The cleaning business with the most Google reviews in Hamilton got 188 of them in 2021 and 2022, and one in all of 2025. The business sitting second on Google’s map has no website, and its Google description is about a different company. Meanwhile a firm whose first review arrived in February is pricing weekly cleans online to the dollar. We searched “house cleaning hamilton” on 21 October 2026, took the three businesses on Google’s map, read every Google review of the 19 cleaners on the places list (1,114 of them) and picked one newcomer worth watching. Below: who they are, what a regular clean and a move-out clean cost this year, and what tenants actually have to do before handing back the keys.
Quick answers
- A fortnightly clean of a three-bedroom, one-bathroom home costs $145 a visit at one Hamilton firm’s published rates, including GST. Weekly is $119, every four weeks $180.
- A move-out clean of the same home is $321 at Cleaning Doctor and $425 at ProActive Clean, before ovens and carpets.
- Google’s map shows Boost Clean (255 reviews), Shining Star Cleaning Services (32) and 7 Stars Cleaning (29). All are rated 4.9 or 5.0.
- Our newcomer of the year is ProActive Clean: first review in February 2026, 14 since, ten of them answered.
- Tenants must leave a rental reasonably clean and tidy. The law doesn’t require a professional clean, and no cleaner can guarantee your bond.
Our picks at a glance
- Biggest track record and steam-cleaned carpets in the same visit: Boost Clean, Dinsdale.
- Move-out cleans with carpets shampooed: 7 Stars Cleaning, Maeroa.
- A five-star score built in 2024, if you are happy to book by phone: Shining Star Cleaning Services.
- Regular weekly or fortnightly cleaning with a price online before you call: ProActive Clean, Hillcrest, our newcomer of 2026.
In this guide
- Three on the map and one newcomer
- What cleaning costs in Hamilton in 2026
- Cleaning cost calculator
- Moving out: what the law asks of tenants
- What 1,114 reviews tell you
- The Fresh Mop award: newcomer of 2026
- SEO4 Local Score
- The four in detail
- How to choose a cleaner
- Marketing ideas for cleaning businesses
- For cleaners: your round and your own app
- Common questions
Three on the map and one newcomer
How we chose them. The top three are the businesses Google showed in its map results for “house cleaning hamilton” and “cleaners hamilton” on 21 October 2026: the same three both times. For the fourth slot we looked for the best newcomer: a cleaner whose first Google review was written in the last 12 months, with reviews spread over several months rather than a few days, and the most reviews among those that qualified.
Above the ordinary results, two adverts: Carpet Cleaning Hamilton, a sister site of Boost Clean, and Paramount, a national brand. The first ordinary result was Maid2Match. The “People also ask” box wanted to know what a cleaner does in two or three hours and how much to pay one per hour. For “end of tenancy cleaning hamilton” the map changed: Boost Clean, 7 Stars and Cleaning Doctor.
| Cleaner | Google rating (reviews) | First Google review | New reviews, last 12 months | Prices on the website |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boost Clean | 4.9 (255) | July 2019 | 7 | “From” prices |
| Shining Star Cleaning Services | 5.0 (32) | January 2024 | 0 | No website on Google |
| 7 Stars Cleaning | 4.9 (29) | July 2024 | 20 | A move-out range: $70 to $500 |
| ProActive Clean (newcomer) | 5.0 (14) | February 2026 | 14 | Online estimate and “from” prices |
Tip: click or tap any chart or screenshot to see it full screen.
The places list has 20 businesses on its first page. We left out Wash Rite (260 reviews), which washes house exteriors. Ultimate Clean has 174 reviews but the lowest rating on the page, 4.0. Maxaclean, with 173, is based in Cambridge.
What cleaning costs in Hamilton in 2026
Two Hamilton firms put real prices on their websites, which in this trade is unusual. Cleaning Doctor publishes a full end-of-tenancy table. ProActive Clean has an online estimator for regular and move-out cleans. We ran it for common house sizes on 21 October 2026.
