What does a deep clean mean to you?

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I read so many threads where posters discuss their weekly 'deep clean'. This puzzles me but maybe I have the wrong idea.

For me a deep clean is take the curtains/blinds down and wash them, dry, iron, dust and then wipe down the walls with a damp cloth, skirting boards, coving etc, clean lampshades, lightbulbs, dust everything, vacuum everything including the crack between the walls and the carpet, move all furniture, wash cushion covers etc, clean windows inside and out. Kitchen would include cleaning the oven, caustic soda down the drains, washing machine and tumble drier and the equivalent in the bathroom.

This isn't something I'd do every week. So I've got the wrong idea.

Can someone educate me?

Children are mucky buggers

I occasionally wash walls, not all of them just the bits where kids have mucked up badly...

But yeah, heard someone in RL say they used to wash walls. Me, need to find the fucking floor to wash. Wall washing is way down the list and only for the really mucky bits Or decorating

I pay someone monthly to do the deep clean stuff.
I just fanny about with a vax and duster the rest of the time .

I've just booked a deep clean so I'll guess I'm going to find out
It was an offer of 5hrs for £65 which seemed decent

This kind of shit is what my fantasies are made of.

Please report back.... I want every filthy detail,

My neighbour has a cleaner for a full day every week (there’s 2 tidy adults living there). He went away for a couple of weeks recently and she spent 16 hours cleaning before he came home. It’s not normal and I told her so! And she works about 60 hours a week.

@userxx there was also 10hrs for £120 but it seemed a little excessive for an apartment maybe?
Not doing the spare room so they'll have 2 bathrooms, a bedroom and open plan living/kitchen to do
Says they will do windows inside, pull out furniture etc

5 hours wouldn't be enough to deep clean my lounge (now I know what that means) but maybe there will be a team.

We're going through need photos

I do deep clean the toilet once a week if that’s what you mean.

I have never washed a curtain or wiped a wall.

Pretty sure it’s a team but I will check
This is what they will be working with (taken after my usual level of cleaning which is zero skill and low effort!)

I must have wandered into a parallel universe. Don't mind me. Do crack on.
Blue shoes that's ticked me x

But that all looks clean already to me!

@IClaudine it's what I would say surface clean
Just don't open a cupboard or pull out the sofa. I honestly do very little compared to what people seem to do on here (if it's dirty, I clean it) but I don't have children which makes a huge difference

Just don't open a cupboard or pull out the sofa

I hear you sister!

I do occasionally damp wipe walls/ doors/ frames if they've gathered marks/ dust, and it does keep the house looking more fresh. It's 10+ years since they were decorated and they've survived two young children very well (despite dyspraxia and dyslexia involved too)

Most of my furniture is too awkward to pull out to clean around, but every so often I'll move what I can or get crevice tools out to deal with a build up of dust/ crumbs etc

On The Organised Mum Method it would be a decent functional clean each week and a deeper clean every 8th week so it doesn't build into a more time consuming job; I'm not that good! However there's not much that I can't get thoroughly clean in a room in an hour if needed. Tidiness and clutter are my battles, but I don't want to live in a sticky, grubby house.

I must be a total slattern as I never deep clean! I’d like to but…how on Earth do you find the time? DH and I both work full time and we have three small children. It’s enough of a challenge to keep on top of the basics!

2023 will be the year I finally sick to TOMM….

this!

I'm currently doing what I'd call a deep clean. I'm spending as much time as it takes in a day to get on top of every room in the house. Yesterday I did the dining room... de cobwebbed, hoovered everywhere including behind furniture, mopped, cleaned inside windows and frames, cleared and dusted all surfaces (de cluttering & tidying), polished mirrors/clocks/pictures, cleaned skirting boards and door frames, wiped walls down, cleaned chairs and table including legs, laundered curtains. Think that's everything 😬 No way am I doing all that weekly though, it's more of a way to make keeping on top of a regular routine doable.

You mean, you don't dismantle all the beds, hoover the mattresses and wash the duvets ? And wash carpets every week? Honestly, the sheer laziness on here has me stunned.

Do duvets ever survive washing? I've tried washing "machine washable" pillows before and they've just come out all lumpy and wonkey.

I deep clean when we get a new TV and you realise how much dust is behind it.

Would love hire one of those massive carpet cleaners but my germophobe brain keeps thinking about what they might have sucked up before!

I do have to wash my walls as we have no banisters on the wall side of the stairs, there is a timeline of hand prints going up. I also have to do the paintwork/ doorframes for the same reason. It’s as if my children swing through the house like chimpanzees

I will add: I do not do this weekly

Well I’m totally shit at cleaning, and have never done half the things quoted in the OP but every now and again I do wash the walls down in high traffic areas (entrance way, hall way, stairs etc) but mainly because the dogs rub up against it and the kids touch the walls on the way upstairs. I wouldn’t do it the living room or bedrooms though. We have very expensive washable paint on the high traffics areas though, so very easy to do.

A deep clean is what I pay the cleaner to do every 3-6 months 🤣
I just about manage to clean in between.