Deep Cleaning in Abbotsford, Langley and Surrey
The reset. Inside the appliances, behind them, along every baseboard and door frame, into the window tracks and the grout lines. This is the job people assume needs bleach, and it is the job that proves it does not.
A deep clean is a one-off reset that reaches what a regular visit never does: inside the oven and fridge, baseboards, door frames, light fittings, window tracks and grout. Most three bedroom Fraser Valley homes start at $320 and take six to nine hours. No chlorine bleach, no ammonia, and no solvent smell left behind.
- Fragrance-free by default
- Same cleaner each visit
- Full product list before we start
- No lock-in contracts
What is included in a deep clean?
Everything on the recurring list, plus all of this. The difference is which surfaces get touched, not how hard someone scrubs.
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Kitchen
Inside the oven, with the racks out and soaking in washing soda while the cavity gets an enzyme degreaser and real dwell time. Under the elements and the drip trays. Range hood filter degreased in the sink, not wiped in place. Inside the microwave including the turntable ring. Inside the fridge with the shelves and drawers out, including the door seals, where mould starts. Behind and underneath the fridge and the stove where they roll out. Cupboard fronts, tops and the greasy strip above the hob. Inside the cupboards you empty first. Toe kicks. Sink drain and overflow. Dishwasher filter and door lip.
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Bathrooms
Shower glass descaled with citric acid and dwell time, not a quick spray. Grout lines scrubbed with sodium percarbonate where they have darkened. Tile, tub surround and the shelf edges. Shower head soaked and the aerators cleared. Taps and the base ring where scale collects. Toilet including the cistern lid, the hinge caps, the bolt covers and the floor flange. Vanity inside and out. Extractor fan cover removed and the vent vacuumed. Mirror, light bar, towel rails, door and door frame. Silicone checked and reported on.
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Every room
Baseboards washed by hand along the top edge and the face, not vacuumed. Door frames, doors, and the top edge of every door. Light switches and outlet plates. Light fittings taken down where they come down safely, ceiling fan blades wiped both sides. Vent and cold-air-return registers vacuumed and the faces washed. Window interiors including the tracks and the frame rebates, not just the glass, plus the sills and the stops. Blinds dusted slat by slat where they can take it. Skirting behind furniture we can move. Stair spindles and stringers. Baseboard heater fins vacuumed out. Cobwebs at every corner and above every door.
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Floors and the last pass
Vacuum with HEPA filtration first, including edges and under furniture we can move, then a hand wash into the corners and along the toe kicks. Hard floors get two passes, because the first one is lifting soil and the second is removing what the first left behind. Then a walk through with the lights off and on, which is when streaks on glass and film on a countertop actually show.
What is not included?
A deep clean is the service most often oversold. Here is where it stops.
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No grout colour promise
Oxygen bleach, a brush and patience lift most of what is on grout. They do not lift stain that has soaked into it, and no cleaner whitens grout that has worn through its sealer. Some grout needs steam and some needs replacing. We will show you the difference rather than scrub at it for an hour on your money.
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Etched glass and rust cannot be cleaned off
Long-term hard water etches shower glass, and that is surface damage rather than deposit. Rust rings in a toilet bowl and mineral stains in a sink are the same story: the honest answers are a pumice stone or replacement, not a stronger spray.
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Mould in silicone caulk
Once mould is growing inside the caulk rather than on it, no surface cleaner of any chemistry removes it. The fix is to cut the bead out and re-caulk, which is a twenty dollar job for a handyman and an impossible one for a cleaner.
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Carpet extraction, walls, ceilings and exteriors
No steam extraction, no wall washing beyond spot marks that lift without taking paint, no ceiling washing, no exterior windows, no pressure washing, no roof or siding moss. Each of those is a separate trade with its own equipment and insurance. See everything we decline, and who we send you to instead.
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Mould over about a square metre
CCOHS treats areas under roughly one square metre as self-manageable and says anything over three square metres should be handled by trained professionals with containment and negative air. We clean the small stuff with detergent and water. We refer the rest, and we tell you to find the moisture source first.
This is the job people expect bleach for. It does not need it.
