A Typical Cleaning Is All This:
Top-to-Bottom Cleaning of Bedrooms: using the high duster for cobwebs and dust, dusting all flat surfaces with microfiber cloth, making beds, vacuuming or dusting under beds, vacuuming or washing floor or carpets, wiping down trim, doorknobs, switch plates, windexing windows, vacuuming light shades.
Dining rooms, living rooms, rec rooms, etc.: top-to-bottom cleaning, including windexing any mirrors and windows and dusting tops of any picture frames.
Bathrooms: Vacuuming floors, disinfecting and washing toilets, sinks, tubs, and showers, de-limescale as needed, shower doors as best as can be. Replacing shower curtains as directed. Windexing mirrors and windows. Hand washing floors.
Kitchens: High dusting as needed, vacuuming floor, disinfecting and polishing sink, cleaning all small appliances, cleaning/polishing refrigerator, cleaning stovetop based on its type, inside and outside of oven door cleaned, trash can cleaned as needed, cabinet doors cleaned as necessary, inside of fridge wiped, countertops disinfected, floor perimeter washed by hand and center by microfiber mop.
Laundry rooms, entry ways, hall ways, mud rooms: vacuumed, dusted, washed.
How Long Does a Typical Cleaning Take??
Depending on amount of dirt, dust, clutter, pet hair, and grime, and depending on the frequency of the house cleanings, here’s a general idea of what to expect:
Your first cleaning will always take longer, as it is the cleaning to set the stage for the future cleanings. In your first cleaning, it’s nice to have what you might think of as a deep cleaning, or a spring cleaning — that is, everything is thoroughly cleaned to the best of its ability.
If it’s really been awhile since the home has had a thorough cleaning, you might want to break this up into two or three sessions, for example, have me come and clean for three or four hours one week, then start where I left off the following week.
Once the home has been thoroughly cleaned, it is your choice on how frequently you would like maintenance scheduled cleanings. And remember, this can always be adjusted to fit your needs and your budget!
- 2 hours — generally the time it takes to clean a one-two bedroom apartment, or one floor of a house.
- 3 hours — generally the time it takes to clean a whole average-sized house, without doing laundry or changing linens.
- 4 hours — generally the time it takes to clean a larger house, or an average house including laundry or including bed linen changes.
- 5 hours — general time it takes for a large guest house with multiple bed linen changes and laundry, and possibly with cleaning up a kitchen of dirty dishes, or with lots of laundry folding and trash take out.
