What Spring Cleaning Means

The immediate questions that come to mind when hearing the phrase “spring cleaning” are “why is spring cleaning a thing,” and “is it really necessary?”

The custom of spring cleaning has ancient cultural and religious roots, with various traditions centered around cleansing the home in preparation for a sacred observance or event. Later, in northern areas of the world, spring cleaning had a more practical value. March was often warm enough that coal furnaces wouldn’t run, and one could wash the soot from the walls and furniture. Additionally, people could open windows and doors for the wind to carry dust and fumes out of the house without trouble from summer insects. These days, particularly in Canada, spring cleaning is often about expelling the gunk and grit that accumulates over the winter, and meeting the new season with a fresh and beautiful home.

Spring cleaning is about those house cleaning tasks that are seldom tackled, a more thorough approach to those low traffic areas that tend to get neglected. It’s a “deep clean.”

Spring cleaning can include things like:

• Inside of fridge and freezer
• Inside of ovens
• Inside of cabinets and drawers
• Cabinet kickboards
• Washing windows & window coverings
• Light fixtures
• Ceiling fans
• Behind or underneath appliances and furniture
• Hard to reach areas
• Complete washing of walls (as opposed to the more normal spot cleaning)

Not at all. Many customers like to wait until after the winter season to undertake a single, rigorous deep-clean and begin spring with a spotless home. Custom Cleaning Solutions handles this all the time; no problem! But there is no specific need to perform this in the springtime; situations differ. Regardless, a proper spring clean can be an enormous (and sometimes expensive) undertaking, so Custom Cleaning Solutions recommends a different approach.

Residential cleaners primarily focus on the same tasks each visit, with certain chores rotating in as necessary. Conventional spring deep-cleaning takes significantly more time. It usually entails multiple people working together to finish the job within a reasonable period. How long, and how many, depends on several factors:

• The style, size, and condition of the home
• The number of occupants
• Pets
• Clutter
• Construction finishing’s
• The amount of time since the last deep-clean
• The number of jobs on the to-do list
• What specialized equipment may be necessary

Custom Cleaning Solutions can certainly accomplish a meticulous spring clean, and leave your home looking immaculate! However, we prefer to spread deep-cleaning duties over the course of the year. This way, we can figure out how to manage a few deep-clean chores for each visit without disrupting budgets and schedules.

An example:

Your regular cleaner washes the bathroom light fixtures one visit, and the dining room and kitchen lights the next. Window sills and tracks are usually part of a typical clean, so we could easily rotate in one or two sets of blinds each visit. It makes the process less disruptive and overwhelming, more efficient, and easier to manage financially (with payments divided into increments).

Ghostbusters! And by Ghostbusters, of course, I mean Custom Cleaning Solutions. We customize our cleaning plan with each client, and make adjustments as desired. Our experience is that clients appreciate their homes to have a higher standard of cleanliness on a regular basis than to achieve a pristine state only once a year. Weekly cleaning seems to be the sweet spot for most of our clients and staff, since it provides us with the opportunity to become familiar with your family, your preferences, and your home. Either way, we are happy to answer the call!