Frequency changes the price more than size does. A three-bedroom, one-bathroom home costs $119 a visit weekly and $180 every four weeks, because a house cleaned every week needs less work each time. Over a year, weekly cleaning still costs more: $6,188 against $2,340.
| Home | Cleaning Doctor | ProActive Clean |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom | $217 | $300 |
| 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom | $269 | $350 |
| 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom | $321 | $425 |
| 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms | $390 | Not priced |
| 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms | $459 | $580 |
| 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms | $517 | Not priced |
| Oven | +$92 (with rangehood) | +$80 (single oven) |
| Fridge inside | +$69 | +$45 |
| Carpets | +$113 to $199 | Separate service |
The two firms are roughly $80 to $120 apart for the same house. Read what each price includes before you compare: Cleaning Doctor’s base price covers one kitchen, one living area, hallways and one laundry, while ProActive charges extra for a laundry ($30) and a separate toilet ($25). The others are vaguer. 7 Stars quotes “$70 to $500” for a move-out clean. Boost Clean says regular cleans start “as low as $55”, and its About page lists home cleaning “from $25” without saying per what.
And the hourly question from Google’s box? None of the four list an hourly rate. For scale, the adult minimum wage rose to $23.95 an hour on 1 April 2026. A company’s price also covers GST, travel, products, insurance and the time between jobs.
Overheard at a Hamilton move-out inspection
The property manager’s favourite word: “skirting”. The tenant’s least favourite word: also “skirting”.
Cleaning cost calculator
Choose the job and the house. For regular cleans it shows the year as well as the visit; for move-outs it compares the two firms that publish prices:
What will a clean cost in Hamilton?
Pick the job and the size of the home. Prices are what two Hamilton cleaning businesses publish online, including GST, for a home in reasonable condition. Use them as a budget check, then get a quote.
Regular cleans: ProActive Clean’s online estimate for a reasonably maintained home, per visit, including GST (1 to 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom: $109 weekly, $125 fortnightly, $155 every four weeks; 3 bedrooms and 1 bathroom: $119, $145, $180; 4 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms: $155, $185, $235). Other sizes are matched to the nearest of those three. Move-out cleans: Cleaning Doctor’s published end-of-tenancy table for an empty or near-empty home, including GST, with its extras (oven and rangehood $92, fridge or freezer $69, carpets $113 to $199 depending on home size). Both viewed 21 October 2026.
How the calculator works
Regular cleans use ProActive Clean’s online estimate for a reasonably maintained home, including GST. That estimator gave us three sizes (1 to 2 bedrooms with 1 bathroom, 3 bedrooms with 1 bathroom, 4 bedrooms with 2 bathrooms), so other homes are matched to the nearest one and the calculator says so. A year is 52 weekly, 26 fortnightly or 13 four-weekly visits. Move-out cleans use Cleaning Doctor’s table for one to five bedrooms and one to three bathrooms, plus its prices for an oven ($92), fridge ($69) and carpets ($113 to $199, depending on home size). The fourth box shows ProActive Clean’s estimate for the same home where we priced it, with its own oven ($80) and fridge ($45) extras. Window cleaning, walls, garages and rubbish removal are not included.
Run a cleaning business? SEO4’s free Quote and Job Organiser app turns a quote like this into a job on the spot, and keeps each house’s notes and photos together. More about it, and about a version built just for cleaners, near the end of this guide.
Moving out: what the law asks of tenants
Reasonably clean and tidy, not spotless
According to Community Law’s guide to the Residential Tenancies Act, when a tenancy ends you must leave the place reasonably clean and tidy, take away all your rubbish and return the keys. You don’t have to leave it cleaner or tidier than it was when you moved in. Nothing in that duty says the clean has to be done by a professional.
So why do so many Hamilton tenants book one? Time, mostly, and the fear of a bond deduction. If you do, keep the receipt, take your own dated photos after the cleaner leaves and compare them with the ingoing inspection report.
