You want your home as clean as it can be. Sometimes, regular cleaning isn’t enough and you might need to book a deep cleaning service from time to time. But how do you distinguish a deep cleaning from regular cleaning? 

This article explores the differences in appearance and detailing between each type of cleaning.

What Is Involved in Standard Cleaning? 

Whether your home is big or small, whether you have active kids, messy pets, or a busy spouse, basic cleaning is necessary to keep everything in order. Restoring your house to a pristine state may take more than one session, but a basic cleaning will help you get started.

A standard cleaning means everything you do weekly or bi-weekly, like vacuuming and dusting your floors, cleaning the surfaces, and stripping and waxing the floorboards, so the house stays fresh, clean, and comfortable.

Though the details of what a professional cleaner will do in a standard cleaning will vary from one housekeeping company to another, it is typically a one- or two-hour cleaning of a typical residence and is generally performed once to three times per week.

The cleaning checklist below will help you ensure any company you hire is doing the work that is expected of them:

• General tidying
• Making the beds
• Sweeping, vacuuming, and mopping floors
• Dusting of bedrooms, living room and hallway surfaces, as well as touchpoints, window frames, doors and vents
• Cleaning and disinfecting of kitchen and bathroom surfaces, including appliances, cabinets, the sink, and inside the microwave
• Taking out the trash

What Is Involved in Deep Cleaning?

Deep cleaning, also called “spring cleaning, ” involves cleaning the nooks and crannies that slowly fill up with dirt, grime, and other buildups that are often neglected daily. 

The purpose of deep cleaning is to do what housekeepers usually do on the first day a new family moves into a house. It is when you have time to scrub as much as you need to and remove as much dust and grime as possible. On average, it should ideally be done two or three times a year.

Whether you do the work yourself or hire professional cleaners, deep cleaning will usually include everything that a standard cleaning offers in addition to other detailed tasks required to spruce up and refresh an entire house.

Deep cleaning tasks include but are not limited to:

• Vacuuming and cleaning furniture
• Dusting the tops of frames and other furniture as well as fan blades
• Vacuuming and washing all floors, including inside closets
• Thoroughly vacuuming all carpet crevices
• Dusting and cleaning baseboards
• Dusting and washing blinds and shutters
• Dusting vents
• Cleaning the oven and scrubbing drip pans and stovetop
• Cleaning the areas behind and beneath appliances
• Cleaning mirrors top-to-bottom
• Cleaning cabinet fronts
• Hand-washing light fixtures
• Removing soap scum from surfaces in kitchens and bathrooms
• Scrubbing tiles and grout
• Thoroughly cleaning and washing both sides of all doors
• Washing windows and cleaning window treatments
• Shampooing carpets
• Wiping picture frames and other knick-knacks

Conclusion

Life will not get any better if you do not clean; that’s a fact. But this does not mean you should clean the same room with the same frequency for your entire life. At some point, it will become necessary to sweep the room more often, dust and vacuum and mop the room more thoroughly, or both.