Deep or standard cleaning: which one to book
Two services that are often confused. Here is what each one covers, how long they take and what to base the choice on.
Standard cleaning is a routine clean of open surfaces to a short checklist: dust, floors, bathroom, kitchen, glass from the inside. Deep cleaning adds the hard-to-reach areas: the space behind furniture, top shelves, skirting boards, doors, radiators and limescale removal. A deep clean takes two to three times longer.
What standard cleaning covers
This is the round-trip clean that keeps an apartment in a steady state. It assumes the deep work has already been done and does not need repeating.
- Dust from every open surface, including appliance exteriors
- Floors: vacuuming and wet cleaning, skirting boards around the perimeter
- Bathroom: fixtures, mirrors, tiles, disinfection
- Kitchen: cabinet fronts, worktops, sink, hob exterior
- Glass from the inside, rubbish taken out
What deep cleaning adds
A deep clean is everything above plus the places you never get round to in the normal run of things. Those are exactly the areas that collect dirt for months and leave the feeling that a place is clean but somehow still dirty.
- The space behind furniture and appliances, wherever they can be moved
- Tops of cabinets, mezzanines, cornices, light fittings
- Skirting boards, doors and frames, switches, radiators
- The kitchen in more depth: hood exterior, grease build-up, worktops under appliances
- The bathroom in more depth: limescale, tile joints, shower glass
Three figures that set them apart
The difference between the two services comes down to three figures. Everything else follows from them.
- Time: standard — two to three hours for an apartment, deep — five to six
- Price: standard — from ₴1990 per package, deep — ₴89 per m² from ₴3490
- Frequency: standard — every one to two weeks, deep — once a quarter
How to choose in thirty seconds
Check three places. If the answer is yes in at least two of them, you need a deep clean.
- Run a finger along the top of a cabinet: is there a layer of dust?
- Look at the tap and the shower glass: is there white scale?
- Open the kitchen cabinet above the hob: does it feel sticky?
- Has it been more than three months since the last deep clean?
A sensible combination
The best pattern for a lived-in apartment is one deep clean as a baseline with standard cleanings in between. That way you are not paying for the deep work every time, and dirt never builds up to the point where a deep clean becomes unavoidable.
- Once a quarter — a deep clean
- Every one to two weeks — a standard clean
- A recurring schedule earns up to 15% off
- After a renovation or a long absence — a separate service, not a deep clean