18/10/2026
🩷🖤🩷 LET’S TALK HOLIDAY HOME CLEANING PRICES! 🩷🖤🩷
Something I feel needs to be spoken about a lot more in the holiday home industry!
HOLIDAY HOME CLEANING IS NOT CHARGED AT AN HOURLY RATE — IT’S A FIXED PRICE!
🏡 Guests leave your property absolutely lovely, clean and tidy. Brilliant! We can get in, get the job done and it’s cost-effective for us.
🏡 Guests leave your property looking like an absolute pigsty, rubbish everywhere, filthy bathrooms, kitchens a disaster and beds in a state.
It takes us twice as long, sometimes even longer!
BUT GUESS WHAT? WE STILL GET PAID EXACTLY THE SAME PRICE!
Some weeks we win, some weeks we lose. That’s the risk we take with fixed-price cleaning.
Now let’s talk about PRICE INCREASES! 😬
Our last price increase was in 2024!
That’s TWO YEARS without an increase, yet in those two years we’ve watched absolutely everything around us go up!
💷 Staff wages going up
⛽ Fuel going up
🚐 Business van insurance going up
📋 Public liability insurance going up
🧽 Cleaning products and supplies going up
⚡ Electricity going up — yes, the electricity we use to wash, dry and iron YOUR linen!
💧 Water rates going up
🔧 Van maintenance, repairs and equipment going up
EVERYTHING HAS GONE UP EXCEPT WHAT WE ARE GETTING PAID!
And then, when we finally approach owners about a reasonable price increase, sometimes we have to fight tooth and nail to justify it.
Meanwhile, the big holiday letting companies can increase their fees year after year, but that doesn’t automatically mean the cleaners looking after your property see a single penny of those increases!
And that’s the part I find frustrating.
Because let’s talk about what your cleaners actually do behind the scenes.
🩷 We put our own lives on hold throughout the season.
🖤 We are on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
🩷 We answer phones and messages at all hours.
🖤 We deal with last-minute bookings, early arrivals, late departures and unexpected changeovers.
🩷 We deal with the mess some guests leave behind without charging you extra every time.
🖤 We notice the broken items, the maintenance issues, the things that need replacing.
🩷 We go out of our way to save owners money wherever possible, rather than automatically sending everything through the big companies.
🖤 We put our hearts and souls into properties that don’t even belong to us!
And let’s not forget, behind every cleaning company is a team of hardworking people who have families, bills, mortgages and lives of their own.
We don’t just clean your holiday homes. We help protect your investment, your reviews, your reputation and your guests’ experience.
After over 20 years in this industry, I know exactly what goes into running a cleaning business properly.
I know the costs, the pressure, the responsibility and the sacrifices.
And I also know that GOOD CLEANERS ARE WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD!
I’m not saying every owner is difficult. Far from it! We have some absolutely fantastic owners who appreciate everything we do, and we are incredibly grateful for them. 🩷
But I do think some people need to understand that just because a cleaning company charges a fixed price, it doesn’t mean every changeover costs us the same to complete.
We cannot keep absorbing rising costs year after year and be expected to deliver higher and higher standards without our prices reflecting the work involved.
A price increase isn’t about being greedy.
It’s about paying our staff fairly, keeping our vehicles on the road, maintaining our equipment, covering our overheads and continuing to provide the standards our owners and their guests deserve.
We aren’t asking to be paid more for doing less. We’re asking to be paid fairly for everything we already do!
And sometimes I think people forget that without the cleaners, those holiday homes simply wouldn’t be ready for the next guests.
🩷🖤🩷 PLEASE VALUE YOUR CLEANERS — BECAUSE THE GOOD ONES ARE DOING FAR MORE THAN JUST CLEANING!
Caz’s Cleaning Services
20+ years of experience, hard work and dedication. 🩷🖤🩷
