Professional deep cleaning in Plymouth

What a deep clean involves

A regular clean keeps a home ticking over. A deep clean is a different job: we work from the ceiling down and from the back of the room forwards, so dust and grease end up on the floor and then out of the house, rather than being pushed around. Nothing is wiped over the top of: surfaces are cleared, cleaned, and put back.

It is the right service if you are moving into a new place, coming out of a renovation, preparing for a new baby, getting the house ready for visitors, or simply looking at a bathroom where limescale has quietly won. It is also the usual starting point before a regular domestic clean, because it gives your cleaner a clean baseline to maintain.

Deep cleans are quoted as a fixed price for the whole job, not by the hour. We look at the number of rooms and the condition, agree the price, and then the time it takes is our problem instead of yours.

Room-by-room deep clean checklist

Every deep clean is built from this list and then adjusted to your property. You get the agreed version in writing before the visit.

• Oven cleaned inside: door glass, racks, trays and interior
• Hob, extractor filters and splashback degreased
• Inside and outside of fridge, freezer and microwave
• Inside kitchen cupboards and drawers, including fronts and handles
• Worktops, sink, taps and drainer descaled
• Tiles and grout scrubbed in kitchen and bathrooms
• Shower head, screen and tray fully descaled
• Toilet cleaned including behind and beneath the pan
• All skirting boards wiped by hand
• Window sills, frames and interior glass cleaned
• Internal doors, frames and light switches washed
• Radiators and behind radiators dusted
• Light fittings, shades and visible ceiling corners dusted
• Behind and under moveable furniture vacuumed
• Stairs, spindles and bannisters cleaned
• Carpets vacuumed with edging tool; hard floors washed

Deep clean or spring clean: which do you need?

They overlap, and plenty of companies use the words interchangeably. The way we separate them is simple: a deep clean is about condition, and a spring clean is about reset and declutter. If the grout, oven and limescale are the problem, book a deep clean. If the house is basically clean but you want cupboards turned out, windows done and the whole place aired and refreshed for the season, a spring clean fits better.

If you are at the end of a tenancy, you want neither. You want an end of tenancy clean, which is checklisted against what letting agents in Plymouth actually inspect.

How long a deep clean takes

A one-bedroom flat is usually a half-day job for one cleaner. A three-bedroom house is typically a full day, or half a day with a team of two. Four bedrooms and above almost always means a team, partly for speed and partly because ladders, machines and long degreasing dwell-times are easier to manage with two pairs of hands.

Condition matters more than size. A three-bed that has been cleaned fortnightly for years takes far less time than a two-bed that has not been deep cleaned since the tenants moved in. That is exactly why we quote on the property , not off a price list.

Plymouth homes and limescale

Plymouth's water is on the softer side compared with much of England, which is good news for kettles. But bathrooms here still build up a stubborn film of soap scum, body oils and mineral deposit, especially in homes with electric showers and in the older housing stock around Stoke, Devonport and the city centre.

We treat shower screens, tiles and taps with the right dwell time rather than scrubbing hard and scratching the finish, and we use non-abrasive methods on chrome, resin trays and painted surfaces. Sea air is the other local factor: coastal properties around Plymstock and the Hoe collect salt film on window frames and glass far faster than inland homes, so interior glass and frames always get proper attention.

Deep cleaning prices in Plymouth

Deep cleans are fixed-price for the whole job. The guide below assumes an occupied, reasonably maintained home; heavier jobs are quoted higher and we tell you why.

Guide prices only. Every job is quoted individually after we understand the size and condition of the property. See the full Plymouth cleaning price list.