Starting a House Cleaning Business: Start a House Cleaning Business the Independent V Management Route?

Starting a House Cleaning Business: Start a House Cleaning Business the Independent V Management Route?

Starting a house cleaning business can be one of the easiest and least expensive businesses to set-up and run from home.

Here we shall discuss two options available to you to start a house cleaning business of your own:

1. Independent Cleaner (Do-It-Yourself)

2. Management House Cleaning Service (Hire/Employ Cleaners)

First we shall discuss the Independent Cleaner route where you do the cleaning yourself (for further detailed information on how to make £300 per week as an Independent Cleaner Click Here).

The ‘do it yourself’ approach, more professionally known as a Local Independent Cleaner, is pretty self explanatory and is the easiest and least expensive route.

You do all the cleaning and advertising yourself. You set an hourly rate, advertise through adverts in local papers, flyers through doors etc., you then book your own appointments and clean the homes yourself.

Obviously you will be limited to the number of homes you can clean, due to the limited number of hours in a given day. This also means that your income will be limited as there will only be you, therefore you are depending on yourself on how many cleans you can do in one day.

Factors to Consider

Cleaning Products

Are you using your own cleaning products or will you use those of your customers?

This is a big factor to consider. Buying and using your own cleaning products will eat into your overheads, thus you will have to put your hourly rate higher to compensate for the purchasing of the cleaning products.

This therefore does not make your rates very competitive as an Independent Cleaner. For this reason most Independent Cleaners tend to use the customers’ cleaning products and additionally many Independent Cleaners don’t have their own vehicle to transport the cleaning products between cleans.

Travelling Time Between Cleans

When taking bookings, be sure to factor in the travelling times between cleans. If you have a car, then this is not quite a big factor. However if you don’t have transport, then that can severely shorten your number of cleans per day.

Also, when advertising, be sure to advertise several times in the same area. Why? Well, for two reasons:

1. First of all, it is estimated that it takes approximately three times to get your advert in front of a potential customer before they decide to take you seriously and to take any action in calling you;


2. Secondly, you want as many customers within the same area as much as possible so your travelling time will be minimal. Minimal travelling time equals more cleans which equals more money!

Pros and Cons of being a Local Independent Cleaner

Pros:

• Very few overheads
• Can offer very competitive prices
• Potential to earn as much as £300 per week
• Can work the hours to suit only you
• Nobody to answer to or supervise

Cons:

• Limited  income potential
• No wage if on holiday or unwell
• Let customers down if unwell
• Leave customers with no cleans if on holiday
• No branded image
• No professional image

You could start off working this as a part-time venture then slowly building up to full-time to easily earn £300 per week.

Or, you could start out small and once you have a full diary, you could make the transition into a ‘Management’ House Cleaning Service and start hiring or employing cleaners to do the work for you.

Here is a general understanding of how a professional house cleaning service operates. For more detailed information on setting up and running a £100K Management House Cleaning Business Click Here.

• You are the Business Owner and Operations Manager
• You employ teams of cleaners (2 cleaners per team), mostly on a full-time basis
• You carry out the advertising and marketing to gain new customers
• You handle all customer enquiries
• You assign a cleaning team to each customer (geographical area)
• You provide the cleaners with cleaning products and equipment
• Cleaners are fully uniformed
• Cleaners have own transport
• Cleaners are fully vetted and insured
• You provide a secure key holding service
• The customer gives the cleaner the cleaning fee
• After all cleans cleaner leaves a ‘thank you’ note and a receipt
• The cleaners hand all money back to you or bank it for you
• The cleaners are paid on a weekly or bi-weekly basis via bank transfer with payslips
• If a cleaner is ill or on holiday, you can simply swap teams and staff around so customers are never without a cleaner.

Pros and Cons of a Domestic Cleaning Company

Pros:

• Branded products
• Professional image
• Employ and train own cleaning staff
• Trust and reliability are ensured
• You can charge higher rates

Cons:

• Overheads quite high
• Can be stressful managing employees

The main benefit of running your own Professional Cleaning Company is that you have many additional benefits to offer your customers within your service. Two of those being trust and reliability because you employ full-time cleaners to do a full-time job.

Because of these additional benefits, you are able to price your cleaning services at a higher rate as opposed to the Independent services. This ultimately means that your profit margin will be higher and you are in a prime position to be able to make a £100K target within your first year of business.

However, you must understand at this stage that running this type of cleaning service can be very demanding, and managing your own employees can be very challenging.

But I am sure that you are very well aware that setting up and running any type of small business comes with a price. The price being hard work – but the rewards are worth it once you are up and running as once you are established you can employ office staff to do the work for you!

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