House cleaning services can offer you assistance when you are moving house to clean your old and new properties from top to bottom. Cleaning the home on your own in the space of a day or two, is a backache that not many of us want or need.

You may choose to hire a cleaner to do one or both of the homes (old and new), so that you don't have to pick up a mop at all. Or, you might hire a domestic cleaning service to come in and do a bit of grime lifting work by ensuring your new place is spotless, before you start unpacking.

Either way, finding the right home cleaning service within your budget can be successfully done with the help of:

• Word of mouth opinion
  
• Online forums reviews
  
• Cleaning services' customer references.

Word of mouth opinion

An effective way of finding reliable domestic cleaning services is by word of mouth. Try asking neighbours, friends, family and colleagues, whether they have hired residential cleaning services that they are willing to recommend.

Online forum reviews

Online community forums are a good source to gage reviews of people's experience with house cleaning services. Within such an environment, you could possibly hear about smaller cleaning services that you may not have stumbled accross via other means.

Small residential cleaning services possibly could charge less and be more customer focused than than some of the larger franchises.

Customer references

Positive client reviews are a good indication of a company's level of service. When doing researching house cleaning services, ask them if they can produce customer references to back their claims.

Customer reviews that praise quality of work, efficiency, punctuality and value for money, will help you view the home cleaning service in a favourable light.

In Australia at the moment, house cleaning services either charge by the hour or by the job, with reputable services starting at around $35 an hour, on average. These prices include cleaning supplies but if you are happy to provide your own, you may be able to reduce the cost somewhat.

If saving money is a high priority, then try doing some of the 'light' cleaning duties and only get a house cleaning service to do the heavy duty work such as scrubbing off wall scuff marks, and cleaning the kitchen and bathroom.