House Cleaning in Candelaria

Ask: Are you insured, and for how much? Who exactly will clean my home — same person each visit? What's on your standard task list, and what's excluded? Do you bring supplies? What's your policy on damage, rescheduling and cancellation? How do you handle keys? Providers who answer these crisply are almost always the better operators.

Three reasons: insurance and legitimate employment cost real money (the cheapest quotes usually skip both), companies price in supervision and cover for sick days, and scope assumptions differ — one quote's 'clean' may exclude half of what another includes. Compare on a written task list, insurance status and the same visit frequency, not on the headline number.

A standard clean covers surfaces you touch weekly: vacuuming, mopping, dusting, bathrooms, kitchen wipe-down and bins. A deep clean adds the build-up work — inside the oven and fridge, skirting boards, under furniture, limescale removal, grout scrubbing and window sills. Deep cleans typically cost 50-100% more and take roughly twice as long. Book a deep clean first if the home hasn't been professionally cleaned in 6+ months, then maintain with standard cleans.

A 1-2 bedroom apartment usually takes 2-3 hours for one cleaner; a 3-bedroom home takes 3-4 hours. Deep cleans run 4-8 hours or use a two-person team. First visits always take longer than maintenance visits because the cleaner is working through accumulated grime and learning the layout.

One-off professional cleans in Metro Manila run about PHP 800-2,000 for a studio or 1-BR condo and PHP 1,500-4,200 for a house, usually with a 2-3 person team. Hourly equivalents work out to roughly PHP 150-400 per cleaner. Provincial rates run meaningfully lower than Metro Manila.

The Batas Kasambahay requires a written employment contract, at least the regional minimum wage for domestic workers, weekly rest days, 13th-month pay, and employer-paid SSS, PhilHealth and Pag-IBIG registration. One-off cleaning companies carry none of these obligations for you — their staff are their employees.