The Big Clean Co: How to clean your home like a professional

A cleaner has shared her three easy top tips to make your home look like it has been cleaned by a professional.

Kacie Stephens, who runs The Big Clean Co in Melbourne, focuses on clearing clutter, cleaning in patterns and polishing furnishings.

The professional often shares helpful tips and tricks to help Aussies keep their homes clean and organised.

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Kacie Stephens, who runs The Big Clean Co in Melbourne (pictured) has shared her three top tips that will make you home look like it has been cleaned by a professional

The professional cleaner focuses on clearing clutter and cleaning in patterns (left), which ensures each section gets evenly cleaned. Kacie also advises polishing surfaces and furnishings (right) so they look shiny when you walk into your home

Kacie's first step to make a home look like it was cleaned professionally is to get rid of clutter.

'Just pick things up and put them away,' she said.

Her second tip is to clean in methodical patterns to ensure each section gets evenly cleaned and you can easily see where you need to clean next. 

'Clean in patterns, whether it's going clockwise around a room or wiping surfaces in an 'S' shape, or sharks teeth vacuum lines.'

Her final hack is to clean and polish furnishings and surfaces.

To make surfaces shiny she polishes using cleaning brand For All on a microfibre cloth, and follows with a dry glass cloth.

'Nothing like walking into a house and having those shiny things catch your eye,' she said.

According to Kacie, how often you need to clean depends on how many people and animals are living in the house.

'We have clients who can go a full two weeks between mopping but me personally, my kitchen - it’s every day,' she said.

Kacie previously said a deep clean should be performed every three months to keep your home neat and free of dirt and grime (deep clean pictured)

Kacie previously lifted the lid on the differences between a deep clean and a general clean, and revealed the popular products you don't really need.

She said a deep clean should be performed every three months to keep your home neat and free of dirt and grime. 

A deep clean involves doing the cleaning tasks you don't typically think to do.

Kacie added that in a deep clean, a cleaner will also usually get access to an area that isn't typically cleaned, say underneath your fridge or freezer (pictured)

'Here are the six ways a deep clean is different to a general or maintenance clean, and why it costs more if you do it professionally,' Kacie said in a TikTok video.

'When we do a deep clean, we use a lot more products and we wear our tools out faster.'

Similarly to this, when a deep clean is taking place, surfaces need more 'dwell time' - which means time with the cleaning products sitting on them and marinating.

Kacie said they also need more 'agitation', which is 'scrubbing and 'rubbing' to get rid of stubborn marks and stains.

'Mop water has to be changed multiple times while mopping the floor,' she said.

Kacie added that in a deep clean, a cleaner will also usually get access to an area that isn't typically cleaned, say underneath your fridge or freezer.

Normal deep cleaning tasks include cleaning soap scum and scale from the shower head, cleaning underneath and behind items like the fridge and dusting the doors.

Other things you might expect in a professional deep clean are a steam clean of the rugs or carpet, a deep clean of the blinds or curtains and a clean of the windows and window frames.