Watch the words “bond-back guarantee”. 7 Stars Cleaning’s move-out page offers one but doesn’t say what it covers. ProActive Clean says the opposite, plainly: no cleaning company can control a landlord’s or property manager’s decision, and its service doesn’t create an automatic bond-back guarantee. Cleaning Doctor offers a 48-hour window to report anything that needs attention. A return visit if something was missed is a reasonable thing to ask for. A promise about your bond is a promise nobody can keep.
What 1,114 reviews tell you
We collected every public Google review of the 19 cleaners on the places list, Wash Rite aside. For the four in this guide that is 330 reviews.
Four very different curves. Boost Clean got 80 reviews in 2021 and 108 in 2022, then 41, 15, one and, so far this year, seven. Shining Star got 31 reviews in 2024, 19 of them in January, with as many as nine on a single day; its last one is from February 2025. 7 Stars is the only one of the three growing every year: four, nine, sixteen. ProActive Clean didn’t exist on Google until February.
Look at the last 12 months across the whole list and the map looks out of date. Cleaning Doctor collected 38 new reviews and answered 30. CleanMe got 27. 7 Stars got 20 and answered none. Shining Star got none at all, yet still sits on the map; Google weighs distance and relevance as well as fresh reviews.
Hamilton customers write about time more than anything: arriving when promised, fitting in a last-minute clean, finishing fast. At 7 Stars, a third of written reviews are about move-outs and carpets, which matches what it sells. At ProActive Clean, half of the 14 talk about trust and half about communication; one is from a family whose elderly mother has had the same cleaner every week for a year.
Cleaning is personal. Cammy is named in 13 of 7 Stars’ 28 written reviews. Tony is in 65 of Boost Clean’s 185, and Pritpal in six of ProActive’s 14. You are letting someone into your house, often while you are out, and people remember who it was.
Low ratings are rare among the four: six of Boost Clean’s 255 reviews are three stars or fewer, and one of 7 Stars’ 29. On the wider list, Ultimate Clean has 45 reviews at three stars or below out of 174.
The Fresh Mop award: newcomer of 2026
Four Hamilton cleaners got their first Google review this year and already have at least a dozen. Here is how they grew.
Waikato Spotless Cleaners has the most, 18, but they were written on just eight days, up to four at a time, and one review mentions a 50% discount on the first clean. Trusted Cleaning Services has 17 since late July and has answered every one; several are from shops, a motel and an office, so it is leaning commercial. JB Care + Clean has 12, several about move-in and move-out cleans, and one reviewer was referred by their property manager. ProActive Clean has 14, written over four separate months, no more than two on any day, ten with an owner reply, and most of them about the same thing people want from a house cleaner: the same person, every week or fortnight.
That last part decided it. ProActive Clean wins our Fresh Mop award. JB Care + Clean is a close second and worth a call for a move-out.
SEO4 Local Score
Eight checks, 0 to 2 points each, 16 in total. They measure how easy it is to find, check and book a cleaner online. They say nothing about how clean your house will be.
| Cleaner | Google and website agree | Service and Hamilton in title and H1 | Prices published | Booking or quote path | Reviews and rating | Fresh reviews | Owner replies | Trust details and housekeeping | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProActive Clean | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| Boost Clean | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 |
| 7 Stars Cleaning | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Shining Star Cleaning Services | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
How we score
- Google and website agree: 2 if the Google profile links to the business’s own site and the phone numbers match, 1 if the site shows a second number, 0 if there is no website link.
- Service and Hamilton in title and H1: 2 if the home page title and main heading both say cleaning and Hamilton, 1 if one does, 0 if neither or there is no site.
- Prices published: 2 for a price table or an online estimate, 1 for “from” prices or a wide range, 0 for none.
- Booking or quote path: 2 for an online estimate or booking that shows a price, 1 for a contact form or a booking page without prices, 0 for phone only.
- Reviews and rating: 2 for 4.8 or higher with 25 or more Google reviews, 1 for 4.8 or higher with fewer, 0 below 4.5.
- Fresh reviews: 2 for 10 or more in the last 12 months, 1 for 3 to 9, 0 for 2 or fewer.
