About us

A cleaner is a person, not a booking slot

MaidMatcher puts you in touch with self-employed cleaners working near you. You agree the work and the price with them directly, and we never stand in the middle of it.

A cleaner at work in a bright kitchen
Why we built it

Most cleaning money never reaches the cleaner

Book through an agency and a share of every hour goes to the office that answered the phone. The person who actually cleans your home takes what is left, and they are usually whoever was free that morning.

Better for you

Nobody is adding a margin to the hourly rate, so the same money buys more time or the same time costs less.

Better for them

A self-employed cleaner keeps the whole rate they set, which is why the good ones stay with the customers they like.

The same person

You are hiring an individual, not a rota. They learn your home and you stop explaining it.

No account in the middle

You talk to them. Changing a time does not go through anybody else.

How we pay for this

We make our money from cleaners who want a website

Not from your booking, and not from a cut of their hourly rate. A marketplace that skims the work has a reason to keep you both inside it, and we would rather not have that reason.

Customers pay nothing, ever

Posting a job, reading applications, messaging a cleaner and hiring them are all free. There is no fee waiting at the end of it.

No commission on the work

The rate you agree is the rate they get. We never touch the payment, so there is nothing for us to take a percentage of.

Cleaners pay for tools, not leads

Getting work here is free. A paid plan is for the business software around it, and replying to a customer will never sit behind it.

What we will not do

The rules we wrote down first

These are built into the product rather than promised in an email. Changing any of them would mean changing the database, which is the point.

  • Cleaners cannot contact you out of the blue

    A cleaner can only open a conversation if you messaged them, invited them, or they applied to a job you posted. There is no way to buy a list of customers here.

  • We do not sell your details

    Your address and your messages are not a product. They are not passed to anyone who did not apply to your job.

  • Reviews cannot be tidied up

    A review can only be left on a job the customer confirmed was finished, and the cleaner can never edit or delete one.

  • Cleaners cannot cold-contact you

    A cleaner can only message you if you posted a job they applied to, invited them, or wrote to them first. Nobody here gets a list of customers to work through.

Where we are

Starting in London, built for the whole UK

Cleaners are listed by the areas they actually travel to, and search works from your postcode rather than a region name, because that is how people know where they live. If nobody covers you yet, post anyway: cleaners often work further than they have listed.

Not in your area yet?

Post the job anyway. It costs nothing, it tells us where to recruit next, and cleaners nearby see it as soon as they join.

Find someone local, this week

One job post, several local cleaners, no obligation to any of them.

  • Free to post
  • No credit card
  • No commission