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Keep your home consistently fresh with The Essential Upkeep, our premium regular and standard cleaning service.
A reliable, recurring clean to maintain your home's hygiene and tidiness. Perfect for busy Kiwis wanting to come home to a sparkling space without the hassle.
The Essential Upkeep is designed for homes that need consistent, reliable maintenance. This standard clean covers all your basic requirements, including dusting, wiping benchtops, taking out the rubbish, vacuuming, and mopping floors across your main living spaces, bedrooms, and bathrooms. It is ideal for weekly or fortnightly schedules to keep daily dust and grime at bay, ensuring your home is always guest-ready and relaxing to live in.
Scope note
For all rooms, to ensure a consistently high standard and protect our cleaners from scope creep, anything not explicitly listed in our standard task checklist is excluded from this service.
Here's exactly what your cleaner focuses on in each area.
A thorough tidy and clean of your main living spaces.
Scope boundaries
We focus strictly on accessible surface areas. Excludes moving heavy furniture, cleaning high windows, deep carpet shampooing, or tidying inside closed cabinetry.
A hygienic wipe-down of prep surfaces, benchtops, and appliance exteriors.
Scope boundaries
Keeps your kitchen fresh but excludes cleaning the inside of the oven, fridge, or microwave, washing a sink full of dishes, or cleaning inside pantries.
Dusting and wiping down of the dining suite and surrounding floor area.
Scope boundaries
Excludes washing upholstery, moving heavy buffet tables or cabinets, and dusting delicate or highly fragile centrepieces.
A complete wipe-down and sanitisation of your bathroom surfaces and vanity.
Scope boundaries
Focuses on standard hygiene. Excludes removing deeply embedded black mould in silicone, unblocking drains, or polishing heavily tarnished tapware.
Dedicated sanitisation of your separate toilet room (bowl, seat, and floor).
Scope boundaries
Covers regular hygienic upkeep. Excludes heavy scrubbing of painted walls or deep-cleaning floor grout.
A general tidy, dusting, and floor clean to keep your sleeping areas relaxing.
Scope boundaries
Focuses on standard dusting and floor care. Excludes changing bed linen (unless added as an extra), organising inside wardrobes, or washing internal windows.
A surface wipe-down of accessible desk areas, shelving, and floor vacuuming.
Scope boundaries
We clean around your items. Excludes tidying messy desks, filing paperwork, or wiping delicate computer screens and electronics.
A surface wipe-down of accessible benchtops, the laundry tub, and floor.
Scope boundaries
Keeps the area tidy but excludes cleaning inside washing machines/dryers, clearing blocked sinks, or moving heavy whiteware.
Vacuuming and dusting to keep your home's connecting spaces welcoming.
Scope boundaries
Excludes washing walls to remove scuff marks or deep cleaning heavily soiled carpet runners.
A welcoming tidy, dust, and floor clean for the front entrance of your home.
Scope boundaries
Excludes washing the exterior side of the front door or removing heavy mud/clay tracked deeply into entrance mats.
Thorough dusting of handrails and vacuuming of your staircases.
Scope boundaries
We cover standard dust and vacuuming. Excludes spot-cleaning heavy carpet stains or washing high, out-of-reach chandelier lights.
A quick sweep of the floor and removal of easy-to-reach cobwebs.
Scope boundaries
We keep it neat but exclude degreasing oil spills on the concrete, organising tools, or moving stored boxes.
A quick tidy and sweep of your balcony to keep your outdoor area neat.
Scope boundaries
Only covers basic sweeping. Excludes water-blasting, scrubbing outdoor tiles, removing bird droppings, or cleaning exterior windows.
A surface-level clean of your outdoor entertaining and BBQ area.
Scope boundaries
Surface maintenance only. Excludes deep-cleaning the inside of the BBQ grills, degreasing equipment, or pressure washing decks.
Every area covered in your Essential Upkeep.
A general tidy, dusting, and floor clean to keep your sleeping areas relaxing.
Fixed-price pricing based on home size and scope, so you know what you are booking upfront.
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