Cleaning Checklists
Check out what is included and what you can expect from our cleaning services.
How to Prep Your Home for a Flawless Clean
To help us maximize your flat-rate service, please take a few minutes to prep your space. This allows your dedicated solo cleaner to focus 100% of their time on deep cleaning, scrubbing, and sanitizing your home!
1. Clear the Clutter
Because we bill on a flat rate rather than by the hour, we want to spend every minute scrubbing rather than organizing.
- Surfaces & Floors: Please pick up loose toys, clothing, mail, and paperwork from kitchen counters, dining tables, and floors.
- The Kitchen Sink: Clear dirty dishes into the dishwasher so we can get straight to sanitizing your basin. (Note: Dishwashing is an add-on service—let Holly know if you'd like to add it!)
- Heavy Clutter: To protect your belongings, our technicians are instructed to safely skip surfaces covered in excessive clutter.
2. Smooth Access & Entry
- Keys & Codes: Ensure your digital keypad code, garage code, or lockbox key is active and ready for use.
- Updates: If your entry instructions have changed, please shoot a quick update to Holly at the office ahead of time.
3. Furry Friend Safety
We love your pets, but their safety and our cleaner's peace of mind are incredibly important.
- Secure Your Pets: Please place dogs, territorial animals, or anxious pets in a crate, a secure yard, or a designated room we aren't cleaning.
- Flight Risks: Let us know if you have an adventurous indoor cat, so we can be extra careful with exterior doors.
- Pet Waste: For health and safety compliance, our team is strictly prohibited from handling or cleaning biological pet waste.
4. Heights & Special Requests
- High Reach Zones: Our safety policies restrict cleaners from climbing higher than a 3-step ladder. For vaulted ceilings or high light fixtures, please leave out a high-reach tool for us to use.
- Priority Areas: Want extra attention on a specific room? Just leave a quick note on the counter for your cleaner or notify the office!
Move Out Cleaning Checklist
Throughout
- Cobwebs: Removed from corners, ceilings, and walls.
- Doors & Frames: Hand-washed or wiped down.
- Light Switch Plates: Hand-washed and sanitized.
- Moldings, Woodwork & Windowsills: Hand-washed or wiped, including window lock ledges.
- Baseboards: Hand-washed or wiped (reachable without moving furniture).
- Blinds & Shutters: Thoroughly vacuumed (not washed).
- Light Fixtures: Hand washed in place (within 2-step ladder reach).
- Ceiling Fans: Hand-washed or wiped (within 2-step ladder reach).
- Closets & Shelving: Empty shelves and drawers hand-washed or wiped.
- Floors & Stairs: All carpets and floors thoroughly vacuumed and/or mopped.
- Closet Tracks & Sliding Door Tracks: Vacuumed and wiped out.
Kitchen
- Cabinet Fronts: Hand-washed or wiped.
- Inside Cabinets & Drawers: Hand-washed or wiped out.
- Countertops & Backsplashes: Hand-washed and sanitized.
- Sinks & Faucets: Scrubbed, polished, and disinfected.
- Microwave: Thoroughly cleaned inside and out.
- Stovetop: Cooktop, grates, and drip pans scrubbed.
- Oven & Range: Cleaned inside and out.
- Refrigerator & Freezer: Cleaned inside and out (including the top of the refrigerator).
- Behind Appliances: Both the fridge and stove are pulled from their recessions to clean the floors and walls behind them.
- 🆕 Dishwasher: Wiped down on the outside and along the inside rim. The filter is cleaned.
Bathrooms
- Tub, Shower & Tiles: Double scrubbed to remove build-up, soap scum, and grout residue.
- Counters & Fixtures: Cleaned, polished, and sanitized.
- Sinks: Scrubbed and disinfected.
- Mirrors: Cleaned and left streak-free.
- Toilets: Thoroughly scrubbed, disinfected, and wiped down from top to bottom.
- Inside Vanities & Medicine Cabinets: Drawers and empty shelves hand-washed or wiped.
Perfect Maintenance Cleaning
Kitchen and Dining room
- Upper cupboards focus on dusting, spills, and high touch points
- Lower cupboards tend to need a top-to-bottom cleaning, look for spills
- Appliance surfaces cleaned and shined, including range hood and grease trap (as needed)
- Clean counters, backsplash, and countertop items
- Scrub sink and chrome fixtures.
