How to Save Money on Your House Cleaning Or Maid Service
The first thing to remember is why you hired the help in the first place - right? That was to get extra help with the cleaning chores around the house.
Why Did I Hire a Maid?
You would be surprised at how many people hire a maid service and then have them doing all sorts of odd jobs, which have nothing to do with cleaning the house. While they run a wide variety of other chores, things that no doubt need some attention, or you would have the house cleaners attending to them instead of cleaning the house, doing the laundry, mopping the floor, vacuuming the carpets or making the beds, etc.
Some of these "time stealing chores" and they are innocently attended to by the house cleaners, even if you didn't ask. Why? Because it is, a part of their nature and or over time becomes a self-imposed job description or duty. The fact is that these individuals have an almost natural inclination to do what needs to be done for the following reasons:
* Get the house spotless, clean!
* Get the house straightened up - First Time Waster
* And herein lies the problem, they will pick clothes, put them in their proper place or whatever they determine to be there proper place.
* In my experience, our maids love treating every client's home as their own.
FROM THE CLIENT'S PERSPECTIVE
A maid is in the business of "customer service" really; hence they will do all they can do to satisfy a client regardless of whether or not the client asked, at least our girls do. Even if it means picking up dirty socks, kids toys, watering plants, walking dogs, straightening our the knick knacks, etc. This of course is a good thing, if it is what you wanted and haven't any problems with the additional costs you'll incur, well then no problem. However, if all you desired was to have your home cleaned, then having the maids spend time doing these other things that were totally unrelated to your original specifications and agreement can get annoying and costly.
FROM A MANAGER'S PERSPECTIVE
If all is well and the services are being performed as arranged and agreed upon, then we schedule a supervisor to ride along with the team to monitor is being serviced while in a clients home and to verify that what is being serviced complies with the clients original request and agreements. If so, then our supervisor will and make suggestions based solely on the cleaning criteria and training we set up and put each of our representatives through.
Sometimes it results in the allowance of additional time at no additional cost to the client, or the changing of a team and sometimes, though rare, it will result in extended time and costs.
HOW DO I SAVE MONEY?
As you can see it can be a three or four week process to determine the glitch. Several things a client can do are;
- Have the clothes picked up
- Have the kids toys picked up and put away
- Have any dirty linens or clothes picked up and placed in their respective hampers or placed in the laundry room
- Have any dirty dishes picked up and placed in the sink - Then they are central to the cleaning area of the kitchen and the time it takes to drop them in the dishwasher is greatly minimized.
- If there are special request have them written out and left on the kitchen counter
With these suggestions and the implementation of a few of your own observations, you can cut the cost of your service while at the same time achieving 100% satisfaction with your experience - Enjoy the Weekends ;)
Jay Jacobson is the marketing director for http://www.maidz2clean.com. He has been assisting companies in the residential and commercial cleaning business since 1975.
Jay can be reached at: jj@maidz2clean.com
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