Augusta area · Georgia · Professional Home Cleaning
Augusta homes deal with 86 days a year of 90 degree heat, humidity that peaks in late summer, and plenty of tree debris since Helene. TotalCare Cleaning will service the area with those realities in mind.
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Recurring weekly or biweekly cleaning to the same TotalCare Cleaning standard every visit, with Hotel Finish detail.
From $138 / visit
One-time or seasonal deep cleaning. Baseboards hand washed, cabinet fronts degreased, ceiling fans, blinds and vents. Every detail surface your standard clean misses.
From $279
Inspection-ready move-out cleaning for tenants, landlords, sellers, and buyers. Interior appliances, all cabinets, baseboards, inspection-ready standard.
From $350
Service Areas
Every TotalCare Cleaning professional is background-checked and screened before their first job.
Augusta area · Georgia
Aiken is horse country with a long memory, from Winter Colony mansions to the 2,100 acres of Hitchcock Woods. TotalCare Cleaning will service its homes with attention to older finishes and the dust that follows boots home from the barn.
Evans is a place of big, mostly newer family houses. TotalCare Cleaning will service Columbia County homes here with their size, their busy households and the long humid season in mind.
Grovetown is young, fast growing and close to Fort Gordon. TotalCare Cleaning will service its homes with an eye on frequent moves, newer houses and a high share of renters.
Other places in the Augusta area: Martinez, Appling, Augusta Country Club, Coker Springs, Columbia County Courthouse, Evans Towne Center, Forest Hills, Harlem, Hitchcock Woods, Lake Aumond, Lewiston Road, National Hills, River Island, Riverside, Stonehaven, Woodside Plantation.
Local Guides
What a One-Time Deep Clean does for a house in Augusta, where warm nights and long humid stretches work on baths and vents, older districts add detailed trim, and October is the driest month of the year.
What to ask before you give anyone a key to your Augusta home, how to compare quotes, what to mention about an older or rented house, and where Georgia and South Carolina consumers can take a complaint.
How to leave an Augusta rental in good shape: when Georgia landlords must return a deposit, who has to inspect and when, what counts as normal wear and tear, and what a One-Time Moving Clean will take care of.
How often should a house in Augusta be cleaned? The answer depends on how long your air conditioner runs, how wet June through August get, how much the yard tracks in and how your household lives.
A cleaning calendar based on Augusta weather normals: a short mild winter, a busy April around the Masters, the rainy heat of summer, peak humidity in late summer and a dry October ideal for detail work.
With summer nights near 71 degrees and humidity peaking above 76 percent, Augusta homes stay damp longer than most. Here is how to keep baths, closets and vents fresh, and when a problem is more than a cleaning job.
Humidity is the main thing a house in Augusta has to live with. August and September average above 76 percent relative humidity, summer nights normally bottom out near 71 degrees, and air conditioners run for much of the year. Add a housing stock that ranges from Summerville's old winter resort streets to Grovetown subdivisions finished in the last few years, and no single cleaning routine fits every address.
What follows explains how TotalCare Cleaning will approach homes around Augusta, which service suits which kind of house, and where the map will reach on both sides of the Savannah River. Prices below are starting prices, set by home size.
Augusta-Richmond County has an older core than its suburbs. About half of its homes predate 1980, and about 21 percent predate 1960. Summerville, known locally as The Hill, began in the 1780s as a separate village before becoming a winter resort for wealthy Northerners, and the city recognizes historic districts such as Sand Hills, Harrisburg-West End and Laney-Walker North. Older houses like these often come with detailed trim and aging tile that respond better to patience than to harsh scrubbing.
Three bedroom homes are the most common size in the county, at about 40 percent. Roughly 58 percent of homes are detached, about 21 percent sit in buildings of five or more apartments, and about 49 percent of occupied homes are rented. That high rental share means lease end cleaning matters here at least as much as ongoing service.
Cross into Columbia County and the picture changes. In Evans, nearly half of homes are from 2000 or later and about 63 percent have four or more bedrooms. Size, rather than age, sets the workload there.
Bush Field averages about 86 days a year at 90 degrees or hotter, and July's normal high is 94.1. Nights in July and August stay near 71. A house that never really cools off and never really dries out shows it in specific places: bath grout, shower corners and the vents that move air all day.
Rain is spread fairly evenly, totaling 44.09 inches, with about 68 days bringing a tenth of an inch or more. June, July and August are the wettest months and October is the driest, which makes fall a good time for detail work on windows and tracks. Winters are short and mild. The airport averages about 51 freezing nights and less than an inch of snow, so salt and snow boots are rarely part of the conversation.
The seasonal guide lays out the local year in order, and the humidity guide goes further on bathrooms, closets and air conditioning.
Hurricane Helene in late September 2024 changed many Augusta streets. Thousands of trees were damaged, with canopy loss reaching as much as 80 percent in some areas, and more than 5,000 homes in Columbia County were damaged or destroyed. A year on, Augusta Utilities was still finishing the clearing of downed trees along the canal and sewer easements.
Fewer shade trees mean more direct sun on some houses, and ongoing roof and yard work tends to send dust through a home. Those are ordinary cleaning problems. Structural repairs, water damage and debris hauling are for restoration contractors, not a home cleaning company.
TotalCare Cleaning will offer three services here, each priced by the home, not by the hour.
The map will take in Richmond and Columbia Counties and reach across the river into Aiken. Three communities have their own pages. Evans is large, owner occupied and largely newer. Grovetown grew about 39 percent between 2010 and 2020, with many military families near Fort Gordon. Aiken, in South Carolina, has its Winter Colony mansions, stables and the 2,100 acre Hitchcock Woods.
The service area will also cover Martinez, Harlem, Appling, Augusta Country Club, Coker Springs, the Columbia County Courthouse area, Evans Towne Center, Forest Hills, Lake Aumond, Lewiston Road, National Hills, River Island, Riverside, Stonehaven and Woodside Plantation. Martinez is the largest community in Columbia County, with most of its homes dating from the 1970s and 1980s, so its needs often look different from those of nearby Evans.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Augusta and surrounding areas with background-checked cleaners and is insured up to $1 million. Re-clean guarantee: if we missed something, tell us by the end of the next day and we come back to fix it. Beyond Clean. TotalCare.
