Your home is a major investment that should continue to build equity. However, when your home is poorly maintained, it might not demand top dollar.
Whether you’re planning to sell your home or simply want to maintain it, in this blog, we will look at how deep cleaning services in Mississauga can help increase your property’s market value.
A Deep Cleaning Covers Everything
We recommend deep cleaning services in Mississauga at least once a year because it covers all the surfaces and rooms in your home. We like to think of it as the base cleaning every homeowner needs to help maintain their finishes and avoid untimely replacements. However, it goes beyond that.
Deep cleaning provides a clean foundation that makes it easier to keep your home clean. Since a deep cleaning removes all the built-in dirt and grime, it takes far less scrubbing and effort on your part to help maintain that level of cleanliness.
Light weekly cleanings will do the trick, saving you time while keeping your home looking its best.
Passing the Sniff Test
When buyers enter your home for viewings, they aren’t just using their eyes to assess its suitability. Even if they don’t realize it, their nose kicks into gear when they sense unpleasant odours in your home.
From cigarette and marijuana smoke to pet smells and last night’s dinner to serious issues like mould and mildew, if your house doesn’t pass the sniff test, your home value starts to decrease in buyers’ minds.
In fact, serious smells like mould and mildew set off alarms that your home is unsafe. When this happens, you don’t have to worry about reduced value, but instead about more buyers turning around and walking out the door.
Deep cleaning services in Mississauga will eliminate odours, ideally on the morning of open houses. However, regular deep cleanings are even more effective, as they prevent odour buildup, which is harder to eliminate.
Letting the Light Shine In
Natural light is a major selling point for today’s home buyers. A home streaming with natural light is much more inviting and is also easier on the eyes. A deep cleaning allows the light to shine in, removing the buildup of grime and dirt on windows that make homes feel dark and dreary, not to mention poorly maintained.
This includes the window sills where dust and grime tend to form. With deep cleaning, all that buyers see are streak-free windows, sunlight, and wonderful views.
Drawing Attention to High-End Finishes
Deep cleaning carefully cleans all the surfaces in your home, drawing attention to the high-end finishes. Buyers love to see well-maintained wood floors, beautiful countertops, natural stone in bathroom showers and floors, interesting stone or wood wall features, etc.
These are the details buyers feel are worth paying top dollar for, helping increase your home’s perceived market value. They will stand out from other homes in the area, which will increase demand, bringing in more offers and pushing the price up even further.
Showing a Well-Maintained Home
Through regular proper cleaning, you present your home in perfect condition. When buyers tour the home, they see a low-maintenance residence that is move-in ready.
Walls free of scuff marks and dirt, light switches without dirty finger marks, floors that shine, faucets, countertops and showers that sparkle, and dust-free light fixtures and baseboards all say, “I’m in good condition” to the average buyer. As a result, ongoing deep cleanings help you maintain your home to demand top dollar when it comes time to sell.
Improving Indoor Air Quality
As a separate factor from odours, improved air quality makes people breathe easier when they enter the home. Air quality is not just about odours, but instead about the harder-to-detect air pollution issues that reduce air quality.
This includes odour-free particles such as pollen, dust, allergens, and bacteria, as well as the types of odours that can make people sick, like pet urine and mould. A deep cleaning helps improve air quality by removing particles from surfaces, including furniture, floors, and carpets.
A thorough cleaning with HEPA vacuums not only removes harmful particles, but also prevents particles from getting re-released into the air during the vacuuming process. As well, using microfibre cloths ensures the particles don’t get redistributed.
One final aspect of deep cleaning is the cleaning products used. Sanitizing cleansers free of volatile organic compounds reduces the release of toxic chemicals during the cleaning process, leaving behind nothing but a fresh, clean smell.
Removing the “Ick” Factor
Deep cleaning addresses the types of dirt that turn buyers off, namely, the icky dirt found in kitchens and bathrooms. Addressing the following areas helps increase perceived home value:
- Bathtub and shower enclosures
- Inside, outside, and behind toilets
- Lights, mirrors, sinks, and countertops
- Ceiling fans
- Light switches
- Door knobs
- Floors and baseboards
- Inside the microwave
- Stove top
- Fridge front
- Backsplashes, counter tops, and cupboard/vanity fronts
- Replacing stinky garbage and recycling liners
All of these areas are red flags for buyers who want to feel they’re buying a clean, hygienic home.
A Simple Presentation
A clean home is all about simple presentation measures that ensure the buyer feels at home. Staging is a major contributor to home value, but it doesn’t mean much if the home is dirty.
Every inch of every room is scrutinized by buyers who have no patience when it comes to the “white glove test.” You can be sure they’ll spot those dust bunnies, spaghetti sauce drips on kitchen cabinets, and dirty grout lines you hoped to hide behind the shower curtain.
While we always recommend deep cleaning for our clients at least once a year to help maintain their homes, scheduling this specialty cleaning before an open house can really help improve your home’s market value.
Contact the Deep Cleaning Professionals
Click here for a free online quote for Maid4Condos’ deep cleaning services in Mississauga. You can also call us at 647-822-0601 or contact us online.
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