment, bonding is for theft and in order to have a bond specific guidelines have to met, and insurance is a peace of mind.

By hiring non credential cleaners often means paying a lessor cleaning bill, but what happens when something is broken or missing in your home? Who is responsible....you the homeowner. Person falls and gets injured in your home the person injured can sue you directly.

Quality of cleaning is just as important as the credentials. I have heard that only women know how to clean, or specific nationalities clean better, or never hire a young person. Unfortunatley none of these statments are accurate. Each person cleans differently, but you can ask a potential key questions to help screen the good from the bad. Ask them about their cleaning system, ask how they would dilute a partucular product, and the number one way to identify a professional cleaner, ask them to tell you how they would clean a wood floor from start to finish.

As the old motto goes "pay now or pay later". Before hiring a cleaner ask for all credentials, ask for no less than 5 references, and interview the person first. 

I hope you found this article insightful.

Sincerely,
The Editor