# How much for a housecleaning service? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 31, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559 "2003-03-31T22:10:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/1 "2003-03-31T22:10:55Z")
Pretty straightforward question. I live in a metropolitan area (more or less), house is about 2000 ft, I’d probably want someone to come once a week for dusting, bathrooms, kitchen, etc. What should I expect? Anyone with inside info, either from the business side or the homeowner side? Thx. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/2 "2003-03-31T22:23:15Z")
When I lived in Boulder/Longmont, I paid about $55/week to have someone clean my ~2000 square foot house. I stayed away from cleaning services because I didn’t like the idea of a new person in my house every week doing cleaning - I wanted to know just who was going to clean. I had pretty good luck finding people through bulletin boards and in the paper - I just interviewed them and checked their references, and never had any problems with the ones I hired. ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/3 "2003-03-31T22:47:48Z")
I live in Chicago area and we had to have one when I was on reduced activity during late pregnancy. I paid $75 per week for a service to come through - they brought 4 people and they finished in about an hour. My house is about 1400 sq feet, but they also did dishes… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Slant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mr.Slant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Slant)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/4 "2003-03-31T22:52:29Z")
My household, consisting of 2 adult humans in a moderate-small 2 bedroom apartment, gets professionally cleaned monthly. For this service we pay $40. We get carpet vacuumed and deodorized, some dusting, and all “wet” surfaces scrubbed down, all porcelain cleaned, all non-carpeted floors swept and mopped. My service provider is: [http://hometown.aol.com/giarranot/myhomepage/business.html](http://hometown.aol.com/giarranot/myhomepage/business.html) They clean better than they design websites… ---
**Author:** ![robcaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@robcaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robcaro)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/5 "2003-03-31T23:17:03Z")
Here in Bogota, it costs $15,000 pesos ($5.00 US) each day, so that is about $25 US a week. Not too bad and they clean everything, everyday including windows. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2003, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/6 "2003-03-31T23:24:04Z")
I don’t know the sq. ft’age of my home but it’s on the small side. I have someone come in and honsestly she doesn’t do a great job (and knows it) - but much better then I could do, she gets $30/ week in a suburb of NYC. I don’t like the idea of a cleaning service either. ---
**Author:** ![Michele\_in\_SoCal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Michele\_in\_SoCal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michele_in_SoCal)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/7 "2003-04-01T03:00:26Z")
I pay $70 every week to have a 2-women crew clean my 2300 sq. ft 2-story house. They are here for 3+ hours every Saturday. It is a little on the high side, but they are dependable, trustworthy, and they do not break or damage things (like my previous cleaning woman) so I glad ly pay it. They do not do a fabulous job, but at least I don’t have to do it! ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/8 "2003-04-01T03:13:47Z")
In San Jose, I paid $110 for weekly cleaning of my 3600 sq ft home. It took three women about 1.5 hours. Here in NYC, I pay $130 for weekly cleaning of a 1700 sq ft apartment by one woman who spends about five hours here. And she’s _fantastic_, absolutely stellar. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/9 "2003-04-01T03:33:40Z")
Near San Jose, I pay $20/hr for an independent contractor. It’s just one woman. She’s OK, but not great. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2003, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-for-a-housecleaning-service/165559/10 "2003-04-01T05:56:17Z")
Thanks, all. It seems to be about what I expected. Now, to hijack my own thread, I saw a new Nissan 350Z convertible a month or so ago in Boulder with the lisence plate ATHENAZZZ. It was the first real-life SDMB moment I have had. “Didn’t she used to live here?” It wasn’t you, was it?