Greater Cleveland area · Ohio · Professional Home Cleaning
When TotalCare Cleaning comes to Cleveland, the plan starts with the city itself: pre-war doubles and single homes, lake-effect snow and road salt for months, Lake Erie water and a short, sticky summer.
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Recurring weekly or biweekly cleaning to the same TotalCare Cleaning standard every visit, with Hotel Finish detail.
From $160 / 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 $311
Inspection-ready move-out cleaning for tenants, landlords, sellers, and buyers. Interior appliances, all cabinets, baseboards, inspection-ready standard.
From $391
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Greater Cleveland area · Ohio
Beachwood is half condos and apartments, half single family homes, with one of the oldest populations on the East Side and snow belt winters. What that means for a cleaning plan.
Rocky River sits between Lake Erie and the river valley that gave it its name. A cleaning plan for its 1960s houses and apartment buildings, the Metroparks trails and the city's November leaf rotation.
Shaker Heights is a planned garden suburb where most homes predate 1980 and three quarters of the city is a historic district. Cleaning here means caring for old materials and working with the city's back-yard trash routine.
Solon homes are big, mostly single family and sit on the western end of the snowbelt. A cleaning plan for four bedroom houses, long winters, Metroparks trails and the city's own rubbish and leaf schedules.
Strongsville is a suburb of owner-occupied family homes along the Rocky River valley. A cleaning plan for 1980s houses, Metroparks mud, leaf weeks set by Royalton Road and a long West Side winter.
Westlake is one of the newer West Side suburbs, with a mix of 1980s family homes and larger apartment and condo buildings, plus an older population. How a cleaning plan fits both.
Other places in the Greater Cleveland area: Aurora, Bay Village, Broadview Heights, Brunswick Hills, Fairview Park, Glenwillow, Mayfield Heights, Moreland Hills, North Royalton, Orange, Pepper Pike, South Solon, Woodmere.
Local Guides
What a One-Time Deep Clean will do in Cleveland's pre-war houses and newer suburbs: lift a winter of salt, wash old trim by hand, clear mineral spots from glass and reach the dust a closed-up house collects.
A plain checklist for anyone in Cleveland letting a cleaner into the house, including adult children arranging help for a parent in Beachwood, Westlake or Rocky River, and landlords hiring for a vacant unit.
For Cleveland tenants, landlords and sellers: what Ohio deposit law asks of each side, how Cleveland's Lead Safe rule and suburban rental inspections change a turnover, and what the Moving Clean will cover.
How to pick between weekly, bi-weekly and monthly Recurring House Cleans in Cleveland, when snow, salt, mud season, summer humidity and fall leaves each change what a home needs.
Cleveland's weather changes what comes into a home every few weeks. This calendar uses NOAA normals for Hopkins Airport and local leaf schedules to say what to clean, and when, through the whole year.
Lake Erie water through Cleveland Water's four plants is moderately hard. What 117 parts per million means for shower doors, faucets, kettles and dishwashers across the 70 communities on the system.
Half of Cleveland's houses were built before 1940, and Shaker Heights is a National Register district. How to clean plaster, old wood, original tile and pre-1978 paint without harming any of it.
Cleveland winters are long, salty and heavier on the East Side. What the snow belt does to floors, entries and indoor air from the first lake-effect band to the last March storm, and how to stay ahead of it.
Cleveland is not one kind of house. The city proper is mostly pre-war, with a median build year of 1941, while Solon and Strongsville are newer, larger and mostly single family. A cleaning plan that works on a Tremont double will not fit a four bedroom house in Solon, and this page is about telling the two apart.
Below you will find what TotalCare Cleaning will charge by home size, how the weather off Lake Erie shapes the work through the year, which of the three services fits which home, and the East Side and West Side suburbs that the Greater Cleveland area plan will cover.
Census estimates say about 49 percent of homes inside Cleveland's city limits were built in 1939 or earlier, and about 85 percent went up before 1980. That means plaster walls, wood trim with a century of paint on it, radiators, narrow staircases and small bathrooms with original tile. Those surfaces reward patience and mild products more than force.
The city also has a lot of two-family houses. About 14.5 percent of housing units sit in two-unit buildings, the classic up-and-down double, and about 58 percent of occupied homes are rented. In practice a single street can hold owner-occupied singles, a landlord's double between tenants and an apartment someone is about to leave.
Out in the suburbs the picture flips. Solon's median home dates from 1980 and more than half its homes have four or more bedrooms, while Shaker Heights stays close to the city pattern, with a median build year of 1945 and about 75 percent of its land in a National Register historic district.
NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals put Cleveland Hopkins Airport at 63.8 inches of snow a year, and the East Side gets more. Lake-effect bands typically set up from mid-November until Lake Erie freezes, and the Heights, where the snow belt begins, can see seasonal totals near or above 100 inches.
That snow means salt. With about 52 days a year of an inch or more on the ground and about 111 nights at or below freezing, white salt film on entry floors, mudroom tile and stair treads is the defining cleaning problem from December to March. Spring does not end it quickly: March still averages 10.8 inches of snow.
Summer swings the other way. July dew points average about 62 degrees, the normal July high is 83.7, and bathrooms in older homes without strong exhaust fans dry slowly. The Cleveland seasonal cleaning calendar and the winter cleaning guide cover both ends of the year.
A One-Time Deep Clean will reset a home that has gone a while without professional care: baseboards washed by hand, blinds wet-wiped, window tracks, ceiling fans, light fixtures and vents wiped in place, cabinet fronts degreased and stovetop grates soaked. Across the five home sizes it will run $311.00 to $690.00.
A Recurring House Clean keeps that standard on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly plan, and the first visit of a plan is an Initial Deep Clean. A bi-weekly visit for a three bedroom, two bath home will be $256.00.
A Moving Clean is for an empty home before keys change hands. It adds the inside of the oven, refrigerator and cabinets, and it matters in a city where most homes are rented and many older rentals must also pass a lead clearance. See the Cleveland move-out guide for the Ohio deposit rule.
Cleveland Water pulls from Lake Erie's Central Basin through four offshore intakes and supplies 70 communities, so most homes on this page drink the same water. It averages 117 parts per million of hardness, about 6.8 grains per gallon. That is moderate, not extreme, but it still leaves a dull film on glass shower doors and a crust where faucets meet the counter.
The Cleveland hard water guide goes into which fixtures collect it fastest and what a deep clean does about it.
Clevelanders sort themselves by the Cuyahoga River. East of it are University Circle, Collinwood and Glenville; west of it are Ohio City, Tremont, Detroit-Shoreway and Kamm's Corners. TotalCare Cleaning will service both sides and the suburbs beyond.
On the East Side, Beachwood, Shaker Heights and Solon each have their own page. Mayfield Heights, Pepper Pike, Woodmere, Orange, Moreland Hills, Glenwillow, South Solon and Aurora sit nearby and fall under the same plan.
On the West Side, Westlake, Rocky River and Strongsville have pages of their own, and Bay Village, Fairview Park, North Royalton, Broadview Heights and Brunswick Hills are covered alongside them.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Cleveland 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.
