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Routine cleaning, deep cleaning, intermediate cleaning – in contract cleaning there are a few terms that are completely self-explanatory to professionals.
For customers, that sometimes sounds more like: Cleaning is cleaning – or is it?
Not quite.
Routine cleaning and deep cleaning pursue different objectives. While one ensures that a building remains clean and well-kept on a daily basis, the other goes significantly deeper.
But when is which cleaning needed?
The Maintenance cleaning is the regular cleaning of a building or certain rooms.
She ensures that a defined standard of cleanliness is permanently maintained.
Typical tasks may include, for example:
Which work is actually carried out and how often always depends on the respective property.
An office with low foot traffic has different requirements to a heavily used practice, a staircase or a building with many employees.
Therefore, routine cleaning should not simply operate on the principle of:
«Comes twice a week and cleans everything.»
A clearly defined cleaning plan is better.
At a Deep clean it goes significantly deeper.
This is where dirt and areas are treated that are not cleaned every time during regular routine cleaning.
These can include, for example:
A deep clean therefore usually takes more time than a standard cleaning visit.
You could say:
Routine cleaning maintains the condition – deep cleaning restores it to top shape.
Even good and regular routine cleaning cannot prevent dirt from building up over time.
That is completely normal.
During daily or weekly cleaning, the focus is on the areas that are used regularly and need to be kept clean.
Some jobs would simply take up far too much time every time they were carried out.
Skirting boards, hard-to-reach places, certain floor areas or other detailed zones are therefore frequently cleaned more intensively at longer intervals.
A bit like with a car:
Regularly driving through the car wash keeps the vehicle clean.
At some point, a thorough interior and deep clean is still worth it.
A deep clean can, for example, be useful if stubborn dirt has built up over a long period.
More intensive cleaning may also be necessary before or after special events.
However, what is crucial is not a fixed calendar.
Much more important is the actual condition of the property.
A heavily used area may require a deep clean sooner than a room that is rarely used.
That is why a regular assessment of the areas is worthwhile.
Especially with flooring, you can see the difference between maintenance cleaning and deep cleaning particularly well.
During routine cleaning, loose and normal dirt is regularly removed.
Over time, however, residue or stubborn dirt can build up that can no longer be completely removed with normal cleaning.
Then more intensive treatment may be necessary.
Which method is used depends on the respective flooring and its condition.
Because parquet, natural stone, vinyl, linoleum or ceramic tiles require different cleaning and care procedures.
Here, as is so often the case with cleaning:
More chemicals and more power do not automatically mean more cleanliness.
For offices, surgeries, stairwells or other commercially used premises, the combination of regular routine cleaning and periodic deep cleaning is often sensible.
Routine cleaning ensures daily or regular cleanliness.
Deep cleaning takes care of the areas that are not intensively treated every time during the normal cleaning process.
This keeps an item clean not just in the short term, but well-maintained in the long run.
Particularly with professional contract cleaning, it should be precisely specified which tasks are carried out at what frequency.
For example:
What work is carried out during every call-out?
What tasks once a week?
Which areas are cleaned more intensively on a monthly or periodic basis?
What work is included in a separate deep clean?
A good requirements specification prevents misunderstandings and ensures that the client and the cleaning company have the same expectations.
For «cleaning thoroughly» can mean surprisingly different things to two people.
Do not necessarily wait until a floor or surface is visibly heavily soiled before carrying out a deep clean.
Routine cleaning and deep cleaning should ideally be coordinated with each other.
This allows dirt to be removed regularly before it can become established over a longer period.
This makes cleaning easier and helps to keep surfaces well-maintained in the long term.
Routine cleaning and deep cleaning are not in competition – they complement each other.
The Maintenance cleaning ensures cleanliness and tidiness on a regular basis.
The Deep clean goes deeper and tackles dirt and areas that are not dealt with every time during routine cleaning.
Particularly for companies, offices, medical practices or properties, a cleaning plan that coordinates both types of cleaning is therefore sensible.
Or in short:
Routine cleaning ensures that things stay clean. Deep cleaning takes care of whatever creeps in anyway over time.
The Putzvogel GmbH undertakes both one-off and ongoing cleaning operations and, upon request, will draw up a specification sheet tailored individually to your property.
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