Deep Cleaning

Of course! All our home cleaning services, including the deep cleaning service includes cleaning the whole home. This means the kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms, and all living spaces will be cleaned.
This is the default for every cleaning unless we’re told otherwise that some rooms can be missed.

If there are rooms that don’t need to be cleaned, they can be identified via our online booking system or by letting us know over the phone when booking an appointment.

We also offer discounts for missing those rooms when that’s the case. 🙂

Note: There are some areas we aren’t able to clean for insurance and safety reasons. Those areas include construction or remodeling zones in the home or non-airconditioned areas like the garage or Arizona room.

Unfortunately, no. While some home cleaning companies will steam clean carpets, it’s a rare situation. Professional steam cleaning equipment typically runs in the $50,000 range. Because of this, those who steam clean carpets are usually specialists.

That said, if you’re looking for steam cleaning for the carpets or any other flooring-related specialist services, we work with many who do great work and are happy to refer any of our friends. We publish our list of preferred vendors on our referrals and friends page.

Everyone has a slightly different definition of what deep cleaning entails. In short, deep cleaning is the service every home needs about every 6-12 months. Deep cleanings focus on the more subtle details that can’t be taken care of during a regular cleaning service.

A Tidy Casa deep cleaning service covers everything in the standard cleaning service and a handful of additional services. Those services include cleaning the baseboards, blinds, doors, handles, ac vents, and cleaning the light switches and power outlets.

Deep cleanings focus on items that don’t need to be cleaned during every regular cleaning service. When first starting with any cleaning service, it’s very typical to start with a deep cleaning to get the home caught up.

This is especially important when there hasn’t been a professional cleaning service in the home in the last six months.

While some families prefer the more detailed focus of a deep cleaning service and request it more frequently, we suggest getting a deep cleaning every six months to a year.

Most areas covered during a deep cleaning service, like the baseboards and blinds, don’t need to be cleaned during every cleaning, especially if there’s been consistent upkeep between regular cleaning services.

That said, all homes have different needs when it comes to cleaning. Figuring out how often to get a deep or spring cleaning service is tricky, given family sizes and lifestyle differences between homes.

No two homes are the same, and all homes will need deep cleanings at different cadences.

Factors that can affect this include the number of people/animals living in the home, how much traffic the home sees, and how much upkeep happens between cleanings.

Families that don’t entertain often and don’t leave behind much debris won’t need deep cleanings as often as families with kids or pets running around.

All that said, the typical recommendation for most homes is a deep cleaning once or twice a year for most homes.

With a bi-annual deep cleaning every six months and monthly upkeep between the more extensive spring cleanings, the house should look amazing all year round.

Because all homes are unique and require a different level of attention, it’s impossible to give an exact duration for each cleaning.

That said, we expect a deep cleaning for a home of less than 1,000 SQFT to take between one and four hours. A 2,500 SQFT home will take between 3 and 6 hours.

If a more specific duration is needed, we can give a more narrow range based on the size of the home and additional services needed.

NOTE: Based on our expereince, the larger homes tend to take less time per sqft.

While we never like to give pre-cleaning chores to our customers, there are things people can do to prepare for a great deep cleaning experience.

Those things include:

Decluttering and organizing: Having full access to the floors and countertops makes it significantly easier to get to work without having to go through the process of decluttering and finding homes for all the kid’s toys.
Get dishes out of the sink: While we’re one of the few cleaning companies that rinse and put dishes into the dishwasher, it can be a very time-consuming process that takes attention away from other home areas. Having the dishes done allows us to pay more attention to things like blinds and baseboards.
Communicate special needs or instructions: Always let us know ahead of time if there are any special considerations we’ll need to keep in mind while cleaning. The sooner ahead of time we know, the better we can prepare.
Secure pets: Make sure pets are safely put away and out of harm’s way. Whether that means creating dogs or letting them outside while we work, it keeps our cleaners safe and keeps pets from getting out if we leave the door open for too long.

All these things help the cleaning go smoothly and allow us to deliver the best results possible.

While there is a lot of overlap between move-in/move-out and deep cleanings, they are different. A move-in/move-out cleaning is designed to prepare a home for transition between families, focusing on the areas that are hard to clean with furniture in the home. Deep cleanings typically focus more on items that only need cleaning every 6-12 months. While there is a lot of overlap between the two, we suggest sticking to the move-in/move-out cleanings for empty homes and the deep cleaning service for bi-annual spring cleanings.

While both move-in/move-out cleanings include standard cleaning items, move-in/move-out cleanings will focus on cleaning the baseboards, blinds, and inside window panes. Deep cleanings tend to focus on baseboards, blinds, doors, AC vents, light switches, and power outlets.

Deep cleanings include everything a standard cleaning does but with more detailed work, which includes the following.

1. A dusting of the baseboards
2. Dusting blinds
3. Wiping down doors
4. A dusting of AC vents
5. Wipe down light switches
6. Wipe down power outlets
7. Ceiling fans, if requested, they’re easy to overlook when they’re running.