For most homes the honest answer is every two weeks. Biweekly is the most common frequency among our customers and the one we recommend most often, because roughly two weeks is how long a reasonably tidy home holds its standard before the kitchen and bathrooms start asking for attention. Weekly makes sense with young children, shedding pets, or several people home all day. Monthly works when you keep on top of daily tidying yourself and want the deeper maintenance handled.
The test that actually works
Forget square footage. Ask how the house feels at day ten. If by day ten the bathrooms are visibly asking and the kitchen floor has a film, you want weekly. If day fourteen still looks fine every single time, you can probably stretch to monthly. If day ten is fine and day fourteen is starting to slide, you are exactly where biweekly is designed to sit.
Forget square footage. Ask how the house feels at day ten.
What pushes a household to weekly
Small children, because of the floor. Dogs and cats that shed, because of everything. Somebody working from home full time, because the kitchen becomes a second office and gets used five times a day rather than twice. Cooking properly most nights. Light coloured carpet. Any two of those together and weekly usually earns itself.
Where monthly genuinely works
Couples without pets. Empty nesters. Households where somebody naturally wipes as they go and the daily tidying is simply never an issue. Monthly visits are weighted more toward the kitchen and bathrooms, because four weeks is long enough for those two rooms to need recovering.
Frequency is not permanent
Households change. A new puppy, a baby, a parent moving in, a job that moves home. Tell us and we change the schedule. We would rather move you around than have you cancel because the plan stopped fitting.
