What does Optus Glean charge per hour?

We do not. Commercial and contract cleaning is delivered to a defined scope on a fixed monthly fee, paid by Direct Debit, with an annual indexed review. Per-hour pricing is for ad-hoc and domestic work, neither of which we do. The fixed monthly fee covers the named primary cleaner, the named relief, all consumables where contracted, all equipment, and the management overhead of running the contract.

What happens if Optus Glean's cleaner is sick?

The named relief is deployed and the site contact is notified by 06:30 on the morning of the absence. The relief is already vetted, inducted, and trained on the site's colour-coded system and IPC standard, so the standard of clean does not change. Substitution is Optus Glean's operational problem, not the buyer's risk to absorb.

How is the fixed monthly fee set?

The fee is set against a defined scope of work — frequency, areas, tasks, consumables, equipment — agreed at contract signature and documented in the service specification. The fee is reviewed once a year against the Consumer Price Index and the Contract Cleaning ERO rate movement, with any change communicated 60 days in advance of the review date. There are no in-year variations unless the scope itself changes.

Why are Airbnb changeover cleaners in Galway so unreliable?

It is a workforce-design problem. Most short-term-let turnover cleaning in Galway is delivered by casual, gig, or self-employed operatives found through social media, and many also hold healthcare or hospitality shifts. When a better-paid shift is offered, the changeover is dropped — which on a same-day turnover means a missed clean and a one-star stay. Optus Glean employs operatives PAYE on guaranteed hours, so the changeover is not the secondary income.

What is the difference between PAYE and casual changeover cleaning?

A PAYE-employed cleaner has a contract of employment, statutory annual leave, paid sick leave under the Sick Leave Act 2022, employer PRSI, pension auto-enrolment, and a fixed schedule. A casual or gig cleaner has none of those. In a casual model the risk of a changeover-day no-show sits with the host; in a PAYE model it sits with the provider. Optus Glean is structured so the risk sits with us.

How does Optus Glean stop changeover cleaners disappearing in peak season?

We make the cleaning role the better work. Pay is set above the Contract Cleaning ERO floor (€14.80 per hour, 2026). Hours are guaranteed and rostered weeks in advance. Annual leave is paid. Pension contributions are made. The cleaner has no incentive to substitute a less predictable casual shift during a Galway festival or summer peak.

Why are some Galway changeover cleaning quotes so much cheaper than others?

The differential is almost entirely the employment model. Unverified gig cleaners advertise low per-turn rates because they carry no employment cost and pass service-continuity risk to the host. A managed programme with PAYE-employed, Garda-vetted, insured cleaners and a photo-proofed checklist costs more per turn but removes the no-show risk that makes the cheap option expensive when a stay is cancelled.

Is the ERO rate a minimum or a market rate in Galway?

The Contract Cleaning ERO rate of €14.80 per hour is a statutory minimum set under the Labour Court's Sectoral Employment Order. It is a floor, not a ceiling. Providers who pay at the floor compete for staff with adjacent hospitality and care roles, which is why retention — and reliability — is poor across the lower end of the Galway market.

What evidence is there that this workforce pattern is real?

It is visible in CSO Labour Force Survey data on multi-jobbing in accommodation, food, and administrative-support activities, and in the Workplace Relations Commission's enforcement record under the Contract Cleaning ERO. Hosts confirm it experientially: the same operative who turns over a unit one day is on a hospitality or care rota the next, and the changeover is the shift that gets dropped.

What happens if my changeover cleaner is sick or on leave?

The named relief is deployed. The host is notified by 06:30 on the morning of an unplanned absence, or at the start of the leave period for a planned absence. The relief is already vetted, inducted on the units, and trained on the same colour-coded system and IPC standard as the primary cleaner. The checklist, the equipment, and the changeover window do not change. The turnover is delivered to the same standard.

Will I get a different cleaner every changeover?

No. The model is a named primary cleaner with a named relief, both fixed to your units for the duration of the programme. The relief only attends when the primary is genuinely unavailable, and it is the same named relief each time, not a rotating pool. Continuity of the same two people is what keeps the guest-ready standard stable across every turnover.

How does Optus Glean handle long-term cover?

For absences longer than two weeks, cover is drawn from the wider Optus Glean trained bench. Every operative on the bench is PAYE-employed, Garda-vetted, and trained to the same documented IPC standard, so continuity of standard is preserved. The host is informed of the cover plan, the named individuals involved, and the expected duration when the long-term absence is identified.

What happens if my primary cleaner leaves Optus Glean?

The relief is promoted to primary on a planned timetable. A new relief is recruited, vetted, inducted on the units, trained on the colour-coded system and IPC standard, and introduced before the handover takes effect. There is no scenario in which the host discovers, after the fact, that their cleaner has changed. Continuity is engineered, not improvised.

