Mon, 30 Mar 2026 · Tariro Moyo · 4 min read
How Often Should You Actually Have Your Home Cleaned?
The truthful answer is 'it depends', but it depends on exactly three things: how many people live there, whether any of them have four legs, and how the place makes you feel on day six. Here's the framework we give anyone who asks.
Cleaning frequency is really a question about rate of re-soiling, and households re-soil at wildly different speeds.
The three-question framework
How many people? One or two adults out at work all day generate remarkably little mess, so fortnightly holds the line easily. Each child compresses the cycle; with three or more people home daily, weekly stops being a luxury.
Any pets? A moulting dog or cat effectively adds a person. Hair and dander have a half-life of about five days on soft furnishings before they work in deep, so weekly vacuuming of fabric surfaces is the difference between 'pet-friendly home' and 'home that smells of dog to everyone except you'.
Day-six test: if the house starts bothering you before the next clean arrives, the interval is too long. That feeling is data.
What most people settle on
Across our client base: couples in flats → fortnightly. Families → weekly. Flat-shares → weekly for communal areas. House-proud singles → fortnightly with a quarterly deep clean. Start fortnightly, run the day-six test honestly, adjust once. Regulars can change frequency with a day's notice, so the decision isn't permanent.