You might think that if you hire a cleaning service to come and deal with your mess, you can promptly ignore the whole subject and let the housecleaners deal with everything—after all, that’s the whole point of paying someone to clean your house. But if you want your cleaning service to be as effective as possible—and your house to be as clean as possible—there’s some prep work you should do before the cleaners arrive.

Yes, you need to clean some things before your professional cleaners show up, because you want to maximize the benefit that pro cleaners bring to your house. Otherwise, they’ll waste time and energy (and your money) fighting an uphill battle. If you want to get the most out of your professional house cleaners, here are the pre-cleaning steps you need to take.

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