New Orleans Metro area · Louisiana · Professional Home Cleaning
From ridge-top houses off Metairie Road to north shore homes built this century, a cleaning plan here has to answer to 63 inches of rain, a long muggy summer and Mississippi River water.
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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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New Orleans Metro area · Louisiana
Covington is a river town founded in 1813 with historic ox lots at its center and mostly newer houses around them. Here is how TotalCare Cleaning will approach homes across the area.
Kenner is Jefferson Parish's largest city, with an airport inside its limits and neighborhoods built on drained swamp. Here is how TotalCare Cleaning will approach homes there.
Mandeville mixes 1830s lakefront houses with subdivisions from the 1990s. Here is how TotalCare Cleaning will approach homes from the lakefront to Fontainebleau and Golden Shores.
Slidell grew from an 1882 railroad camp into a large north shore town, with Olde Towne at its heart and canal homes at Eden Isles. Here is how TotalCare Cleaning will approach its homes.
Other places in the New Orleans Metro area: Bayou Liberty, Bogue Falaya, Bonnabel, Chateau, East Pearl Acres, Eden Isles, Elmwood, Fontainebleau, Golden Shores, Lakeshore, Lakeview, Lakeview Estates, Little Farms, Old Metairie, Plantation.
Local Guides
How a One-Time Deep Clean fits a metro where the typical Metairie home dates to 1972, summers are sticky and river water leaves its mark on shower glass.
A short checklist for hiring anyone to clean your home in Metairie or across the lake, including Louisiana's consumer protection contact and the questions worth asking first.
What Louisiana's Lessee's Deposit Act expects of tenants and landlords, how trash and bulky pickup work in Jefferson Parish, and what a Moving Clean covers.
A home here never gets a dry spell to catch up. Here is how to pick weekly, bi-weekly or monthly visits for the rain, humidity and house you actually live with.
The local calendar has a long sticky summer, a hurricane season that peaks in September and a winter of about five freezes. Here is what to clean when, in that order.
Most homes here have a storm story. This guide covers what to do ahead of a named storm, what comes first afterward, and where a house cleaner fits in once it is safe.
TotalCare Cleaning will service Metairie and the surrounding New Orleans metro, on both sides of Lake Pontchartrain. Homes are priced by the home, not by the hour, and this page explains what is particular about keeping house here.
Jefferson Parish and St. Tammany Parish are close on a map and quite different on the ground. One is older, denser and sits on river water; the other is newer, mostly owner occupied and draws from wells. Those differences decide which visit makes sense.
Metairie is an unincorporated community of 143,507 people, and about 69 percent of its homes were built before 1980, with a median year built of 1972. About 61 percent are single family detached and about 19 percent are in buildings with 10 or more units. The oldest part is Old Metairie, where upscale tracts went up off Metairie Road in the 1920s along Metairie Ridge, a natural levee left by an ancient branch of the Mississippi.
Kenner, the most populous city in the parish with 66,448 residents, is close behind on age: about 58 percent of homes predate 1980. Across Jefferson Parish the median home dates to 1975 and only about 14 percent are from 2000 or later.
Cross the 23.83 mile Causeway and the picture changes. St. Tammany Parish's median home was built in 1995, about 41 percent have gone up since 2000, and about 79 percent of occupied homes are owner occupied. That usually means a larger house with big bathrooms, and less decades-old buildup in the trim.
NOAA's normal annual rainfall at New Orleans International Airport is 63.35 inches. June is the wettest month at 7.62 inches, and July and August each sit close to 7 inches. The airport averages about 77 days a year with a tenth of an inch of rain or more.
Humidity is what you feel indoors. The average dew point sits near 74 degrees in July and August and stays above 65 degrees from May through September. There are also about 85 days a year at 90 degrees or hotter. Doors stay shut, the air conditioning runs and bathrooms dry slowly, so a home's grime tends to collect around humid rooms and doorways rather than across the whole house.
Winter barely counts on the south shore, with about 5 freezing nights a year. Slidell, north of the lake, sees about 23, which is one of the few real climate differences inside the metro. The seasonal calendar puts all of this in order.
Recurring House Clean starts at $160.00 on the bi-weekly row, and it can also run weekly or monthly. It begins with an Initial Deep Clean. Rain and humidity make this the core service for a family home here, and the recurring guide helps with the interval.
One-Time Deep Clean starts at $311.00. It is the usual first step in an older Metairie or Kenner house: hand washed baseboards, wet-wiped blinds, window tracks, ceiling fans and vents wiped in place, degreased cabinet fronts, treated shower glass, detailed faucets and soaked stovetop grates. The Jefferson Parish water report lists East Bank hardness as high as 190 parts per million, so that shower glass step earns its place. See the deep cleaning guide.
One-Time Moving Clean starts at $391.00 and goes inside the oven, refrigerator and cabinets. About 38 percent of occupied homes in Metairie are rented, and Louisiana gives landlords one month to return a deposit, so the move-out guide is worth a look before you hand in the keys.
TotalCare Cleaning will not remove mold, restore flood damage or carry away debris. Storm recovery starts with contractors, as the storm guide explains. Every row is on the cost page.
Metairie is the center of this market, including Old Metairie, Bonnabel, Lakeview, Little Farms and Elmwood. Four cities have their own pages because the local records give enough to say: Kenner on the south shore, and Mandeville, Covington and Slidell north of the lake.
Neighborhoods covered through those pages include Chateau in Kenner; Fontainebleau, Golden Shores and Lakeview Estates near Mandeville; Bogue Falaya, East Pearl Acres and Plantation near Covington; and Bayou Liberty, Eden Isles and Lakeshore near Slidell. The price does not change between them, only the size of the home does.
Water and flooding are part of the house's history. Hurricane Katrina flooded about 80 percent of New Orleans in 2005 and pushed surge into north shore communities, and the May 1995 flood dropped upwards of 20 inches on Metairie in twelve hours. Plenty of homes here have been repaired or rebuilt at least once, so what looks like an older house may have newer drywall and floors.
Termites are on everyone's mind. The Formosan subterranean termite reached port cities such as New Orleans from eastern Asia after World War II. Cleaners are not inspectors, but a clear baseboard makes it easier to spot wings or droppings, and that is worth passing to your pest company.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Metairie 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.
