Deep Cleaning in Lithonia, GA

This is a one-time cleaning for a home that has fallen behind on the details. The crew runs the full standard house cleaning list, then adds what a routine visit skips: baseboards, blinds, the inside of the windows, and a steamer on the bathtub, sinks and tile. Beds get fresh linen. Of our home cleaning services it has the longest list, and it is residential cleaning only. Sizes run from one bed and one bath to six and six, and you book online.

Why older Lithonia homes need it

Age, mostly. About 56% of homes in the city were built before 1980 and about 16% before 1940, and the 1970s were the busiest building decade (American Community Survey, 2020–2024 estimates). Older rooms have more trim, deeper window frames and wider sills, and dust packs into every groove. A cloth on a quick pass does not reach it, and that is where this visit spends its time.

Renters book it too. About 58% of occupied homes in the city are rented, and about 36% sit in buildings of five or more units. A tenant staying another year books it when the blinds and the tub have gone a season without attention, or before family comes to stay. For rental cleaning at the end of a lease, the right cleaning service is a different one, covered below.

What the job includes

• Throughout. Baseboards and the inside of the windows wiped with a wet cloth (the five-bed size uses a steamer instead); ceiling fans, vents and blinds dusted; high-dusting; mirrors, glass shelves, doors, frames and knobs; chairs and sofas vacuumed; floors done with two vacuum cleaners and a wet and dry mop.
• Bathrooms and laundry. The tub, sinks and tile steamed rather than given a quick scrub; glass, shower doors and taps polished; antibacterial spray on surfaces; laundry-room shelves wiped.
• Kitchen. Removable stains lifted from the backsplash, stove and cabinet fronts with a wet cloth or steamer; the microwave inside and out; the outside of the fridge and dishwasher with a stainless-steel product.
• Bedrooms. Surfaces dusted and beds made with fresh linen.

Note the word removable. A mark burned into a 1970s countertop may stay. What you get is a thorough cleaning; ads for a maid service promise a spotless home where every surface will sparkle, and this checklist names what gets wiped instead.

Is this the right visit?

Book it when several detail surfaces are behind at once: a seasonal cleaning, or spring cleaning done once, rather than a weekly one. If only the floors, counters and bathroom need help, standard house cleaning in Lithonia is the smaller house cleaning service; it leaves out windows, blinds and baseboards.

This one-time deep visit also makes a sensible first appointment before recurring cleaning, weekly or biweekly or monthly, with no cleaning plan to sign. Those regular cleanings repeat the standard list as a cleaning routine and keep a clean home at the level this visit sets.

It is not the empty-home list. Move-in and move-out cleaning is built for a vacant unit and goes inside cabinets, drawers, the fridge and the oven. Here those interiors are extras, because the shelves are still full.

Comparing cleaning companies for an older home here

Ask about a 1970s apartment or a pre-1940 house, not a model home. A cleaning company that quotes from a new-build cleaning checklist may skip half the trim, and a cleaner who has never seen your window frames cannot tell you how long they take. Four questions:

1. How are baseboards and window frames done? Here with a wet cloth, or a steamer in the five-bed size. The full list is on our service page, the same one the booking shows.
2. 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, and the kitchen cabinets.
3. How is the price set? By beds and baths plus extras, never by how the home looks. The total shows before you confirm, and the cleaning cost calculator shows it by size.
4. What if something is missed? Here you raise it at the walk-through, while the team is still in the home.

Professional cleaning services that answer in writing are easier to hold to their word.

Size, extras and timing

Pick the size of your home by beds and baths; your cleaning needs set the extras. Online sizes go from one bed and one bath (about 800 to 900 sq ft) to six beds and six baths (up to 6,000 sq ft). You choose a fixed start time, and no payment is taken when you book. No set number of hours is published; the cabinet extra alone means emptying shelves and putting everything back.

Home and office cleaning are booked differently. Commercial cleaning and office cleaning services are not booked online: for an office or a shop, call or email with the space and its hours. Cleaning products or cleaning solutions you want used or avoided, a request for green cleaning products or eco-friendly cleaning, an allergy or other specific needs go in the booking notes.

Getting the team to a Lithonia home

The crew drives from Winder, about 33 miles and about 55 minutes without traffic, on GA 81 and GA 20. Both residential ZIP codes, 30038 and 30058, book online, and they take in county addresses well outside the city limits. For an apartment, leave the gate code and unit number; for a house, the door or lockbox and any pets. The notes take 2,000 characters, with photos.