How these articles are written

Short version: the numbers come from the cleaners on this site, or from a source we link to. If we can't point at where a number came from, it doesn't go in.

Who writes them

Josi L. He has built the websites for about thirty cleaning businesses before this directory existed, which is a strange qualification until you see what it means in practice: he has sat with the person who cleans, gone through what she charges, what she includes, what she turns down, and what makes a client stop calling. That is where most of this comes from.

He is not a cleaner. When something needs to be said from inside the work, it comes from what the cleaners on this site told us, and it says so.

Where the numbers come from

Two places, and both are named every time. The first is this directory: the prices are the ones each business published on its own profile, with its own name on it. Nobody averages them into a range and hides who charged what.

The second is somebody else's published research — Angi, Thumbtack, a trade association, a government page. Those are linked, so you can go look. When a source sells software to cleaning businesses, we say that too, because it changes what the number is for.

One thing we will not do: publish a made-up statistic. No "40% more calls", no "most people say". If we don't know, the article says we don't know.

What we don't publish

• Star ratings or scores of our own. We don't rate anybody. Each profile links to that business's Google reviews, where neither they nor we can touch them.
• Anything a business didn't say about itself. If a profile doesn't say the owner is insured, no article says it is.
• Stock photography dressed up as somebody's real work. The photos here are from the businesses, with permission, or they are our own charts.

About writing tools

Drafts are put together with the help of AI writing tools, the same way most publishing works now. Every fact, price and link is checked against the source before it goes up, and a person decides what the article says. The tool doesn't get to invent a number, and it doesn't get the last word.

Corrections

An article shows an "Updated" date only when a fact inside it changed, and it says what changed. It does not get a fresh date for sitting there. If you find something wrong, write to us — the address is in the footer — and it gets fixed with a note.