If you want the short answer: every two weeks. It is what the majority of our long-term clients settle on, and it is the point where a family home never slides back far enough to need catching up on.
The longer answer depends on four things, and it is worth thinking about them before you book, because paying for the wrong frequency is the most common mistake people make.
A couple in a three-bedroom generate a fraction of the mess of a family of five in the same house. Kitchens and bathrooms scale almost directly with the number of people using them. If there are four or more of you, weekly is worth pricing.
Pets are the single biggest factor after headcount. Shedding puts hair on every soft surface continuously, and dogs in and out of a Tulsa yard bring in dirt, pollen and, for much of the year, mud. Two dogs will push a house that would have been fine every two weeks into wanting weekly.
A house that is empty from eight until six accumulates far less than one with someone working from home, small children, or anyone recovering from illness. If the house is occupied all day, move your frequency up a step from whatever the size suggests.
This is the one people leave out, and it matters most. Some people are genuinely fine with a house that drifts for a fortnight. Others start feeling it on day four, and for them a monthly clean is money spent on three weeks of quiet irritation. Be honest about which you are.
Weekly: the house never leaves a good state. Best for full households, multiple pets, anyone at home all day, or anyone who wants to stop thinking about it entirely.
Every two weeks: the most common choice and the best balance for most family homes in Tulsa. The house drifts a little by the end of the second week and is reset before it matters.
Monthly: works for smaller or tidier households who keep on top of daily tidying themselves and want the deeper work, bathrooms, floors, dusting, done properly once a month.
Quarterly or one-time: this is a deep clean rather than maintenance, and it should be priced and planned as one. Do not expect a maintenance-priced visit to fix a quarter of buildup.
Two local factors push the frequency up more than people expect, and they apply right across the metro. Spring pollen comes in through every opened door for weeks and settles on sills, blinds and every horizontal surface, so April and May feel dustier than the rest of the year regardless of how clean the house is. And hard water means showers need attention on a rhythm, because film builds steadily and is much harder to remove once it has set.
Neither changes the answer for most households, but both are worth knowing before you conclude your house is dirtier than it should be.
Start with your best guess. If it turns out to be wrong, call the office and change it. Plenty of clients start monthly and move to every two weeks once they see the difference, and some go the other way once the house is under control.
The one thing worth getting right at the start is the first visit. Almost every household needs a deep clean before a recurring schedule makes sense, because a maintenance visit is built to hold a standard rather than to reach one.
It is if the house has four or more people, several pets, or someone home all day. In those houses a fortnightly visit is spent catching up rather than maintaining, and the house is never quite right in between.
Yes. Call the office and we will change it. Plenty of clients start monthly and move to every two weeks once they see the difference.
Tell us about your space and we will follow up with a straightforward quote. No pressure, and no pushy sales call.
Tell us a little about the space and we will follow up with a straightforward quote. No pressure, no pushy sales call.