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How Often Does Your Home Need a Deep Cleaning?

sites • May 17, 2022

When your home isn't clean, it can open it up for pests and illnesses. How often should your home have a deep cleaning? Learn here.

The pandemic has changed us all to some extent. It has made many of us more conscious of the importance of keeping our homes clean - and we mean really clean.

Research shows that three out of every four Americans perform a yearly deep cleaning, usually in the spring. These numbers are on the rise, showing how much people value the health benefits of a clean home.

But how often does your home really need a deep cleaning? Is once a year enough, or are there parts that need more regular attention?

Let's take a closer look and see why deep cleaning is so beneficial.

How Often Should You Deep Clean?

Here's the thing - deep cleaning is not something that you can do once a year, or even three times a year. Deep cleaning starts with good daily habits. Build on these with a few weekly and monthly tasks.

Finally, every three months, set aside time for cleaning awkward spots or things you only use occasionally. There are a few things you can get away with cleaning just once a year.

Daily Deep Cleaning Tasks

How often should you clean your house? You should clean the parts you use the most every day. Keeping on top of a few simple chores will make deep cleaning a breeze.

Kitchen and Dining Room

The food prep area of the kitchen must be cleaned each day.

Cutting boards can get contaminated with E.coli if you don't clean them thoroughly. It's a good practice to have two cutting boards, reserving one for raw meat.

If you don't have two, follow these thorough cleaning steps each day when moving from meat to produce:

Wash in hot soapy water
Rinse with clean water
Allow to air-dry
Spray with a bleach solution or antibacterial spray
Let this sit for 5 minutes
Rinse thoroughly and air dry

If you have a cutting board that's just for meat, you can do this routine once a week. Avoid drying them with kitchen towels - they can harbor bacteria themselves. Follow the same sanitizing routine for countertops and dining tables.

Get into the habit of finishing the dishes every day. Load the dishwasher and wash delicate dishes before going to bed. This is crucial because you need to clean and sanitize your sink every day.

First, clear out the drain and drain stopper. Throw the debris away, rather than putting it down the drain. If the drain area is getting discolored or has food stuck on it, Bar Keeper's Friend can help.

Sprinkle a little on and around the drain and let it work for a couple of minutes. Come back, give it a once over with a scrubber, and rinse. It'll come up like new.

Scrub down the rest of the sink, including the faucet, with dish soap and rinse thoroughly. A final wipe with a wad of paper towels will get it shining and pick up anything you missed.

Bedroom

Making the bed every day is not just about keeping up appearances. It gets your day off to a great start and it helps you to keep the rest of the room tidy. Researchers have even found that it helps us to be more productive.

Never put dirty clothes on the floor. Get into the habit of putting clothes in a laundry hamper or away in your closet as soon as you take them off.

The same applies to accessories, books, and other clutter. Don't let anything pile up on surfaces - put things away each day. Do this and weekly cleaning will take much less time and effort.

Bathroom

Bathrooms get gross fast, so it's not enough to wait for a weekly clean. Every day, take a look at your bathroom and wipe down surfaces with disinfectant wipes.

Start with the vanity and work your way around the room. Finish with the toilet and throw the wipe away (not down the toilet...).

And before you get out of the shower, rinse it down to stop soap scum from building up.

Weekly Tasks

Taking care of these tasks each day simplifies your weekly cleaning. You can now focus on:

Taking out the trash
Dusting
Vacuuming the entire house
Mopping wood and tiled floor surfaces
Kitchen

Give your microwave a weekly thorough clean. If you wipe up splashes and spills when they happen, it will just need a light clean inside and out.

If there are some stubborn stains, try heating a bowl of 50/50 water and white vinegar. The steam will loosen the dirt in the microwave. Then simply wipe it down.

Bathroom

Tackle the vanity first. Then move onto the shower/bathtub, and finish with the toilet.

To deep clean the vanity, pour a cup of baking soda or vinegar down the drain and flush with hot water. Use antibacterial bathroom wipes to clean all surfaces, including the faucet. Treat any scale buildup or watermarks with limescale remover.

To deep clean your shower or bathtub:

Remove all shampoo bottles etc
Clean out the drain cover and hair catcher
Lightly wet all surfaces
Spray antibacterial spray and let it sit for ten minutes
Take a microfiber cloth and wipe down all surfaces, using a scrubber for any stubborn spots
Scrub the shower base or bathtub to remove any residue
Finally, inspect all glass surfaces and use glass cleaner and paper towel to buff to a shine as needed
Time to give your toilet a thorough clean. Grab rubber gloves, toilet cleaner, bathroom spray cleaner, scrub sponges, and a toilet brush.

