Philadelphia Main Line · Pennsylvania · Professional Home Cleaning
TotalCare Cleaning is coming to the Main Line with house cleaning planned around estate-era houses, Shingle Style streets, college rentals, lanternfly honeydew and snowy, salty winters.
Answered 24/7, day or night
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 $330
Inspection-ready move-out cleaning for tenants, landlords, sellers, and buyers. Interior appliances, all cabinets, baseboards, inspection-ready standard.
From $414
Service Areas
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Philadelphia Main Line · Pennsylvania
Ardmore calls itself the Main Street of the Main Line. TotalCare Cleaning will bring house cleaning to its apartments, twins and houses on both sides of the county line.
Devon is a small Easttown Township community best known for its horse show. TotalCare Cleaning will bring house cleaning to Devon homes, with extra help around show season.
Malvern is a compact borough at the western end of the Main Line. TotalCare Cleaning will bring house cleaning to its homes and to neighboring Willistown and Frazer.
Newtown Square is a township settled in 1681 with old stone homes, and one that grew almost 23 percent in a decade. TotalCare Cleaning will bring house cleaning sized to both.
Paoli grew up around its rail station and now sits across two townships. TotalCare Cleaning will bring house cleaning to its homes and to nearby Berwyn and Strafford.
Wayne began as a planned estate in 1880 and still has whole streets of Shingle Style and Colonial Revival houses. TotalCare Cleaning will bring house cleaning built for them.
Other places in the Philadelphia Main Line: Bryn Mawr Village, Cricket Avenue, Downtown Wayne, Edgmont, Frazer, South Ardmore, St. Davids, Strafford, Suburban Square, Waverly, Welsh Road, Willistown.
Local Guides
What a One-Time Deep Clean will do for Main Line houses with deep trim, old floors, humid summers and fall stink bugs, and when it is worth booking one.
Free Pennsylvania checks, the right questions and sensible key and payment habits for anyone letting a cleaner into a Bryn Mawr, Wayne or Malvern home.
The Moving Clean for Main Line apartments, twins and houses, timed around Pennsylvania's deposit law, the college lease calendar and your township's trash rules.
How to choose weekly, bi-weekly or monthly Recurring House Cleans for a Main Line home, season by season, from the lanternfly months to the salt and slush of winter.
Month by month, what a Main Line home needs: salt and slush in winter, the lanternfly hatch in spring, humid July and August, stink bugs in fall and the township leaf collections.
The township rules, water reports and cleaning steps that matter in your first weeks in Ardmore, Wayne, Paoli, Malvern or Newtown Square, before the boxes are unpacked.
Room by room care for the Main Line's historic houses, from Wayne's Shingle Style streets to Newtown's old stone homes, with sensible lead dust precautions for anything built before 1978.
About 23 inches of snow in a normal year means salt, slush and grit at every Main Line door. Here is how to protect old floors, handle radiator dust and keep the house fresh until spring.
The Main Line is a string of railroad towns, not one city. It follows the old Pennsylvania Railroad west out of Center City through Ardmore, Bryn Mawr, Wayne, Paoli and Malvern, and it crosses Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties along the way. A house on a Bryn Mawr side street and a newer place in Newtown Township need very different things from a cleaning visit.
This page sets out what TotalCare Cleaning will charge by home size when it comes to the Main Line, what the local housing and weather mean for keeping a home clean, and where the deeper local guides live.
Much of the Main Line was built in two bursts. From about 1880 to 1920, wealthy Philadelphia families put up country estates near the stations, and the towns filled in around them. In Wayne, the North Wayne Historic District alone holds 190 contributing buildings from 1881 to 1925, most of them Shingle Style or Colonial Revival. Lower Merion has its own National Register districts, and Harriton House there dates to 1704.
Those homes reward a careful hand. Deep window wells, built-in bookcases, carved stair rails and original oak or pine floors catch dust in places a quick wipe misses. Plaster walls and old tile do best with mild products and soft cloths. Anything built before 1978 can also carry lead-based paint, and the EPA notes that settled lead dust can lift back into the air when a home is swept or vacuumed, so a HEPA vacuum and damp wiping matter more here than in a new subdivision. The older home cleaning guide goes room by room.
Not every house is a century old. Newtown Township grew almost 23 percent between 2010 and 2020, and newer houses like the ones built in growing townships usually have open kitchens, big windows and more bathrooms per bedroom. Square footage, not trim, sets the work there.
The Philadelphia area sits on the northern edge of the humid subtropical zone. Normal July dew points at the airport reach about 64.6 degrees, so bathrooms dry slowly through the summer and grout darkens faster. About 44 inches of precipitation falls in a normal year, and the normal snowfall is a little over 23 inches, which means salt, slush and grit on every entry floor from December into March.
Two Pennsylvania pests leave their own marks. Spotted lanternfly nymphs hatch from late April to June, adults show up in July, and their sugary honeydew turns into black sooty mold on decks, patio furniture and cars until a hard freeze. Then in September and October, brown marmorated stink bugs gather on siding looking for a way inside, and window tracks and sills collect them. The seasonal cleaning calendar sets the year out month by month, and the winter cleaning guide covers the salt months.
Four services will cover nearly every home here. A One-Time Deep Clean, from $330.00, is the reset for a house that has gone a season without professional care: baseboards washed by hand, blinds wet-wiped, window tracks cleared, ceiling fans, light fixtures and vents wiped in place, and cabinet fronts degreased. A Recurring House Clean on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly plan keeps it there, and the first visit of a plan is an Initial Deep Clean. A Moving Clean adds inside the oven, refrigerator and cabinets for an empty home.
The college towns shape that last one. Roughly half of Bryn Mawr's residents are 18 to 24, and the Main Line holds Bryn Mawr, Haverford, Villanova, Rosemont, Eastern and more, so student and faculty leases turn over every year. Pennsylvania gives a landlord 30 days after a lease ends to return a deposit or list damages in writing; the move-out guide explains how a clean fits that window.
TotalCare Cleaning will service Bryn Mawr and the towns along the Paoli/Thorndale rail line. Each town page below covers its own homes, township rules and trash days.
Ardmore is split between Lower Merion and Haverford townships and has the 1928 Suburban Square shopping center. Wayne grew from the 1880 Wayne Estate. Malvern is a small Chester County borough beside the Paoli Battlefield. Newtown Square borders Ridley Creek State Park. Paoli sits across Tredyffrin and Willistown, and Devon is home to the Devon Horse Show.
Nearby communities include Bryn Mawr Village, Cricket Avenue, South Ardmore, Suburban Square, Downtown Wayne, St. Davids, Strafford, Frazer, Willistown, Edgmont, Waverly and Welsh Road.
One thing that surprises people moving onto the Main Line is how much the township line matters. Haverford Township, on the south side of Ardmore, collects trash twice a week. Newtown Township does not collect trash at all, so residents hire a private hauler. Tredyffrin, which includes Paoli and Strafford, also leaves trash to private haulers. Malvern Borough picks up every Friday. Cleaners bag household trash for your own cans, so knowing your day keeps a full bag from sitting in the garage. The move-in guide lists each township's rules.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Philadelphia Main Line 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.
