Why We Focus on Sustainable, Long-Term Service
At Karma Diva Green Cleaning, we believe professional home cleaning should feel supportive, realistic, and sustainable — not like an unattainable luxury reserved only for special occasions.
Our approach is centered around helping clients maintain their homes over time through thoughtful service planning, clear communication, and maintenance-focused scheduling.
Rather than applying a one-size-fits-all structure, we build service plans around:
• the needs of the household
• realistic long-term upkeep
• and fair compensation for our cleaning professionals
Our goal is not simply to provide a clean home for one day, but to help create a manageable long-term system of support for the people living there.
We also:
customize service timing based on actual household needs,
offer recurring scheduling options,
focus on realistic maintenance rhythms,
and maintain detailed household notes to improve consistency and efficiency between visits.
Our calculator provides a transparent breakdown so you can see exactly how your estimate is built, with options to adjust preferences along the way.
Beginning Service: Reset Phase
Most recurring clients begin with a Reset Phase covering the first 3 visits or 90 days, whichever comes first.
This initial phase allows us to:
establish a strong maintenance baseline,
address buildup and deferred detailing,
determine realistic timing expectations,
and build a long-term service rhythm tailored to your home.
One-Time / Short-Term Service
One-time or short-term service relationships (typically 1–2 appointments) generally have a slightly higher hourly cost, as they require additional onboarding, scheduling coordination, and setup without the long-term efficiency benefits of recurring maintenance service.
First Service on Recurring Plan:
Your first visit is typically a Deep Cleaning designed to bring the home to a stronger baseline before transitioning into ongoing maintenance service.
Most first visits range from 3–5 hours with a team of two, depending on the size, condition, and overall needs of the home.
In some cases—such as larger homes or spaces with heavier buildup—more than one visit may be needed to thoroughly complete the initial deep cleaning.
A more tailored estimate can also be provided during your in-home consultation.
Deep Cleaning is billed at:
$55/hour per service professional
Most first visits average:
• $345–$565 base rate
• Approximately $450–$740 total, including tax, processing, and suggested gratuity
In some cases — particularly larger homes or homes with heavier buildup — more than one visit may be recommended to fully complete the Reset Phase.
Once the home reaches a more maintainable baseline, we typically transition into recurring Maintenance Cleaning service with a more stable long-term timeframe and cadence.
This calculator provides a clear view of exactly what is being charged, with options to toggle preferences.
Recurring Service
After the Reset Phase, we can typically determine a more accurate ongoing timeframe, staffing structure, and maintenance cadence for future visits. This allows us to establish a strong baseline throughout the home and determine the ideal timing, staffing, and service cadence moving forward.
We do everything possible to maintain consistency with:
your recurring appointment day/time,
your preferred cleaning technician(s),
and your household preferences.
Because we maintain detailed household notes and Service Journals, our team can provide more consistent service, even when substitutions are occasionally necessary due to illness, emergencies, or scheduling adjustments.
While schedule changes are uncommon, they do occasionally happen. Clients are always notified by email or text of any changes to the information listed in the original appointment confirmation.
Ongoing Routine Maintenance Service: Typical for Routine Maintenance Service, this shows example rates for 3-4 hours of maintenance cleaning with 1 service professional.
On average, our clients' maintenance cleanings take about 4 hours solo or 2 hours with a team of two. Including Time, Resource Management, Gratuity, and tax, this total comes to about $250-$ 275 for each visit.
Maintenance Cleaning Minimum
$137.50
(Approximately $150 with suggested gratuity)
Includes:
up to 2.5 hours with 1 technician, or
up to 1 hour with 2 technicians
Also includes:
$12.50 Materials Consideration
Eco-friendly cleaning products & supplies
Detailed household note tracking
Ongoing Quality Assurance support
Gratuity
If our service truly brightens your routine and you’d like to show your appreciation please consider the following:
We include an Automatic Gratuity of 10% per cleaner on cleanings lasting 6 hours or more. Because cleanings that take up more time also take up more energy we like to offer some relief where we can. Please note that this is charged as cleaning hours so if there is a team of 2 cleaners on a job for 3 hours or more this will take effect.
To Opt-Out of Auto Gratuity or to Increase Gratuity to your recurring invoices to be passed directly to our cleaners please click the button below or send us an email at info@karmadiva.com.
Discounts and Rewards
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$1 off Deep Cleaning Services for each step you take toward reducing your carbon footprint, up to $10.
Source Renewable Energy. Did you know taking just this step alone you could cut your carbon footprint IN HALF?!!!
Solar - Add solar panels to the roof of your home. This costs a little more than the above options, but many providers offer financing options that minimize upfront costs. Two examples are SolarCity and SunRun. If you live in a state with a Net Metering law, you could eliminate your electricity bill or even earn money by selling electricity back to the grid!
Wind Power - Don't want to cover the upfront cost of solar panels? Consider choosing 100% Renewable Wind Energy through your electric bill. Visit www.papowerswitch.com to shop your options today!
