Checklist
Cleaning checklist for your cleaner: pick the tasks, fit them into the time, print in two languages
A cleaning checklist for your cleaner sets out what she does on every visit, what comes up every two weeks or once a month, and what is only done on request. Below you pick the tasks room by room. The list checks whether everything fits into the booked time, spreads the rest over four weeks and prints as an annex to the employment contract, in your language and in your cleaner's. Not a chore chart for the family, but the agreement between the two of you.
Your checklist, room by room
Tick, choose how often, done. The list works out the times for your home.
Who is filling in the list?
Booked time per week
Clino households mostly book 2 or 4 hours.
Home: 4 rooms · 2 people · 1 bathroom · Guest toilet
Fits into 4 h a week.
Kitchen
4 on the list- 35 min
- 15 min
- 10 min
- 30 min
- 30 min
- 20 min
Bathroom & toilet
2 on the list- 35 min
- 20 min
Living & bedrooms
5 on the list- 16 min
- 8 min
- 20 min
- 1 h 15 min
- 35 min
- 30 min
- 25 min
Floors & entrance
2 on the list- 26 min
- 23 min
- 10 min
Laundry & extras
3 on the list- 25 min
- 45 min
- 1 h 15 min
- On request
Minutes: guide values from Clino's hours planner for this home (± 20 %). Vacuuming, mopping and dusting share its time for floors and dust, the split is our estimate; outside windows count like inside windows.
How the month works out
Every week · 2 h 30 min: Kitchen · Bins & fridge outside · Bathroom · Dusting · Vacuuming · Mopping
- A3 h 18 min
+ Beds · Fridge inside · 42 min spare
- B3 h 55 min
+ Windows inside · 5 min spare
- C3 h 18 min
+ Beds · Upholstery · 42 min spare
- D3 h 35 min
+ Doors & radiators · Bathroom deep · 25 min spare
On request
- Oven
- Ironing
- Windows outside
- Buy supplies
Only when agreed beforehand. If it does not fit into the time, something else is left out or the visit runs longer: that is overtime, paid with a 25 % supplement unless something else was agreed in writing or the cantonal standard employment contract says otherwise (Art. 321c CO).
Your cleaner's language
The link only holds tasks, frequency, hours and language. No names, no address.
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Settle before the first visit
Seven points that are on no cleaning list and still decide every start. The printout has them with space to fill in.
Who has which key, how does the alarm work? Hand the key over against a receipt, never put the code on paper.
Cleaning products and equipment
Where are they, who buys more? Unless something else is agreed or customary, you provide the material. If she brings her own with your consent, she is owed fair compensation, unless agreed otherwise (Art. 327 CO).
What is not touched
Valuables, papers, delicate plants, a room that stays closed.
Pet
Where is it while she cleans, may it go out, does it need feeding?
Rubbish and recycling
Fee bags, collection days, where glass, PET and cardboard go.
Amount, day, cash against a receipt or to her account. A written payslip comes with it (Art. 323b CO).
Say so at once, hide nothing. She is only liable for intent or negligence, and the care expected depends on the job and her experience (Art. 321e CO).
After each visit: three lines
Done, not managed, what's missing. She sends it in the family's language and still understands every word.
- All done for today ✅
- Done: everything on the list
- Not managed: –
- Please buy: –
- See you next week!
The first week: how the list becomes an agreement
Before
Send her the list on WhatsApp, in her language. She arrives with questions instead of assumptions.
On the first visit
One walk through the flat, list in hand: where the cleaning products are, what is not touched. That time is paid working time too.
After four weeks
By now you both know what fits into the time. Adjust the list, print it, sign it: the job must be set out in writing within one month of the start (Art. 330b CO).
When the list does not fit into the time
At Clino, households almost always book round packages: exactly 4 hours a week (9 times) or exactly 2 (6 times), exactly 3 fewer than 5 times (as of 4 October 2026). If the list does not fit, there are three ways out.
Less often
Dusting, beds and windows need not be every week. Set to «Every 2 weeks», their time halves and the plan puts them in weeks A and C or B and D.
Thoroughly once a year
Oven, outside windows, cupboards inside belong to the spring clean, not to the week.
Book more time
In Zurich at CHF 30 gross an hour, with holiday pay and employer contributions:
2 h a week
CHF 304
a month
4 h a week
CHF 608
a month
Frequently asked questions
What goes on a cleaning checklist for a cleaner?
Three things per task: what exactly, in which room and how often. Add the tasks that only come on request, and the booked time. Without a frequency every list turns into an argument: «windows» can mean every week or only in spring.
What can a cleaner do in 2 or 4 hours?
According to the model of Clino's hours planner, the weekly base clean (kitchen, bathroom, floors, dusting) takes about 1 h 55 min in a 3-room flat and about 2 h 25 min in a 4-room flat with a guest toilet. So 2 hours leave little room for anything else. In 4 hours, beds, fridge, windows and upholstery fit in, rotating over the weeks.
Who provides the cleaning products?
Unless agreed otherwise or customary, the employer: he provides the equipment and material (Art. 327 para. 1 CO). If she brings her own with your agreement, she is owed fair compensation for it, unless something else was agreed (para. 2). If she buys something on the way, you repay it against the receipt (Art. 327a CO).
Can I ask for more than what is on the list?
You may give instructions on how the work is done (Art. 321d CO). The agreed time stays the same, though. Anything beyond it is overtime, and that is the exception: only where it is necessary and reasonable for her, ideally agreed beforehand; otherwise she may say no. It is paid with a 25 % supplement or, if she agrees, offset with the same amount of time off, unless agreed otherwise in writing or set otherwise by the cantonal standard employment contract (Art. 321c CO). What legally belongs to her job is set out in the overview of a household helper's tasks.
Does the task list have to be in writing?
The employment contract itself needs no particular form (Art. 320 CO). But if the job lasts longer than a month, the employer must set out in writing within one month of the start: the parties, the start date, the job, the pay and the weekly hours (Art. 330b CO). The signed list turns «job» into something you can both point at.
Checklist, cleaning schedule or spring clean: what is the difference?
This checklist is the agreement with your cleaner: what she does in the booked time. The cleaning schedule shares out the housework across the whole household, the family included. The spring clean is the big round once a year, with a checklist of its own.