Professional one-time thorough house cleaning in Taipei

[TaipeiGuy2000]

@bdog

They hose our gongyu’s stairwell down once a year.

Ours as well. And in return we hand over twice the regular monthly fee for Chinese New Year.

[bdog]

The only reason I don’t do it myself, like every other week, is I know someone is going to slip and take me to court. Actually I was chatting to them on their once a year visit, maybe last year, and they said people in other apartments have complained (about the once a year hose down). If anyone pipes up, they just don’t do it at all, and claim that as the reason.

[TaipeiGuy2000]

In our stairwell, they re-did all the walls and ceilings one time with white plaster and they spilled all the plaster over the stairwell. That stuff does not wash out anyway. I had reason to mop part of our stairwell myself the other day and my mop has never been that dirty.

[bdog]

We have a windowsill near the door. It gets coated with black dust. I go out there once a month with a bucket of water and a sponge and just wipe all the dust off the door and window sill, and just clean the general area down. When the neighbours come out, they look at me like I am raving mad.

[qwert_zuiop]

@olm

1st try: Hoho , as suggested in another thread here. Professional looking services website, completely in Chinese. The line account speaks English. For cleaning empty apartments, they need an evaluation to make an offer. I made an appointment for that, waited a few hours for someone to show up, but nothing. Two weeks after the appointment (and after the job was already done by someone else) they called me in English telling me they will come the next day for the evaluation. After 3 different people called me they finally understood that they fucked it up and didn’t get the business.

After some back and forth, I’ve just received a quote from Hoho (from what I’ve learned by now, they’re actually just an intermediary platform which acts as a broker for different companies).

For “deep-cleaning” a kitchen, a bathroom (both rather small and dirty, but not above-average, I’d say), and three windows before move-in, they’re quoting almost NT$ 7,000 and said it should be a two people’s job for about half a day. That would come down to almost NT$ 900 per person per hour. That seems a bit excessive to me - I feel like I’ll probably be better off cleaning myself as I’m planning to move in soon and there’s probably not enough time to get another quote by now…

[bananas]

@qwert_zuiop

After some back and forth, I’ve just received a quote from Hoho (from what I’ve learned by now, they’re actually just an intermediary platform which acts as a broker for different companies).

I’ve had some bad experiences with Hoho and wouldn’t recommend them. They wanted something like $15k to clean my 3 room apartment and when I instead hired an hourly cleaner through the platform they managed to clean one bathroom in 2 hours.