Top Cleaning Services Franchise Opportunities

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, homes are no longer just homes for many people. With nearly half of the workforce working remotely, homes are now offices; with take-out and food delivery booming, homes are now restaurants; with virtual workouts emerging as a hot trend in fitness, homes are now gyms. These shifts, along with an understandable concern for the spread of germs, have created big business for the cleaning segment. The residential cleaning market is expected to be worth $40.38 billion by 2025, with a whopping 80% of households expected to use residential cleaning services by 2024. 

For those looking to get a piece of the action, here are five of the best cleaning service franchises out there right now.

Chem-Dry

• Startup costs: $67,645–$178,907
• Units: 3,500-plus

Chem-Dry, one of the largest cleaning franchises in the world, offers a safe and healthy carpet cleaning experience for clients and a proven business model for franchisees. In addition to carpet cleaning, Chem-Dry offers commercial and residential upholstery, tile, stone, grout, air duct, wood floor and pet urine and odor cleaning services. This means franchisees can tap into multiple revenue streams without the need for high start-up costs and complicated operations.

ecomaids

• Startup costs: $121,560–$147,615
• Units: 50-plus
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ecomaids, the sustainable home cleaning franchise under the Happinest Brands umbrella, prides itself on offering an attractive and lucrative business opportunity for its owners and non-toxic, allergen-free Green Seal certified products for its customers. With a home-based business model, strong support infrastructure, recurring revenue streams and enviable work-life balance, qualified entrepreneurs continue to recognize the value of the ecomaids business opportunity.

Maid Right

• Startup costs: $94,560–$119,800
• Units: 23
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Maid Right, the leading residential and commercial cleaning service franchise under the Premium Service Brands umbrella, has made a name for itself through the use of safer, healthier and greener products, all of which are non-toxic, fully eco-friendly and biodegradable. Maid Right provides franchisees with a flexible, home-based business opportunity that does not require a brick-and-mortar location, as well as a repeat-referral business model that can scale quickly even in times of economic uncertainty due to minimal risk and low overhead costs. In addition, Maid Right offers the marketing support, equipment, supplies and customers needed to start working and building a loyal customer base from day one.

Home Clean Heroes*

• Startup costs: $97,924–$120,037
• Units: 14
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Home Clean Heroes is a fast-growing residential cleaning franchise under the Buzz Franchise Brands umbrella that supports local first responders with every house it cleans. The brand offers refreshingly simple scheduling and provides customers with a friendly, personalized team of professional grime-fighters whose duty is to make their lives easier — and cleaner. Home Clean Heroes’ mission is to defend its customers' free time, so they can spend it on the things that matter most. Home Clean Heroes offers franchisees a recurring revenue model in a time-proven and booming industry with exclusive territories in a year-round business.

Molly Maid

• Startup costs: $110,000–$155,200
• Units: 450-plus

Molly Maid, the residential cleaning franchise under parent company Neighborly, focuses on customer satisfaction by offering consistent, reliable and affordable house-cleaning services. Franchisees can give homeowners their free time back through a simple business model that requires little training or technical expertise. Best of all, it’s a service that will always be in demand and won’t be replaced by technology.