Des Moines area · Iowa · Professional Home Cleaning
Planned around how central Iowa homes actually get dirty: road salt and snowmelt at the door for months, river water that stays moderately hard after softening, and beetles that wander indoors every fall.
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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.
Des Moines area · Iowa
Ankeny is one of the newest housing markets around Des Moines. TotalCare Cleaning will service these homes with attention to large floor plans, rental inspections and a winter that starts at the sidewalk.
Urbandale started as a streetcar suburb and grew into a settled city of owner occupied houses. TotalCare Cleaning will service its homes with an eye on age, water and the lessons of the 2020 derecho.
From the old railroad streets of Valley Junction to homes built since 2000, West Des Moines has its own water, its own history and its own cleaning issues. TotalCare Cleaning will service both sides of it.
Other places in the Des Moines area: Ashby Park, Clive, Echo Valley, Fox Creek, Hawkwood, Heritage Subdivision, Merle Hay, Mills Civic Parkway, Northview, Ponderosa, Prairie Trail, Rock Creek, Valley Junction, Waukee, Westown, Windsor Heights.
Local Guides
A local look at when a deep clean earns its cost in Des Moines: older woodwork, winter salt on entry floors, mineral haze from moderately hard water, and fall insect traces on sills.
A plain checklist for letting someone into your Des Moines home: what to ask about insurance and screening, what to put in writing, what to tell them about your house, and where Iowa consumers can turn with a complaint.
For Des Moines renters and sellers: how Iowa handles security deposits, what the city does about rental inspections, how to get rid of bulky items, and what a One-Time Moving Clean will take care of.
How to choose between weekly, bi-weekly and monthly service in Des Moines, with an honest look at how a long snow season, a wet May and June, late summer ragweed and fall insects change the answer.
A cleaning calendar built on Des Moines weather normals: what to do during the coldest weeks of January, the heavy rain of May and June, the heat of July, ragweed in late summer and the insects of fall.
A practical winter guide for Des Moines homes: how to stop road salt from reaching your floors, what the metro sidewalk rules ask of you, how to handle wet gear and dry furnace air, and what to do when the thaw finally comes.
A house in Des Moines picks up a different mess in each part of the year. Boots carry in salt and slush through a long winter, May and June bring the heaviest rain, and fall sends lady beetles and boxelder bugs looking for a way inside. TotalCare Cleaning will service the Des Moines area with those cycles in mind.
This page sets out what local housing asks of a cleaning visit, how the seasons change the work, which service suits which home, and where the map will reach. Prices are shown by home size, and the longer guides linked below go further into each subject.
Des Moines has a median year built of 1961. Roughly half of its housing went up before 1960, and more than a quarter is older than 1940. Beaverdale, which was first platted in 1907 under the name Urbandale, is one of the city's long established neighborhoods, and homes of that era often have woodwork, narrow stairways and small baths. Older trim tends to have more ledges to hold dust, and old bath tile needs patient work on the grout lines. The deep cleaning guide covers that work.
About 62 percent of homes in the city are detached houses, while nearly a quarter sit in buildings of ten or more units. Those two groups need different things. A house has entries, and often a garage door or basement stairs, feeding grit into the kitchen. An apartment has less floor but tighter baths and a lease that ends on a known date.
Move outward and the age drops fast. Median year built runs 1994 in West Des Moines and 2006 in Ankeny, and newer homes usually raise questions about keeping up with floor area rather than aged finishes.
Des Moines averages 36.5 inches of snow in a normal year, with about 52 days showing at least an inch on the ground. Add about 128 nights at or below freezing and the result is a long stretch when every trip inside brings moisture and de-icing residue along. Hard floors near the door show it first, usually as a dull white film that ordinary sweeping leaves behind.
Thaw does not end the problem. May and June are the wettest months, at a little over five inches of rain each, and summer as a whole brings more rain than any other season. Mud replaces salt. July highs average near 86 degrees, with about 22 days a year reaching 90, so windows tend to stay shut and air conditioning does the circulating.
Fall has its own visitors. Iowa State University Extension describes Asian lady beetles and boxelder bugs gathering on sunny walls and finding their way indoors, and it advises vacuuming them up rather than crushing them, since crushed beetles smear and smell. The seasonal calendar walks through the year month by month.
Des Moines Water Works treats water from the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers for about 600,000 central Iowans, and softening is part of that treatment. Even so, its published treated water readings from mid 2026 averaged about 126 milligrams per liter of total hardness at Fleur Drive, roughly 7.4 grains per gallon. West Des Moines reports about 9 grains per gallon from its own blend of wells and river water.
In practice that means slow mineral haze on shower glass and a crust around faucet bases rather than the heavy scale of the hardest water markets. It builds quietly, which is why the deep scope includes treating shower glass and detailing faucets.
TotalCare Cleaning will offer three kinds of work here, each priced by the home, not by the hour.
The map will take in the city and the suburbs around it. Three suburbs have their own pages, since their homes and local rules differ enough to need it. West Des Moines began as the railroad town of Valley Junction and now has a large share of homes built since 2000. Ankeny is among the newest housing markets in the area and registers every rental. Urbandale began as a streetcar suburb and is mostly owner occupied detached houses.
The service area will also include Clive, Waukee, Windsor Heights, Ashby Park, Echo Valley, Fox Creek, Hawkwood, Heritage Subdivision, Merle Hay, Mills Civic Parkway, Northview, Ponderosa, Prairie Trail, Rock Creek, Valley Junction and Westown. Windsor Heights stands out for its age: about 61 percent of its housing dates from 1950 through 1969. Waukee is the opposite, with about 55 percent built since 2010.
Inside city limits, Des Moines recognizes 46 neighborhood associations, so a street's character can shift quickly from one block of the map to the next.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Des Moines 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.
