The Optus Glean promise: predictability
Three pillars. Three commitments. No exceptions.
Predictable cost. A fixed per-unit changeover fee inside a retained monthly minimum, paid by SEPA Direct Debit, with an annual indexed review. No variable hours, no surprise invoices, no padded callout charges. Budgeted once, paid monthly, reviewed once a year.
Predictable presence. The turnover happens every time it is meant to happen. A named primary cleaner is assigned 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 free 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 short-term let cleaning in Ireland is structurally hard to get right
Most short-term let turnover cleaning in Ireland is delivered by casual, part-time, or self-employed operatives found through WhatsApp groups and social media. A significant proportion of that workforce also holds healthcare assistant shifts in nursing homes and acute care, and the cleaning shift is dropped when a care shift is offered. On a changeover day — where an 11:00 checkout has to be guest-ready for a 15:00 check-in — a single no-show is not an inconvenience; it is a cancelled or one-star stay. This casual pattern is consistent with CSO labour data on accommodation and administrative-support employment.
The pattern is reinforced by Irish-specific pressures. Housing affordability and wage compression in Dublin in particular pull operatives toward whichever shift pays slightly more on the day. 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 care-sector pay that casual cleaners drift between the two. There is no insurance behind the gig cleaner, no audit trail when a guest complains, and no record when an inspector or the host's insurer asks for one.
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, paid above the ERO floor deliberately so the role is the better work, not the secondary income. A named primary cleaner is assigned to your units, supported by a named relief, both Garda-vetted through the National Vetting Bureau and trained to Optus Glean's documented IPC standard. The turnover is delivered to a fixed checklist, photographed at sign-off, and logged — which is why we can promise the changeover happens every time it is meant to, not most times.
The Cleaning-Led Co-Host Tier
Optus Glean's co-host tier is the operations layer that sits on top of the changeover. It bundles the full physical turnover into one programme: managed changeover cleaning, linen supplied and laundered on par-levels, consumables restock, a guest-ready reset to the listing-photo standard, condition reporting on every turn, maintenance triage, and a monthly register-ready compliance pack. The host keeps the listing, the pricing and the guest relationship; we become the host's named, vetted team on the ground for every unit. For the per-turnover figures behind the programme, see our Airbnb cleaning cost guide for Ireland, and for the turnover itself, how to clean an Airbnb between guests.
What This Tier Does — And What It Deliberately Does Not
It is important to be precise about the boundary. Optus Glean is a cleaning and facilities company, and the co-host tier stays inside that perimeter. We deliver the physical and compliance side of co-hosting; we do not run the commercial side of your listing.
- What we do: managed changeover cleaning, linen hire and laundering, consumables restock, guest-ready resets, photo-proofed condition reporting, maintenance triage, and the monthly compliance pack.
- What we do not do: guest messaging and reviews, dynamic pricing and calendar management, channel and platform management, taking bookings, or handling guest payments and host financials.
For hosts who want a fully hands-off arrangement, we can layer an optional management fee on top for the co-host duties, but the foundation is always the cleaning-led programme. We do not pretend to be a full property-management or guest-services agency — we are the team that makes sure the unit is turned over, guest-ready and on record, every stay.
Delivering Across Multiple Units and Counties
Optus Glean covers all 26 counties through a hybrid network. Employed hubs in Dublin, Cork and Galway — the high-density short-term let markets — deliver the PAYE, named-cleaner, Garda-vetted promise directly. For lower-density tourist counties such as Kerry, Clare, Donegal, Mayo and Wexford, a vetted Optus Glean Approved partner network delivers locally under the same standard. A partner only earns the badge if their own cleaners are PAYE-employed and Garda-vetted, and they use the identical checklist, photo-proof portal and compliance pack, so the host cannot tell hub from partner. With roughly 32,665 short-term let listings active across Ireland (Failte Ireland and CSO estimates), much of the tourist supply sits outside the cities — which is exactly why the partner network matters for multi-county portfolios.
The Compliance Wedge: Register-Ready Documentation
Ireland's short-term letting market is formalising. The Failte Ireland Short-Term Letting (STL) Register requires hosts to register, display a registration number on every listing, and keep records, with platforms required to de-list properties that are not registered. The boundary between a short-term let and a residential tenancy is set out by the Residential Tenancies Board, and the underlying policy and the Short Term Letting and Tourism Bill 2025 are described on gov.ie. The host's exposure has shifted from “is my unit clean” to “can I prove I am operating legally.”
The co-host tier bundles register-ready turnover documentation: every turn checks the registration number is still displayed on the listing, and the monthly compliance pack records timestamped photo evidence of guest-ready state, an IPC colour-coding attestation, a linen-change record, and fire, smoke and CO-alarm check logs. If a planner, an inspector, your insurer or a guest's solicitor asks, you have a dated, photo-evidenced file proving every turn met standard. No gig cleaner produces this.
