Search “how to prepare for a deep clean” and you get the same three instructions every time: declutter, gather your supplies, work room by room. None of them mention the thing that decides how the day goes, which is whether you’re doing the cleaning yourself or paying someone else to. The prep for those two situations is almost opposite. Worse, a fair bit of what people do the night before changes nothing about the result. I’ve turned up to plenty of homes where someone has clearly spent their evening vacuuming the floors and wiping down the benches before we arrived. ... Read More
