Cleaning Schedule and Home Maintenance Planner

About this template

This cleaning schedule asks for two numbers per job, how often and how long, and turns them into a year of hours. It is for anyone who wants to know whether the cleaning they plan actually fits their week.

Please read: This is a tracker tool only, not financial, tax, legal, medical or any other professional advice or advisory service. It records and calculates what you enter; you are solely responsible for checking all figures, rates, dates and results and for every decision you make. By purchasing, downloading or using it, you accept these terms (your statutory consumer rights are not affected).

Two numbers in

For each job you choose how often it happens, from eight options, how long it takes in minutes, and which room it belongs to. That is the whole input. Times a year, minutes a year, hours a year and hours a week are worked out, and measured against the hours you actually have. Every figure on the dashboard is calculated from the tabs behind it. Nothing is typed into a summary, so the front page can never disagree with the rows it came from.

What is included

• Schedule: eighty recurring jobs, each with frequency, minutes and room
• Yearly home maintenance: jobs such as the boiler, gutters and alarms sit in the same schedule
• Tasks: 200 one-off tasks
• Time by room: worked out automatically
• Dashboard: live, showing the week against the time you have

There are six connected tabs, all reading the same source list. Use the schedule as a cleaning checklist, a chore chart for the household or a simple routine tracker, and see at a glance whether the house cleaning plan is realistic.

You get real spreadsheet files, not a PDF with a link in it: Excel and Google Sheets, each filled in and each blank and ready for yours. The filled copy is the file in the photos, so you can see how it behaves before you type anything.

Works with

• Microsoft Excel 2016, 2019, 2021 and Microsoft 365, on Windows and Mac, and LibreOffice. No Microsoft 365 subscription required.
• Google Sheets with a free Google account. No Google account is needed for the Excel files.
• No add-ins, no macros and no subscription

What you download

• The Excel workbook filled with a worked example, and the same workbook blank and ready for yours
• The instruction guide, which has one-click links to the Google Sheets versions (filled and blank)
• The terms of use as a PDF

Your files are ready to download as soon as payment clears. The Start Here tab walks you through setup in a few minutes. The files are for personal use on your own devices; please do not share or resell them. Questions before or after you buy? Use our contact page and we will help.

Frequently asked questions

Can I use it in Google Sheets or Excel?

Both. You get Excel files for Excel 2016 or later on Windows and Mac, and the instruction guide has one-click links to make Google Sheets copies with a free Google account.

What do I have to enter?

For each job: how often, from eight options, how long in minutes, and which room. Everything else is worked out.

Can it tell me if my plan is realistic?

Yes. It totals hours a week and hours a year and measures them against the hours you say you have.

Does it cover home maintenance as well as cleaning?

Yes. Yearly jobs such as the boiler, gutters and alarms go in the same schedule, and one-off tasks have their own tab.

How many jobs can I add?

The schedule holds eighty recurring jobs, and the Tasks tab holds 200 one-off tasks.