Maintenance Triage on Every Turn
Because our named team is in the unit on every changeover, they are also your early-warning system. The cleaner spots, photographs and logs the leaking tap, the broken blind or the dead smoke alarm, escalates it within one hour, and — where you want us to — dispatches a vetted trade from our list, billed at cost plus a coordination fee. Small faults are caught between guests, before they become a one-star review or a bigger repair bill.
How the Managed Programme Is Bought
Optus Glean does not sell single hobby-host one-offs. The co-host tier is a managed monthly programme for portfolio hosts, operators and property managers with three or more units. The host commits to a retained monthly minimum on SEPA Direct Debit over a minimum twelve-month term; changeovers and add-ons are billed against that minimum at a fixed per-unit fee, with overage billed monthly in arrears. This is the same contractable backbone Optus Glean uses for B2B facilities work — a defined scope, an SLA, fixed pricing, and one point of accountability. Chemical and contractor-safety obligations follow the Health and Safety Authority framework, and our operatives are paid above the Contract Cleaning ERO floor of €14.80 per hour for 2026 set under the Workplace Relations Commission framework.
Frequently Asked Questions About Airbnb Co-Hosting & Management
What does an Airbnb co-host in Ireland do?
An Airbnb co-host runs the on-the-ground operations of a short-term let so the host does not have to. Optus Glean offers the cleaning-led co-host tier: managed changeover cleaning, linen, guest-ready resets, condition reporting and a register-ready compliance pack. The host keeps the listing, pricing and guest communications; we run the physical turnover and the records behind it.
How much does Airbnb management cost in Ireland?
Full Irish co-host management typically costs 15 to 20 percent of net booking value. Optus Glean prices its cleaning-led tier differently: a fixed per-unit changeover fee inside a retained monthly minimum, with an optional 15 percent management fee only for hands-off hosts. For per-turnover figures by property size, see our Airbnb cleaning cost guide for Ireland.
Do you manage changeovers, linen and guest-ready resets together?
Yes. The whole point of the cleaning-led co-host tier is one provider for the full turnover: changeover cleaning, linen supplied and laundered on par-levels, consumables restock, and a guest-ready reset to the listing-photo standard. Every turn is photo-signed and logged, so the unit is presented to the same standard on every stay, on one programme and one invoice.
Can you manage multiple short-let units across counties?
Yes. Optus Glean covers all 26 counties through a hybrid model: employed hubs in Dublin, Cork and Galway, and a vetted Optus Glean Approved partner network for lower-density counties such as Kerry, Clare, Donegal, Mayo and Wexford. Every unit runs to the same checklist, photo-proof portal and compliance standard, so the host cannot tell hub from partner.
Do you help with short-term let registration and compliance?
We do not file your registration for you, but the managed programme keeps you defensible. Each turn checks the Failte Ireland registration number is displayed, and the monthly compliance pack records timestamped photo evidence, IPC attestations, linen-change logs and fire, smoke and CO-alarm checks — the dated file an inspector, planner or insurer would accept.
How Optus Glean handles staff shortages
Every Optus Glean contract is staffed on a redundancy model rather than a single-person model. A named primary cleaner is assigned to the site at contract start. A named relief is assigned alongside them. Both are PAYE-employed by Optus Glean, both are Garda-vetted, both are inducted on the site's specific 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 contract 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 site site contact is notified by 06:30 on the morning of the absence by SMS or email, with the name of the relief who is attending. The relief follows the same task list, uses the same equipment, and finishes within the same window. The standard of clean is unchanged because the relief was prepared for this scenario before the absence happened.
Annual leave cover. Annual leave is rostered weeks in advance and the relief is scheduled to cover the full leave period. The site is informed at the start of the leave period — not on the morning leave begins. This is the same model used in clinical rota management: known absences are pre-staffed, not improvised.
Long-term cover. If the primary cleaner is absent for more than two weeks (extended illness, parental leave, bereavement leave), cover is drawn from the wider trained bench rather than relying on the single named relief. The site 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.
Permanent reassignment. If the primary cleaner moves to a new permanent role within Optus Glean — promotion, relocation, retirement — the relief is promoted to primary on a planned timetable, a new relief is trained on the site, and both are introduced to the site before the handover takes effect. There is no day on which the site discovers, after the fact, that their cleaner has changed.
Substitution is Optus Glean's operational problem, not the site's risk to absorb. The buyer pays a fixed monthly fee for a defined scope to be delivered, every day 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.
Last reviewed: 2026-06-21