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Cleaning your home, priced before you ask.

Answer four things and the price appears. Nothing below it is a surprise on the invoice.

A price that does not drift.

Four answers and nobody visits to work it out. The first visit costs more because it genuinely takes longer, so you get that number here rather than on the day. Every visit after it is the same in month twelve as in month one.

Where you are
Bedrooms
Bathrooms
How often

Answer four things and the price appears.

Nobody visits your home to quote it, and nobody calls you back. The number does not change later.

Typical prices, per visit

Illustrative Sable cleaning prices per visit in Northern New Jersey, in US dollars
HomeFortnightlyMonthlyFirst visit
1 bed, 1 bath$173$192$303
2 bed, 1 bath$208$232$364
3 bed, 2 bath$293$325$513
4 bed, 3 bath$436$485$763

Northern New Jersey, illustrative and not yet Sable's published rates — the table has to pick one city, and prices differ by city rather than by country. New York runs higher; use the calculator for yours. The first visit is priced higher across the whole industry, typically at 1.5 to 2 times the recurring rate, because bringing a place to a baseline takes longer than holding it there.

What house cleaning actually costs, and why quotes vary

Three arrangements, not a clean with extras attached.

Most services quote one visit and then bill you a little more each time you ask for something. We would rather you chose the depth once and stopped thinking about it.

Standard

Fortnightly or monthly

The house, held.

A visit from your team, to the written scope. Nothing quietly leaves it.

  • The nineteen
  • A familiar face
  • Photographic record

Priced above

Extended

Weekly

The house, and the things around it.

With laundry and the detail work most services charge extra for or quietly skip — inside the oven, the glass, the places that only show in daylight.

  • Everything in Standard
  • Laundry and linen
  • Interior glass and oven

Priced above

Estate

Twice weekly or more

Run, not cleaned.

The full range including guest preparation and the reset after you have had people over. For houses that are used, not just lived in.

  • Everything in Extended
  • Guest and event work
  • Silver, crystal, fine fabrics

Quoted after a visit

You can move between them, and the price moves with you at the rate above. There is no contract to break and no fee for changing your mind — the only thing we ask is enough notice to tell the person whose week it changes.

Nineteen things that are easy to stop doing.

When a service slips it never announces it. These are the first things to quietly disappear from a visit, so we write them down and they stay written.

  1. 01Top edge of every door frame
  2. 02Skirting boards, full run
  3. 03Window tracks and runners
  4. 04The seam behind every tap
  5. 05Grout lines, floor and wall
  6. 06Light switch plates and surrounds
  7. 07Extractor and vent grilles
  8. 08Under and behind the bin
  9. 09Radiator backs and fins
  10. 10Cupboard door tops
  11. 11Shower screen channel
  12. 12Plug sockets and faceplates
  13. 13Stair nosings and spindles
  14. 14The lip under every worktop
  15. 15Handle backs and escutcheons
  16. 16Hinge knuckles
  17. 17The gap beside the toilet base
  18. 18Curtain rail tops
  19. 19Picture rails and coving

The other option is hiring someone yourself.

Plenty of people do, and it works until it doesn't. What follows is the part of that arrangement nobody quotes you for — not because it is hidden, but because the person quoting is not the one who ends up doing it.

Finding them

Agencies charge 15–25% of first-year salary, minimum $10,000. Then you interview.

We recruit, check and train. You are told who is coming before they hold your key.

Paying them

Payroll, employer taxes, workers' compensation, leave accrual — roughly 25% on top of wages.

One price per visit. It is the whole cost, and it does not move.

When they are ill

Nobody comes, or you find somebody at short notice who does not know your home.

Someone who has cleaned your home before still comes, so the standard is there either way.

When they leave

Another placement fee, another search, and the standard restarts from nothing.

Our problem, not yours. The written scope is what the next person is held to.

None of this is an argument that you should not employ someone. If you want a person in your house five days a week who knows your children's names, hire one. Sable is for the case where you want the result without becoming the employer.

Compare it against a price

What we ask before the first visit.

  1. 01Which rooms matter most when time is short
  2. 02What must never be moved, opened or tidied
  3. 03How we get in, and who else holds a key
  4. 04Pets, and anyone who sleeps during the day
  5. 05Desks, files and anything not to be touched
  6. 06Surfaces that need their own product
  7. 07The thing the last cleaner always got wrong

Your cleaners read this before the first visit. It is not a form we file.

The kitchen of a large family house in the late afternoon, in daily use and completely clean

This is not a checkout.

A person reads your request, checks we reach your address, and assigns your home a team. You get their names before any of them gets your key.

We hire before we sell, so intake is capped. A team of two holds around thirty-six homes between them, and a city takes on two or three cleaners a month — which is the whole reason a familiar face is possible at all. A service that will take everyone who asks this week is telling you something about who will be standing in your kitchen next year.

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