Three illustrated guides for running a house cleaning business: insurance and bonds, agreements, what one labor hour really costs, taxes, hiring and chemical safety; finding clients, quoting room by room, routes, keys and complaints; and how pros clean every surface and room, plus deep, move-out and rental turnover cleans. One idea a page, each one drawn.
Real pages from all three guides. One idea a page, drawn.
The Cleaning Business, Selling and Running the Cleans, and Clean Like a Pro. 152 pages, one idea each.
The idea, the picture, the costly mistake and one line to remember. Read it in the car between houses.
Phone-sized PDFs to check before a walkthrough or hand to a new cleaner, yours to keep. Nothing to cancel.
You know how to clean a house. Nobody taught you the business.
Most of the money a new cleaning business loses goes quietly: a price set from the wage, a first clean quoted like a regular one, a lockout nobody pays for. Every one of them has a page, and every page names the mistake.
Where cleaning businesses lose money:
A drawing is easier to take in between houses than a paragraph. That's why every page in the kit has one, and one line to keep.
Every page has the same parts, so you always know where to look. Here is Book 1, page 22, What one labor hour really costs, with its lines quoted from the guide.
A cleaner's wage is only the first layer; unbilled drive time, payroll, supplies, the car and overhead stack on top.
You pay $18 and charge $30 an hour because it feels like plenty. Each hour costs you $40, so every busy week loses money.
Pricing from the wage. An $18 cleaner costs you $40 an hour here, before any profit.
The wage is where the cost starts, not where it ends.
Quoted word for word from Book 1, page 22, What one labor hour really costs. The numbers are the kit's example; every page carries these parts plus the drawing, and where a rule changes from state to state, a note that says so.
Setup, insurance and bonds, agreements and policies, money, taxes, people and safety, one idea a page. Start with what one labor hour really costs.
From the first call to a full, tight route and your first cleaner, in the same layout.
The work you sell: how pros clean, what each product does, every surface and room, and the bigger cleans. Hand it to a new cleaner too.
Total value: $95
One-time payment. No subscription. Keep the files forever.
Digital guides (PDF), in English. We email your library link right after purchase, and you can download the files again anytime. Plus sales tax where applicable.
Cleaning Made Simple is an independent guide for people running a house cleaning business. It explains rules in plain words and is not legal, tax or accounting advice. It is not affiliated with any government agency, insurer or trade association.
You can clean a house top to bottom; the business side is new. Book 1 lays out the setup, the licenses, insurance and bonds and the agreement, then what one labor hour really costs before you quote anyone.
The calendar is full and the account is still thin. Flat prices from real minutes, the first clean priced on its own, a cancellation policy you charge and a tight route each get a page, worked with example numbers you can swap your own into.
Before you hire, see employee or contractor, the hiring paperwork, overtime and drive time, then how to train in two weeks and split a house as a team of two, with Clean Like a Pro as the training book.
No gimmicks. Federal rules, agency guidance, product labels and makers' care guides, drawn clearly, with the source named on the page where it matters.
The tax pages follow IRS publications; the chemical pages follow OSHA, the EPA and each product's label and safety data sheet; the surface pages follow makers' care guides. Every page was checked against its named sources before release.
Business licenses, sales tax on cleaning work and some hiring rules change from state to state and city to city. Those pages teach the pattern, label any state rule as an example, and point you to where yours lives.
The money pages work the same example all the way through: an $18 wage that costs $40 a labor hour and is priced at $50. You can see where each number comes from and swap in your own. The examples are examples, not prices for your market.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by the IRS, OSHA, the EPA, the U.S. Department of Labor, any licensing office, any insurance or bonding company, any trade association or any cleaning product maker. We answer to the owner.
Use the kit for 7 days. If it isn't for you, email us and you get 100% of your money back. No fine print, no hassle.
Right after purchase we email you a link to your library, where you download all three guides as PDFs. You can come back and download them again anytime.
One-time payment of $27. No subscription, no recurring charges, and nothing to cancel. All three guides are yours to keep.
People running a house cleaning business in their first few years, solo or with a cleaner or two, and anyone about to leave a cleaning company or side work to start their own.
Every state. The books teach what works the same way everywhere: pricing, insurance, clients and the cleaning itself. Where a rule changes by state or city, like business licenses or sales tax on cleaning, the page says so and shows you where to look up yours.
It's written for house cleaning. Book 2 has a page on adding offices or rental turnovers, Book 3 covers rental turnovers in order, and the optional workbook prices a small office, but there is no full commercial cleaning section.
No. Cleaning Made Simple is an independent guide for people running a house cleaning business. It explains rules in plain words and is not legal, tax or accounting advice. It is not affiliated with any government agency, insurer or trade association. Your lawyer, accountant and insurance agent apply the rules to your business.
No. The kit is complete on its own.
At checkout there is one optional add-on, The Cleaning Pricing Workbook: your labor-hour cost worked out with blanks for your own numbers, then a standard clean, a first clean, a deep clean, a move-out, a rental turnover and a small office priced step by step, plus blank sheets. It's $9, unticked, and you can skip it.
Both. The pages are portrait and phone-sized, so you can check one before a walkthrough, and the PDFs print if you want a page in the car or a checklist for a new cleaner.
We don't promise that, and we'd be wary of anyone who does. The guides show you how each piece works and the mistake that costs money, with the numbers worked on the kit's example rates. Which clients you take and what you charge is still your call.
Email us within 7 days of purchase and we'll refund 100% of your money. Details on the refund policy page.
Spotted an error, or a rule that works differently in your state? Email [email protected]. A real person reads every message, and fixes go into the next version.
Every house with your name on the schedule teaches you something about the business side, and the expensive lessons come with a bill. You don't need another midnight group thread or a price someone swears by. You need the page for this decision, with the idea drawn and the mistake named.