What is a Deep House Clean?

A deep house clean is when you or someone else cleans the entire inside of your home from top to bottom getting all dust, dirt and grime removed from visible surfaces.

There are differing opinions on what makes a deep clean.

Some do a deep clean about twice per year while doing regular cleaning every week or every other week.

Generally, the longer your home goes without a cleaning the more likely it is the home will need a deep cleaning the next time.

Here are a few key factors for determining what a deep house clean is:

• Current state of the home

• Restoration or surface cleaning?

• Cleaning products, equipment and tools

• Cabinets, appliances and furniture

• Time requirement

Current State Of The Home

If you keep up regularly with your house cleaning then a deep clean for your house likely means moving things and cleaning what you normally don't clean.

Examples of this might include:

• Cleaning behind appliances

• Removing items from cabinets and cleaning

• Cleaning the oven

• Cleaning the refrigerator

• Moving furniture and rugs and cleaning underneath

If you are busy and your house cleaning is a little behind then a deep clean is probably doing more of a regular surface cleaning. You start at the ceiling and start dusting. You wipe down all the surfaces with the crumbs and such falling on the floors. Then you vacuum and mop the floors.

Restoration or Surface Cleaning?

Some feel that a deep clean is taking a lived-in home and making it new again. This is understandable. That would be a very deep clean.

Take everything out of the home and really get to work on everything.

In some cases there may even be some damage or similar issue. This typically requires some sort of restoration. In these instances you're doing more than an individual or cleaning service can typically provide. You're looking at a DIY restoration or restoration service. And in many instances this is appropriate.

A deep cleaning for a home usually sticks to what's on the surface. You can scrub toilets and showers to get them grime off. You can work hard to clean the surface of a sink and on a stove top.

But if you're going after things that are under the surface it's more of a restoration than a deep clean.

Cleaning Products, Equipment and Tools

Most people and most professional cleaners have the same basic cleaning supplies. They have surface cleaners for certain applications. They might have a degreaser. They have towels and brushes. They have a mop and vacuum.

That is the standard cleaning equipment for a regular home. And for just about every cleaning job those items will handle things. Even for a deep clean that requires a little more time and effort. There are grout brushes for getting grime off shower and tile grout. There are plastic scrapers for scraping stuck-on material off surfaces such as kitchen countertops.

Once you go beyond these you're getting closer to restoration or what some might think of as deep cleaning. If you're bringing in a carpet cleaner you're doing more than what is normally done.

Cabinets, Appliances and Furniture

Typically the surfaces of appliances and furniture are cleaned. It's a deeper clean if you're pulling out the washing machine and dryer, the refrigerator and the oven. Those are often overlooked areas that most people clean a few times a year versus every week or every other week.

Most people may move small tables and other small furniture items each week when they're vacuuming and mopping. But many people do that just a few times a year.

And it's not as common for people to remove every item from the cabinets to dust and wipe inside. That's more of a once or twice a year type of task.

Final Thoughts

A deep clean is open for interpretation. Most people see a deep clean as cleaning the entire house as you normally would every week or every other week and doing a great job.

You clean every visible surface. You clean the baseboards. You clean inside the window sills. You dust the ceiling fans.

If you've fallen behind on the cleaning a bit the first time back at it probably does feel like a deep clean. Then each subsequent cleaning won't take as long, but is still maintaining the home in a deep way.

The more you get into restoration type cleaning the more you're really doing something other than house cleaning.

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