First Professional House Cleaning: 5 Honest Things to Expect

Uniformed 713 Cleaning crew member wiping down a stainless gas range cooktop in a client kitchen.

Your first professional house cleaning is a deep clean, not a quick tidy: the crew works top to bottom from a written checklist — hand-wiped baseboards, scrubbed showers, every cabinet front — to reset your home to a clean baseline. It runs longer than the recurring visits that follow, and it’s the visit those visits […]

Bonded and Insured Cleaning Service: 3 Protections, 1 Proven Check

Uniformed 713 Cleaning crew member in gloves and mask dusting a ceiling fan in a client home.

Bonded and insured are two different protections, not one badge: the bond puts money behind making theft right, and insurance covers accidents — from a scratched floor to a cleaner hurt on the job. A company that carries both, and can prove it in writing, has already answered your biggest question. Comparing companies right now? […]

Questions to Ask a House Cleaner: 10 Honest Ones Before You Hire

Uniformed 713 Cleaning team member mopping hardwood floors in a client home.

Short answer: three questions do most of the work — “Are you insured, and can you send proof?”, “Will I get the same team every visit?”, and “What happens if something gets broken?” A company that answers all three without flinching is already ahead of most. The other seven below close the gaps those three […]

6 Things House Cleaning Services Clean That You Probably Don’t

713 Cleaning team member dusting window blinds in a Katy home, with the sills and tracks below, two of the places people forget to clean.

Table of Contents Short answer: the places people forget to clean are the ones that never remind you. Window sills, ceiling fan blades, A/C vents, behind the toilet, baseboards and blinds — in that order, because that’s the order our crews find them skipped. I run a cleaning company across Houston and Katy, so I […]

How To Find A Housekeeper: The Ultimate Guide

A 713 Cleaning housekeeper dusting window blinds during a house cleaning in a Houston home

Short answer: how to find a housekeeper you can trust comes down to seven steps — decide between an independent cleaner and a service, read the scope, interview for reliability over experience, verify what paper can prove, ask what happens when something breaks, do a trial clean, and set the first visit up properly. Here’s […]