A deep clean is a different job from a regular visit, and it is priced as one.
A three bedroom, two bathroom home is $225 as a one-off standard visit and $360 as a deep clean. Four bedrooms and three bathrooms is $424. What the gap between the first two figures buys is the rest of this page.
Deep cleaning in North Pinellas is usually sold as a range and invoiced as a total. Here it is a fixed figure for the size of the home, published before you speak to anybody. The smallest home on the card is $250, which is the published minimum for a deep clean rather than a starting point that moves.
The difference is reach and hours, item by item
A regular visit keeps a house that is already in order in that order. A deep clean is the visit that gets it there, and the honest way to describe it is not with an adjective but with a list. Everything on the standard checklist still happens. These are the additions, and the list beside them, the one saying what a deep clean is still not, is the half that almost nobody in this market puts in writing.
What a deep clean adds to a standard visit
- Baseboards, door frames, door tops and switch plates washed rather than dusted
- Grout lines, tile and shower screens scrubbed rather than wiped, and hard water marks worked at
- Ceiling fans, air vents, light fittings and the tops of cabinets and the fridge
- Window sills, tracks and frames washed out rather than run over with a cloth
- Inside cabinets and drawers wherever they are already empty
- Behind and underneath whatever two people can move by hand: sofa, bed, nightstands, side tables
- Wall marks spot cleaned and cobwebs taken down at ceiling height
What a deep clean is still not
- Inside the oven and inside the fridge, which stay flat-rate add-ons on every visit including this one
- Carpet shampooing, machine grout restoration and pressure washing
- Exterior windows, gutters, roofs and anything on a ladder above head height
- Moving heavy furniture or appliances, or anything that wants two people and a dolly
- Painting, patching and anything that repairs damage rather than cleans it
- Pet waste, biohazard, mold remediation and post-construction debris
The first line is a priced add-on, so ask for it and the figure is agreed before anything is booked. The rest need a different trade, and we will tell you which one instead of improvising.
The standard checklist, line by line is on the house cleaning page, and every rate on the site, add-ons included is on the pricing page. Neither of them says anything different from this one.
When a house actually needs one
Six occasions, and not one of them is every month. A deep clean sold as a routine is a standard visit with a bigger number on it.
Before a regular schedule starts
The first visit on a house that has not been cleaned professionally in a while is a genuinely long day. It is priced as a deep clean, and the rule that decides it is published below rather than applied afterwards.
Emptying a house, or filling one
The one clean that has to satisfy somebody other than the person paying for it. It has a wider scope and a rate of its own, and both are further down this page.
Opening a house that has been shut for a season
A closed house on this coast collects dust on every horizontal surface and stale air in every vent. Fans, vents, sills and tracks are the work, and none of them is on a standard visit at that depth.
Before a house goes on the market
Photographs and walkthroughs are looked at closely, and grout, tracks and light fittings are what people notice at that range. This is the version of the job that reaches them.
After a small job in the house
Once the contractor has taken the debris away. Fine dust settles into vents, tracks and the tops of everything, and it keeps reappearing until somebody works through the house in order. Post-construction debris itself is a different trade.
Once a year on a house that is kept up
A house on a regular schedule does not need one often, and being told that is worth more than being sold one. Once a year is a defensible cadence, and plenty of houses on a fortnightly visit never need one at all.
The ninety day rule, published before you book
The first visit on a recurring plan is priced as a deep clean when the home has not been professionally cleaned in the last 90 days.
That is the rule word for word, and it is the same sentence on the pricing page because there is only one copy of it anywhere on this site. It exists because a first visit on a house that has not been done recently takes hours a standard visit is not priced for, and the only way not to quote low and add it on afterwards is to say so first.
The quote form asks it as a yes or no question, in those words, and the figure changes in front of you when you answer it. Nothing is discovered on an invoice. Work out the figure for your home and the deep clean price appears underneath the standard one, both off the same table as the card further down this page.
A house that has been kept up gets its first visit at the standard rate. The rule is a question about the house, not a surcharge looking for a reason to apply.
If the house is being emptied, it is the other job
A deep clean is judged by the person who booked it. A move-out clean is judged by whoever walks the house at the end with a checklist, which is why it is a wider scope and a higher figure: the deep clean above plus inside every cabinet, drawer and closet, and inside the oven and the fridge at no extra charge, because those are the doors somebody opens. The same three bedroom, two bathroom house comes to $394 that way, and the column is on the table below.
