Deep Cleaning in Decatur, GA

Deep cleaning is the one-time cleaning service for a home someone lives in: the residential cleaning visit for when a house has gone past what routine upkeep can fix. The team runs the whole standard house cleaning list, then adds what that list skips: baseboards, blinds, the inside of the windows, and a steamer on the bathtub, sinks and tile. Beds get fresh linen. Online booking covers one to six bedrooms, and nothing is paid when you book.

Why older Decatur houses start here

About a third of homes inside the city limits were built before 1950, and about 23% before 1940 (American Community Survey, 2020–2024 estimates). Most of the oldest stand in the five local historic districts: MAK, Clairemont, Ponce de Leon Court, Old Decatur and Parkwood. A bungalow from the 1920s has more trim than a new build, window sills deep enough to hold a season of dust, and baseboards with grooves a quick wipe never reaches. That buildup is the reason this visit exists.

The other half of the housing is newer and stacked. About 37% of homes sit in buildings of five or more units, and about 36% of occupied homes are rented. A tenant staying another year books this visit when the tub and the blinds have gone months without attention; an owner books it before family comes to stay, or as a spring cleaning. Rental cleaning at the end of a lease is a different cleaning service, covered below.

What the visit includes

The same list at every size, taken from the booking catalog:

• Throughout the home. Baseboards and inside windows wiped with a wet cloth; in the five-bedroom size the team uses a steamer on them instead. Ceiling fans, vents and blinds dusted; high-dusting; mirrors and glass shelves; doors, frames and knobs wiped; chairs and sofas vacuumed; floors and carpets vacuumed with two vacuum cleaners, then a wet and dry mop.
• Bathrooms. The bathtub, sinks and tile cleaned with a steamer, not just a scrub with a sponge; glass, shower doors and taps polished; surfaces disinfected with antibacterial spray; laundry-room shelves wiped.
• Kitchen. Every removable stain on the backsplash, stove and cabinet fronts; the microwave inside and out; the outside of the fridge and dishwasher, with a product made for stainless steel.
• Bedrooms. Surfaces dusted, beds made with fresh linen.

Removable is the word to notice. A mark baked into an old enamel tub may stay. Plan on a thorough cleaning, not a spotless one.

Deep, standard or move-out

Choose by what is behind. If only the floors, counters and bathrooms need help, standard house cleaning in Decatur is the smaller house cleaning service, and it leaves windows, blinds and baseboards out. If several detail surfaces are behind at once, this is the visit.

It is also the natural start for recurring cleaning in Decatur. About 64% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, and many owners move to recurring house cleaning after one deep visit, on a weekly or biweekly cleaning routine. The scheduled cleanings repeat the standard checklist, with no cleaning plan or contract to sign, and keeps a consistently clean home where the deep visit left it.

It is not move-in and move-out cleaning. Move-out cleaning in Decatur goes inside cabinets, drawers, the fridge and the oven because the rooms are empty. Here, with the cabinets still full, those interiors are extras.

Comparing cleaning companies for this visit

Detail work on a 1930s house in Clairemont is a different job from one on a condo built last decade, so put the old-house questions to any cleaning company or maid service you call. Ads promise rooms that sparkle; ask instead what happens to the trim. Here, baseboards and window glass get a wet cloth, or a steamer in the five-bedroom size, and the full checklist is the same one the booking system shows. Ask what costs extra: a full sink of dishes, one dog or cat, the inside of the fridge or freezer, the oven or a double oven, the kitchen cabinets. Ask how the price is set: by beds and baths, shown before you confirm. Ask what happens if an item is missed: here you point to it at the walk-through, while the team is still in the house. Professional cleaning services, or any house cleaning company, that answer in writing are easier to hold to their word.

Size, extras and booking

Of our home cleaning services, this is the one that runs to six bedrooms. Pick the size of your home by bedrooms and baths, from one bed and one bath (about 800 to 900 sq ft) up to six beds and six baths. Your cleaning needs decide the extras. The total updates as you add them, the cleaning cost calculator shows each size, and you choose a fixed start time. We publish no set number of hours; the cabinet extra, for one, means emptying shelves and putting everything back.

Two scope notes. Offices sit outside online booking: for commercial cleaning or office cleaning services, call or email with the space and its hours. If you want green cleaning products used, or certain cleaning products and cleaning solutions kept out because of an allergy, write those specific needs in the booking notes.

Getting the team to a Decatur house

The team drives from Winder, Georgia, about 45 miles to City Hall on McDonough Street, roughly 60 minutes without traffic on GA 316, I-85 and I-285; weekday mornings on the interstates add time. Coverage goes by ZIP, not the city line: 30030, 30032, 30033, 30034 and 30035 all book online, including the many DeKalb County addresses outside the city that carry its name. For a historic house, say which door to use and where the key or lockbox is. For a building of five or more units, give the front desk or fob steps and visitor parking. The notes field takes 2,000 characters, and photos help.