Can someone tell me if this is an OK way to do things? I am doing a complete strip-down and clean of both my snake tanks today.

I dumped all the bedding from both tanks (one is glass and one is a plastic tub). I washed out any remaining bedding and dumped that. The plastic tub I filled a good way up with water, put all of the branches, hides, etc. in there (but NOT the soak/drink bowls), and put a small splash of bleach in and mixed it around. Filled the aquarium a small way up with water and put a tiny capful of bleach in. I waited approximately 20 minutes for the bleach to do its job, then emptied both tanks and refilled with water (I'm also soaking the hides and branches with water). I'm planning on waiting around half an hour on letting the water sit in there to make sure all the bleach is gone.

After that I replace all the bedding with new stuff, wash out the bowls with hot water and refill, and put everything back...

Is this the typical way to do "complete strippings" of tanks? The reason I ask is because last time I cleaned with bleach, I think I used too much bleach or did something otherwise wrong, and there was a lingering odd smell on my corn until he shed it off and went back to normal... and yes it worried me.