How Often Should You Deep Clean Your Home in the UAE?

There are many benefits to living in the UAE…sunny weather, a modern living space, an active lifestyle! But the unique climate of the region along with the fast-paced urban living can make it ineffectual for you to manage a clean and healthy home. One question we hear a lot is: how often should I deep clean my home in the UAE?

Let’s break it down.

Deep Clean vs. Regular Clean

Before we talk about frequency, it is helpful to understand the difference between a regular clean and deep clean. Regular cleaning consists of our everyday activities such as vacuuming, mopping, dusting, and wiping surfaces. Deep cleaning tries to minimize the accumulation of dirt and grime from areas we tend to overlook, such as, but not limited to behind appliances, under furniture, and inside air vents.

Deep cleaning can include things such as disinfecting high touch areas, thoroughly sanitizing bathrooms and kitchens, steam-cleaning upholstery, and sometimes even shampooing carpets or scrubbing tile grout.

Climate Matters: The UAE context

The UAE has a tough climate – particularly the heat, sand, and humidity – that affects how often deep clean should take place. For instance, dust storms are not uncommon, so even the most sealed homes have fine particles of sand settling in hidden places. Add the humidity factor, and you now create the conditions for mold to flourish – especially in bathrooms, kitchens, and air conditioning systems.

So, how often should you deep clean?

Here are some general recommendations tailored to your UAE household:

every 3 to 4 Months (Quarterly Deep Clean)

In general terms, deep cleaning every three to four months fits most households in the UAE. This will ensure you are not getting overrun with dust, mold risks, and air quality issues especially where homes with central AC or pets are concerned. While quarterly deep cleaning is not complete mold prevention, it will limit the potential growth of allergens and will also help limit damage to furniture, flooring, and appliances. 2. Monthly Targeted Deep Cleaning

In between quarterly sessions, some areas may need more frequent attention. For example:

Bathrooms: High humidity can cause mold and mildew buildup, and these potential sources of allergens can form quickly. Do a deep clean of bathroom tiles, the grouting, and the exhaust fans, at least, once a month.
Kitchens: Grease and food tend to build up in the hoods for the stoves, behind the appliances, and inside cabinets. This should be tackled on a monthly basis,
AC Filters & Vents: In the UAE, your air conditioning will be running nearly all year round. Cleaning or replacing filters each month has been shown to improve air quality and how efficiently the systems work, too!

Weekly Maintenance

Week-to-week maintenance is just that, maintenance; It’s not really deep cleaning. But, if you maintain your residence by cleaning it weekly, it makes doing deep cleaning a lot easier and a lot less stressfully or even effective. Dusting, vacuuming, wiping down surfaces, and cleaning the bathrooms weekly helps keep things from building up and reducing the potential for allergens in the environment.

Particular Considerations

Depending on the special conditions of your home, you may decide that you’re going to need to deep clean more often field under the options below:

Homes with Kids or Pets: Kids = more mess, more bacteria. Timing of cleaning should be based on level of mess, so monthly deep cleans may be realistic.
Clean-after-construction or clean-before-moving-in: You should always deep clean your home after work has been done on it or before moving in to it.
Seasonal changes: Deep cleaning around change of seasons is common practice in many homes in the UAE. Where the dust-from-summer settles, or before Ramadan and eids.
Health, allergies, or respiratory conditions: You might decide that deep cleaning is warranted (or prescribed!) to reduce household allergens to people’s who either suffer from allergies or have respiratory conditions.

DIY vs. Professional Deep Cleaning

While it’s true that you can do some deep cleaning on your own, some things are best left to professionals, specifically:

Steam cleaning carpets and sofas
Deep sanitize AC duct or filters
Cleaning windows at height
Mold remediation and disinfecting

If you hire a professional deep cleaning company in the UAE, you can be sure that they will get your home cleaned correctly, in a time-efficient matter, and use specialized tools and eco-friendly products that are safe for your family and pets.

Conclusion

Deep cleaning your home in the UAE is not just a normal necessity, it is a necessity that is driven by climate, lifestyle and health reasons. Dust, humidity and a never off air conditioning system are all parts of daily life in the UAE; therefore a hygienic, clean home needs more than just surface-level cleaning to maintain. By committing to deep clean yourself every 3 to 4 months (and deep cleaning areas that you use frequently on monthly basis will protect your family from health problems, and overall degradation of your home furnishings, and create a more comfortable environment.

At Blue Diamond, we will understand that each UAE home is unique, and we provide professional deep cleaning services with a large scope of work that is not only limited to your basic, everyday clean.

Are you ready to give your home a proper cleaning? Contact us today to book your next deep clean at https://www.bluediamondfm.com/contact-2/