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In-stay cleaning

How regular cleaning works during a long stay, where the interval is set, and what happens to intervals that are missed.

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In-stay cleaning is the regular cleaning of a room whose guest is still living in it. It is not tied to a checkout; it appears to a rhythm.

The interval is set for the property, and can be changed for a particular stay — where a guest has agreed to a clean once a week rather than every three days, for instance.

Such a cleaning is assigned by the same rules as a checkout cleaning: to a named housekeeper, at an exact hour inside their own shift. The shift cannot be stepped outside.

What happens to missed intervals is worth knowing separately. If several pass without a cleaning, the system does not produce a stack of overdue tasks — one missed cleaning appears. A stack of overdue work does not help anyone catch up: it makes people stop reading the list.

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