You’ve finally decided to hire a professional cleaning service.
There’s just one little logistical question:
Do you have to sit at home while they’re cleaning?
For many homeowners, the answer is no.
In fact, one of the biggest benefits of professional house cleaning is being able to go about your normal day while someone else takes care of the cleaning.
Go to work.
Run errands.
Take the kids somewhere.
Meet a friend for lunch.
Then come home to a freshly cleaned house.
Honestly, that’s kind of the dream. 😄
You Don’t Have to Rearrange Your Entire Day
Professional cleaning is supposed to make your life easier—not give you another appointment that requires sitting around the house for hours.
Many recurring cleaning customers aren’t home while their cleaning team is there.
Once you’ve established a reliable way for your cleaners to access the home, you can continue with your day as usual.
What If It’s My First Cleaning?
You may prefer to be home when your cleaning company arrives for the first appointment, especially if there are specific things you’d like to discuss.
That gives you an opportunity to point out anything important, such as:
- Areas needing special attention
- Rooms that shouldn’t be entered
- Pet instructions
- Delicate items
- Alarm information
- Anything unusual about the home
But you don’t necessarily need to remain there for the entire cleaning.
Once everyone knows what to expect, you can head out and let the team work.
How Will the Cleaners Get Inside?
This is something you’ll arrange with your cleaning company ahead of time.
Depending on your home, you might use:
- A garage code
- A keypad entry code
- A lockbox
- Another agreed-upon access method
The important thing is to have a reliable plan before the appointment.
Nothing puts a damper on cleaning day quite like a cleaning team standing outside a beautifully locked house. 😅
What About Security?
It’s completely reasonable to think about security when allowing someone into your home.
After all, your home is personal.
When choosing a cleaning company, ask questions about:
- How cleaners are hired
- Whether employees are screened
- How access information is handled
- What happens if there’s an issue
- Whether the company is insured
A professional cleaning relationship depends heavily on trust.
You should feel comfortable with the company you’re allowing into your home.
What Should I Do With Valuables?
Even when you trust your cleaning company, it’s a good household practice to keep valuable or irreplaceable items safely stored.
This includes things like:
- Cash
- Expensive jewelry
- Important paperwork
- Medications
- Highly sentimental or fragile items
It’s less about expecting something to happen and more about removing unnecessary worry.
If an item is priceless to you, keeping it somewhere secure is always a sensible choice.
What About My Pets?
This one matters.
If you’re going to be away while your home is cleaned, make sure your cleaning company knows about your pets.
Some dogs happily sleep through the entire appointment.
Others believe the vacuum cleaner has personally declared war on the household.
And then there are the escape artists. 🐶
Let your cleaning company know:
- What pets you have
- Where they’ll be during the cleaning
- Whether any doors need special attention
- Whether your pet is nervous around strangers
- Whether there’s anything cleaners need to avoid
A little planning helps keep both your pets and the cleaning team comfortable.
Should I Pick Up Before I Leave?
You don’t need to clean before the cleaners arrive.
We promise. 😄
But picking up loose belongings can help your team spend more of its appointment actually cleaning.
Things like toys, clothing, paperwork, and other items on the floor can slow cleaners down or prevent them from reaching certain surfaces.
Think of it this way:
You handle the stuff. We handle the dirt.
That’s a pretty good partnership.
Is It Better If I’m Not Home?
Sometimes, yes!
Cleaners may be able to move through the home more efficiently when there aren’t people moving from room to room.
That doesn’t mean you’re in the way if you’re home.
Plenty of customers work from home or simply prefer to stay during their appointments.
But if you’re comfortable leaving, there’s certainly no reason to feel guilty about it.
You’re not supposed to supervise.
That’s part of why you hired professionals.
What If I Work From Home?
Working from home doesn’t mean professional cleaning won’t work for you.
If possible, choose one room as your workspace and communicate with the cleaning team about when you’d like that room cleaned.
You might move to the kitchen while they clean your office, then return once they’re finished.
A little communication usually makes it easy for everyone to work around each other.
What Happens When I Come Home?
This is arguably the best part.
You open the door.
The floors are clean.
The bathrooms are fresh.
The kitchen is done.
The dust is gone.
And you didn’t spend your Saturday doing any of it.
There’s something especially satisfying about leaving a normal lived-in house in the morning and returning to that freshly cleaned feeling later in the day.
Professional Cleaning Should Give You Time Back
One of the biggest reasons people hire a cleaning service isn’t because they don’t know how to clean.
It’s because they have other things they’d rather do with their time.
Professional house cleaning should fit into your life—not require your life to revolve around cleaning day.
At Dust Busters Cleaning Service, our goal is to make professional cleaning as convenient as possible for Fargo-Moorhead homeowners.
Whether you’re at work, running errands, or simply getting out of the house for a while, you shouldn’t have to spend your cleaning appointment watching someone else clean.
Go live your day.
We’ll take care of the house.
And then you get to enjoy the best part:
Coming home after Dust Busters has been there.