A regular clean keeps a home at the level the last deep clean left it. When the weekly visit starts taking longer for the same result, the level has dropped, and no amount of wiping will bring it back.
What a deep clean resets
A regular visit covers the surfaces you see and touch. A deep clean goes for the places where dirt builds slowly: the inside of the oven, the fridge seals, grout lines, the tops of door frames, the back of the taps, the skirting behind the sofa. None of these look bad in a week. All of them look bad in a year.
The honest answer
For most homes, twice a year. That is what we book for our own regular clients: one deep clean before the first visit, and the next one six months out.
Book one sooner if any of these are true:
- Someone in the home has allergies or asthma
- You cook most nights, especially with oil
- You have a dog or a cat that sheds
- Building work has happened next door or inside
Three tests you can do today
- Run a finger along the top of a door frame
- Look at the grout by the shower drain
- Open the oven with the light on
If two of the three make you wince, the level has dropped.
If keeping up takes you more than twenty minutes a day, it is a job for a crew.
What it costs to wait
Limescale and baked-on grease get harder every month. A deep clean that takes five hours in spring can take seven by winter, and some marks stop coming out at all. Twice a year is cheaper than once every two.
