The add-ons worth booking, and when

An add-on is a job with a start and an end, which is why it is priced on its own and carries its own time. Ask for one and the visit is made longer to fit it; it is never squeezed into the hours you booked for the rest of the home.

The ones that earn their place

• Inside the oven. Grease hardens with every use. Twice a year for a kitchen in daily use.
• Fridge inside out. Worth doing the day before a big shop, when it is at its emptiest.
• Wardrobe and re-organisation. The one add-on people book once and then repeat every season.
• Balcony. Dust and sand build up far faster outdoors here than anyone expects.
• Ironing and folding. Not cleaning at all, and the one that gives the most hours back.

Booking them on their own

You do not need a cleaning visit to ask for add-ons: pick a few, reach the minimum length, and a cleaner comes for those alone. It is the right way to handle an oven before guests arrive.

How many at once

Each one adds real time. Two or three alongside a normal visit is comfortable; five turns the visit into a half-day, which is fine if that is what you meant to book.