How Often Should You Deep Clean Your Home? A Seasonal Guide for Canadian Homeowners

How Often Should You Deep Clean Your Home? A Seasonal Guide for Canadian Homeowners

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In the rhythm of our busy lives, the keeping of the house clean is an everyday task. We wipe the countertops, vacuum the floors, and sort through the daily grime. What happens with the cleaning that goes more than skin deep, though? The grime in the oven, the dust along the bottoms of the baseboards, the buildup behind the furniture—these are the jobs that fall under the realm of an actual cleaning. While daily maintenance is vital, the occasional more thorough clean is what keeps the freshness and health in any house. For the typical Canadian home owner, scheduling this more thorough effort with the changing seasons is an efficient and effective way of home maintenance.

A Season of Renewal Rhythm: Spring and Summer

The issue of "how frequently" to deep clean doesn't yield one-size-fits-all advice, but having a yearly calendar is an excellent system. Our lives and our houses in Canada shift significantly from season to season, from summer afternoons with open windows through cold winters spent indoors with hot beverages. At least twice yearly, an absolute thorough clean is typically advised, but breaking the routine down by seasonal focus can reduce the experience but bring the system more in sync with your home's requirements.

Spring Awakening (March-May):

Airing Out: After being sealed up all winter, it's time to open up your indoor area and provide some freshness. Now is the perfect time to wash all the exterior and interior windows and clean the screen and window sills, so new air may circulate.

Textile Freshening: Give the heavy winter items like duvets, comforters, curtains, and throw blankets a wash. The dust and allergens that get stored over the months get washed out.

Appliance Care: Pull out your refrigerator and stove to clean the accumulated dust from behind and underneath. Cleaning the refrigerator's condenser coils can improve its efficiency and lower energy bills.

Summer Make-Over 

Outdoor Preparations: Your outdoor areas are part of your home when you're in the summer. Give your patio, deck, and outdoor furniture a thorough cleaning in preparation to get them ready for entertaining. A long, hot wash of the exterior of your house can wash the grime of the winter away.

Barbecue Maintenance: A clean barbecue is the secret to barbecuing well and safely during summer. Clean your barbecue thoroughly, getting rid of any congealed grease and carbon. Fan & Filter Cleaning: Clean dust from the ceiling fan blades and air conditioner filters and replace as required so that you're circulating clean air and keeping your system working well through hot summer afternoons.

The Seasonal Reset: Autumn and Winter

When the cold weather sets in, the emphasis shifts back inside. Now's the time of year to seasonalize your own home so that it is optimized as a clean and healthy refuge.

Autumn Preparations 

Upholstery and Carpets: Right before you seal the house up at the end of summer is the perfect time the carpets and upholstered furniture should be deep cleaned in order to get out the summer allergens and grime.

Light FIXTURES: As the days get shorter, clean all fixture lights to get the brightest possible light.

Pantry Overhaul: Clear out the pantry and kitchen cabinets, getting rid of rotten food and washing the shelves prior to the chaotic holiday baking season.

Why Professional Cleaning is the Better Choice

Although there is always the DIY option, the exigencies of contemporary life often render the time and energy for an adequate deep clean impossible. A professional cleaning company can be the solution. Groups of pure maids arrive with the appropriate equipment and methodology and will have the work done quickly and thoroughly. Professional cleaning services are more than just paying someone to clean the house; you're paying in the financial sense but you're also paying in terms of the preservation of your own time and health.

The benefits of calling in at a team like Puremaids are:

Thoroughness: Our experienced technicians know just where to look at the dirt that is hidden and have a system in place so that nothing is overlooked, from the top of door frames all the way down the baseboards.

Efficiency: We can accomplish the work in hours that can take you as a homeowner the better part of the weekend, allowing you more time to spend. 

A Healthier Home: We employ premium products and methods that eliminate a considerably high percentage of allergens, bacteria, and dust with the immediate positive effect being the healthier well-being of your family. 

Team up with Puremaids and you can experience the pleasures of a gleaming clean house without losing any of your valuable leisure time. 

The aim is to produce an environment that is not only outwardly clean but is actually freshly presented and inviting. 

By working seasonally with in-depth cleaning schedules, you can keep the feeling throughout the year so that your house is always that warm sanctuary.