House Cleaning Price Calculator
Price a house clean by square footage or room count, with editable rates, deep/move-out multipliers, a per-visit frequency discount, and an effective-$/hr cross-check.
How this is calculated
Pick a sizing method, a clean type, and a frequency, then adjust the
editable rates to your market. Square-footage mode
prices off one standard $/sq ft rate; deep and move-out
cleans scale from it by an editable multiplier, so one rate edit
cascades. Room-count mode adds per-bedroom and
per-bathroom amounts to a base fee.
Per-sq-ft: base = area × rate × cleanType×
Room-count: base = (baseFee + beds×perBed + baths×perBath) × cleanType×
addons = appliances + windows + laundry (flat, not scaled)
subtotal = base + addons
per visit = max(subtotal × frequencyFactor, jobMinimum)
effective $/hr = per-visit price ÷ (area ÷ production rate)Clean-type multipliers ship as editable defaults — deep ≈ 1.75× and move-out ≈ 2.15× (mid-band of the cited 1.5–2× and 2–2.3× ranges). We use a multiplier rather than a baked-in deep-clean per-sq-ft rate because sources disagree on that number; an editable multiplier keeps you in control.
Frequency factors are editable defaults too: one-time 1.00, weekly 0.80, biweekly 0.85, monthly 0.92 — recurring work is cheaper per visit. The frequency lever is a stateless per-visit comparator; it never creates or stores a recurring schedule.
The optional effective $/hr check divides the per-visit price by estimated labor hours (area ÷ production rate) and flags when it falls below your target hourly. In room-count mode it uses an internal area proxy (beds×250 + baths×120 + 400 sq ft) and only appears once you supply a production rate.
A price you can defend is worth publishing. The house cleaning price list template turns these bands into the sheet you hand a customer, and the move-out cleaning checklist is what keeps the 2.15× clean from turning into an argument at handover. The frequency lever here compares one visit; a full schedule of them is priced in the recurring service pricing calculator.
Glass sold in its own right is counted rather than measured, pane by pane and storey by storey, in the window cleaning pricing calculator. If the cleaning round is a business rather than a side job yet, the numbers behind it belong in the cleaning business plan template. When the bid is an office or another recurring commercial account rather than a home, the scope, the frequency and the exclusions go in front of the prospect on the cleaning proposal builder.