How to Maintain a Luxury Apartment Between Professional Cleaning Visits

Professional cleaning resets an apartment. The condition the apartment holds between visits depends on small daily and weekly habits. For Battersea Power Station residents, the apartments have high-spec finishes that respond well to consistent light care and poorly to neglect followed by aggressive cleaning.

• Wipe the kitchen worktop with a damp cloth after breakfast.
• Run the shower squeegee across the glass after showering.
• Hang towels to dry rather than leaving them on the floor.
• Push chairs back in and reset cushions.

These four habits stop the bulk of weekly build-up — soap scum on glass, dust around the kitchen, and the visual disorder that makes an apartment feel worse than it is.

• Empty the kitchen bin if it is more than half full.
• Wipe the hob and the area around the sink.
• Run the dishwasher overnight if it is full.
• Stack post and parcels in one place, not on every surface.

• Change bed linens once a week.
• Wipe inside of the microwave after spills.
• Empty the fridge of anything past its date.
• Run a hot rinse cycle on the dishwasher with a cleaner tablet.
• Vacuum entryway floors where shoes shed grit.

• Stone worktops — water and a pH-neutral product only. Avoid vinegar and citrus cleaners.
• Hardwood floors — a damp (not wet) mop with a hardwood-safe product.
• Brushed metal taps — a microfibre cloth in the direction of the grain.
• Shower glass — a squeegee after every shower beats any cleaning product.
• Integrated appliances — wipe fronts with a soft cloth; avoid abrasive sponges.

• Bathroom descaling, grout detailing and full deep cleans.
• Internal glass, skirting, switches and high-touch surfaces.
• Oven interior, terrace cleaning, ironing.
• Bed making across multiple bedrooms before guests arrive.

These are the tasks that take time, require the right products, and benefit from a trained team — which is why most Battersea Power Station residents schedule them with Maison BPS rather than do them ad hoc.

If you keep your own products, store them in one place — under the kitchen sink is conventional. Mark anything specialist (marble cleaner, hardwood cleaner) so the Maison BPS team uses the right product on the right surface. Or skip this entirely and add the Maison BPS supplied products option at checkout for £10 per visit.

Book a deep clean if any of the following are true: bathrooms are showing limescale on taps and shower glass; the kitchen hob has baked-on residue; cabinet exteriors feel sticky; skirting and switches have visible dust; you are about to host or list the apartment.

Maintaining an apartment between professional visits is mostly about small, consistent habits — two minutes in the morning, five minutes in the evening, and a few weekly tasks. Combine that with the right Maison BPS visit schedule and the apartment stays in steady condition without any single big push.