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Cleaning Type, Beds, Baths and Square Feet: The Details on Every Job

Two homes on the same street can be completely different jobs. One is a two-bedroom condo on a weekly maintenance clean. The other is a four-bedroom house getting its first deep clean in a year. If the only thing on the schedule is the address, the team finds out which is which when they open the door.

Why the Job Needs More Than an Address

In What a Small Maid Service Actually Needs From Its Software, the first requirement on the list was a real record for every home. This article covers the core of that record: what kind of cleaning it is and how big the home is.

These two facts decide how long a job takes, how many people it needs, what supplies come in from the car and what the client expects to see when they get home. They belong on the job itself, where everyone can see them.

The Six Cleaning Types

Every job in MaidBossPro has a cleaning type:

• Standard Clean. The regular top-to-bottom clean most people picture.
• Deep Clean. More time on the buildup: grout lines, baseboards, behind and under things.
• Move-In / Move-Out. An empty or nearly empty home, inside cabinets and closets, ready for the next person.
• Post-Construction. Dust on every surface, paint specks, stickers on new fixtures.
• Recurring Maintenance. The weekly or every-two-weeks clean that keeps a home where the last deep clean left it.
• Office / Commercial. Small offices, suites and shared spaces.

The type tells a cleaner what kind of day this stop is. A team that walks in knowing it is a move-out brings the extra supplies and plans for the inside of every cabinet. A team that knows it is recurring maintenance gets to work on the usual routine.

Bedrooms, Bathrooms and Square Feet

The size of a home shows up as three numbers: bedrooms, bathrooms and square feet. Bathrooms usually matter most for time, since they take the most scrubbing. Square feet tells you about floors and dusting. Bedrooms tell you about beds, closets and how many rooms to walk through.

Together they give the team a quick picture before they arrive, and they give the office a way to price fairly. Estimates in MaidBossPro can tie pricing to bedrooms, bathrooms or square feet, so a home's size and its price stay connected.

Where the Details Show Up

Once a job has its details, MaidBossPro shows them under the address in a short line, everywhere the job appears:

• On the office lists, including the Waiting List and the dispatch board.
• On each card in the team app.

A typical line reads “Recurring Maintenance · 3 bed / 2 bath · 1,800 sq ft · Dog”. Extras like “+ Change Linens” show under it, and entry notes under that. The office can glance down a day's list and see that Team 2 has two deep cleans and a post-construction job, which is a heavy day, and move something.

Details From the Estimate Carry Over

Most of these details are first collected when someone asks for a quote. You ask how many bedrooms and bathrooms, roughly how big the home is, and what kind of cleaning they want. In MaidBossPro, when those details are entered on an estimate, they carry onto the job when the client approves it. Nobody types them twice, and nothing gets lost between the quote and the first visit.

The flow from quote to job is covered in Estimates With Online Approval: From a Quote to a Scheduled Cleaning.

Keeping the Details Accurate

Clients describe their homes the best they can, but a “two bathroom” house sometimes has a powder room nobody mentioned. A few habits keep the record honest:

• After the first visit, have the team note anything that did not match.
• Update the job details at the office so the next visit is right.
• If a first-time clean was a Deep Clean, change the type to Recurring Maintenance for the ongoing visits.
• Ask clients when something changes, like a new baby's room or a finished basement.

Because the next job at a home fills in from its last job, a correction made once carries forward. That makes a few minutes of cleanup after a first visit worth far more than it looks, since every future cleaning at that home starts from the corrected record.

The Rest of the Job Record

Type and size are the start. Pets, extras and entry notes finish the picture, and they are covered in the next guide. To see how all of these fit into the rest of the system, go back to the house cleaning software page.