7 kitchen cleaning mistakes you're making – and what professional cleaners urge you to do instead

A modern style kitchen with wooden cabinets and thick white marbel countertops. Wooden barstools along the island. large kitchen windows with Alina Glow Patterned roller blinds.

Even the most well-intentioned kitchen cleaning can result in mistakes that make your efforts less effective – or even cause damage.

From damaging delicate surfaces to using too much dish soap, cleaning a kitchen well relies on avoiding these seven common kitchen cleaning mistakes, as detailed by our cleaning professionals.