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Time is priceless: Why Merry Maids works

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Between work, family, and everyday life, finding time to clean your home can be difficult. At Merry Maids, we believe keeping your home clean should be simple. Our professional home cleaning services have helped households across the UK enjoy spotless homes and more free time for over 35 years.

The Merry Maids difference

Merry Maids began in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1979 when Dallen Peterson and his family started a cleaning business built on quality and care. Their idea grew into one of the world’s most trusted home cleaning brands.

The company joined the ServiceMaster family in 1988. This partnership is built on shared values: do what’s right, take care of each other, act quickly, and deliver excellence every time.

Merry Maids arrived in the UK in 1990. Today, we have 44 locations across the country, all offering the same high standards of cleaning and customer care that made us a household name.

Local experts with global support

Every Merry Maids business in the UK is locally run by people who care about their community. When you choose Merry Maids, you support a local business backed by a trusted global brand. You get personal service, reliable support, and professional results in every clean.

Why choose Merry Maids

Hiring Merry Maids gives you two main benefits: time and quality.

  • Time: We give you back the hours you’d spend cleaning so you can focus on what matters most.

  • Cleaning: Our trained, insured, and uniformed teams follow proven cleaning methods to deliver a consistent, thorough clean every time.

  • Our Guarantee: If you’re not fully satisfied, contact us within 24 hours and we’ll return to make it right.

Recognised for excellence

Our franchise network has earned multiple awards for excellence in franchising. These awards recognise the quality, care, and consistency our franchise owners bring to homes across the UK.

Proud to support our communities

For over three decades, Merry Maids has been part of towns and cities across the UK. Each local team takes pride in delivering dependable, high-quality cleaning that supports your lifestyle and community.

We are proud to have Alzheimer’s Society as our Charity of the Year. Through our fundraising activities in support of Alzheimer’s Society, we help raise awareness and funds for people affected by dementia. This is our way of giving back to the communities we serve and supporting a cause close to our hearts.

Book your clean today

Choose Merry Maids and enjoy a cleaner home, more time for yourself, and peace of mind that your home is in expert hands, find your nearest Merry Maids business to book a clean online or call 0800 021 3072 today to hear more about our home cleaning services.

5 Top Tips to Cut Your Cleaning Time

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Nowadays, we all seem to be leading very busy lives and not having enough home time!

This also means, that trying to keep your home clean and tidy in the short time you have, can end up being quite difficult.

Try these 5 tips to cut your cleaning time:

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Freshen up in a flash

You can keep your rooms smelling fresher by sprinkling the carpets with baking soda, just before you go to bed.

When you wake up in the morning all you need to do is give the carpets a quick hoover and this will leave you with nice fresh smelling rooms.

Overnight Oven Cleaner

Get some oven cleaner applied to your oven and the end of the day and leave overnight, this way you will cut down all that scrubbing time!

We would recommend using a mixture of white vinegar and baking soda as a quick and easy oven cleaning solution.

  • Moisten the inside of the oven with a sprinkling of water
  • Apply a thick layer of baking soda and let it sit for 2-3 hours
  • Spray vinegar on the baking soda and watch it fizz into action right before your eyes
  • Then, just leave overnight and wipe clean with a cloth, sponge or kitchen roll in the morning

Scrub a dub dub

The bath and/or shower is one of those things that we use every single morning and evening, so keeping it clean is very important.

There is one quick tip that can save you a large amount of time when it comes to giving your house a weekend clean.

  • Buy a mini squeegee and micro fibre cloth, and keep them on the side in the bathroom
  • When finished in the shower, use the squeegee to remove the excess water on the shower door
  • Also, give the bath a quick rinse with the cloth, wring it out and leave to dry

Multi-tasking while chatting

I’m sure this one will only be for the ladies, because being a male myself, multi-tasking is quite difficult for me!

If you have that one friend or family member that insists on chatting on the phone for an hour every night, pop the phone on loudspeaker or connect it to Alexa and arm yourself with a cleaning cloth.

Go around the room dusting all of the surfaces and getting rid of cobwebs with a feather duster.

Kids can clean too

Teaching your kids responsibility at a young age is important for growing up, and cleaning the house is one of those things that needs to be taught.

Give them small chores at first, like dusting the surfaces or hoovering the lounge, and then eventually move them over to bigger chores once they are older.

 

With these 5 tips in your pocket, you will have a lot more time in your life to spend with the family or even get 5 minutes more to yourself!

If you want even more time and don’t want to clean at all, then pick up the phone and call your local Merry Maids to organise a weekly or fortnightly clean.

Find your local Merry Maids here.