What’s in a Spring Clean?
What can you get done in a three-hour spring clean?
During a regular clean, your cleaner usually takes care of the basics. Kitchens, bathrooms, floors, dusting etc. Essentially, the tasks that you would do yourself week to week to keep your place squeaky-clean.
A spring clean, however, is a little different. It’s a deeper clean, one you should do once or twice a year to make sure the house isn’t accumulating dust and dirt in hidden places.
Behind items of furniture there is often a build up of dust that can be much larger than expected. “What’s the problem with a bit of dust if nobody can see it?” Right? If it’s out of sight, it’s usually out of mind, but this dust still might still be damaging the health of you and your family.
What is dust? It’s a little bit like sausage: You don’t want to know what’s in it. But I’ll tell you anyway.
Most dust in a house has come from soil either tracked into the home or wafting in as airborne particles through doors and windows. The remainder of dust is an assortment of human and pet skin cells, pet fur, carpet fibres and kitchen grease. It can also contain nasties like dust mites that trigger allergies, as well as bacteria and fungi.
It’s not all bad news, however, as it has been shown that the most effective way of controlling dust is regular housekeeping. And what better way to do that than have somebody else clean it for you!
Other things that are worth having your cleaner look over during a spring-clean if you haven’t tackled these tasks in a while (or ever!):
- The oven – a deep clean every few months will go along way to prevent your oven from producing smoke, as well as keep it heating your food evenly, reducing the risk of bacteria build-up in uncooked food.
- Cleaning out cupboards and drawers – you’d be surprised to see how dirty the places are where you keep your food, crockery and cookware!
- Bathroom tiles – scrub deep in between them to remove mould and dirt to make them shine again!
You get the point! There might be much more than 3 hours of work here, but a free 3 hours from a professional house cleaner will help enormously in getting your house cleaning in order.
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Common questions
How do I pay?
Regular service
Payment is made directly to the cleaner and can be done either by cash on the day of the service or via direct deposit into their bank account, whichever is more convenient for you.
One-off service
For all one-off services, including end of lease, move in or spring cleaning, we require a $100 deposit over the phone to secure the booking. This payment can be made by debit or credit card. Once the service is complete and you are happy with the job, we process the remainder of the payment through the same card.
Who are our cleaners?
Experienced and professional
Our team of over 90 cleaners are able to reach over 500 suburbs in Melbourne. This means we always have someone on hand who is just right to clean your home.
The best of the best
We advertise extensively throughout Melbourne to find the perfect candidates and end up hiring around 1% of people who apply. Each of our cleaners undergo training with our experienced staff to make sure their skills are up to scratch.
Fully vetted and trained
Our cleaners are all:
- Police checked
- Fully insured for public liability
- Personally interviewed
- Thoroughly reference checked
- Professionally trained by us
- Friendly and courteous
Meet your cleaner
We allow (and prefer) clients to meet their professional house cleaner before they start. Once you're happy with your cleaner and based on your preferences, you can let the cleaner in yourself, hide a key for them or give them a key directly. Many of our clients give their cleaner a key because of how satisfied they are with our careful recruitment and training process.
What if something goes wrong?
Money back guarantee
We are so confident in the exceptional quality of our cleaning agency in Melbourne that we offer a 100% money back guarantee if something goes wrong or can’t be corrected. If, for whatever reason, you are not satisfied with our house cleaning service, simply give us a call and we will do whatever we can to resolve the situation.
We will either:
- Work with the cleaner that was allocated to you to make sure that they are meeting the high standards of our service.
- Allocate a new cleaner to you if the current cleaner isn’t working out.
- If nothing more can be done to remedy the issue, we will happily give you your money back.