How often should I schedule house cleaning in Yonkers?

Most households here choose biweekly. Weekly suits homes with kids, pets, or a heavy salt season -- from December to March a hall floor takes more abuse in a week than it does all summer. Monthly works for smaller apartments and tidier homes. Many customers tighten the schedule through the winter and loosen it after the melt, and you can move between plans freely.

What does a house cleaning cost in Yonkers?

We quote your actual home rather than publishing a rate. What moves the number: bedrooms and bathrooms, first clean versus recurring, frequency, how much of the bathroom is original tile and grout, pets, and the access -- the floor you are on and whether there is an elevator genuinely change the time a visit takes. Send the details through the quote form and you get a real number instead of a range that changes at the door.

Do you clean apartments as well as houses?

Yes, and in this city apartments are most of the work. Pre-war walk-ups, elevator buildings, waterfront condominiums and two-family houses are all ordinary for us. Tell us the floor, whether there is an elevator, and any building rule about service entrances or elevator booking, and we will work to it rather than discover it on the day.

Do you charge by the hour?

No. We quote the job, not the clock. The scope is agreed up front, the checklist is written down, and the number does not change while anyone watches a stopwatch.

Do I need to provide supplies?

No. We bring all supplies and equipment, and we use eco-friendly products safe around children and pets. If you prefer a specific product for a specific surface -- an old hex-tile floor or an original wood banister, say -- we are happy to use it.

Can you do anything about the salt on my floors?

Yes, and it is one of the most common winter questions we get. Salt residue is not ordinary dirt: a damp mop dissolves and spreads it, so the floor looks worse an hour later. It comes up properly with the right approach on entries, thresholds and the first run of hard floor, and those are their own line items on the checklist from December through March.

Can pets be home during the cleaning?

Absolutely. Our cleaners work around pets every day. Just tell us in advance what animals are in the home so we can give them space and keep the right doors closed.

Which towns do you cover?

Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, and White Plains. If your address is just outside those, send it anyway and we will answer honestly about whether the route reaches you yet. We do not clean in New York City.

What is your cancellation policy?

We ask for at least 24 hours notice to cancel or reschedule so we can offer the slot to someone else. Same-day cancellations may be subject to a fee.

House Cleaning & Maid Service in Yonkers

Recurring house and apartment cleaning across Yonkers and southern Westchester, on a schedule you set.

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What Is Included

Kitchen: countertops, sink, stovetop, appliance exteriors, floor

Bathrooms: toilet, shower and tub, sink, mirrors, floor, grout attention

Entry floors, thresholds and door tracks -- the salt catchments

Dusting all accessible surfaces, radiator covers and ceiling fans

Interior glass, mirrors and window frames

Vacuuming all carpets, rugs and stair treads

Mopping all hard floors

Baseboard wiping

Trash removal from all rooms

Beds made and rooms tidied

Light switch and door handle sanitizing

Three Steps to a Clean Home

Send us the address and we quote you within 30 minutes.
Pick the day and the time that suit you.
We clean to the 42-point checklist -- and re-clean free if you are not happy.

The Kiwi Clean Guarantee

Not satisfied? We come back and reclean for free within 24 hours.

42-Point Clean Checklist

Our detailed checklist ensures nothing gets missed.

No Hidden Fees

The price we confirm before we start is the price you pay.

Bilingual Team

Ask in English or Spanish -- you get the same answer either way.

Eco-Friendly Products

Safe for your family, pets, and the environment.

We Supply Everything

All cleaning supplies and equipment included. You provide nothing.

Where We Provide This Service

Yonkers, NY White Plains, NY New Rochelle, NY Mount Vernon, NY

Kiwi Cleaning provides recurring house and apartment cleaning across Yonkers and the towns on the same county run -- Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and White Plains. The service is built around consistency: a written 42-point checklist so the work does not drift from visit to visit, a schedule you choose, and a free re-clean within 24 hours if a job is not right. The cleaners who work Yonkers work this county, so your recurring slot is part of a local route rather than the far end of somebody else's drive.

How Our Pricing Works

Every home is different. So is every quote.

Fixed upfront pricing — no surprises.