That job also runs on somebody else's date rather than yours, which changes how it gets scheduled more than it changes what gets done. Move-out and move-in cleaning has its own page with the timing against a closing or a handover, what an empty house changes about the work, and the two utilities that need to be still connected on the day.
The rate card, both jobs
One-off, by the size of the home. Six bedrooms and up is quoted after a walkthrough, because one published number for a house that size would be a guess wearing a price tag.
| Home | Deep clean | Move-out or move-in |
|---|---|---|
| 1 bed / 1 bath | $250 | $295 |
| 2 bed / 1 bath | $280 | $306 |
| 2 bed / 2 bath | $312 | $341 |
| 3 bed / 2 bath | $360 | $394 |
| 4 bed / 3 bath | $424 | $464 |
| 5 bed / 3+ bath | $496 | $543 |
Market context, so the figures sit against something: deep cleans in this area run $200 to $600 (SPEC 4), move-outs $250 to $550 (SPEC 4).
Four bedrooms and up changes what the work is rather than only how long it takes. What changes on a larger home has the bathroom count, the two-storey layouts and the gate paperwork that decides whether a first visit happens on the day it was booked. If the house stands empty between visits instead, home watch is the scheduled check beside the cleaning, with a timestamped report after every visit.
Three things to check before you book anything
A deep clean is a one-off job at a price most of this market will not put in writing until after a phone call, so here is what can be confirmed first rather than afterwards.
The rate is on this page for every size of home, published rather than promised, with the move-out column beside it. The scope is written down in both directions and settled before a day is booked, so nothing arrives on an invoice that was not on the list. And if something is not right, say so within twenty four hours and we clean it again at no charge. The re-clean policy is published in full, including what happens when we cannot get back inside a week.
Deep cleaning and move-out cleaning are available everywhere the cleaning is. Every town and ZIP code in the service area is listed, and the boundary is a list rather than a radius.
Questions people ask
- Is a deep clean priced by the hour or by the house?
- By the house. Every figure on this page is fixed for the size of home shown, so the total is knowable before anybody starts and it does not move because the day ran long. Above five bedrooms it is quoted after a walkthrough instead, and the table says so rather than publishing a guess.
- Does a deep clean include inside the oven and inside the fridge?
- No. Those two are flat-rate add-ons on any visit, a deep clean included, because not every kitchen needs them and nobody should pay for work their kitchen does not need. A move-out clean is the exception and includes both at no extra charge, because an oven and a fridge are exactly what gets opened at a final inspection.
- Does the ninety day rule still apply if the house has been kept clean by hand?
- Yes. The rule says professionally cleaned, so a house that has been kept up by hand is still a no for this purpose and the first visit is priced as a deep clean. That is the whole rule, published in the same words on the pricing page and asked as a yes or no question in the quote form, so the figure you see already has the answer in it.
- Do I have to book regular visits to get a deep clean?
- No. A deep clean is a one-off job with its own published rate, and that rate is the same whether anything follows it or not. The ninety day rule is a different thing: it says when the first visit on a recurring schedule gets priced as a deep clean rather than as a standard one.
- Can a deep clean be limited to part of the house?
- Yes. Kitchens and bathrooms are where the hours actually go, so a deep clean scoped to those rooms and the floors is a real thing to ask for rather than a fudge. It gets quoted as a written scope instead of straight off the table above, because a partial job has no published size to sit under, and that scope is agreed before anything is booked.
- What if the house needs more than a deep clean?
- You are told before anything starts and you decide what happens next. Some of it is a different trade: carpet shampooing, machine grout restoration, pressure washing, mold remediation, and anything on a ladder above head height. We will name which trade rather than having a go at it, and nothing reaches an invoice that was not agreed first.
Send the bedroom and bathroom count and get the deep clean figure back today
Say whether it is a deep clean or a move-out, and add the date if a handover or a closing is driving it. The figure comes straight off the table above, in writing, the same day. If the answer is that the house does not need a deep clean, you get told that instead.
Monday to Saturday, 09:00 to 18:00. Email gets answered the same day.