04/25/2026
The first time I took my daughter with me to clean, we finished the job and she said,
“That’s the most tired I’ve ever been.”
I looked at her and said,
“Now do that five days a week.”
Then come home cook dinner, Take care of your own house and kids.
She looked at me and said,
“Absolutely not.”
My son said “I can’t scrub like that, it makes my arms and abs hurt”.
And that’s the part people don’t see.
Cleaning is nonstop. You don’t really take breaks. You move the entire time and you don’t stop until the job is done. Then you add multiple houses. We do this five, six, sometimes seven days a week.
It’s hard on your body. Hard on your joints. And it’s exhausting.
But it’s not just physical work.
You have to know what products go on what surfaces. What can be damaged and what can’t. One wrong product can ruin a countertop, a floor, or a fixture. You are constantly doing research on better product, better equipment.
That knowledge matters.
Then you have to add the time that you’re cleaning and sanitizing all your items, equipment, washing towels (that in itself is an all day tasks) and refilling everything to get ready for the next day and/or week. Then let’s add the paperwork portion for having a business.
So when people say cleaners charge too much, they’re missing the reality of the work.
I work many hours “unpaid”.
This isn’t easy money. This is skilled, physical labor.
