13/10/2026
π§½ CLEANER CONFESSIONS
HOW LONG DID IT ACTUALLY TAKE TO DEEP CLEAN THIS SHOWER?
The timer is in. β±οΈ
Remember the shower I showed you before our break?
The one I said I was going to time properly rather than giving you a vague:
βOh, probably about an hour.β π
Wellβ¦
β±οΈ 1 HOUR 27 MINUTES.
That was the actual working time to bring this shower back through what most people would call a deep clean β although at this level Iβd probably describe it more accurately as a shower restoration clean.
And importantly, that wasn't 1 hour and 27 minutes spent casually wiping over a shower.
That time included:
π§½ washing and scrubbing the full tiled shower area
π§½ working the grout lines
π§½ getting into the edges, corners and junctions
π§½ removing accumulated buildup around the lower tiles and floor edges
π§½ treating areas that needed additional attention
πΏ descaling the shower glass
π§Ό rinsing and changing processes between products
β±οΈ allowing the necessary dwell time for products to actually work
And this is exactly why I wanted to put a timer on one.
Because βclean the showerβ isn't really a unit of time.
There is a massive difference between maintaining a shower regularly and coming into one periodically to remove the buildup that has accumulated between services.
THIS CLIENT IS A QUARTERLY SERVICE.
So we're not maintaining this shower every week or fortnight.
We come back approximately every three months, and by then we're dealing with what has happened during those months of normal household use.
That makes this a particularly good example of why the condition you're starting with matters just as much as the physical size of the shower.
And you'll notice I don't have the final glamour shot with the finished glass. π
There's actually a very good reason for that.
DEEP CLEANING CAN BE A TWO-STAGE PROCESS.
The chemistry I use for the grout/tile work and the chemistry required for mineral and limescale buildup on the glass are not products I simply mix, layer or use together.
One process needs to be completed properly.
Products need to be rinsed away as required.
The area needs to be appropriately ventilated and safe before moving onto the next chemistry.
Then the glass can be tackled.
So by the time I'd completed the second-stage glass descale, I needed to move on with the rest of the client's service rather than stop and conduct a photoshoot. π
Which probably makes these photos more representative of professional cleaning anyway.
THE JOB COMES BEFORE THE CONTENT.
I wasn't there for a before-and-after reel.
I was there to clean someone's home.
AND HERE'S SOMETHING ELSE THAT AFFECTS THE TIME: THE SHOWER HEAD. πΏ
This shower has a fixed shower head.
That might sound like a tiny detail, but from a cleaning perspective it matters.
When you've got a detachable handheld shower head, I can rinse walls, grout, corners, glass, edges and cleaning products away much more efficiently.
With a fixed shower head, you don't have that same ability to direct water exactly where it's needed.
So the cleaning process generally takes a little longer.
It might only be a relatively small amount of extra time during each service.
But if you're paying someone to clean your home regularly, those little amounts of time add up across a year.
THAT'S WHY I OFTEN RECOMMEND DETACHABLE SHOWER HEADS.
Not because they're some fancy cleaning gadget. π
Because they're a simple Home System that makes maintaining the shower easier.
They're useful for the person cleaning the home.
They're useful for the household between services.
They're great for quickly rinsing the shower walls.
They're handy for washing kids, pets or anything else life throws into the shower.
And most importantly from a paid-cleaning perspective:
If something makes a repetitive job quicker every single time we do it, you're potentially reducing paid labour over the life of that fixture.
A few minutes saved here.
A few minutes saved there.
Multiply that across weekly, fortnightly or even regular deeper services over several years and suddenly a relatively inexpensive hardware change makes a lot of sense.
That's the kind of thing I mean when I talk about Home Systems.
Sometimes making your home easier to maintain isn't about cleaning harder.
It's about changing something small so the job itself becomes easier.
AND HERE'S THE OTHER PART I REALLY WANTED TO SHOW.
Look at the original photos.
There wasn't some spectacular horror-show shower in front of us.
It was a real, used shower with accumulated buildup in the areas where buildup naturally occurs β grout, edges, corners, junctions and glass.
Those relatively small areas are exactly where a disproportionate amount of deep-cleaning time can disappear.
The large flat tile in the middle?
Relatively straightforward.
That grubby little line running along an edge?
That little bu**er can have completely different plans for my day. π
That's why quoting cleaning purely by the number of bathrooms, bedrooms or square metres only tells part of the story.
A shower cleaned every week or fortnight is an entirely different job from a shower I see every three months.
And a shower designed to be easily rinsed and maintained can be a different job again from one that isn't.
MAINTENANCE CLEANING KEEPS THINGS THERE.
DEEP CLEANING BRINGS THINGS BACK.
And good Home Systems can reduce the work required to do either.
No miracle spray.
No 30-second transformation.
And no pretending that every shower takes the same amount of time.
FINAL RESULT:
β±οΈ 1 hour 27 minutes
π§½ Full tile wash and detailed scrub
π§Ό Grout, edges, corners and junctions
πΏ Glass descale
π§ͺ Separate cleaning processes for different jobs
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Quarterly service β no Hailz maintenance between visits
π‘ Plus one very good example of why the way a home is set up affects the labour required to maintain it.
No staged dirt.
No miracle product.
No unsafe chemical shortcuts.
No judgement.
Just the actual time and work behind a real deep clean in a real home.
And once again, a huge thank you to the lovely person whose shower this is for allowing me to use it to show what the work actually looks like. β€οΈ
Privacy and trust still come before content β always.
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