My maids seem to clean the house so quickly. How can they be doing a good job when it takes me more than twice as long as them?

Remember that your maid service has professionals that are trained to clean a home properly. Just as a carpenter would build something more than twice as fast as your husband (and do a better job), so does a maid. Here are some tricks of the trade so that they can clean your home faster and better than you:


a.) They clean ten to twenty homes per week – so get lot's of practice. They are in shape for cleaning and bending and typically don’t need rests except between houses.


b.) They fold their cleaning cloths in half and then in half again. This gives them eight clean surfaces to use for each cloth. It means they aren’t changing cloths as often.


c.) They spray their cleaning solutions onto the cloth rather than onto the surface to be cleaned. In this way there is no over spray that needs to be rewiped. Thus the number of cleaning strokes is fewer.


d.) They don't go over the same place multiple times. The maids are trained to go from top to bottom and left to right around the outside of a room. Then they will clean those items in the middle of the room – again top to bottom and left to right. If you were to mark their footprints you would see that they only step on any given spot once. Cleaning the room is much faster.


e.) A final tip. Floors are done last. Dirt from above is pushed down to the floor and then cleaned. Don't try and contain dirt high up. It's difficult to do and slows you down.