Across Al Faisaliyah in east Riyadh, Gulf Al-Arab Company sends hourly maids to Al Faisaliyah, Riyadh homes, from family floors to flats: a legally employed maid comes for a visit that usually lasts 4 hours, clears the stacked dishes, scrubs the kitchen and bathroom tiles and their grout, and tidies the home. Four hours with one maid is from SAR 138. Ring or send a WhatsApp to 0561940026 to book.
A quick word on terms for newcomers: a part-time or hourly maid here is booked by the visit. She is not a live-in helper; she arrives at a set time, works the hours you paid for, and our driver takes her back afterwards.
The service in Al Faisaliyah, briefly
- Kitchen and bathrooms: one maid, four hours, starting at SAR 138
- After a big dinner: a two-maid team for four hours, starting at SAR 296
- A home that needs longer: five hours, starting at SAR 184
- More time: each added hour starts at SAR 52
- Same day every week: a monthly plan of 4 visits × 4 hours, starting at SAR 468
- Contact: WhatsApp or phone 0561940026
Which Al Faisaliyah?
This page is about the residential Al Faisaliyah district of Riyadh. It is not the Faisaliah Tower, which stands in Al Olaya, and not the Al Faisaliyah districts of Jeddah, Dammam or Al Kharj. We cover it as part of East Riyadh, while some property sites file it under central Riyadh.
Which jobs does a part-time maid cover in Al Faisaliyah?
In one visit the maid can handle almost all indoor housework: dishes and kitchen, bathrooms and their tiles, bedrooms and beds, the living room and majlis, plus laundry and ironing if you want them. In Al Faisaliyah, though, two requests come before everything else: a kitchen sink that never seems to empty, and kitchen and bathroom tiles whose grout lines need patient scrubbing. That is why most of this page is about those two jobs.
The reason lies in how people live here. Property listings in Al Faisaliyah show many residential floors (adwar), meaning buildings where each storey is a separate family home, often an extended family or one with frequent relatives visiting. That kind of household runs its kitchen from morning to night, washes tea and coffee sets several times a day, and shares its bathrooms among many people. An hourly maid in such a home is less a luxury than a way to get the kitchen back without spending the day at the sink.
Living on a residential floor: how does it change the cleaning plan?
A residential floor sits between a small flat and a villa. Most are roomier than a flat, with a generous kitchen and more than one bathroom, yet it is all on one level with no internal stairs. That helps: the maid moves between rooms without going up and down, so more of her hours go into work that needs focus.
On the other hand, floors usually share a building entrance and staircase, and some have a roof area or an annex. Here is how we handle those parts, so nothing is unclear on the day:
- Inside your floor: everything behind your front door, from rooms and kitchen to bathrooms, living room and majlis, is the maid’s area.
- Your landing: she can mop the landing right outside your door and line up the shoes there.
- Shared stairs: cleaning them depends on your arrangement with the landlord or the other residents, so mention it when booking.
- Roof and annex: light jobs such as sweeping and tidying are possible; hosing down the roof or working near its edge is not.
A question we often get from people living on floors: will the maid work if there are guests or male relatives on the other floor? The maid only works inside your own home, and you just need to tell us in advance about any arrangement that fits your family’s privacy, for example starting with the kitchen and inner bathrooms and leaving the majlis until it is empty. Having a lady of the house at home remains the best arrangement, as she sets the priorities and welcomes the maid.
If the floor has just been rented or you have just moved out, you can book a move-in or move-out clean, in which the maid wipes the inside of cupboards, the tiles and the inside of the windows, and gets the kitchen and bathrooms ready to use.