Make sure you follow the manufacturer's instructions on the bathroom cleaner. Disinfectants usually need ten minutes of wet contact to work.

Follow this fail-safe method:

Start with the bowl - coat the inside with toilet cleaner and let sit for five minutes
Take an antibacterial wipe and wipe down the entire exterior of the toilet from the lid down
Spray both sides of the lid and seat, the rim, and the toilet handle
Wait ten minutes (or however long the manufacturer says)
Wipe down the handle, lid, seat, and rim
With a toilet brush or using rubber gloves and a scrub sponge, scrub the toilet bowl
Flush and you're all set
This might sound like a lot. But if you get into a good routine, you can do this in about twenty minutes each week. Finally, clean the floors and you're good to go!

Bedroom

Switch out the bedsheets once a week. You don't need to clean comforters as regularly so plan to do this around once a month.

Home Office

You've probably heard that there are more bacteria on your keyboard than on your toilet seat. Well, it turns out that's true. If you're working from home, wipe your keyboard with an antibacterial solution twice a week. That will help keep pathogens at bay.

Quarterly Deep Clean Routine

To keep your home in great shape, it needs a deep cleaning every three to four months. A spring clean is a great start, but once a year really isn't enough.

Deep cleaning begins with decluttering.

Make sure that the only things that are on display are things that should be. Temporarily moving ornaments and photos into a moving crate will make it much easier to clean flat surfaces.

Start From the Top

Always remember the golden rule of cleaning - start high, work low.

That way, gravity is on your side. If you dust your light fixtures after vacuuming... Well, you know how that works out.

It's a good idea to wear a mask at this point as a few months' worth of dirt will have accumulated. Start with the tops of your walls and light fixtures. A duster or very slightly damp microfiber dustmop with a telescopic handle is the perfect tool for the job.

Thorough Clean Windows

Windows collect a lot of dirt, so start by vacuuming them with the hand tool attachment. Then wipe down the frames with a lightly moistened microfiber duster.

Finally, use glass cleaner and a squeegee to get a great finish on the panes. Don't forget to buff off any streaks with a microfiber cloth or other lint-free duster.

Dust and Vacuum

Now your surfaces and floors are clear, you're ready to dust and vacuum.

When deep clean vacuuming, be sure to move furniture around and vacuum underneath it. If your carpets are starting to look a little worse for wear, it might be time to hire a machine and give them a thorough clean. Once a year may be enough, but you'll probably need to do it more often if you've got pets or small children.

Kitchen Deep Clean

To deep clean the kitchen, take all the appliances off the countertops. Thoroughly clean and sanitize them. Then clean the outside of each appliance before replacing it.

Depending on how often you use it, you will need to clean your oven about every three months. Use the self-cleaning cycle or steam setting. Alternatively, buy an oven cleaning kit.

Your refrigerator also needs a monthly clean. Remove everything and wash down the shelves in hot soapy water. Air dry them and sanitize them.

Clean all the interior surfaces before returning the shelves.

If possible, pull your refrigerator out and clean beneath it. This can be done once a year, but it's amazing how much accumulates under there! You can also vacuum the grills at the back of the fridge to remove any dust that has built up.

And once a year, take some time to empty your cupboards and clean all the shelves.

Bathroom Deep Clean

Grout and sealant need attention every three months.

Get a grout brush or an old toothbrush, dip it in bleach, and scrub all the grout in your bathroom. Sealant needs a scrub with a weak bleach solution and an old toothbrush. A paste of 1 cup white vinegar mixed with 3 tsp baking soda is a natural alternative.

Now is also the time to descale your shower head. Remove it and let it sit in a small container filled with white vinegar for at least thirty minutes.

Do I Need Housekeepers?

Does everything we've just discussed sound like a lot? That's why employing good housekeepers is such a great idea.

One of the benefits of housekeepers is they're seasoned professionals. They are deep cleaning experts and have the tools and skills to achieve an outstanding result every time. If you know your schedule is too full for deep cleaning, call in the pros.

Choose SCD for Deep Cleaning

Deep cleaning begins with good daily cleaning habits. The more we can do on a daily and weekly basis, the easier our quarterly deep cleans will be. But if you just don't have time right now, a housekeeping service is the ideal solution.

At Sparkly Clean Dallas, we pride ourselves on attention to detail. Our deep cleaning includes all the awkward parts people hate to clean, like light fixtures, blinds, and baseboards. Our goal is complete customer satisfaction.

Call us at (918) 549-1219 or contact us online for a quote.

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