Airbnb Changeover Cleaning Galway

€6.5M Public Liability

€13M Employer's Liability

Garda Vetted Staff

Same-Day Turnovers

The Optus Glean promise: predictability

Three pillars. Three commitments. No exceptions.

Predictable cost. One fixed per-unit changeover fee inside a retained monthly minimum, set against a defined scope and an annual indexed review. No variable hours. No surprise invoices. No padded callout charges. Budgeted once, paid by SEPA Direct Debit, reviewed once a year.

Predictable presence. The unit is turned over every time it is meant to be. A named primary cleaner is rostered to your units, supported by a named relief who is already vetted, inducted, and trained on the same colour-coded system and IPC standard. The changeover does not depend on whether one person is available on one day.

Predictable freedom. A single point of accountability. One programme. One named manager. One number to call. The changeover, the linen and the guest-ready record stop being a problem the host has to manage — they become a service that runs.

Why Airbnb changeover cleaning in Galway is structurally hard to get right

Most short-term-let turnover cleaning in Galway is delivered by a workforce that is structurally part-time and casual — operatives found through WhatsApp groups and social media, many of whom also hold hospitality or healthcare shifts. Changeover work is typically taken when a better-paid shift is not available, and dropped when it is. This pattern is consistent with CSO labour data on accommodation, food, and administrative-support employment, and on a same-day turnover it is the difference between a guest-ready unit and a cancelled stay.

The pattern is reinforced by pressures specific to a tourism county like Galway. Demand spikes hard during festival season and the summer Wild Atlantic Way peak, exactly when casual cleaners are scarcest and most likely to chase a higher-paying shift. The Contract Cleaning Employment Regulation Order rate of €14.80 per hour for 2026, set under the Labour Court's sectoral framework, sits close enough to flexible hospitality pay that operatives drift toward whichever shift pays slightly more on the day.

The result, from a host's perspective, is the experience most Galway operators describe: a changeover half-completed when the cleaner turns up, missed entirely when they do not, and a scramble for cover that may or may not arrive before the next guest does.

This is the structural problem Optus Glean is built to solve. Our operatives are fully PAYE-employed with guaranteed weekly hours, paid leave, and pension contributions under Irish auto-enrolment. They are paid above the ERO floor deliberately — because reliability depends on the cleaner choosing to stay in the role rather than rotating through casual shifts. A named primary cleaner is assigned to your units, supported by a named relief, both Garda-vetted and trained to Optus Glean's documented HIQA-aligned IPC standard.

Airbnb & Holiday-Let Changeover Cleaning in Galway

Optus Glean provides managed Airbnb and holiday-let changeover cleaning across County Galway — from city-centre and Salthill short lets to the Connemara and Wild Atlantic Way holiday-home belt. We do not sell single hobby-host one-offs: this is a managed monthly programme for portfolio hosts, holiday-let operators and property managers with three or more units, where a fixed per-unit changeover fee sits inside a retained monthly minimum on SEPA Direct Debit over a minimum twelve-month term.

Galway is one of Ireland's strongest tourism markets, and its short-term-let supply is a mix of high-turnover city and Salthill apartments and seasonal Wild Atlantic Way holiday homes. Both depend on a reliable same-day changeover — and both are poorly served by the casual gig cleaners who dominate the local market. Our employed teams cover Galway city, Salthill, Oranmore and Knocknacarra directly, with the vetted Optus Glean Approved partner network extending the same standard across Connemara, Clifden, Roundstone and the coastal long tail.

Galway Changeover Cleaning Pricing

Pricing is a fixed monthly managed programme, quoted per portfolio — not a published per-unit rate. We scope each quote against your number of units, your turnover frequency, your linen and consumables needs, and the property sizes across your Galway portfolio. What is included is consistent: a named primary cleaner and named relief, both PAYE-employed and Garda-vetted, hotel-grade linen supplied and laundered, consumables restock, photo-proof of guest-ready state, and register-ready turnover records. The Contract Cleaning ERO floor (€14.80 per hour, 2026) sets the sector wage baseline and cleaning carries VAT at 23 percent, but your fee is set against your portfolio, not an off-the-shelf list. Request a tailored quote and we will build the programme around your units. For background on what drives changeover cost, see our Airbnb cleaning cost guide for Ireland.

Galway Areas We Cover

Galway City & Salthill

High-turnover city-centre and Salthill apartments see short city-break stays and tight same-day windows. Our employed Galway team turns these over to a fixed checklist, photo-signed guest-ready before the check-in window opens.

