Deep cleaning · Portland, OR
Portland area
What a One-Time Deep Clean covers in Portland and why it suits the city's older houses, its long rainy season and the fine dust that settles after a dry, smoky summer.
The TotalCare Cleaning standard
The One-Time Deep Clean addresses every surface a standard maintenance clean cannot reach. Every Portland home accumulates buildup at the grout, baseboard, and appliance level that requires a systematic deep protocol, not just more time spent.
The TotalCare Cleaning standard is a detailed room-by-room checklist. Every item has a defined method, an approved cleaning product, and a measurable pass/fail criterion. The checklist is audited on every job before the visit is considered complete.
Pricing starts at $311 for 1 bedroom up to $690 for 5 bedrooms. Priced by the home. All supplies included. No hidden fees.
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Trust & Safety
Every TotalCare Cleaning professional will be background-checked and screened before their first job in Portland.
✓ Background-checkedEvery TotalCare Cleaning house cleaning in Portland will be covered by $1,000,000 in general liability insurance. From hardwood floors to granite countertops and custom cabinetry, if anything is damaged during the clean, you are fully protected.
✓ Fully InsuredTotalCare Cleaning does not retain, copy, or transport house keys. Entry and access instructions are handled securely through our booking system. You control access to your Portland property at every step.
✓ Keys Stay HomeIf an area on your checklist was missed, report it in your customer portal or by email by the end of the day after your clean, with a photo, and a professional returns to re-clean that area at no charge. No forms, no friction, no arguments.
✓ Re-Clean GuaranteeWe will follow the same standard operating procedure on every single job in Portland. The TotalCare Cleaning standard is not a marketing claim. It is a documented, auditable procedure that governs every hour of work in your home.
Deep cleaning Pricing
Priced by the home, not by the hour. Prices start at the amounts shown, from the current Portland rate card, with supplies included.
| Home Size | What's Covered | One-Time Deep Clean Price | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Bed / 1 Bathabout 800 sq ft | The full TotalCare Cleaning standard, all rooms, baseboards and blinds | starting at$311supplies included | Join → |
| 2 Bed / 2 Bathabout 1,600 sq ft | The full TotalCare Cleaning standard, all rooms, baseboards and blinds | starting at$403supplies included | Join → |
| 3 Bed / 2 Bathabout 2,000 sq ft | The full TotalCare Cleaning standard, all rooms, baseboards and blinds | starting at$443supplies included | Join → |
| 4 Bed / 3 Bathabout 2,800 sq ft | The full TotalCare Cleaning standard, all rooms, baseboards and blinds | starting at$534supplies included | Join → |
| 5 Bed / 4 Bathabout 4,500 sq ft | The full TotalCare Cleaning standard, all rooms, baseboards and blinds | starting at$690supplies included | Join → |
Priced by the home, never by the hour. Prices start at the amounts shown; your exact price is set by your home. Home sizes assume the square footage shown, and a larger home, extra half baths or add-ons change the price.
Join the Opening List →A deep clean is the visit that reaches what a regular tidy skips: the tops of door frames, the film along baseboards, the tracks under sliding windows, the blades of a ceiling fan. In Portland those places fill up for local reasons. A long wet season carries mud and damp grit indoors, a short hot summer brings dust and sometimes smoke, and much of the housing is old enough to have plenty of ledges and trim to hold it all.
This guide explains what the One-Time Deep Clean includes, when it makes sense here, how it differs from a Moving Clean, and how it will be priced by home size when TotalCare Cleaning comes to Portland.
Start with the houses. About 27 percent of Portland homes were built in 1939 or earlier, and roughly 63 percent predate 1980. Older homes simply have more of what a deep clean is for: tall baseboards, paneled doors, built-in cabinets, plate rails and wood window sashes with deep channels. Each is a flat or grooved surface that holds dust until someone reaches it by hand.
Then the weather. Portland International Airport averages about 157 days a year with measurable rain. Wet shoes and paws carry fine grit that dries into the corners of entries and the seams of hardwood. In July and August the opposite happens: rain drops to about half an inch a month, windows stay up for the breeze, and dust drifts in onto every sill.
And sometimes smoke. When wildfire smoke reaches Portland, the Oregon Health Authority advises keeping windows shut, running a HEPA filter and not vacuuming, since vacuuming stirs up the particles already inside. That leaves a fine film to remove once the air clears, which is a natural moment for a deep visit.
A deep clean includes everything in a recurring visit, then goes further in every room. The added work, item by item:
The inside of the oven, refrigerator and cabinets is not part of the deep list. Those belong to the Moving Clean, which is built for empty homes at the end of a lease or before new owners unpack.
Some jobs sit outside every service. Cleaners do not treat mold, repair water damage, move heavy furniture or carry out junk. For a clear-out before the visit, Portland residents can take garbage or household hazardous waste to Metro Central in Portland or Metro South in Oregon City, and houses up to fourplexes can book a curbside bulky pickup through their garbage company.
In a hard water city, much of a deep clean goes into mineral scale. Portland's Bull Run supply is soft, typically 7 to 11 parts per million, so heavy scale is rare. The cloudy film on a Portland shower door is usually soap scum and body oil, which lifts with the right cleaner and a soft pad rather than acid and scraping. That leaves more of the visit for grout lines, fixtures and the tops of tall bathroom cabinets.
There are exceptions. The bureau's groundwater is harder, at about 80 parts per million, and some homes near the city's edges are supplied by Lake Oswego or the Tualatin Valley Water District. Spots that do not wipe away get the hard water glass treatment that is part of the deep list. The Portland water guide covers each supply.
Most Portland households would book a deep visit at one of these points. A One-Time Deep Clean runs $311.00 to $690.00 by home size. A home moving onto a recurring plan has an Initial Deep Clean on the first visit, then pays the lower recurring rate after that. The recurring cleaning guide helps choose a frequency, and the cost page shows every row.
With so much of the housing built before 1980, many Portland homes still have original paint on trim, doors and window sashes. Cleaners wipe painted surfaces gently and never sand, scrape or strip old paint, which in homes of that age can contain lead. Old tile, marble thresholds and wood floors get mild, pH-neutral products, and anything unusual is tested on a hidden spot first. The older home guide goes further into prewar materials.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything Portland homeowners ask about a One-Time Deep Clean.
TotalCare Cleaning will service Portland 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.
