Do you charge by the hour or by the job?

By the job. You see a price for the visit before you confirm it, rather than an hourly rate and an estimate of hours. That means a team that works efficiently does not cost you more, and a house that takes longer than expected does not either.

Why is the first clean more expensive?

Because it usually is a bigger job. The first visit clears whatever has accumulated before any schedule existed. If the house has a real backlog, a deep clean as the first visit is normally cheaper than three standard visits that each run long.

Is a deep clean worth it or should I just book two standard cleans?

If the issue is volume — a house that is untidy but not built up — two standard cleans work. If the issue is buildup on baseboards, grout, glass and cabinet fronts, standard cleans will not touch it however many you book, because those items are not on that list.

Do you charge extra for pets?

Not as a pet fee. Pets do add work — shedding, floors, more frequent attention — and that shows up in the condition and frequency questions rather than as a separate line.

Can I get a quote over the phone?

We would rather ask you the same questions the booking flow asks and give you a real number than guess at one. For a home, the online flow is faster than a call. For a business, it is a walkthrough — commercial pricing genuinely cannot be done from a description.

Cost

How much does house cleaning cost in Carrollton?

Nobody can give you an honest number without asking about your house first, and anyone who does is either guessing or planning to revise it later. Here is what the number is actually made of.

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The short answer

House cleaning is priced from the work, and the work is driven by five things. Square footage is one of them, and it is the least predictive.

A three-bedroom, one-bathroom house with hard floors and clear counters is a shorter job than a two-bedroom, three-bathroom house that has not been cleaned in eight months. Those two properties can have identical floor area and take twice as long apart.

This is why every serious cleaning company quotes from a set of questions rather than from a square-footage table, and why the booking flow on this site asks what it asks. The answer you get at the end is a real number for your actual house, with any recurring discount already applied — not a range you find out was optimistic on the day.

The five things that move the price

In rough order of how much they matter, which is not the order most people expect.

Bathroom count. The single strongest driver. Every bathroom is a fixed block of detailed wet work — toilet inside and out, tub or shower, glass, tile, vanity, mirror, floor to the edges — and that block is the same size in a small house as a large one.
Condition. How long since the property had a proper clean, and whether whatever came before kept up. A backlog has to be cleared before maintenance means anything, and clearing it is a different service at a different price.
Frequency. A standing schedule takes a percentage off every visit and makes each visit genuinely shorter, because nothing has time to accumulate. It moves the number twice.
Occupancy and use. Four people and a shedding dog produce more work than two people who are out all day. A home office where somebody is in the house every hour of the week shows faster than most people expect.
Surfaces and layout. Hard floors are quicker than mixed carpet and rugs. Glass shower doors, stone counters and high-gloss cabinetry all need more care than tile and laminate. Open plan cleans faster per square foot than the same area chopped into small rooms.

Square footage matters, but mostly as a proxy for the things above. Two thousand square feet with two bathrooms and hard floors throughout is a very different afternoon from two thousand square feet with four bathrooms and carpet.

Where the money actually goes

A rough sense of how the hours distribute across a typical standard visit, which is useful when deciding what to prioritize.

Area	Share of the visit	Why
Bathrooms	The largest single block	Detailed wet work, multiple surfaces, no way to speed it up safely.
Kitchen	Second largest	Most surfaces per square foot of any room, plus appliances and floor.
Floors throughout	Substantial and spread out	Vacuum then mop, edges and corners, every room.
Bedrooms	Moderate	Beds, surfaces and floors. Fast unless clutter has to be cleared first.
Living and dining	Moderate	Dusting is quick; it is the floor area that takes the time.
Clearing before cleaning	Wholly avoidable	Every surface that has to be cleared before it can be wiped is two passes.

The last row is the one you control. Clearing counters, tables and floors before a visit is the single most effective thing you can do to get more out of the hours you are paying for.

What recurring discounts do to the total

A standing schedule takes 20% off every weekly visit, 15% off biweekly and 10% off monthly, for as long as the schedule runs. Those come off automatically at booking.

But the discount is only half of the effect. On a weekly rhythm nothing has time to build up, so the visit itself is a genuinely smaller job than the same house would present after a month. On a monthly rhythm the house drifts further, so a monthly clean is a bigger job before any discount is applied.

The practical consequence is that people moving from monthly to biweekly are often surprised how little more it costs per month. The percentage difference between 15% and 10% understates it, because the underlying visits are not the same size.

Prices you should be suspicious of

A flat per-square-foot quote given over the phone without a single question about bathrooms or condition is not a price. It is an opening position, and it will be revised on the day or absorbed by rushing the job. The same applies to a very low first-visit price attached to a long commitment.

How to get an accurate number quickly

Have these five answers ready before you start a booking and it takes a couple of minutes.

Bedrooms and bathrooms — count half baths separately, they still take time.
How long since a proper clean, honestly. This is the question people round down on and it is the one that matters most.
Whether you want a one-off or a schedule, and roughly what frequency.
Anything unusual: a room to skip, pets, a surface needing a particular product, inside the oven or refrigerator.
How we get in, and whether anyone will be home.

The booking flow prices from those and shows the result before anything is confirmed. If the number is not what you expected, adjusting the frequency is usually the biggest lever.

Common cost questions

Do you charge by the hour or by the job?: By the job. You see a price for the visit before you confirm it, rather than an hourly rate and an estimate of hours. That means a team that works efficiently does not cost you more, and a house that takes longer than expected does not either.
Why is the first clean more expensive?: Because it usually is a bigger job. The first visit clears whatever has accumulated before any schedule existed. If the house has a real backlog, a deep clean as the first visit is normally cheaper than three standard visits that each run long.
Is a deep clean worth it or should I just book two standard cleans?: If the issue is volume — a house that is untidy but not built up — two standard cleans work. If the issue is buildup on baseboards, grout, glass and cabinet fronts, standard cleans will not touch it however many you book, because those items are not on that list.
Do you charge extra for pets?: Not as a pet fee. Pets do add work — shedding, floors, more frequent attention — and that shows up in the condition and frequency questions rather than as a separate line.
Can I get a quote over the phone?: We would rather ask you the same questions the booking flow asks and give you a real number than guess at one. For a home, the online flow is faster than a call. For a business, it is a walkthrough — commercial pricing genuinely cannot be done from a description.

Get a real number for your house

The booking flow asks about bedrooms, bathrooms, condition and frequency, then shows the price with any discount applied. Nothing is confirmed until you say so.