The two cleans people mix up most are the standard clean and the deep clean. They are not the same service at a different price. They do different jobs. A standard clean keeps a home that is already clean from slipping. A deep clean resets a home that has drifted, or one nobody has cleaned properly in a while. Here is how to tell which one your home actually needs.

What a standard clean does

A standard clean is maintenance. It covers the surfaces you see and touch every day: kitchen counters and the outside of appliances, bathrooms, floors, dusting, and a tidy of the living areas and bedrooms. It follows a room-by-room checklist and keeps a maintained home consistent. At Corinthia it starts at $129, and most homes book it weekly or every two weeks.

What a standard clean is not is a reset. It does not go inside the oven, behind the fridge, or along every baseboard by hand. It does not need to, because on a regular schedule those areas never get bad enough to require it.

What a deep clean adds

A deep clean is everything in a standard clean, plus the detail a standard visit leaves alone.

• Inside the oven, fridge, and microwave
• Baseboards, door frames, and trim cleaned by hand
• Cabinet fronts and the tops of doors and ledges
• Light switches, fixtures, and ceiling fan blades
• Window sills, tracks, and the inside of the glass
• The corners and edges that collect dust over months

It takes longer and costs more, starting at $239, because it covers far more ground. It is the clean that makes a home feel genuinely reset rather than just tidy.

When to book a deep clean

There are four clear moments where a deep clean is the right call.

Your first clean with us

If the home has not had a professional clean recently, the first visit is usually a deep clean. It brings everything to a baseline, and standard cleans hold it there afterward. Starting with a standard clean on a home that has drifted just means paying for a standard clean that cannot reach the real problem.

After a long gap

If life got busy and the cleaning slid for a few months, a deep clean catches it back up in one visit.

Before or after something big

Hosting for the holidays, a new baby, guests staying, or the end of a renovation. A deep clean ahead of it, or to recover from it, is worth the extra over a standard.

Seasonally

Many homes book a deep clean once or twice a year, spring and fall, with standard cleans in between. It keeps the detail from ever building up.

How they work together

The pattern that works for most homes is simple: one deep clean to set the baseline, then standard cleans on a schedule to hold it. You pay for the deep reset once, then the cheaper standard rate keeps it there. Trying to skip the deep clean and rely on standards alone, when the home has not been reset, just means the standards spend their time fighting a backlog they were never priced to clear.

The short version

Standard clean: a maintained home, kept consistent, from $129. Deep clean: a home that needs resetting, top to bottom, from $239. Most homes need one deep clean to start, then standards to maintain. You can see both, with the full inclusions, on our Residential page.

The same standard every visit only works if the home starts from a real baseline. That is what the deep clean is for.