The Maids

Did a cleaning for me last week and did an amazing job, very accommodating and easy to work with.

Kingston, MA home. Just had the floors refinished and needed all the dust cleaned asap for the painters. The Maids did a thorough, quick, wonderful job, at a very reasonable price.

They took my situation with full knowledge that I left an apartment in a complete mess! The person in charge quoted me a price and stuck to it even through he labor ran $ 120 over! I have yet to see it as life has been so demanding but truly I am impressed by the professionalism and keeping to his word! Not 5 stars as I have not seen result of the teams hard labor. I would use them again!

My friend said to me this weekend, in regards to my feeling guilty about hiring a housekeeping service, «It all comes down to this. How much is your time worth?» Well, I thought about it and my time is certainly worth spending $ 100 a week for my house to be clean. My husband and I both work full time and neither one of us are neat-​freaks by nature — we have to work at it (one of us, more than the other but I’ll let you decide who you think that is).
On weeknights when we get home from work after 6, we have to take the dog for some exercise, work out ourselves if we didn’t run with the dog, figure out what we’re doing for dinner, make dinner, clean up after dinner (and watch Real Housewives of Somewhere) etc. That leaves little time for vacuuming, dusting and cleaning toilet bowls. So, we used to attempt to do all that on Saturday mornings, but we dreaded it and it seemed to take forever. Not to mention, what happens when it’s a glorious day and you want to go to the Farmer’s Market early and play outside in the sun? No time to clean.
So, once a week now, we come home to a sparkling clean home — and we try to do our best to keep it clean until the next week. We are still responsible for dishes, laundry and minimizing clutter but those things, I can handle. Without fail, the house is spotless each time. «The Maids» leave the floors shining, the rugs spotless and the stainless steel smudge free. And there are no longer dust bunnies in the corners — not even on the stairs. The best part is, having a clean base to start with motivates us to keep it clean. I will admit to even pulling out the vacuum at night, on the same day that they had been there, because I noticed the dog trekked in some dirt. The previous «I don’t have my house professionally cleaned» person I once was would have left the dirt there because it would have blended in with the other dirt spots — NOT ANYMORE!
«The Maids» is a very professional service. I have never met anyone there. Everything was done on the phone and we just leave a key and a check on cleaning days. I know there are a lot of good cleaning services around, but this place was referred to us by my husband’s co-​worker who has been using them for years which made us feel safer about allowing strangers into our home.
PS — The only one who doesn’t like cleaning day is our dog — who is banished to the basement (aka, dungeon) on cleaning day until the dog walker comes at lunch time and rescues him.