Deep Cleaning in Scottdale, GA

This is our one-time, top-to-bottom house cleaning service for a home someone lives in, the visit to book when regular home cleaning has not kept up. It runs everything on the standard house cleaning list, then adds the parts upkeep skips: baseboards and inside windows with a wet cloth, blinds dusted, the bathtub, sinks and tile cleaned with a steamer, fresh linen on the beds and the laundry room shelves wiped. You book it by the size of your home and see the total before you confirm.

Which Scottdale homes need it

Two kinds, mostly. About 43% of homes in Scottdale were built before 1980, and the 1950s and 1960s each account for about 12% of them (American Community Survey, 2020–2024 estimates). In a house that age, years of buildup sit on baseboards, along the window sills and in the corners of the tub surround, and regular cleaning does not get to them. A thorough cleaning of those parts, once, is what makes later upkeep worth paying for.

The other kind is a rental mid-lease. About 49% of occupied homes here are rented. A tenant who is staying but has let the bathroom and the kitchen go, or has family arriving for the holidays, books this visit and keeps the lease running. Newer homes need it less: about 35% were built in 2000 or later, and a kept-up newer house can often go straight to a recurring plan.

The checklist

Entire home

• Clean baseboards and inside windows with a wet cloth (steamer in the five-bedroom size)
• Dust all ceiling fans, vents and blinds
• Clean mirrors, all glass shelves and surfaces
• Collect and dispose of all trash to your trash bin
• High-dust the whole home
• Vacuum the entire floor and carpets with two vacuum cleaners
• Use a wet and dry mop to clean and shine floors
• Vacuum all furniture (chairs, sofas)
• Dust and wipe doors, door frames and door knobs

Bedrooms

• Clean all surfaces from dust
• Change bed linen to fresh ones

Bathrooms

• Clean the bathtub, sinks and tiles with a steamer
• Polish all glass surfaces, shower doors and taps
• Disinfect surfaces with antibacterial spray
• Wipe laundry room surfaces and shelves with a wet cloth

Kitchen

• Clean all removable stains on surfaces with a wet cloth or steamer (backsplash, stove, cabinets)
• Clean the microwave inside and out
• Clean the outside, top, front and sides of the dishwasher and refrigerator (special product for stainless steel)

This visit, the standard one or move-out

Standard house cleaning, the cleaning service most homes in Scottdale keep on a scheduled cleaning plan, keeps a lived-in home in order and leaves windows, blinds and baseboards out. This visit adds them, and the team will scrub what the standard list only wipes. Move-in and move-out cleaning is for an empty home: it goes inside every cabinet and drawer, the oven and the refrigerator as part of its list. Here those insides are extras, chosen one by one: inside the fridge or freezer, the oven or a double oven, the kitchen cabinets, a full sink of dishes, one dog or cat, the inside of the dryer and the dryer vent.

After it, many households set a cleaning plan that repeats the standard list, weekly or biweekly or monthly, so the home stays where this visit left it between cleanings: a cleaning routine of regular cleaning services instead of another big catch-up. Recurring house cleaning visits use the standard list, not this one. See recurring cleaning in Scottdale for that routine, and move-out cleaning in Scottdale if you are leaving.

Size and price

Sizes run from one bed and one bath through two and two, three and two and a half, four and two and a half, five and five, and six and six. The price follows the size of your home only, not its state, and the cleaning cost calculator shows it ahead of time. One detail changes by size: in the five-bedroom size a steamer replaces the wet cloth on baseboards and inside windows; every other size uses the cloth. Online, the total shows before you confirm, you pick a fixed start time, and no payment is taken at booking. Above six bedrooms, call or email.

Comparing cleaning companies for this visit in Scottdale

Older DeKalb County houses and mid-lease rentals make the same few questions useful for any cleaning company or maid service. What exactly does the one-time visit add over the regular one? Ours adds baseboards, blinds, inside windows, the steamed tub and tile, bed linen and the laundry shelves, all listed above. Is the price set by size, or by someone looking at the home first? Ours is set by size and shown before you confirm. Is the cleaner working from a written list, or from what time allows? And what if something on that list is missed? You raise it at the walk-through, while the team is still there. Professional cleaning services that will not show their list are the hardest to compare. A house cleaning company that does professional house cleaning should be able to say, room by room, how this visit differs from its other cleaning visits and which cleaning service fits your cleaning needs. In rental cleaning, that answer matters to tenants and landlords alike.

Scope, products and getting there

Our home cleaning services are booked online; commercial cleaning services, including office cleaning services, are not booked here; call or email with the space and its hours. If you want particular cleaning products used, green cleaning products or eco-friendly cleaning products, or have other specific needs, say so in the notes field, which holds up to 2,000 characters.

From Winder, Georgia, the drive is about 42 miles, about 55 minutes without traffic, and coverage goes by ZIP 30079. For a house, say which door to use and where a key or lockbox is; for an apartment, give the building, the floor, the gate code and visitor parking, and upload a photo of the entrance. To clean your home in one pass, leave clean sheets out for each bed so the team can make them up for a clean home on the first night.