Every two weeks
$155a visit
What most houses settle on. Two hours, two people, the standard list.
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Everything we clean,
written down.
Hiring a cleaner means letting someone into your house on a Tuesday while you're at work. So here's the whole job in advance — 54 lines, room by room, plus the 23 we add on a deep clean. Read it before you call anybody, including us.
Same two people every visitWe bring everythingFlat price, agreed in writing
KitchenRoom 1 of 5
- Countertops cleared, wiped, and dried — nothing left damp
- Backsplash and the wall behind the sink
- Sink scrubbed, drain flushed, faucet polished dry
- Stovetop, grates, and knobs degreased
- Range hood face and switches
- Microwave inside and out, turntable washed
- Fronts of the fridge, oven, and dishwasher — handles included
- Cabinet and drawer fronts spot-cleaned, pulls wiped
- Inside the oven, racks soaked and scrubbedDeep
The list
No cleaner publishes this. We think that is the problem.
“A thorough clean” means nothing, and it's why you can't tell one company from another. This is ours, in full. Print it, stick it on the fridge, and check our work against it.
Room by room
The Saltbox List
What gets touched in your house, written down before we ever set foot in it.
Every visitDeep clean onlyStandard visit — 54 room lines. The 23 in clay are deep-clean work.
Every visit starts here
- A walk through the house before anything comes out of the van
- Your reply from last night checked for skips and extras
- Shoe covers on, one clean set of cloths and mop heads unpacked
- Windows opened if the weather is behaving
- Anything found already broken is photographed and sent to you, not touched
Kitchen
12 +5The longest room on the list, and the one people check first.
- Countertops cleared, wiped, and dried — nothing left damp
- Backsplash and the wall behind the sink
- Sink scrubbed, drain flushed, faucet polished dry
- Stovetop, grates, and knobs degreased
- Range hood face and switches
- Microwave inside and out, turntable washed
- Fronts of the fridge, oven, and dishwasher — handles included
- Cabinet and drawer fronts spot-cleaned, pulls wiped
- Small appliances moved, wiped under, and put back where they were
- Table and chairs, including legs and rungs
- Trash and recycling out, bins wiped, fresh liner
- Floor vacuumed, then mopped — corners and toe-kicks by hand
- Inside the oven, racks soaked and scrubbedDeep
- Inside the fridge — shelves and drawers out and washedDeep
- Inside cabinets and drawers, shelves wipedDeep
- Range hood filter degreased in the sinkDeep
- Behind and under the fridge, if it rolls outDeep
Bathrooms
12 +4Every bathroom in the house, not just the one guests see.
- Shower and tub scrubbed — walls, floor, and the ledge things collect on
- Grout lines detailed with a brush, not wiped over
- Glass door and track de-scaled and squeegeed
- Fixtures descaled and dried so they don't spot
- Mirror cleaned edge to edge, including the corners
- Sink, counter, and backsplash; faucet polished
- Toilet in full — bowl, seat top and bottom, hinges, base, behind the tank
- Light fixture and vent cover dusted
- Towels straightened and refolded; fresh set hung if you leave one out
- Cabinet fronts, pulls, and the paper holder
- Trash out, bin wiped, fresh liner
- Floor mopped — edges and behind the door by hand
- Full grout scrub, floor and walls, not just the linesDeep
- Shower head soaked and de-limedDeep
- Inside cabinets and drawersDeep
- Caulk lines detailedDeep
Bedrooms
10 +5Left the way you'd want to walk into it at eleven at night.
- Beds made — corners squared, pillows straightened
- Sheets changed if you leave a clean set out on the bed
- Nightstands and dressers cleared, dusted, and put back as they were
- Lamps, shades, and switches
- Mirrors and glass
- Picture frames, shelves, and ledges
- Headboard and the wall behind it
- Baseboards and door frames
- Under the bed, as far as the wand reaches
- Floors vacuumed; hard floors mopped after
- Ceiling fan blades, top and bottomDeep
- Window sills, tracks, and interior glassDeep
- Closet floor cleared and vacuumedDeep
- Wall and ceiling vent coversDeep
- Furniture moved where two people can move it safelyDeep
Living areas
11 +6Living room, dining room, den, office — whatever you have of them.
- Dusted top down: shelves, then surfaces, then floors, in that order
- TV screen and console with a dry microfiber, never a spray
- Coffee and side tables, coasters, and the rings under them
- Upholstery vacuumed, cushions lifted, crumbs out of the crease
- Throw pillows and blankets straightened and folded
- Remotes, light switches, and door handles disinfected
- Lamps, shades, and the cords behind them
- Window sills and the ledges above doors
- Baseboards, including alongside the stairs
- Houseplant leaves dusted, saucers wiped
- Floors vacuumed; hard floors mopped after
- Ceiling fan blades and light fixturesDeep
- Blinds dusted slat by slatDeep
- Interior window glassDeep
- Behind and under the sofaDeep
- Air vent coversDeep
- Baseboards hand-washed, not just dustedDeep
Entry, halls & stairs
9 +3The parts of a house every other cleaner walks straight past.
