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Cleaning best practice
The short answer
Match frequency to how a surface soils: daily touchpoints, weekly floors and bathrooms, quarterly soft furnishings, annual deep work on ducts and tanks.
A schedule fails when everything is treated as equally urgent. Some things soil hourly and some annually, and a plan should say which is which.
How it is done
- Daily: hand-contact points, kitchen surfaces, sanitary ware.
- Weekly: floors, glass, bathrooms in full.
- Quarterly: upholstery, curtains, mattresses, balcony and facade glass.
- Annually or longer: ducts, tanks, grout sealing, marble maintenance.
Why it matters
Written frequencies make a service auditable. Both sides can see what was agreed, which removes most of the friction from a maintenance relationship.
questions
Asked about this
Substantially. A family with young children and pets soils touchpoints and floors several times faster than a couple who travel.
Yes, and they should be. Six months of visits usually shows where the plan was optimistic and where it was excessive.
references
Background reading
- Housekeeping — Wikipedia
- Preventive maintenance — Wikipedia
External encyclopaedia entries for the underlying concepts. They explain the science; the practice above is how we apply it in UAE properties.