Kitchen Deep Cleaning
Hood, Grease, Cabinets & Grout (2026)

What a kitchen deep clean covers

A regular clean keeps the visible surfaces tidy. A deep clean deals with what builds up where nobody wipes every week: the inside of the hood, the grease on top of wall cabinets, the gap behind the fridge and the dark lines of grout behind the hob. The table shows the usual scope.

Why Malaysian kitchens get so greasy

High-heat frying and wok cooking push oily vapour into the air. What the hood does not capture settles on the nearest cool surfaces: the hood itself, the wall tiles, the cabinet tops and the ceiling. Over months it combines with dust into a sticky film that normal detergent only smears.

A weak or badly ducted hood makes this much worse. If grease keeps coming back quickly after a clean, the problem may be the extraction, not the cleaning. Our kitchen exhaust ducting guide explains how ducts and fans should be set up, and the exhaust fan guide covers extraction in other rooms.

The cooker hood and its filters

The hood is the most important and most neglected part of the job. Most homes have either aluminium mesh filters, which can be soaked in hot water with a degreaser, or baffle filters, which are sturdier and easier to clean. Recirculating hoods also have a carbon filter that cannot be washed and has to be replaced.

• Switch the hood off and let it cool before taking filters out.
• Soak metal filters in hot water with a kitchen degreaser, then brush and rinse. Never soak carbon filters.
• Degrease the canopy inside and out, and wipe the fan housing you can reach safely.
• Replace filters that are bent, torn or still sticky after cleaning; our rental refurbishment guide prices a hood filter at RM80–RM250.

If the hood is old, noisy or no longer pulls smoke away even with clean filters, replacing it is often better value. Our hood and hob guide covers types and prices.

Cabinets: tops, doors and interiors

Cabinet doors near the hob pick up grease first, especially around handles. Wipe with a mild degreaser suited to the finish; harsh solvents and scouring pads can dull or strip laminate, sprayed and acrylic doors. The tops of wall cabinets are the worst area in most kitchens, which is why some owners lay a sheet of liner paper up there and change it every few months.

Inside, empty each cabinet, wipe it down and let it dry fully before reloading. Look for signs of water under the sink and swelling at the edges of the board. Swelling is a board problem, not a cleaning problem; our swollen cabinet guide explains the options.

Tiles, grout and silicone

Grease settles into grout lines and turns them dark. Scrub with a stiff brush and a degreaser, then rinse; harsh acid cleaners can damage cement grout and some tiles. If grout stays stained or crumbles after cleaning, it is worn out rather than dirty. Regrouting with a stain-resistant epoxy grout behind the hob is a longer-term answer, which our grout types guide prices at RM1 – RM3 per sq ft extra over normal grout.

Check the silicone bead along the worktop and around the sink. Black mould in silicone cannot be cleaned out; the bead has to be cut out and replaced.

Oven, microwave, fridge and the gaps behind

Oven interiors, microwaves and fridges are usually add-ons to a deep clean because they take time and need the appliance emptied. Pull out movable appliances where it is safe, and clean the floor and wall behind them, where crumbs and grease feed cockroaches. Our cockroach control guide explains why kitchen hygiene is the first step in any pest treatment.

DIY or book a professional clean?

A lightly used kitchen can be deep cleaned by the owner over a day with a good degreaser, a stiff brush, microfibre cloths and patience. A professional clean makes more sense when the grease has built up for years, before a tenant moves in or out, after renovation dust, or when the hood and high cabinets are hard to reach safely.

How often to deep clean a kitchen

Hood filters in a home that fries daily need attention far more often than the rest of the kitchen. A simple routine: wipe the hob and backsplash after heavy cooking, wash hood filters regularly, degrease cabinet doors and tops every few months, and plan a full deep clean once a year or between tenancies. For rental units our move-in and move-out cleaning guide sets out the handover checklist.

What kitchen cleaning and follow-up repairs cost

These are indicative Klang Valley ranges for 2026, quoted from the ClickBina guides named in the sources section. Kitchen deep cleans are usually quoted as part of a whole-home clean or as a job on their own after the kitchen is seen.

How ClickBina can help

Sometimes a kitchen needs more than a clean: a new hood, regrouting, new silicone or a cabinet refresh. ClickBina handles whole-house refurbishment and coordinates the trades, so the follow-up work is priced together with the clean. WhatsApp us your job details for a quote: the kitchen size, how heavy the grease is, and whether the oven, fridge or cabinet interiors are included. We reply within the hour, the price we agree is a flat price with no hidden charges, and a site visit is RM150, waived if you go ahead.

Sources & methodology

• ClickBina deep cleaning cost guide — oven add-on and whole-home deep clean ranges, kitchen checklist.
• ClickBina rental refurbishment guide — hood filter replacement price.
• ClickBina hood and hob guide — chimney hood installation price.
• ClickBina grout types guide — epoxy grout price.
• ClickBina cabinet door replacement guide — respray and reface price.
• ClickBina move-in and move-out cleaning guide — site visit wording.

How we estimated prices: every RM figure on this page is quoted unchanged from the ClickBina guides named above. They are indicative Klang Valley market ranges for 2026, not fixed rates.