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Deep Cleaning Checklist: The Tasks Your Weekly Cleaning Misses
Weekly cleaning keeps a home presentable. Deep cleaning is everything hiding behind, under, and inside — and the secret is that it should almost never happen as one giant weekend.
The full checklist
Kitchen
- Oven interior + racks (45m) · range hood filter (15m)
- Fridge: full shelf empty-and-wipe (30m) · coils/vents vacuumed (10m)
- Behind and under movable appliances (20m)
- Descale kettle and coffee machine (10m) · dishwasher filter (10m)
- Cabinet interiors, one section at a time (15m each) · pantry expiry purge (20m)
Bathroom
- Grout scrub (30m) · showerhead descale — vinegar bag overnight (5m active)
- Drain clean (10m) · exhaust fan vacuum (10m)
- Washing machine drum clean + seal wipe (10m active)
- Cabinet/medicine declutter (15m) · bath mats washed (5m active)
Bedrooms & living areas
- Under beds and sofas vacuumed (15m) · mattress vacuum + rotate (20m)
- Duvets, pillows, curtains washed or aired (per label)
- Baseboards, door frames, switches, handles (15m per room)
- Ceiling fans and light fixtures (10m per room) · vents dusted (10m)
- Interior windows + sills (15m per room) · rugs beaten or shampooed (seasonal)
How often is a deep clean actually needed?
If nothing above ever happens, a home needs a full deep clean about twice a year — the notorious multi-day spring clean. But almost every item on the list has a natural monthly or seasonal rhythm; see how often should you clean for per-task frequencies. Handle them on that rhythm and the “deep clean” as an event simply stops existing.
The rotation trick
Take the list above and give every item a slot — one 20-minute deep task per week:
- Week 1: one kitchen item (say, the microwave + one fridge shelf)
- Week 2: one bathroom item (grout, or the showerhead bag)
- Week 3: one floors item (under the sofa, baseboards in one room)
- Week 4: one textiles item (duvet cover, pillow covers, curtains)
Twelve months later, everything on this page has been done two to four times — and no single day contained more than 20 minutes of it. The hard part isn’t the work; it’s remembering a 52-slot rotation. Which is exactly the part to outsource.
🫧 How Bubbles runs the rotation
Bubbles’ preset library has a dedicated Deep Cleaning tab for every room. Add the tasks you care about, and each one repeats on its own monthly or custom cycle — surfacing on your daily list when due, with its minute estimate attached. The 52-slot rotation becomes something you never think about: the app is the rotation.
Set it up in Bubbles (4 minutes)
- Open each room → presets → Deep Cleaning tab and add what applies.
- Set monthly or custom intervals (every 6 weeks, every 3 months — anything).
- Watch one deep task drip onto your list each week. Twenty minutes, done, gone until next cycle.
Deep cleaning, drip-fed
Bubbles schedules each deep-clean task on its own monthly or seasonal cycle, so the big stuff happens 20 minutes at a time — never as a lost Saturday.