Appliances. Make energy efficiency a primary consideration when choosing a new furnace, air conditioning unit, dishwasher, or refrigerator. Products bearing the ENERGY STAR label are recognized for having superior efficiency.
Lighting. Turn off lights you’re not using and when you leave the room. Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent or LED ones.
Seal Your Home. Reduce drafts and air leaks with caulk, insulation, and weather stripping.
Thermostat. Don’t set it too high or low. Install a programmable model to turn off the heat/air conditioning when you’re not home. Invest in The Nest thermostat!
Alternatives to driving. When possible, walk or ride your bike in order to avoid carbon emissions completely. Carpooling and public transportation drastically reduce CO2 emissions by spreading them out over many riders. Or drive an electric car!
Grow Your Own Food! Having a backyard garden can reduce your carbon footprint substantially. When you grow your own food it takes less resources to grow and to make its way to your table.
Install a Rainwater Barrel. Save 200 or more gallons of water every month!
Composting. Composting is great for soil. It helps to revitalize and filter water sources, leads to cleaner oceans, controls erosion, reduces greenhouse gases, and transfers carbon to the ground!
Choose Green Products and look out for Greenwashing. We’re very happy you’ve chosen us as your green cleaning company, but are you using plant based cleaning agents in your home in between cleans? If so, get a discount!
Tell us more about what you are doing to help green the planet!
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High Five Referral Discount - 5% off for our referring client and 5% off for our new client on our new client's 3rd cleaning.
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Over 65 yrs.
5% Discount on hourly services
Payment Options
Invoices are typically sent and payable online within 24 hours of the date of service. If payment is made after the date of service a late payment fee of $2.00/day may apply.
We require a credit card or ACH method on file to schedule cleanings. This can be set up ahead of your first service
Our processing fees are as follows:
ACH 1.5%
Credit Card 3%
If you’d like to set up your own recurring ACH payment directly to our account, we can avoid these fees altogether. (Only available for Recurring Service)
Cancellation Policies & Fees
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Our staff plans to work a set number of hours each week, and from that, they calculate their income. Therefore, cancellations or rescheduling will lead to a hefty financial loss for our crew and a missed opportunity to book someone else. This is in alignment with our Living Wage Promise to our team.
A confirmation email is automatically sent 10 days in advance of your cleaning with the date and time details for your appointments. Changes to recurring appointments must be made 7 days or more in advance.
In the event that a homeowner deems it is necessary to cancel or reschedule a recurring cleaning appointment, We require written notification within 7 days of the time of service to skip or reschedule.
Once we are within the 7-day window, our cancellation fees are as follows:
24 hours notice = 100% cost of regular service
48 hrs notice = 75% cost of regular service
72 hrs notice = 50% cost of regular service
4-7 days notice = flat rate $50 fee
3 late cancels in a row will result in being removed from our recurring client list and the only appointments that will be available will be what may be leftover on our schedule and will be charged at our deep cleaning rate.
New clients who cancel on short notice and wish to be rescheduled may be asked to pay a $50 non-refundable deposit towards the cost of their rescheduled appointment.
In cases of Emergency or where Health Concerns prevent an appointment from happening as planned we may consider a reduction in this fee. It is designed to prevent last minute shifts and general unsteadiness.
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If our cleaning team is unable to enter your home at the scheduled and agreed time of service we will wait no more than 30min. You will be billed a $50.00 lockout fee.
In order to provide you with the best service possible, it is imperative that we take good care of our cleaners. We've made ourselves available for your cleaning. If there is some reason that we are unable to get into your home once we get there, we will still need to pay our cleaners. We thank you in advance for your understanding.
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Client Requests for changes in timing or workload must be made with NO LESS than 72 hours notice ahead of a scheduled and confirmed cleaning.
Requests of this kind that are made once our crew has arrived will be subject to an increased cleaning category.
For example, if you tell our team at the door that you would like them to manage a different list that takes either more or less time than what was in our plan, we may charge Plus Rates if it was originally a Maintenance Cleaning or Deep Cleaning Rates if originally scheduled for Maintenance Plus.
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There is a $2/day fee associated with payments that are not completed within 24 hours of receiving service.
If a check is returned by the bank there will be a $25.00 charge in addition to reimbursement of the full payment on the original check. Any fee charged by the bank for the return of such an item, typically $15.00, will be also be added.Item description
A confirmation email goes out on Day 1, any reschedule request received on day 4 from 4 pm onward will be subject to a $50 Late cancel fee. day 7 from 12:30pm onward will be a charge of 50% of the regular cleaning bill, Day 8 is 75%, day 9 and CLeaning appointment day will incur a 100% charge for what the regular cleaning bill would have been.
exceptions may be made for emergency conditions such as Illness or an act of nature.
Karma Diva Pay-It-Forward Program Contribution
Support families facing hardship with the gift of a clean, healthy home.
Nominate, Donate, or Apply today!
Your contribution goes directly toward providing free 3-hour house cleanings to families facing hardship in our community. It also helps ensure our cleaning professionals continue to earn fair, living wages for their work.
