[Music] deep cleans for solo cleaners how does that work like what's involved we're gonna talk about that today hi there I'm Angela brown and this is ask a house cleaner this is a show where you get to ask a housecleaning question and I get to help you find an answer now today's show is possible by house-call Pro house-call Pro is an app that goes outside your smart phone it also goes on your computer and so you can manage all of the weird little details that you have when you run a house cleaning business so whether
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my business three years ago and I found that the bigger projects such as deep cleanings and move outs require a lot of time and I just want to know how do you do deep cleanings and move outs as a solo cleaner I didn't want to hire in the future because for personal reasons I have two children with special needs and having employees it just adds additional stress to my life that I already have and wanted to know about deep cleaning a deep clean for solo operators okay there's one way of doing it and then you
threw me a monkey wrench and you said you have two children with disabilities okay so that's a whole different situation I'll answer this one and then we'll do this one alright so the first one if you are a solo operator and you have a deep-clean or a move-out clean that's gonna require a whole lot more time than a regular maintenance clean so if there is a deep clean there needs to be a conversation with the customer on what does that look like is that gonna include the home office or is the home office off-limits because
the home office could take three four five hours all by itself are you gonna be pulling everything out of the kitchen cabinets are you just gonna open the cabinets and kind of wipe around what you can reach two different jobs that are involved there so what is involved and what are you doing now so as a maintenance clean lots of times people do on a regular maintenance clean like the ceiling fans there are other house cleaning companies that save that for a deep-clean so how does your company operate what are you offering that's different and
how much longer is it gonna take and so those are the variables we have to figure out now for a deep-clean because it takes so much longer or a move-out clean I usually reserve those for the weekend so that I have my regular maintenance cleaning customers during the week and that way you can run on a regular schedule everybody's happy you're not shifting people around it's all very consistent ma'am and then you go and you do the special project on the weekend BAM right but now the difference is what you just told me is that
you have two children with disabilities okay I understand children with disabilities and that requires 24/7 care that is a completely different set of circumstances than going in on a weekend when you may not have daycare or someone watching their children so what I recommend that is changing the whole entire procedure if you're allowed to clean a certain number of hours during the week on this customers regular maintenance clean you might have to add on to that or switch that out for several weeks until you can add the deep clean projects in with the regular cleaning
so if the regular cleaning takes three hours maybe you go in for four hours while you still have a daycare provider for the children during the time that you are cleaning and on one hour per clean you will do a special project that falls under the deep clean mode that way you're already at their house the regular maintenance clean is being done and then you're doing one set of cabinets one time the next time you might do a particular bathroom closet or underneath the bathroom sinks there may be other things that you do that you
won't have time to do on a whole house cleaning you you have your regular maintenance customer cleanings and you have a regular maintenance for this house you know if it's a move-out clean that might be their regular maintenance clean schedule and you might have to add some time on to it and in that case then you would have to make arrangements with other homes that you have to bump them to a different time because you still have the daycare you have to finish this job would they be willing to to figure something out or skip
a cleaning so you have to make negotiations if you are a solo cleaner in order for that to happen if day care is a consideration now I know there are a lot of single moms or single dads that run house cleaning businesses and they have to do the same thing as a solo operator so you have to make adjustments one of the adjustments that lots of the house cleaners make that is really cool they find house cleaners that are inside their area and so they're either part of the same network or they're part of the
same neighborhood and so there are lots of house cleaners that will say hey listen I will clean Tuesday Wednesday Thursday if you will watch my kids during that time I will watch your kids while you clean Friday Saturday Sunday or Friday Saturday Monday and they work they work those around their schedules so that one house cleaner can clean while one watches the others children there are also other barter arrangements that can be made like that so that somebody can clean while you do something else for them maybe they don't watch your kids while you clean
and you watch theirs while they clean but maybe you watch their kids while they teach piano lessons or something so there are other ways you can arrange that so that you can still do your job and they can still do their job but raising children with disabilities is exhausting and so you want to streamline your process as much as possible so that you have your needs met and you can still provide for your family but that you're not doing so much extra that when you're already exhausted and you've already given everything you have now you're
expected to go out and give a whole lot more now I know it's frustrating to not consider this but you may have some point want to consider hiring other people and outsourcing some of those deep cleans because the deep cleans although you may do the regular maintenance cleans on your own you may decide that for the deep cleans and the move-out cleans it's just impossible to do and you may outsource those either to an independent contractor where you make a percentage of what they do so you make a little bit of money on this and
then that way you're not taking time away from your family or trying to finagle a new house-sitting situation where someone is watching the kids so it's kind of a sticky situation it's gonna totally be up to your creativity and how much you're able to do and how much you want to do because it's like I say it it consumes a lot it's really tough to be a business owner and it's really really tough to be a mom with special-needs kids so god bless you my heart is is out for you and your family I want
to hear how this story ends please keep me posted if you found this helpful please pass it on to a friend if we've earned your subscription please subscribe and until we meet again leave the world a cleaner place than when you found it [Music] you
