Extreme Clean
When the housework has become too much.
Extreme Clean is for homes in Greater Wellington where a regular visit is the wrong starting point. Mental health, hoarding, or a stretch where someone simply needs help. Sancia works with the person living there, and with the family and support workers arranging it. The visit can start with one room.
A home can slide when getting started feels impossible, or when things have built up past what one person can shift. Dishes, laundry, a bathroom that is no longer usable, a path that has closed over. That is common. It is the work Extreme Clean is for.
DSkip is a cleaning service, not a clinical one. The team does not provide counselling, and a clean is not treatment. Nothing is thrown out unless the person, or the person booking with their agreement, has said it can go. What the visit can do is take a room back to a state where daily life is easier.
She covers 82 suburbs from Wellington City through the Hutt, Porirua, and the Kapiti Coast. If the address sits on the edge of that map, ask.
What this is for
Mental health, hoarding, or needing help to get the house back.
Mental health
Depression, anxiety, burnout, and other conditions can turn the housework into a wall. You do not have to name a diagnosis or explain how the place got this way. Say which room would make the week easier.
Hoarding
When rooms have filled up, the work is slower and more careful. Belongings stay unless the person, or whoever is booking with their say-so, has agreed they can go. A usable kitchen, bathroom, or path through the house is often the first visit.
Needing help
Injury, illness, grief, time in hospital, or a stretch where life got in the way of the house. Someone else can arrange the clean. The person living there does not have to manage it.
Who can get in touch
The person, their family, or someone already supporting them.
If it is your home
You do not have to apologise for the state of the place. Tell Sancia which room would make the week easier, and that is where the visit starts.
If you are family or whānau
You can book on someone's behalf. Say who will be home, who holds the keys, what should be kept, and what the person is comfortable with. Sancia will follow that brief.
If you support someone
Support workers, community teams, and other people already in the person's life can arrange the clean. Name the contact, the access, and the rooms that matter first.
How the visit works
A pace the person can live with.
One conversation first
A call or the form is enough. Suburb, what the home is like now, and what would help. Photos are useful if the person is happy to send them. They are not required.
Start where daily life happens
Kitchen, bathroom, a clear path through the house, laundry, or one bedroom. The whole home does not have to be finished in a single visit.
A reset, or a rhythm
Some homes need one thorough visit. Others stay manageable with a regular clean, so the work does not land on the person all at once.
Present, or not
Some people want to be there. Others find that harder. The team can work while the person is out, or meet a support person who already has access.
There is no lecture and no story told about the house afterwards. The brief stays with the booking. If a support person should be the only contact, say so. If some things are rubbish and some things must stay, say that too, so nothing important is moved.
Some homes need more than a clean. Heavy mould, hazardous waste, pest contamination, or a volume of rubbish that needs a clearance are a different job. Sancia will say so before anyone starts, and she will still help name what a cleaning visit can do.
Enquire
Tell us what would help.
You, a family member, or a support worker can send this. Include the suburb, who to speak with, and whether it is one visit or a regular clean. Call 027 275 7389 if talking is easier.
Other home, workplace, and handover work is on the services page.