Hourly maid prices in Al Faisaliyah
A 4-hour visit with one maid in Al Faisaliyah is from SAR 138, and that is usually enough for the kitchen, the bathrooms and a general tidy of the floor. These are the options that suit homes in the district, in order of demand:
| Visit type | Details | From (SAR) |
|---|---|---|
| Single maid, four hours | Kitchen, dishes, bathrooms and a tidy of the floor | 138 |
| 5 hours | For a large floor with laundry, or careful grout scrubbing | 184 |
| Two maids, 4 hours | After a dinner or family gathering: one in the kitchen, one in the majlis | 296 |
| Extra hour | To finish a job started during the visit | 52 |
| 4 visits a month | One 4-hour visit each week on the day you choose | 468 |
| Twelve-visit plan | A four-hour slot three times weekly for a big household | 1,325 |
Your final figure reflects hours, maids, floor size and shift, and reaches you before the slot is confirmed. Evening, Friday and holiday charges, where they apply, are fixed when you book; for anything else, ask about its price on WhatsApp.
How does the maid tackle a mountain of dishes after a family dinner?
She sorts before she washes. Glasses and coffee cups go one side, plates another, pots and pans another, and anything with stuck-on food goes into warm water to soak while she works on the rest. Those first minutes save half the time, because a soaked pot comes clean without long scrubbing.
Then she follows the order anyone who has run a big kitchen knows: glasses and cups first while the water is still clean, then plates and cutlery, then serving trays, and pots and pans last. Coffee pots, finjan cups and tea glasses are dried properly before they go back, so no water marks are left on them.
Dishwasher
If it is full of clean dishes she empties it first, then loads it the right way and runs it, washing by hand anything that should not go in.
Hospitality sets
Dallah pots, flasks, finjan cups and dessert trays are washed with care, dried and put back where they belong.
Sink and strainer
After the last plate she cleans the sink, strainer and tap, so no smell lingers once she has gone.
Kitchen surfaces
She wipes the worktop, cabinet fronts and the wall behind the sink where water and grease splash.
Book the morning after
Hosting at night? Then put the maid on the next morning’s schedule rather than the same evening. The pots soak overnight, the maid starts in a calm kitchen, and she finishes before the family needs it for lunch.
Cleaning tiles and grout in the kitchen and bathrooms
Yes, tile and grout cleaning is part of the visit, and the maid adapts to each spot. Grout is the first thing to darken in Riyadh homes because it soaks up water, grease and dust together, and an ordinary mop never reaches it. So after normal mopping she gives it extra time with a small brush.
What builds up on tiles changes from room to room. This table sums up what the maid does in each spot:
| Spot | What builds up | What the maid does |
|---|---|---|
| Kitchen wall behind the hob | Grease spray and cooking stains | Degreaser, then a wipe with water and a dry cloth |
| Kitchen floor | Food marks and dark grout | Sweep and mop, then brush the grout along walkways |
| Shower and bathroom walls | Water deposits and soap residue | Suitable bathroom cleaner, scrub, then rinse |
| Bathroom floor | Dark grout around the drain | Scrub the grout, then mop and dry |
| Balcony or roof tiles | Dust and sand | Sweep and light mop, no hoses |
What tile cleaning does not include
The maid does not use strong acids on tiles or marble, does not re-grout or repair joints, and does not clean the building’s outside walls. Those are maintenance or dangerous jobs outside the visit.
If your bathroom grout has gone months without scrubbing, it may not return to its original colour in one visit. In that case book a 5-hour visit first, then make bathrooms a fixed item on every weekly visit so stains do not build up again.
A three-bedroom floor or an extended family: how many hours?
In Al Faisaliyah, the right number of hours depends more on how many people live in the home than on how many rooms it has. A floor with a couple and two children usually manages with 4 hours a week covering the kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms and floors. A floor shared by an extended family, or one that hosts relatives every weekend, is different: the kitchen alone can take two hours of the visit and the bathrooms another hour, leaving little for the bedrooms and living room.
In that case you have three practical choices: stretch the visit to 5 hours from SAR 184, book two maids for 4 hours from SAR 296 so they work side by side, or split the work over two visits a week on the 8-visit plan from SAR 885, with the first visit for the kitchen and bathrooms and the second for bedrooms and laundry. The third option usually suits homes where the kitchen never stops, because dishes never pile up for more than three days.
