When a housecleaner I recently hired took six hours to clean just the kitchen and the bathroom, I was surprised that two small rooms required so much time. Also chagrined about how much dirt I must not have noticed.
My condo had not looked so messy to me. I clean weekly — dusting, vacuuming, mopping, and wiping appliances, fixtures, and countertops.
What’s done weekly, however, is so-called regular cleaning. What Jenni, the housecleaner, did was deep cleaning from a list I made. She washed cabinet doors, wiped the refrigerator shelves, and painstakingly scrubbed the stovetop grates, bathtub, tile, grout, and bathroom and kitchen floors.