Answering the call for a clean sweep

"Many of our customers contacted us online," Wang says.

A local woman surnamed Zhang was one of Wang's first customers.

"I saw their house cleaning videos online, and it was good," Zhang says, adding that she had her new house cleaned once, but was not quite satisfied.

"There were still cement patches and glue here and there," she says.

After she learned that one of her friends tried Wang's service and waxed lyrical about his service, Zhang placed an order.

They did give Zhang's home a brand-new look after nine hours of work.

"I didn't know those young lads could work so conscientiously," she says.

The cleaning work has also brought great changes to Wang's teammates, who were mostly reluctant to lift a finger sorting things out back at home.

Now, they all have developed a fixation toward cleanness.

"I couldn't stand a hair out of place at home now," says Yu Xiaofeng, who was one of the first to join Wang's team.

"We were friends and he approached me when I wanted to change my pace of life," Yu says.

Yu used to be in the e-commerce business and often had to work overtime.

"It turned out to be a challenging work too," Yu says, adding that he didn't know where to start when faced with a roomful of clutters.

But he has grown to deal with various tough cleaning problems at work.

Wang considers his service very demanding for patience, meticulousness and physical strength.

"It needs work to know how to clean," he says.

So far, Wang's service has covered different parts of Jiaxing city and he set up a second branch in downtown Jiaxing in November.

"Some of our customers are willing to wait for a month, and it speaks volumes about the prospects of the market," Wang says.

Contact the writer at yangfeiyue@chinadaily.com.cn