- Clean microwave
- Clean chairs and furniture
- Clean outside of the garbage can
- Clean stove top
- General clean up
- Vacuum and mop floors
- Mop baseboards as needed
Bathrooms
- Dust top to bottom
- Descale showers and bathtubs
- Scrub tile grout if present
- Dust vanity lights
- Clean mirror
- Counter and countertop items
- Clean sink and vanity (cupboard fronts)
- Toilet cleaned
- Toilet paper folded
- Towels folded nicely
- Garbage removed
- High-touch areas sanitized
- Vacuum and mop floors
- Replace mats to where they came from
Top to Bottom Deluxe
Kitchen Restoration
- High Dusting: Remove all cobwebs from ceiling corners and high fixtures. Dust and wet-wipe all ceiling/wall air vents.
- Cabinet Exteriors: Wet-wipe all cabinet fronts (top-to-bottom) to remove accumulated grease and grime.
- Backsplash & Grout: Apply degreaser and scrub all backsplash grout lines to remove food stains and residue.
- Appliances: Clean the entire top surface of the refrigerator, if accessible. Clean and polish all appliance exteriors. Clean the interior and exterior of the microwave.
- Stove/Hood: Perform detailed cleaning of the stovetop. Remove and soak grease traps/filters in the sink or place them in the dishwasher if available.
- Sink/Fixtures: Scrub all chrome fixtures to remove heavy scale or lime buildup.
- Walls/Trim: Spot-clean walls, light switches, and outlets.
- Baseboards: Clean all baseboards and trim.
Bathroom Restoration
- High Dusting: Remove cobwebs and dust/wet-wipe ceiling/wall air vents.
- Shower/Tub Walls: Apply scale remover and scrub all soap scum and scale buildup from tiles and glass doors.
- Grout Detail: Use a grout brush to deep scrub all floor and shower wall grout lines to eliminate mildew/staining.
- Fixtures & Sinks: Scrub sinks and fixtures to remove all hard water deposits.
- Cabinets: Wet-wipe all cabinet fronts.
- Baseboards: Clean all baseboards and door trims.
- Floors: Vacuum and mop floor surfaces.
Living Areas, Bedrooms, Halls, Foyers, and Stairs
- Ceiling fans & Fixtures: Remove all cobwebs. Dust and wet-wipe all reachable light fixtures and ceiling fan blades (Requires a step stool).
- Blinds & Windows: Vacuum/wipe blind slats/shutters. Vacuum and wet wipe all interior window and sliding door tracks/sills.
- Vents & Trim: Dust and clean all ceiling air vent covers, door frames, and door trims.
- Walls/Spot Cleaning: Spot-clean all walls, doors, light switches, and trim for scuffs and fingerprints.
- Railings & Banisters: Wet-wipe all railings and banisters to remove hand-grime.
- Baseboards: Clean all baseboards throughout the rooms.
- Dusting: Dust all horizontal surfaces, shelving, and furniture.
- Vacuuming: Thoroughly vacuum all carpets and hard floors, including edges and under easily movable furniture, or as far as our tools can reach.
- Mopping: Mop all hard floors for a streak-free shine.
General Deep Clean
General Cleaning
General cleaning includes the following:
- Ceiling fans and light fixtures (dusted)
- Cobwebs removed
- Blinds, window sills, and lock ledges (dusted)
- Moldings and woodwork (dusted)
- Baseboards (dusted)
- Lamps and lampshades (dusted)
- Pictures and knick-knacks (dusted)
- Furniture (dusted and polished)
- Top of refrigerator (dusted)
- Outside of appliances cleaned
- Stovetop and drip pans scrubbed
- Counter tops and backsplashes (washed)
- All sinks (scrubbed/disinfected)
- Mirrors (Windexed)
- Tub/shower and tiles (scrubbed)
- All bathroom counters and fixtures (sanitized)
- Wastebaskets (emptied/washed/relined)
- Beds made, 1 set of sheets changed
- Stairs (vacuumed, wood dusted)
- Floors (vacuumed and/or mopped)