Connemara & the Wild Atlantic Way

Clifden, Roundstone, Oughterard and the coastal holiday-home belt are seasonal, higher-value self-catering lets. We handle peak-season same-day changeovers, end-of-season deep resets, and linen on par-levels through the Optus Glean Approved partner network where density is lower.

Oranmore, Knocknacarra & the Commuter Belt

Suburban and commuter-belt units that mix short-let and serviced-accommodation use get the same managed programme, with linen and consumables bundled into the per-turnover fee.

Festival & Seasonal Peaks

Galway's festival calendar and summer Wild Atlantic Way peak are exactly when changeover reliability matters most and casual cleaners are hardest to secure. Because our cleaners are PAYE-employed on guaranteed hours with a named relief behind every unit, the changeover happens on the days the gig market collapses.

How Optus Glean handles staff shortages

Every Optus Glean programme is staffed on a redundancy model rather than a single-person model. A named primary cleaner is assigned to your units at the start. A named relief is assigned alongside them. Both are PAYE-employed by Optus Glean, both are Garda-vetted, both are inducted on your units' layout, access protocols, and colour-coded equipment system, and both are trained to the same documented HIQA-aligned IPC standard. Substitution is built into the programme from the first day, not arranged on the day cover is needed.

Sick day cover. When the primary cleaner is unable to work, the named relief is deployed. The host is notified by 06:30 on the morning of the absence by SMS or email, with the name of the relief attending. The relief follows the same checklist, uses the same equipment, and finishes within the same changeover window. The guest-ready standard is unchanged because the relief was prepared for this scenario before the absence happened.

Peak-season cover. Festival and summer peaks are pre-staffed weeks in advance rather than improvised, the same way a clinical rota pre-staffs known absences. The host is told the cover plan before the peak, not on the morning a cleaner is unavailable.

Long-term cover. If the primary cleaner is absent for more than two weeks, cover is drawn from the wider trained bench rather than relying on the single named relief. The host is kept informed of the cover plan, the named individuals involved, and the expected duration. Continuity of standard is maintained because every operative on the bench is trained to the same documented standard.

Substitution is Optus Glean's operational problem, not the host's risk to absorb. The host pays a fixed per-unit fee inside a monthly minimum for a defined turnover to be delivered, every time it is meant to be delivered. The mechanism by which we deliver it — primary, relief, bench, retraining — is our cost to manage and our risk to carry.

Our Short-Term Let Services in Galway

Airbnb Changeover Cleaning

Reliable per-turnover changeover cleans to a fixed checklist, photo-signed guest-ready.

Holiday Let Cleaning

Self-catering and Wild Atlantic Way holiday-home changeovers and seasonal resets.

Short-Let Linen & Laundry

Hotel-grade linen on par-levels, delivered and collected on the changeover visit.

Airbnb Co-Host & Management

The cleaning-led management tier: changeover, linen, reset and condition reporting.

See the full short-term let cleaning programme, or your local Galway cleaning services hub.

Frequently asked questions

How much does Airbnb changeover cleaning cost in Galway?

Optus Glean prices Galway changeovers as a fixed monthly managed programme, quoted per portfolio rather than as a published per-unit rate. The cost depends on property size, number of bathrooms, linen needs, turnover frequency and location; the Contract Cleaning ERO floor is €14.80 per hour (2026) and cleaning carries VAT at 23 percent. Request a tailored quote and we will scope it against your units.

Do you cover Salthill, Connemara and the Wild Atlantic Way?

Yes. Optus Glean covers Galway city and Salthill directly, and extends across Oranmore, Knocknacarra and the Connemara and Wild Atlantic Way coast — Clifden, Roundstone and the holiday-home belt — through our employed teams and the vetted Optus Glean Approved partner network for the lower-density rural long tail.

Can you handle same-day holiday-let changeovers in peak season?

Yes. The programme is built around the same-day window between an 11:00 checkout and a 15:00 check-in, completed and photo-signed by 14:00, with a named relief auto-dispatched if the primary is unavailable. This holds through Galway's festival and summer peaks, when reliability matters most and casual cleaners are hardest to secure.

Do you provide linen for Galway holiday lets?

Yes. Optus Glean supplies hotel-grade linen on a par-stock basis of three sets per bed in rotation, laundered and swapped on the changeover visit so the host never touches sheets. Linen and laundry can be bundled into the per-unit changeover fee or quoted as a separate line within the monthly programme.

Do you keep short-term let register records?

Yes. Each turnover is logged with timestamped, guest-ready photographs and a linen and consumables record, giving you a register-ready file for the Fáilte Ireland Short-Term Letting (STL) Register, which launches on 1 December 2026 and is mandatory by 31 December 2026. The detail of the register is based on draft legislation and is subject to change.

Last reviewed: 2026-06-21