- Front door, both sides, and the handle
- Mats shaken out and vacuumed underneath
- Console table and drop zone tidied — not reorganized
- Light switches, handles, and the banister disinfected
- Mirrors and glass
- Coat hooks and the shelf above them
- Stair treads, risers, and the corner of every step
- Baseboards and door frames
- Floors vacuumed and mopped
- Interior glass on the front door and sidelightsDeep
- Closet floor cleared and vacuumedDeep
- Scuff marks on walls spot-cleanedDeep
And before we leave
- Every room walked again with the list in hand
- Trash and recycling out to the curb bin
- Lights off, doors locked, code reset if you asked for it
- A text with anything we couldn't get to, and why
54 room lines every visit, 23 more in a deep clean. Miss one and we come back for that room — see what happens if we miss something.
saltbox — the standard visit, room by room
Who is in your house
You should never be surprised by who knocks.
Most companies send whoever is free. That's how you end up with four different people in six weeks and a house nobody knows. We build a route around your address and keep the same pair on it, and you hear from us the night before either way.
- Two people, and the same twoCover only when someone is genuinely out — and you are told before, not after.
- Confirmed the evening beforeArrival window in writing, and a message when the van is twenty minutes away.
- Nobody keeps a keyCodes are stored in the scheduling app and rotated when you ask.
The night before6:12 PM
Tomorrow's visit is on — the same two cleaners as last time, arriving between 9:00 and 10:00. We'll text when we're twenty minutes out.
Anything you want skipped or hit harder this week, just reply here.
Can they do the oven this time? Perfect otherwise.
Add-ons like the oven get confirmed with the price before the visit, never added to the invoice afterwards.
How a first visit works
Six things, start to finish.
Nothing here is a surprise on the day, which is the entire point of writing it down.
- 1
A walkthrough, about twenty minutes
One of us comes to the house and actually looks at it — square footage on a listing tells you almost nothing about how long a kitchen takes. You get a flat price for the recurring visit and a separate one for the first clean, in writing, the same day.
- 2
The first clean runs long. On purpose
Plan on four to six hours for a first visit in a three-bedroom house, and two to three for every visit after that. We'd rather tell you now than surprise you at hour five.
- 3
The same two people, and you know who
You get a text the evening before confirming who's coming and the arrival window, and another when they're twenty minutes out. If one of your regulars is out sick, we'll tell you who's covering before they come — not after you've opened the door to a stranger.
- 4
Getting in without handing over a key
Lockbox code, garage code, smart lock, or you let us in — your call. Codes live in our scheduling app, not on a sticky note in a truck, and we don't keep a copy of a house key.
- 5
We bring everything
Vacuum, mops, cloths, products. Mop heads and cloths are laundered between houses — one house, one clean set — and color-coded by room so a bathroom cloth never lands on a kitchen counter. If you'd rather we used your products, leave them out with a note and we will.
- 6
Changing or skipping a visit
Text or use the booking link up to 5pm the day before, no charge, no explanation needed. Same-day we'll do what we can; if the crew's already in the driveway it's half the visit.
One set of cloths per house.
Cloths and mop heads go into a bag at the end of your visit and get washed before they see another house. Within your house they are color-coded by room, so the cloth that did the toilet can't end up on the counter where you make sandwiches.
Bathrooms
Kitchen
Glass & mirrors
Dusting
Limits
What we don't do.
A list of everything you clean is only useful next to a list of what you don't. If one of these is a dealbreaker, better you know now than at nine on a Tuesday morning.
- Exterior windows, or anything that needs a ladder above the first floor
- Mold remediation, biohazard, or post-construction dust — a different license, different equipment
- Litter boxes and pet accidents (we'll take the bag out, we won't scoop)
- Moving furniture heavier than two people can lift safely
- Hand-washing dishes — we'll load and run the dishwasher
- Laundry, unless you have added it to the visit
- Reorganizing cabinets or drawers; things go back where we found them
- Cleaning around an active leak until it's fixed
If we miss something
Text us a photo. We come back and do that room again.
No form, no argument about whether it was on the list, no invoice for the return trip. Within twenty-four hours of a visit, send the photo and we'll book the earliest slot we have. It's cheaper for us to redo a bathroom than to lose a house we clean forty times a year — and honestly, we'd rather know.
24 hours
The window for telling us. After that it's a normal visit, and fair enough.
The room, again
Not a token wipe of the one thing in the photo — the room, back through the list.
No charge, ever
Not discounted. Not credited next time. Free, because we got it wrong.
Prices
Priced by the house, not by the hour.
Hourly rates punish us for being quick and punish you for being tidy. You get one number per visit, agreed after the walkthrough, and it doesn't move unless the house does. Figures below are a three-bedroom, two-bathroom house of about 1,800 square feet.
Every week
$135a visit
Busy houses, big dogs, small children — the list stays the same, it's just never far behind.
Get a priceOnce a month
$185a visit
A longer visit, because four weeks of dust is a different job.
Get a priceFirst visits, one-off cleans, and move-outs are priced separately. All services and prices →
Where we clean
Both sides of the bay, one bridge a day.
Routes are built by neighborhood so the same crew can keep the same houses. If you're just outside one, ask — sometimes we're already on your street.
South TampaHyde ParkCarrollwoodWestchaseBrandonRiverviewSt. PetersburgClearwaterSafety HarborWesley Chapel
You have read the whole job.
Now get the number.
Twenty minutes at the house, a flat price the same day, and no obligation to book anything.