A cleaning quote: per visit or per hour, how often, and who has the key.
Someone wants a price for a three-bedroom with a dog, every second week. You can't price it until you know what they want done, how often, and how your cleaner gets in.
A price for a home you haven't seen
The request lands on a Sunday night: a room count, a photo of the kitchen, "how much?"
The detail
Otto replies for your cleaning company, asks for what your price list needs, and books a walk-through if your rules want one. Then it drafts the quote and holds it for you. The first clean and the regular visits are different jobs, so they get different prices.
Price a home you know per visit.
The detail
Price a first clean, a move-out or a home after a reno per hour, with your best guess at the hours written on the quote: nobody knows how long it takes until someone has done it once.
A cleaning quote you can copy
Paste it into your own document, fill the brackets, and delete any line you don't offer.
- From: [your company], [phone], [email].
- For: [client name], [address]. Quote date: [date]. This price holds until [date].
- The home: [bedrooms] bedrooms, [bathrooms] bathrooms, floors [carpet, hardwood, tile]. Pets: [type]. Allergies or scent sensitivity: [notes].
- How often: [weekly / every second week / monthly / once]. On a holiday week: [moved to (day) / skipped].
- First clean: $[amount], priced on its own. A home that hasn't had a cleaner in a while takes longer the first time.
- Each regular visit: $[amount]. For a move-out or after a reno: $[rate] an hour, about [hours] hours.
- Included: [kitchen counters and sink, bathrooms, floors, dusting, beds].
- Not included unless you add it: inside the oven $[ ], inside the fridge $[ ], inside windows $[ ], baseboards $[ ], laundry $[ ], dishes $[ ].
- Keys and access: [key / lockbox code / someone home]. Alarm: [notes]. Parking: [notes]. If we can't get in: [lockout charge of $(amount) / we rebook].
- Supplies: [ours / yours]. Vacuum: [ours / yours]. Products you don't want used in your home: [notes].
- Skipping or cancelling: [hours] hours' notice, please. A late cancel costs $[amount].
- We review our prices every [month]. You'll hear from us [weeks] weeks before a change.
- Subtotal $[ ]. Tax $[ ]. Total $[ ]. To go ahead, reply yes, or sign here: [name], [date].
WCB went up for cleaning companies this year
WCB-Alberta's 2026 rate for janitorial and cleaning services is $2.30, up 15% from $2.00 in 20251. Rates are per $100 of assessable earnings2.
Example
On $100,000 of cleaners' wages a year: $100,000 × $2.00 ÷ $100 = $2,000 in 2025; $100,000 × $2.30 ÷ $100 = $2,300 in 20261.
The detail
A per-visit price set last year absorbs the $300 difference ($2,300 − $2,000) quietly. A quote with a review date doesn't.
What stays your call
- Every price, the first quote and any change after it, waits for your yes.
- Otto never agrees to a lower rate, or lets a lockout or late-cancel charge go.
- It never promises a cleaner by name, or a time that isn't open on your schedule.
- The access notes go in that home's record, for the cleaner booked there.
Your Cleaning Co.
7:30 am Example
Morning. Two new homes want a price.
Done overnight
- Asked the Okonkwos for rooms, bathrooms, pets and how often.
- Booked a walk-through for the Ferreiras' move-out, Thursday at 4.
Waiting for your yes
The Okonkwo every-second-week quote, from your price list.
Look first
Three bed, two bath, one dog. First clean priced as a deep clean. Your supplies. Lockbox at the side door.
Sources
- 2026 Premium Rates by Sector and Rate Group, WCB-Alberta. Read 2026-10-27.
- 2026 Premium Rates Highlights, WCB-Alberta. Read 2026-10-27.
Checked on 2026-10-27.
