Jacksonville area · Florida · Professional Home Cleaning
House cleaning planned for Jacksonville: very hard aquifer water, a rainy June to September, pollen that starts in late January and homes that run from 1920s bungalows to brand new builds.
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Jacksonville area · Florida
Fleming Island grew from an old Navy airfield and open land into Eagle Harbor, Fleming Island Plantation and Pace Island. Most homes are large, owner occupied and built in the 1990s and 2000s.
Fruit Cove is a St. Johns County community of large, owner occupied family homes, most built between 1990 and 2009, with Julington Creek, St. Johns Forest and Sweetwater close by.
Nocatee is one of the newest places around Jacksonville: most homes went up after 2010, the water sits at the top of JEA's hardness range, and more than half the land is kept as conservation.
Ponte Vedra Beach homes face some of the hardest water on JEA's list, salt air and sand at every door, and in Sawgrass, a large share of seasonal homes that sit closed between visits.
Riverside and Avondale hold Jacksonville's first National Register historic district and a century-old mix of bungalows, Tudors and Mediterranean Revival homes that need a careful, gentle clean.
San Marco is a 1920s riverfront neighborhood built around a square modeled on Venice, with older homes, very hard water in ZIP code 32207 and a recent history of river flooding.
Other places in the Jacksonville area: Avondale, Eagle Harbor, Greenleaf Village, Julington Creek, Margaret Rose, Marsh Landing, Pace Island, Plantation, Riverwood, Sawgrass, St. Johns Forest, Sweetwater, Twenty Mile.
Local Guides
What a One-Time Deep Clean is for in Jacksonville: cutting through aquifer mineral scale, a spring of tree pollen and a wet summer of tracked sand, in homes from prewar bungalows to new builds.
The free checks worth running before anyone gets a key to your Jacksonville home, using Florida's Sunbiz business index and the state consumer office at FDACS.
The Moving Clean for Jacksonville rentals, sales and military moves, planned around Florida's deposit deadlines, city appliance pickup and the hard water marks landlords look for.
How often a Jacksonville home needs cleaning depends on the calendar: tree pollen from late January, a June to September rainy season, two lovebug flights and the size of the house.
Jacksonville's year in cleaning terms: tree pollen from late January, lovebugs in spring and late summer, a June to September rainy season with hurricane risk, and a short, mild winter.
Jacksonville's tree pollen season begins in late January and is in full swing by March. Here is how the season unfolds locally and how to clean a home so less of it ends up indoors.
JEA's own ZIP code table puts every part of its system in the hard to very hard range. Here is what those numbers mean for shower glass, faucets and toilets, and how to keep scale under control.
Jacksonville has a large stock of prewar and midcentury houses, from Riverside bungalows to Mediterranean Revival homes in San Marco. Here is how to clean them without harming what makes them worth keeping.
How Jacksonville households can prepare a home before a tropical storm and clean up safely after one, using the lessons of Hurricane Irma's record St. Johns River flood, and where cleaning stops.
Jacksonville homes are spread out in age and style. A 1920s bungalow in Riverside, a three bedroom ranch from the 1970s and a stucco house in a St. Johns County subdivision all get dirty for different reasons, even though they share the same aquifer water, the same summer humidity and the same spring pollen.
This page lays out what those local conditions mean for keeping a home clean, which service fits which kind of house, what TotalCare Cleaning will charge by home size, and the neighborhoods and suburbs TotalCare Cleaning will service when it comes to Northeast Florida.
The city counts roughly 422,000 housing units, and about 60 percent are single family detached homes. Three bedrooms is the most common layout by a wide margin, at about 43 percent of homes, with two bedroom homes next. That puts a typical Jacksonville house on the middle rows of the price table below.
Age is where the city splits. About 41 percent of homes were built before 1980 and close to one in five before 1960, which covers the historic districts along the river and much of the older ranch housing. At the other end, about 30 percent of homes went up in 2000 or later. An older house wants gentle products on original wood and tile. A newer one tends to be larger, with more bathrooms, more glass and more square footage to cover.
Apartments matter here too. About 11 percent of housing units sit in buildings of 20 or more units, and around 43 percent of occupied homes are rented, so a lot of cleaning in this city happens around a lease. The move-out cleaning guide covers that side, and the older home guide covers the pre-1960 houses.
JEA pulls drinking water from more than 130 wells in the Floridan aquifer and lists hardness by ZIP code. Every value on that list falls in the hard or very hard range, from about 7 grains per gallon to about 21. In practice that means white spots on shower glass within days, crusty aerators and a ring in the toilet bowl. The hard water guide goes ZIP by ZIP.
Rain is the second constant. The airport averages 53.4 inches a year, and more than half of it falls from June through September, when afternoon storms track wet sand and grass clippings across entry floors. Around 80 days a year reach 90 degrees, so air conditioning runs for months and bathrooms with no window dry slowly.
Pollen arrives before most people expect it. Elm trees start releasing pollen in late January, and by March oak, river birch, bayberry and maple are in full swing, leaving a yellow film on porch furniture, window sills and car hoods. The allergy cleaning guide and the seasonal calendar plan the year around those months.
TotalCare Cleaning will offer four services in Jacksonville, priced flat by bedrooms, bathrooms and square footage. A bi-weekly Recurring House Clean will start at $160.00 for the smallest homes, and a One-Time Deep Clean will run $311.00 to $690.00 across the five home sizes.
Inside the city, the plan covers the older neighborhoods along the St. Johns River first. Riverside, platted in 1868 and the first historic district in Jacksonville on the National Register, sits beside Avondale, laid out in 1920. Across the river, San Marco broke ground in 1925 around its square. These three neighborhoods hold much of the city's prewar housing.
To the south and southeast, the area takes in Nocatee, a master-planned community whose home sales began in 2007, along with Greenleaf Village, Riverwood and Twenty Mile inside it, and Ponte Vedra Beach, including Sawgrass, Marsh Landing and Plantation. In St. Johns County, Fruit Cove sits with Julington Creek, St. Johns Forest and Sweetwater close by. Across the river in Clay County, Fleming Island includes Eagle Harbor, Pace Island and Margaret Rose.
Jacksonville homes live close to water. When Hurricane Irma passed in September 2017, the St. Johns River rose to a record 5.57 feet in the city and flooded homes well away from the coast, including in San Marco. The storm season guide covers what a household can clean before and after a storm, and where a cleaning visit stops and a restoration specialist has to take over.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Jacksonville 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.
