How Much Does House Cleaning Cost on Long Island?

Cleaning prices are all over the map on Long Island — one company quotes by the bedroom, another by the square foot, and a third gives a number on the phone that changes when the cleaner walks in. Our pricing is simpler: cleaning is billed hourly, every service carries a 4-hour minimum, and the four kinds of cleans have four plain starting prices. Here is exactly what each one costs, what it includes, and what makes a clean run longer.

Long Island cleaning prices: four cleans, one minimum

Every clean below starts at the 4-hour minimum. If the home needs more time, the same hourly rate simply continues — no second rate, no surprise line items. These starting prices cover homes across Nassau County, Suffolk County, and NYC:

A 5% admin fee applies to every job and appears on the written estimate before you book — the starting prices above are honest floors, not teasers.

What each clean actually includes

A standard clean is maintenance. The kitchen gets counters, sink, stovetop, and appliance exteriors; bathrooms get the toilet, tub or shower, mirrors, and counters scrubbed and sanitized; every room is dusted, vacuumed, and mopped where the floors call for it. It is the clean that keeps a busy household — and Long Island households are busy — from sliding backward between visits. Our house cleaning service page breaks the standard scope down room by room.

A deep clean is a reset. It covers everything in a standard clean and then goes after the accumulation: soap scum and grout lines, grease on cabinet fronts and inside the oven, dust on baseboards, fans, and blinds, and the inside of the refrigerator. Most first-time clients start here, because a home that has not had a professional clean in months has months of buildup in exactly those places.

A move-in or move-out clean happens in an empty home, and empty changes everything — there is nowhere for dirt to hide. Cabinets and drawers are cleaned inside, closets are wiped down, appliances are cleaned inside and out, and bathrooms are sanitized top to bottom. Landlords and buyers judge a home in the first thirty seconds; this clean is what makes that judgment a good one. If you are handing back keys or taking them, our move-out cleaning page covers the deposit-side details. A post-construction clean is its own discipline: fine dust migrates everywhere during a renovation, so the work is methodical, top to bottom, and usually more than one pass over the same surfaces.

What makes a clean take longer — or shorter

Time is the one thing you are buying, so the honest variables are the ones that add or save time. Bathrooms are the biggest: a four-bath colonial in Garden City is simply more scrubbing than a one-bath apartment in Astoria. Condition matters just as much — a kitchen that gets wiped nightly versus one meeting a cleaner for the first time in a year. Pets add hair to every surface and every floor. Clutter slows a cleaner down, because surfaces have to be cleared before they can be cleaned. And square footage sets the baseline under all of it. On the other side of the ledger, homes on a recurring schedule with surfaces kept clear between visits are the fastest cleans we do — which is part of why recurring clients end up paying less per visit over the year.

Recurring cleaning: priced after we see your home

Plenty of companies will quote recurring cleaning sight unseen, and plenty of homeowners learn what that quote was worth. We price weekly, biweekly, and monthly service after the first clean or a walkthrough, because that is when the real scope is known: the size of the home, the number of bathrooms, how the household actually lives, and how much work each visit truly takes. The first visit is usually a deep clean — it sets the baseline — and the recurring rate is then put in writing before the schedule starts. One coordinator handles your booking, your schedule, and any change you need to make, instead of you chasing an individual cleaner. Our guide to what a professional clean includes explains how the scopes build on each other.

How booking and the deposit work

Booking takes a 25% deposit of the expected total — the clean's starting price plus the 5% admin fee — and the balance reflects the actual hours your clean takes. You see all of it on the written estimate before anyone picks up a sponge. If something about the home changes the scope, you hear it from us before the work expands, not after. Start with the instant quote, pick your clean, and see the expected total in about a minute.

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