How to keep your kitchen under control between cleaning visits

A cleaner can do a great deal in a kitchen in forty minutes. They cannot undo three days of washing-up and a hob that has been left “to soak” since Sunday. That is not a lecture. It is just physics.

Between visits, the useful habits are dull: empty the sink before you go to bed, wipe the hob while it is still slightly warm, run a cloth over the worktop you actually cook on. You do not need to mop. You do not need to treat the fridge as a project.

If you want the visit to go further — inside the oven, for example — say so on the quote. That is an add-on because it eats time. The everyday kitchen (worktops, sink, taps, accessible surfaces, hob, external appliances, floor) is what a regular visit is built around.