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Why is it necessary?
Why does it cost more?
It would be virtually impossible for your team to “skip” our standard first-time cleaning routine
and try to carry on maintaining your home in a satisfactorily-clean fashion. There’s a big
difference between “old dirt” and “new dirt”. If we don’t get rid of the old dirt, no matter how
hard we try, simply removing the new dirt isn’t going to make things look sparkling fresh and
clean.
ON OUR FIRST VISIT
Before we can even begin to perform routine weekly or bi-weekly maintenance cleaning on a
home, there are usually a variety of “first-time” tasks which require extra attention on our first
visit. Our first cleaning visit is more like a spring cleaning, or what we call a heavy, deep-
cleaning. In fact, it's not uncommon for our teams to spend from four to eight times longer on a
first-time cleaning than it takes us on regular, repeat maintenance visits. While the situation in
every home is unique and different, following are some examples of what we mean.
BATHROOMS
It is not unusual for us to spend as much time cleaning one bathroom on our first visit as it takes
to clean the entire home on subsequent visits. For example, if we don’t spend the time and effort
usually needed to get shower doors, shower-door tracks, shower and bathtub walls, bathtub
surfaces, plumbing fixtures and porcelain artifices deep-cleaned, these objects will never look clean
no matter how often we come. If built-up mineral rings or hard-water stains are present in the
commode, we do our best to bring these surfaces back to “ground zero”.
THE KITCHEN
Kitchen cabinets, counter tops and appliances often require extra attention on our first visit.
Grease, fingerprints and other dirt seems to make its way through everyone's home and gravitates
toward the kitchen (and seems to think that the top of the fridge is an especially good place to
hide!). It doesn’t take long for kitchen dust to become impregnated with grease ~ certainly a lot
more difficult to clean then a week’s accumulation of ordinary surface dust. Some clients ask us
to clean the oven or inside the refrigerator on our first visit, too.
ALL ROOMS
The amount of time and effort required to bring all rooms back to ground zero depends on many
factors. Most of our clients hire us because they simply don’t have time to clean with more than a
“lick-and-a-promise”. Perhaps no one has vacuumed behind or beneath the sofa for months (and
moving furniture to clean isn’t as easy for one person as it is for a team of cleaners).
Bookshelves, baseboards, window sills, windows, chandeliers or other furnishings and fixtures are
often neglected for long periods of time and may require extra initial “TLC”.