What shapes your price

Home size (bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage)
Service type (house cleaning, deep, move-out, Airbnb turnover, commercial)
Condition and special requests (pets, post-construction, etc.)
Frequency (weekly, biweekly, monthly, one-time)
Where you are in Westchester County

How you get a number

Request a free quote online, by call, or by text. We respond within 30 minutes during business hours.
We confirm the details that matter — no guessing, no hidden fees after the clean.
Recurring clients get discounted rates vs. one-time visits.

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House Cleaning - Yonkers, NY

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Frequently Asked Questions

More about House Cleaning & Maid Service in Yonkers

Neighborhoods, local conditions, and how we work here.

We bring everything -- supplies, equipment, and eco-friendly products safe around children and pets. You provide access and nothing else. Every visit covers the whole home: kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, living areas and floors, plus the surfaces a Westchester winter makes a nuisance of.

House cleaning in Yonkers has a rhythm the Sunbelt does not share. From December to March, road salt comes in on every shoe and dries to a pale haze on entry tile and hall floors that a damp mop spreads rather than lifts. Through the same months, radiator heat in a pre-war building lifts a fine grey dust and sets it down again on every horizontal surface. Spring puts pollen on sills and sashes; autumn tracks leaf litter in; summer humidity works on the ground floors and basements nearest the river. The checklist gives each of those its own line items, which is the difference between a home that looks clean the day we leave and one that still looks clean the following week.

Maid Service in Yonkers and Southern Westchester

Some people call it house cleaning and plenty of our customers call it maid service. It is the same job: a professional who comes on a set schedule, works through a written checklist, and leaves the place ready to live in. In this metro both phrasings sit in the same close-variant search bucket, which tells you nobody local distinguishes between them either.

What separates a real maid service from a one-off clean is the relationship. Your cleaner learns which radiator cover lifts off, which sash window has been painted shut since before you moved in, which rug the dog claims, which bathroom the kids destroy. After a few visits nobody is following a generic script -- they are cleaning your home the way you would if you had the time between the early train and the late one.

Weekly, Biweekly, and Monthly Plans

Most households here land on biweekly: it keeps a home genuinely clean without paying for visits you do not need. Weekly earns its keep in homes with kids, pets, or a winter's worth of salt coming through the door. Monthly suits smaller apartments and tidier households that mainly want the heavy work handled. Plenty of customers tighten the schedule through the salt months and loosen it in summer, and you are never locked into the plan you started with.

Weekly -- busy families, pets, and the December-to-March salt season
Biweekly -- the most common plan, and the best balance of clean and cost
Monthly -- smaller apartments and tidy households
One-time -- before guests, after a storm week, or to try us out

What a Westchester Winter Does to a Home

The cleaning problem here is specific and seasonal. Road salt is the constant from December to March: it rides in on every shoe, dries pale on entry tile, packs into thresholds and door tracks, and is abrasive on a hall floor long before it is visible. Radiator heat is the quiet one -- in a pre-war apartment it lifts fine dust off every surface in the room and sets it down again, which is why a careless dusting in February looks undone by evening. Damp is the third: ground floors and basements near the Hudson hold moisture, and a windowless bathroom will grow mildew in a grout line faster than anyone expects.

So entries, thresholds, tracks, sills, hard floors and grout are line items on our checklist rather than upgrades. To be straight about the limit: we clean interior glass thoroughly and vacuum carpets, but we are not a carpet-extraction, air-duct, chimney or exterior window-washing company. If what your home actually needs is one of those, we will say so rather than take your money for a partial answer.

Entry tile, hall floors and the first few feet inside every door
Thresholds and window and door tracks -- where salt and grit collect
Radiator covers, tops of trim and ceiling fans, where heating-season dust settles
Interior glass, mirrors and sash window frames
Bathroom and kitchen grout attention on every visit
Baseboards and stair treads, which take the worst of a walk-up

Ideal For

Two-income Yonkers households out from the early train to the late one
Pre-war apartments where radiator dust never quite settles
Walk-up tenants who would rather not carry cleaning gear up three flights
Single-family homes up in the northeast hills
Landlords holding a standard across several units
Anyone losing the war with a salted hall floor in February

How It Works

Request a Quote

Tell us the home, the town, the floor and access, and the frequency you want.

We Confirm Availability

We check the county route and your dates and reply within one business day.

First Clean

Your cleaner walks the home first so the checklist matches your place, not a generic one.