Answering the call for a clean sweep

For regular house cleaning, Wang and his team go straight for the jugular of resistant stains while treating every piece of furniture with great care.

When they deal with a leather sofa, for example, Wang and his team would go through every crease with a fine-toothed comb and scrub the surface with a soft hog hair brush to ensure the leather wouldn't be compromised.

They use disposable wipes to tackle tough grease in the kitchen.

"It avoids recycling stained ones, so no possible grease residue will be carried over to other spots," he says.

They leave no stone unturned. Kitchens, bedrooms, living and washing rooms are dealt with professionally, as well as the balcony and the study.

When everything is done and dusted, a nontoxic aerosol disinfectant will be applied.

Usually, it takes nine hours to finish an order.

"I'd like to think we offer whole-space hygiene management,"Wang says.

Rest assured, Wang doesn't charge by the hour, although his team have often worked more than nine hours to live up to their own expectations.

"The bottom line is to meet the customer's satisfaction," he says.

Wearing thin metal-framed glasses, the tall guy is thin and doesn't exude a stereotypical hint of being versed in domestic chores.

Wang has been into playing video games and studying trendy cars.

Having studied computer science in college, Wang spent a few years in software marketing and sales in Jiaxing after graduation in 2013.

Then, he changed the course of career and made inroads in the home decoration business, which his father and uncle both have been doing for years.

"I found there were no consistent cleaning standards for newly decorated properties," he says.

Although it wasn't covered by Wang's decoration business, the residual stains he spotted in his customers' home increasingly got on his nerves.

"It's probably affected by my mother who has been a bit compulsive about hygiene," Wang says.

"She would clean our home on a daily basis and would not tolerate a hair out of place, which might have rubbed off on me."

Wang's idea of plying a trade as a cleaner was first rejected by his family.

"My mother was like it wouldn't look good if a young boy went out to clean for other people," Wang says.