Domestic and oven cleaning: guides and software for domestic cleaners
Domestic cleaning covers regular cleans in people's homes, usually weekly or fortnightly, along with one-off jobs like oven cleans, end-of-tenancy and deep cleans.
The domestic and oven cleaning year
Busiest in spring cleaning season, before Christmas and around tenancy changes. Quietest in summer holidays and January.
- Example price per clean
- £54
- Jobs a month to earn £2,000
- 41
Example numbers to show the method, not market prices.
Written for domestic cleaners
The same advice as the general guides, with domestic and oven cleaning numbers, kit, rules and seasons.
- Pricing5 min readHow to price domestic and oven cleaning: a worked exampleA step-by-step price for domestic and oven cleaning, with the sums, the minimum charge and how many jobs it takes to earn a living.
- Starting out6 min readHow to start a domestic and oven cleaning businessThe order to do things in, the kit, the rules to check and where your first customers come from.
- Tax & books5 min readDomestic and oven cleaning: expenses you can claimWhat domestic cleaners can deduct before tax, with an example year of costs and the receipts to keep.
- Starting out5 min readDomestic and oven cleaning insurance: what you needThe cover domestic cleaners should ask about, the risks behind most claims and the rules to check.
- Growing4 min readQuiet months in domestic and oven cleaning: how to plan the yearWhen domestic and oven cleaning is busy and quiet, how to smooth the income, and the buffer to build.
What domestic cleaners need from software
WorkWise Rounds is built for people who visit the same customers again and again. It plans the round, runs the day on your phone, and gets you paid.
- A repeat diary
- Weekly and fortnightly slots that repeat themselves, with one-offs added around them.
- Awkward-conversation-free payments
- A pay link or Direct Debit so you never ask for money at the door.
- A change of plan, told once
- Move a day and tell the customers whose visit changed, in one go, without texting each one.
For every round trade
Money, tax and getting paid work the same way whatever you do.
- Getting paid6 min readChasing late payments politely, with texts you can copyHow to stop payments going late in the first place, and a polite ladder of messages for when they do.
- Getting paid6 min readDirect Debit for small traders: how it works and whether to use itDirect Debit, card, bank transfer and cash compared, and how to get customers to say yes.
- Tax & books8 min readMaking Tax Digital for sole traders: do you need it, and when?HMRC's new way of reporting income tax: who must use it, the start dates, the quarterly deadlines and what to do now.
- Tax & books8 min readRegistering as a sole trader: tax, deadlines and what to set asideWhen to tell HMRC, the dates that matter, how much tax to expect and how to avoid a January shock.
- Growing6 min readHow to get your first customersLeaflets, doorsteps, Facebook groups and reviews: what works for a local round, and what to watch out for.
- Starting out6 min readHow to buy a round, and what to check firstA bought round can save you years of leafleting, but only if the customers and the numbers are real.
- Starting out6 min readSwitching round software without losing customers or moneyHow to move from another app, a spreadsheet or a paper round book without double-charging anyone.