What Does a Standard House Cleaning Include?
By Maid Headquarters · 5 min read
If you’ve never hired a professional cleaner, the first question is simple: what exactly am I paying someone to clean?
A Standard Cleaning handles the routine work that keeps an already-maintained home comfortable, tidy and easier to manage. Think of it as maintenance, not a complete reset.
Instead of spending an evening wiping counters, cleaning bathrooms and doing floors, you hand those recurring tasks off.
What is a Standard Cleaning?
A Standard Cleaning is routine professional maintenance for a home in reasonably maintained condition. It covers what naturally returns as people live in a home: used countertops, floors that collect debris, bathrooms, dusty surfaces and full trash cans.
It isn’t meant to tackle every detail surface or significant buildup. That’s where a Deep Cleaning fits.
Standard cleaning
= Maintain
Deep cleaning
= Reset
Move-in / move-out
= Start fresh
What does Maid Headquarters Standard Cleaning include?
Kitchen
- Clean countertops
- Wipe cabinet exteriors
- Clean the stovetop
- Clean outside of microwave
- Wipe accessible small-appliance surfaces
- Wipe outside of refrigerator and dishwasher
- Polish stainless steel
- Empty trash
- Light tidying
- Vacuum and mop floors
Bathrooms
- Tubs and showers
- Fixtures
- Vanities and counters
- Mirrors and sinks
- Toilets
- Cabinet exteriors
- Trash
- Floors
Bedrooms
- Light tidying
- Make beds or change sheets when clean linens are provided
- Dust accessible surfaces
- Wipe furniture and mirrors
- Empty trash
- Vacuum and mop hard floors
Living areas
- Light tidying
- Dust accessible surfaces
- Empty trash
- Tidy couches and fold blankets
- Vacuum carpets and rugs
- Mop hard floors
When a standard clean isn’t the right fit
If dust or buildup has collected on baseboards, fans, windowsills, switches and other detail surfaces, a Deep Cleaning may be a better starting point. That doesn’t mean a home is “dirty.” Routine maintenance and detailed cleaning solve different problems.
Who is Standard Cleaning best for?
- Your home is already reasonably maintained
- You clean regularly but want professional help
- You’re tired of spending free time on routine cleaning
- You want ongoing recurring service
- You’ve just had a deep clean and want to keep it that way
Wondering how often to book? See how often to have your house professionally cleaned.
The real benefit may not be the cleaning
A clean bathroom is nice. A clean kitchen is nice. For many people, the bigger benefit is realizing those jobs no longer take a slice of Saturday morning.
That’s the idea behind Maid Headquarters: we do chores. You live your life.
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Explore our Standard Cleaning service, or want it on repeat? See Recurring Cleaning.
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