- Owner replies: 2 if more than half of the last 12 months’ reviews have a reply, 1 if some reviews have a reply, 0 for none.
- Trust details and housekeeping: 2 if the site states insurance and police checks and the claims agree with Google, 1 for one of those or small slips, 0 for claims that don’t match or several problems together.
The four in detail
The three from Google’s map in order of reviews, then the newcomer. None of them are our clients. This is a public snapshot from 21 October 2026, written in good faith, and a website score says nothing about the quality of anyone’s cleaning.
1. Boost Clean (11/16): 255 reviews, and most of them from 2021 and 2022
Best for: one-off deep cleans and move-outs where carpets, steam cleaning or windows go in the same booking.
- The most Google reviews of any home cleaner on the list
- 188 of them written in 2021 and 2022; one in 2025, seven so far in 2026
- Tony named in 65 of 185 written reviews
- Has answered 110 reviews, and five of the seven from the last year
- Services: regular, end of tenancy, steam and carpet cleaning, windows, house washing, car valet
- Sister sites for carpet cleaning (advertised on Google) and handyman work
Boost Clean’s reviews read like a busy season that lasted two years. Customers write about Tony by name, about flexible times and fair prices; a testimonial on its own website describes him staying late and coming back early the next day to get a house ready for a family to move in. Price comes up in 33 written reviews, more than any other theme apart from timing and communication.
The Google profile’s name is a string of search phrases: “Commercial and Residential Cleaning Hamilton | End of Tenancy Cleaning | Carpet Cleaning - Boost Clean”. Google’s own guidelines ask businesses to use their real-world name, and a name like that can lead to a suspended profile.
The website runs on an old version of WordPress and shows its age: words run together (“cleanersrespect”, “Hamiltonfor”), inner pages have no main heading, a footer link to “exerior-house-washing” goes to a “Page not found”, and the contact address is a Gmail account. Prices are scattered: “as low as $55” on one page, “from $25” on another.
Where we would start:
- Rename the Google profile Boost Clean and move the keywords to the services list.
- One price page: regular, move-out and carpets, by home size.
- Ask every customer for a review again; the last 12 months brought seven.
2. Shining Star Cleaning Services (3/16): a five-star map spot with nowhere to click
Best for: a phone booking with a small local team, if you don’t need to see prices first.
- 32 Google reviews, all five stars, written between January 2024 and February 2025
- 19 in January 2024, as many as nine on a single day
- No new review in 20 months
- Google shows “15+ years in business”; the company was incorporated in 2021
- The description on its Google profile is about a different business, Absolute Domestics
- The domain in its Facebook email address shows an empty server directory
Shining Star has something many cleaners would like: a perfect 5.0 and a spot on Google’s map for both of Hamilton’s main cleaning searches. Its Facebook page says it was founded in Hamilton by Suresh Sharma, and its reviews praise speed and value.
Click through and there is very little. The Google profile has no website, only a phone number and “Open 24 hours”. Its “From the business” description talks about Absolute Domestics, “a recruitment and referral agency”, which looks like text copied from another company. And the domain behind its email address, shiningstars.co.nz, shows an empty directory listing instead of a website.
The reviews tell a story about timing too. Most arrived in one month, January 2024, and none has come since February 2025. For a customer, that means the profile tells you about early 2024 and not much about today.
If we were fixing it:
- Rewrite the Google description in the business’s own words.
- Put a one-page website on shiningstars.co.nz: services, areas, a price guide, a booking form.
- Correct the years in business and ask this year’s customers for reviews.
3. 7 Stars Cleaning (10/16): Cammy, carpets and the fastest growth of the three
Best for: end-of-tenancy cleans with carpets shampooed, for tenants who want the whole move-out handled in one visit.
- First Google review July 2024; 20 in the last 12 months
- Cammy named in 13 of 28 written reviews
- Nine reviews mention moving out, nine mention carpets
- No owner replies
- Move-out cleans “$70 to $500” and a “bond-back guarantee” without written terms
- Online booking page lists six services as one-hour slots, without prices
7 Stars is doing what Shining Star stopped doing: collecting reviews every year, four in 2024, nine in 2025 and sixteen so far in 2026. The reviews are specific: old stains and pet smells out of carpets, a great end-of-tenancy clean, and Cammy, by name, in nearly half of them.
