Working document
New cleaning account startup checklist
The steps that decide whether a new janitorial or residential account is profitable and stable by day thirty, in the order an owner should work them.
Free resources
Resources for owners running small cleaning crews
Free tools, comparisons and checklists built for the person who writes the route, prices the buildings and still cleans two nights a week.
Everything here is written for a US cleaning company with 2 to 20 cleaners. That means production rates in square feet per cleaner hour, drive time you actually pay for, hazard communication rules that apply to a two person crew, and the price conversation that follows a scheduled state minimum wage increase. Nothing here assumes a facilities director or an operations manager, because you do not have one.
Start with the calculators if you are trying to work out whether an account earns its place on the route. Read the comparisons if you are deciding what software to buy. Take the startup checklist if you have a new building starting in two weeks. The Route Sheet carries the longer field guides, from janitorial production rates to a line by line medical office bid.
Free tools
Calculators for cleaning company owners
Two working calculators built on the numbers a cleaning route lives on: paid hours, drive time, loaded wages and the minutes a stop really takes.
Comparisons
MopRoute compared with the software cleaning owners shortlist
Three honest comparisons for the owner who has to decide what will run tomorrow night's route before payroll closes on Friday.
Main guide
How to Build a Weekly Cleaning Route That Cuts Drive Time
It settles how a small cleaning company turns a scattered book of accounts into a week of routes that fit the shift and the miles you actually pay for.
Magazine
The Route Sheet
Field craft, pricing math, and US compliance for owners running small residential and commercial cleaning crews.
About
Who writes all of this
Who writes The Route Sheet: the field background behind the production rates, bid walkthroughs and route math on this site, and how to reach a person about your own accounts.
The material stays free, the nightly part is what we sell
Every calculator, comparison and checklist on this page works whether or not you ever pay us. What MopRoute adds is the work a document cannot do for you: the route rebuilt each week, the right task list waiting on each property, and photo proof attached to the stop before the crew locks up. Ask for a demo when you want that running instead of living in a spreadsheet.