Birmingham area · Alabama · Professional Home Cleaning
House cleaning that TotalCare Cleaning will bring to Birmingham, planned around an older housing stock, frequent rain, muggy summers and four very different neighboring cities.
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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
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Birmingham area · Alabama
Homewood joined together older neighborhoods in 1926. More than half its homes predate 1970, about 38 percent of households rent, and Samford University sits in the middle of it all.
Hoover has the newest housing near Birmingham, with a median home from 1994 and 6.7 rooms. Moss Rock Preserve trails and low-lying areas by the Cahaba River are part of life here.
Mountain Brook is a city of owner occupied detached homes, most of them built before 1970, gathered around Crestline, English, Mountain Brook and Overton villages.
Vestavia Hills grew from a Roman temple style home on Shades Mountain into a city of larger houses. The median home has 7.1 rooms and dates to 1978.
Other places in the Birmingham area: Altadena, Cahaba Heights, Liberty Park, Crestline, English Village, Mountain Brook Village, Mountain Brook Estates, Edgewood, Hollywood, West Homewood, Riverchase, Trace Crossings, Greystone, Forest Park, Highland Park.
Local Guides
What a One-Time Deep Clean will do for Birmingham houses, from 1960s trim and fans to humid bathrooms and pollen-coated sills, and when it is worth booking one.
A Birmingham homeowner's checklist for hiring any cleaner: the free Alabama business lookup, where to file a complaint, what to ask about old paint and humidity, and how to handle keys and payment.
A practical Birmingham move-out guide: the Alabama security deposit law, how to clear bulk items on the city's schedule, and what the Moving Clean will cover in an empty home.
How to choose weekly, bi-weekly or monthly Recurring House Cleans for a Birmingham home, based on the local rain, early tree pollen, muggy summers and pest pressure.
A Birmingham home calendar, season by season, drawn from airport climate normals, the Southern pollen pattern, spring storm weather and local leaf and burning rules.
Birmingham summers bring dew points near 70 degrees and about 56 inches of rain a year. This guide goes through the rooms where that damp air shows up, and what a cleaning visit can do.
About 58 percent of homes in the city of Birmingham were built before 1970, and about 18 percent before 1940. Older houses here need a gentle hand and a few firm limits.
Birmingham grew up around iron, coal and rail, and its houses still tell that story. The city itself is mostly older homes and apartments, while the suburbs to the south run from 1940s village streets to subdivisions built in the 1990s and later. Each kind of house holds dirt in its own places.
This page lays out how TotalCare Cleaning will approach homes in Birmingham and its neighboring cities when it comes to the area: the local conditions that drive the work, flat prices by home size, which clean fits which house, and links to the detailed local guides.
Birmingham was founded in 1871 where two rail lines crossed over deposits of iron ore, coal and limestone, and much of the city was built out long before central air. Census estimates put the median year built at 1965, with about 58 percent of homes older than 1970 and roughly 18 percent older than 1940. In a housing stock that old, original wood floors, plaster walls, small tiled baths and painted trim that has been redone many times are common.
Housing in the city splits two ways. About 58 percent of units are detached single family homes, and about a third sit in buildings with five or more units. With about 55 percent of occupied homes rented, a lot of Birmingham cleaning happens at the edges of a lease, which is why the move-out cleaning guide covers the Alabama deposit rule in detail.
For homes from before 1978, the EPA warns that settled lead dust can be stirred back into the air by vacuuming or sweeping. Cleaners from TotalCare Cleaning will never sand, scrape or strip old paint, and the older home guide explains the gentler approach those houses get.
The Birmingham airport records a normal of 56.62 inches of rain a year, with March the wettest month and October the driest. Measurable rain falls on about 81 days, so entry floors, back door tile and the first few feet of carpet take a beating as wet soil rides in on shoes and paws.
Summer brings the other half of the problem. Normal July dew points sit near 70 degrees, and the city averages 65 days at 90 degrees or hotter. Bathrooms dry slowly, grout darkens and closets can smell musty. The Jefferson County Department of Health advises keeping indoor humidity under 50 percent, running exhaust fans and fixing leaks, which pairs well with regular surface cleaning. The humidity and mildew guide goes room by room.
In the South, trees can begin releasing pollen as early as December or January, which is when a yellow film starts collecting on porches and sills. Spring is also the heart of severe storm season; the April 27, 2011 outbreak produced 29 tornadoes in Central Alabama alone. The seasonal cleaning calendar builds on these local patterns.
A One-Time Deep Clean is the reset for a home that has gone a season or more without professional care. It adds hand washed baseboards, wet-wiped blinds, window tracks, ceiling fans, light fixtures and vents wiped in place, degreased cabinet fronts, detailed faucets and soaked stovetop grates. Deep cleans run $279.00 to $614.00 across the five sizes on the price table. The deep cleaning guide explains when one makes sense here.
A Recurring House Clean keeps the home there on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly schedule, and each visit also dusts reachable baseboards and blind slats. A bi-weekly plan for a three bedroom, two bath home is $229.00 per visit; the first visit of any plan is an Initial Deep Clean. The recurring cleaning guide helps pick a frequency for Birmingham weather.
A Moving Clean is for an empty home, before a lease ends or before a new owner unpacks, and it adds the inside of the oven, refrigerator and cabinets.
TotalCare Cleaning will service Birmingham and four neighboring cities with their own histories and housing. Homewood incorporated in 1926 from Rosedale, Edgewood and Grove Park and is home to Samford University. Mountain Brook, incorporated in 1942, is mostly owner occupied detached houses clustered around its villages. Vestavia Hills dates to 1950 and later absorbed Altadena, Liberty Park and Cahaba Heights. Hoover has the newest housing of the group, with a median year built of 1994.
Neighborhood names you will hear around the area include Crestline, English Village and Mountain Brook Village in Mountain Brook; Edgewood, Hollywood and West Homewood in Homewood; Riverchase, Trace Crossings and Greystone near Hoover; Altadena, Liberty Park and Cahaba Heights in Vestavia Hills; Mountain Brook Estates; and Forest Park and Highland Park inside Birmingham itself.
Whoever you hire, two free state tools are worth a minute. The Alabama Secretary of State lets anyone search registered businesses by name, entity number or registered agent, and the Attorney General's Consumer Interest Division takes complaints online and through its consumer hotline. The hiring guide walks through what to ask before handing over a key.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Birmingham 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.
