Regular home cleaning, deep cleans, short-let turnovers and after-builders work — in English or Português.
Nobody writes this down, so expectations drift and then somebody is disappointed. Here is what three or four hours realistically buys in a Lisbon flat, what we price separately, and what quietly falls outside it.
A single clean is one of the cheapest professional services you can buy in Portugal. That is exactly why this market behaves the way it does, and why we ask how often before we ask anything else.
A single visit means an unfamiliar flat, an unpredictable duration and no second morning to make the travel worthwhile. We still take them, and we still price them honestly — but the hour costs more than it does in a standing slot, and pretending otherwise would be a lie.
The same address on the same morning every week is the backbone of a cleaning round. It is predictable, it sits close to the job before it, and it is worth far more over a year than the price of one visit suggests. Ask us for a rhythm and you get the better number.
If you are flexible about the day, and can offer the same day every time, you have more room than you think and we will use it. If you need a specific afternoon at short notice, expect fewer options and a firmer price — and we will tell you that before you commit to anything.
On price: published Portuguese sources put a single household visit of three to four hours at €30–60, and a weekly arrangement at €150–450 per month depending on the size of the home and the length of each visit. Indication from public price pages, not a quote. The hourly figures come from spicandspan.pt, idealista.pt and zaask.pt; the monthly figure from viplimpezas.pt; the after-renovation figure from Zaask, Habitissimo, lipclean and fixhomeservicios. All read in August 2026. Your own number comes from us, on your actual home; the comparison of the hourly rates, and the gap between the Portuguese-language and English-language segments, is on the prices page.
Fortnightly is the most common compromise in a city flat with one or two adults: often enough that nothing accumulates, cheap enough not to think about. Weekly is normal with children, pets or a home office. Monthly tends to disappoint, because each visit turns into a partial deep clean and the price creeps up to match. Tell us how the place is used and we will say which of the three we would put you on.
That is what we aim for, and it suits us as much as you — somebody who already knows where the spare bin bags live is faster and misses less. What nobody honest will promise is that it never changes: people take holidays, get ill and move on. When it happens you hear it from us beforehand rather than on the morning, and whoever stands in gets the same written brief about your home.
In Portugal the usual arrangement is that the household provides both, and the cleaner uses what is already in the cupboard. We settle it before the first visit rather than on the morning. If you have a stone floor, a treated wood floor or an allergy, tell us which products must not be used and we write that into the job.
Not automatically, and it is the single most common misunderstanding in this trade. Ironing eats an hour fast. If you want it, say so when you ask and we build it into the hours; otherwise either the visit gets longer or something else stops being done, and neither should be a surprise to you.
Tell us as early as you can. A fixed slot is a place in somebody's week, and a gap announced weeks ahead can be planned around; a gap announced on the morning cannot. We can either hold the slot without charge, or agree a reduced retainer that keeps it reserved. Both are reasonable — we agree which before you go.
If you hire an individual privately, that arrangement carries employment and social security implications and you should take proper advice on it. Book through us and the work is invoiced to you with IVA by whoever does it, which keeps the whole thing a straightforward purchase of a service rather than an employment question.
Number of rooms, how many people live there, and whether there are pets. That is enough for us to tell you whether you need three hours a week or four a fortnight, and what it costs either way.
Tell us the home and the day that works. We cover your street or we say so.