Where most clients start
Deep cleaning in Atwater, Merced and Turlock
A deep clean is everything in a standard clean plus every surface a weekly routine never gets to: baseboards on hands and knees, door frames, light fixtures, window tracks, degreased cabinet fronts, and the mineral film on your shower glass. 4 to 5 hrs for a 3 bed / 2 bath. One flat price, quoted before we start, with the oven, cabinets, fans and windows priced separately so you only pay for the ones you want.
Defining the word
"Deep clean" means something specific here
Plenty of companies sell a deep clean and deliver a slow standard clean. What separates the two is the item list, and an item list is checkable. Ours is written down and published in full on the booking page, before we touch anything.
A deep clean is a one-time reset. It's not something you buy every month. Its job is to get a home back to a baseline that a standard clean can hold, which is why most new recurring clients start with one. After that the maintenance visits are fast, and the flat rate stays fair.
Budget 4 to 5 hrs for a 3 bed / 2 bath. Larger homes and homes that haven't been cleaned in over a year run longer. We work top down, room by room, and we don't leave a room to come back to it, so you can watch the house finish in sections.
Before you book
What you can add, and what we still won't do
The whole standard checklist happens first: kitchen, bathrooms, all floors, dusting, trash. On top of that a deep clean details the edges, the surfaces above and behind, and the kitchen and bath — you'll see the full list as you build your clean on the booking page. These are the jobs priced separately, and the ones we don't take on at all.
Add any of these to your deep clean
The deep clean covers the reset work above at a flat $150 base. These are the jobs people want some of and not all of, so they're priced separately rather than built into everyone's total:
- Inside the oven, racks and door glass — $40
- Inside cabinets and drawers — $60
- Ceiling fans, blade by blade — $25
- Window sills — $25
- Interior windows — $10 each
- Sliding glass door, both sides and track — $30
- Wall spot-cleaning where marked — $60
- Shedding-pet cleanup — $25–40
- Blinds $10 each · shutters $12 each
- Plant-based, fragrance-free products for the visit — $55
Still not included in a deep clean
Grout: a deep clean scrubs the grout you see standing up — the kitchen backsplash, and the shower and tub surround. Tiled floor grout is not part of it; that’s a separate job we do with a steam tool, at $75 per room. Worth saying plainly: we scrub grout, we don’t resurface or seal it. Grout that was never sealed or has stained over years may not come back to its original colour — at that point it’s staining rather than dirt.
Inside the fridge ($40) and inside the oven ($40); both are priced add-ons on every service now, a move-out clean included. Never included: exterior windows, walls beyond spot-cleaning, hoarding conditions, moving heavy furniture. See the pricing page for every add-on.
Flat rates
Deep clean prices
One price for the whole list, by home size. No hourly billing, so a deep clean that runs long doesn't cost you more than the number we confirmed at the door.
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| Bedrooms | 1 bath | 2 baths | 3 baths | 4 baths | 5 baths | 6 baths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 bed | $150 | $175 | $215 | $255 | $295 | $335 |
| 2 beds | $185 | $210 | $250 | $290 | $330 | $370 |
| 3 beds Most common | $220 | $245 | $285 | $325 | $365 | $405 |
| 4 beds | $275 | $300 | $340 | $380 | $420 | $460 |
| 5 beds | $340 | $365 | $405 | $445 | $485 | $525 |
| 6 beds | $405 | $430 | $470 | $510 | $550 | $590 |
Travel: Atwater, Winton and Merced free · Livingston, Ballico, Cressey, Le Grand +$15 · Turlock, Delhi, Hilmar, Planada +$25 · Los Banos, Modesto, Chowchilla +$40. Rush booking inside 48 hours +15%. No shedding-pet surcharge on a deep clean — that work is included.
On deep cleans over $250 we look first. A 10-minute walkthrough or a few photos of your kitchen and bathrooms, then a written number. That's how the flat rate stays flat: we'd rather find the surprise before we quote it than argue about it afterward.
Is this the one you need?
Five situations that call for a deep clean
The home has never been professionally cleaned
Even a tidy house collects things a homeowner never gets to: fan blades, window tracks, the top edge of doors, the grout line behind the faucet. If nobody has ever done those, they're all waiting at once, and a standard clean can't absorb them.
It's been over a year
A year is long enough for shower glass to haze permanently if you wait much longer, for kitchen cabinet fronts to build a sticky film, and for baseboards to hold dust that no longer wipes off. Annual deep cleans exist mostly to stop damage, not just to look better.
You're moving into a place
Someone else's home is now yours, and a landlord's turnover clean is rarely more than a wipe-down. If the unit is empty, look at the move-in clean instead; it adds inside cabinets, fridge and oven, which is what actually bothers people on day one.
After illness in the house
Switch plates, door handles, remotes, bathroom fixtures, and every hard surface get worked deliberately rather than in passing. We're a cleaning company rather than a disinfection contractor, but the surfaces people actually touch are on the list and they get real attention.
Before you host
Holidays, a graduation, family staying a week. The things guests notice are the deep-clean items: the guest bathroom's shower glass, the baseboards in the hallway, the dust on the dining light fixture. Book two to three weeks out for a date you care about.
Before starting recurring service
Most new recurring clients begin with one deep clean, then move to standard visits at the published rate. For a 3 bed / 2 bath that's $245 once, then $149 every two weeks. It's what we recommend when a home hasn't been professionally cleaned in a while, and it's optional.
FAQ
Deep clean questions
How is this different from a standard clean, really?
A standard clean maintains surfaces you look at. A deep clean addresses surfaces you'd have to go looking for: the inside of a window track, the underside of a fan blade, the jamb of a door, the grout behind a faucet. In time, a standard clean on a 3 bed / 2 bath is 2.5 to 3 hrs and a deep clean is 5 to 6. You see both lists in full as you build your clean on the booking page, so you can compare line by line before you book.
Can you get the hard water off my shower glass?
Usually, and it's included in the deep clean price. Central Valley water leaves a hardened mineral film that ordinary cleaner won't touch, so we dissolve it, scrape it with a razor, then polish and squeegee. The honest limit is that glass left untreated for years can be etched, meaning the mineral has eaten into the surface. Etched glass doesn't come back. We tell you which one you have before we start.
Do you move furniture?
We clean behind and under anything one person can move safely: nightstands, chairs, a light sofa, a coffee table. We don't move beds, dressers, appliances, or anything with electronics or glass on it. If you want under a heavy piece done, slide it out before we arrive and we'll clean the space and help you slide it back.
How far ahead should I book?
A week is comfortable for most dates, two to three weeks if you're aiming at a specific holiday or an event. A deep clean is a long visit, so it takes most of a day on our schedule and there are fewer slots for it than for standard cleans. If you need one inside 48 hours we'll do our best, and that booking is +15%.
What if the house is worse than you expected?
That's why we walk it or ask for photos before quoting anything over $250. Once the number is confirmed it doesn't move. If something genuinely outside a deep clean turns up (mold, pet damage, hoarding conditions), we stop, tell you, and you decide. We don't do that work, and we won't quietly bill for discovering it.
Ready for the reset?
Send us your bedrooms, bathrooms and city, and you'll have a written quote within two hours.