If you are not sure, start with a single 4-hour visit and ask the maid to tell you at the end what she did not reach. That gives you a realistic picture of your home’s needs before you commit to a plan.
Sorting the fridge and pantry after the weekly shop
Yes, fridge and pantry sorting is something Al Faisaliyah households often add to a kitchen clean. The maid empties one shelf at a time, wipes it with a damp cloth and dries it, sets aside anything past its date to show you before throwing it out, and puts things back with older items at the front and newer ones behind.
In the pantry she groups tins and bags by type: rice, flour and sugar together, canned goods together, and spare hospitality items on the lowest top shelf she can reach without a ladder. This usually takes about an hour of the visit, so mention it when booking and it will be built into the plan.
Does your Al Faisaliyah kitchen need finishing this week? Tell us your home type, the number of bathrooms and a time that works, and we will arrange a visit.
Book nowWhatsApp 0561940026CallLimits of the visit: what will the maid not do?
An hourly maid works inside the home on cleaning, tidying, laundry and ironing, and can help set up and serve hospitality at gatherings and clean up afterwards. Some jobs are not part of her visit, and it helps to know them before you book:
- Full cooking and meal preparation; she can wash vegetables and tidy the fridge, but she does not cook.
- Minding children or an elderly relative single-handed while no family member is at home.
- Dangerous work, climbing to heights and cleaning exterior facades.
- Moving heavy furniture, hosing down large courtyards, and cleaning pools or gardens.
It is best if one of the ladies of the home is present during the visit; she guides the maid to what matters most and can see the work as it goes.
Visit times in Al Faisaliyah: morning or evening?
Morning and evening visits are both available in Al Faisaliyah. Homes where both spouses work tend to pick evenings, while large families often prefer mornings so the kitchen is done before lunch. If you choose the evening, any evening charge is confirmed when you book.
- The hour count starts as the maid enters your Al Faisaliyah home.
- We bring the maid to you and take her back afterwards, with no transport for you to arrange.
- She carries basic cleaning tools; supplies follow whatever you agree when booking.
- Moving the slot or swapping the maid is done over WhatsApp, as early as you can.
- Friday and holiday visits are possible depending on the schedule and are confirmed at booking.
Who are the maids we send to Al Faisaliyah?
Each maid we send to Al Faisaliyah carries a valid residence permit, has completed housework training and wears a modest uniform. Our team is mostly East African (Kenyan and Ugandan women, for example) together with Bangladeshi women, and the mix on offer depends on the day you book. Found someone your family trusts? Put her name in your next booking message and she will come whenever her rota allows.
A brief reminder on the rules: bringing in a worker outside legal channels has consequences for the household. Under the Domestic Workers Regulation, a sponsor whose worker is sent to serve other households can be fined a maximum of SAR 20,000 or barred from recruiting for as long as 3 years. Jawazat, for its part, treats hiring or housing residence and labour violators as an offence carrying a sentence of half a year at most behind bars and fines that can climb to SAR 100,000. MHRSD limits this service to licensed companies.
Book an hourly maid in Al Faisaliyah in four steps
- 1Message 0561940026 on WhatsApp (or ring it) and mention Al Faisaliyah, Riyadh.
- 2Tell us what the home is (floor, flat or villa), how many rooms and bathrooms it has, and if there is a dishwasher.
- 3Set the priority (dishes and kitchen, bathroom tiles, or the whole home) and choose the hours and shift.
- 4Share a location pin plus the floor number, then welcome the maid on time and review the work with her before she leaves.
Nearby East Riyadh districts we also serve
If you have relatives in the neighbouring districts, our service reaches them at the same prices. You will find details on the hourly maids in East Riyadh page, on the general hourly maids company in Riyadh page, and on these district pages:
Al JazirahAr RawabiAr RabwahAr RayyanAl Malaz
Dishes, tiles and bathrooms sorted in a single visit. Reserve your Al Faisaliyah slot today.
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