The most common objection to natural cleaning in a wet climate is the bathroom: surely, in a region with 174 rainy days a year, you need bleach for the mould. The federal health authorities say the opposite. CCOHS states plainly that using chemical disinfectants such as chlorine for remedial purposes is not recommended and that cleaning should be done using soap or detergent (CCOHS, mould in the workplace and home). Health Canada's guidance on moisture and mould in the home is the same: clean it with water and dish detergent, and keep indoor humidity between 30 and 50 per cent (Health Canada, addressing moisture and mould in your home).
Bleach is also the household chemical most likely to hurt someone during a deep clean specifically, because a deep clean is when people mix products. Health Canada warns that combining bleach with other cleaners releases toxic gases including chloramine (Health Canada recall and safety alert). An acidic descaler in a shower where someone has just used a bleach spray is exactly that reaction.
What we bring instead is time and mechanics. Citric acid on scale with real dwell time, sodium percarbonate on grout, washing soda and an enzyme degreaser on baked-on oven soil, hydrogen peroxide where a surface genuinely needs disinfecting, and microfibre with hot water for everything else. It costs us more labour, which is priced in honestly, and it means the house does not smell of anything when we leave. Read what we actually use, and why bleach is not on the list.
What does a deep clean cost?
Flat rate for the job, quoted before we start. GST on top.
From $320, most 3 bedroom homes.
What moves the number: bedrooms and bathrooms, how long since the last proper clean, how much kitchen grease has built up, whether the shower glass has years of scale on it, how many windows have tracks worth opening, and whether the house is on hard well water. A recurring visit afterwards is $149 per visit, most 3 bedroom homes, and a deep clean is the cheapest way to make that rate realistic.
For context, published Lower Mainland deep clean rates run $275 to $550 for a house and roughly 1.5 to 2 times a standard clean. Full numbers on the pricing page.
Deep cleans across the Valley.
A Surrey bathroom and an Aldergrove acreage bathroom are different jobs.
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Deep cleaning is the service where local water chemistry shows up most. The Abbotsford-Mission supply runs 72 to 218 mg/L from nineteen groundwater wells with no treatment for hardness, so scale on glass and fixtures is the main job. Surrey, Delta, White Rock and Maple Ridge sit on Metro Vancouver water at roughly 3 to 4 mg/L, where the problem is soap film instead. Township of Langley is a mix of wells and Metro supply, and rural acreages are usually on private wells. All service areas.
The ones we get about deep cleans.
How long does a deep clean take?
Six to nine hours for a typical three bedroom home, usually two cleaners for most of a day. A four bedroom house with heavy kitchen grease and hard-water scale on the shower glass can run longer. We quote the job rather than the hour, so an overrun is our problem, but we would rather tell you at the walkthrough that it is a ten hour house than surprise you at four in the afternoon.
Will you use bleach on the bathroom?
No, and the federal health guidance is on our side rather than ours on theirs. CCOHS states that using chemical disinfectants such as chlorine bleach for mould remediation is not recommended and that cleaning should be done with soap or detergent. Health Canada gives the same advice: water and dish detergent, bleach is not needed. Bleach also produces chloramine gas if it meets an acid or an ammonia cleaner, which is how most household poisonings happen.
How is a deep clean different from a move-out clean?
A deep clean happens in a furnished house, so we reach what we can move and clean around what we cannot. A move-out clean happens in an empty one, which means every cupboard interior, every closet shelf and the wall behind where the sofa was. Same standard, more surfaces, so it costs more.
Will the hard-water scale come off the shower glass?
Usually most of it, sometimes not all of it, and we will tell you which before we start. Citric acid clears light and moderate scale given dwell time. Years of untreated Abbotsford or Mission well water on the same pane can etch the glass itself, and etched glass is physically damaged rather than dirty. Nobody can clean that off, at any price, with any chemistry.
Do I need to empty the cupboards first?
Only the ones you want cleaned inside. We clean inside any cupboard, drawer or closet you empty, and we clean the fronts and the tops of all of them regardless. Clearing the kitchen counters and the bathroom vanity before we arrive is the single thing that most improves the result, because a cleared surface gets cleaned rather than cleaned around.
How often should a house get a deep clean?
Once or twice a year if you have regular visits, more like every visit at first if nobody has cleaned behind the appliances in years. Many companies sell a mandatory deep clean before recurring service starts. We do not make it mandatory, but where it is genuinely needed we will say so, because otherwise the first three recurring visits run over and still miss things.
Tell us about the house.
Same working day reply, with the product list attached. Or just call.
Price a deep clean
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