The website covers the main searches well. Its title and heading both say Hamilton, there are separate pages for move-outs, carpets, windows and house washing, and a booking page. The details need work. The home page shows one number and the FAQ another, email goes to a Gmail address, and the booking page offers every service as a one-hour slot, which no move-out clean is. The three testimonials on the home page carry names but no suburbs or dates.
Three quick fixes:
- One phone number everywhere, matching Google.
- Write down what the bond-back guarantee covers, or call it a free return visit.
- Reply to reviews; 29 thank-yous is one evening’s work.
4. ProActive Clean (14/16): our newcomer of 2026
Best for: regular weekly or fortnightly home cleaning, and landlords who want cleaning, carpets and lawns from one contact.
- Weekly cleaning from $109 including GST, published on its residential page
- Online estimate for regular, deep and move-out cleans, with downloadable checklists
- $10 million public liability insurance and police-checked cleaners, by its own account
- Ten of 14 reviews answered
- Pritpal named in six reviews, Mandeep in two
- Says plainly that it can’t guarantee a bond
ProActive Clean has the clearest website of any cleaner we looked at in Hamilton. The estimator asks the questions that set the price (bedrooms, bathrooms, frequency, condition) and flags heavy build-up or mould for a manual quote rather than pretending. Its reviews come from regular clients, a landlord with several rentals, and a family whose mother has had Pritpal cleaning every week for a year.
Two things hold it back. With 14 reviews it has the fewest of the four, so it is too early to judge consistency. And the name is crowded: a Google search for “proactive clean hamilton” asks “Did you mean: proactiv” and fills the page with Proactive, a Hamilton physiotherapy group. The home page heading doesn’t say Hamilton either.
What would help most:
- Put Hamilton in the home page heading.
- Keep asking every regular client for a review, by name.
- Use the brand in full, “ProActive Clean Hamilton”, on Google and social profiles.
Also worth a look
Cleaning Doctor (4.9 from 80) collected more new Google reviews than anyone in Hamilton in the last 12 months, answered most of them, and publishes the full move-out price table we used above. It appeared in Google’s map for “end of tenancy cleaning hamilton”. Two smaller names match the search almost word for word: House Cleaning Hamilton, whose seven Google reviews stopped in 2023, and housecleaninghamiltonnz.info. Ask for the company name before you book.
How to choose a cleaner in Hamilton
Questions worth asking, whoever you call:
- What exactly is included? Ask for the checklist: ovens, fridges, windows, walls, garages and carpets are often extra.
- Who will come? For regular cleans, ask whether it will be the same person each time.
- Are your cleaners police checked and insured? A business that has thought about it will answer in one sentence.
- What happens if something is missed? A return visit within a day or two is the answer you want.
- Is GST included? Compare prices on the same basis.
- For move-outs: book early near the end of the month, and keep your own photos.
Marketing ideas for cleaning businesses
Based on the 1,114 reviews, the four websites and what Hamilton asks Google.
- Publish prices by house size. Only two firms do it here. One of them, Cleaning Doctor, collected more new reviews than anyone in Hamilton this year.
- Answer the hourly question. Google’s box keeps asking how much a cleaner costs per hour and what they do in two or three hours. A page that answers it will get read.
- Ask regular clients for reviews. They are the people who know you best and the ones new customers trust. A review a month from the round keeps the profile alive.
- Use your real name on Google and your own description. Keyword-stuffed names and copied text are easy to spot, by customers and by Google.
- Put the cleaner’s name forward. Customers already do: Tony, Cammy and Pritpal are in the reviews.
- Write a move-out page that tells the truth about bonds. It builds more trust than a guarantee nobody can honour.
How to tell you’ve found a good cleaner
You start tidying up before they arrive.
