Providing a clean and healthy home for your family is an important responsibility. This responsibility is time consuming, and perhaps is falling through the cracks. Or, spending time with your family might be slipping through the cracks because you are spending so much time cleaning!
What are the benefits of maid service? When you are trying to justify the additional cost of having a maid service as part of your usual budget, consider these benefits:
Extra time you can enjoy with your family. A maid service allows you to have a clean house and more time with your children. When your children are grown, you’re not likely to look back and think, “I wish I had spent more time cleaning!” Time is always of value, because it is finite.
Clean and healthier home. Professional maid services will use professional products and tools, including a HEPA vacuum, to keep your home healthy! And truly, some people just don’t clean their houses often enough. Sometimes time is a factor, and sometimes it is just not high enough on the priority list to get done as often as needed. Happy Homes Maid Service in Boise, Idaho, has a program called 24 Steps to Healthy Homes that will keep your home clean and healthy!
Professionally trained cleaners. Experienced cleaners can deal with all sorts of stains and cleaning jobs that you may not know how to treat. They also do things you may not do if it was left up to you, such as regularly high dust, wipe baseboards and trim, or edge your carpets.
What is important to look for in a maid service? Maids must be well trained and certified to provide the house cleaning services, should always understand your requirements and have quality controls in place. It’s always important to hire maids from a reputed and known maid service company who have a team of professional maids. Consider these things when looking at services to hire:
Insurance and bonding to protect you and your home. You do not want the liability on you. What if you hire your next door neighbor, or a friend of a friend, and she trips over your rug or cracked cement walkway, and all of a sudden you are covering her medical bills and loss in pay. It could be even worse than that if the person thinks she might make a bundle off suing you!
Background checked employees. This needs to be done through the police department, and includes a full FBI background check. Think about it: you are inviting people to be a part of your home, unsupervised. This is essential.
Green cleaning options. If you feel that the use of green cleaning products is important in your home, you will want to find a service that provides that option. Happy Homes Maid Service uses many green cleaning supplies and products are part of our cleaning process, and we have 100% green cleaning products upon request. This requires us to use products that will not kill bacteria, but there are many arguments for both sides of this new movement.
They provide equipment and supplies. A maid service that brings its own products and supplies is much more efficient, and can do a better job. One reason this is important is because the maids will be trained to use specific professional chemicals and tools, and will have the right tools for every job. If they need to use your products and supplies, they will have to stop and read labels or re-scan your products over and over to see what is available. A professional maid service also uses a top-of -the-line HEPA filtered vacuum to keep your home healthier.
One-Time Cleans. Many maid services will have some time available for one-time cleans. If you aren’t ready to hire maids on a regular basis, you might consider hiring a maid for heavy wear times, such as holidays or after having guests. Giving yourself a gift of just two or three housecleaning services can help you get through the stress of having parties and guests, or allow you to enjoy your holiday season and feel a bit pampered. You will want to call weeks in advance to get on their schedule, if not a month in advance, especially for holiday cleaning. Getting a spring clean once a year will help you keep up on your deep cleaning.