Ideas 1, 3 and 5 are where our Quote and Job Organiser app helps: a quote by house size with GST, each client’s notes and photos in one place, and your name on every PDF. If you would rather we handled your Google profile and website, see SEO in Hamilton.
For cleaners: your round and your own app
A regular client is worth far more than one booking. Put in your own round:
Cleaners: what is your regular round worth?
Regular clients are the backbone of a cleaning business. Put in your round and see what it brings in over a month and a year, and what you earn per hour before costs.
The default price is ProActive Clean’s published fortnightly estimate for a three-bedroom, one-bathroom home ($145 including GST, viewed 21 October 2026). The other defaults are an example, not any company’s figures. Takings include GST if you are GST-registered; travel, products, insurance, ACC levies and tax are not taken off.
Quote and Job Organiser: SEO4’s free app for cleaners
Quote and Job Organiser is a free Android app on Google Play. No account, no subscription and no ads, and your data stays on your phone.
- Quotes with your own prices by house size or by the hour, NZ GST and an editable quote number.
- A PDF on the spot, shared by email, SMS or WhatsApp when you choose to send it.
- An accepted quote becomes a job automatically, with the customer and price carried over.
- Notes and photos for each house, ETA messages, and a calendar showing the month’s work and what has been paid.
The free app is where most people start. Cleaners usually want more: recurring visits that book themselves, key, alarm and pet notes per client, a room-by-room checklist your team ticks off, before and after photos for move-outs, a review request when the job is done, your logo and colours. Or something we haven’t thought of. Send us the idea, even a rough one. We build custom apps for cleaners and for any other trade, and we price them so a small business can say yes. We don’t quite work for food, but you’ll be surprised how close we get. Tell us what you need.
Common questions
At ProActive Clean’s published rates, including GST, a three-bedroom, one-bathroom home costs $119 a visit weekly, $145 fortnightly and $180 every four weeks. A smaller one- or two-bedroom home starts at $109 weekly. A first clean or a heavily soiled home may need a deep-clean quote first.
Cleaning Doctor publishes $217 for one bedroom and one bathroom, $321 for three bedrooms and one bathroom and $459 for four bedrooms and two bathrooms, including GST. ProActive Clean’s online estimate gives $300, $425 and $580 for the same homes. Ovens, fridges and carpets cost extra.
No. Tenants must leave the property reasonably clean and tidy, remove their rubbish and return the keys, and don’t have to leave it cleaner than it was when they moved in. A professional clean is optional. Check your tenancy agreement and the ingoing inspection report.
None of the four businesses in this guide publish an hourly rate; they price by home size. The adult minimum wage is $23.95 an hour from 1 April 2026, and a cleaning company’s price also covers GST, travel, products and insurance.
On 21 October 2026, Boost Clean had 255 Google reviews (4.9), Ultimate Clean 174 (4.0) and Maxaclean, based in Cambridge, 173 (4.8). Cleaning Doctor collected the most new reviews in the previous 12 months: 38.
Sources and how we checked
- Google searches for “house cleaning hamilton”, “cleaners hamilton” and “end of tenancy cleaning hamilton”, Google’s places list and brand searches for each business, all on 21 October 2026 from New Zealand. Results depend on where and when you search.
- Google reviews: SEO4 collected every public Google review of the 19 cleaning businesses on the places list (1,114 reviews; Wash Rite excluded) on 21 October 2026, with date, stars and owner reply. Themes and names are keyword matches in reviews with text; one review can match several themes.
- Prices: Cleaning Doctor, end-of-tenancy cleaning; ProActive Clean, residential cleaning and its online estimate (run for 1 to 4 bedrooms, reasonably maintained condition); 7 Stars Cleaning’s move-out page; Boost Clean’s regular cleaning and About pages. All viewed 21 October 2026.
- Law: Community Law, your obligations at the end of the tenancy. Minimum wage: Employment New Zealand.
- Websites: Boost Clean, 7 Stars Cleaning and ProActive Clean, viewed 21 October 2026. Shining Star Cleaning Services has no website on its Google profile; company details from the Companies Office record as shown in search results.
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