San Antonio area · Texas · Professional Home Cleaning
House cleaning that TotalCare Cleaning will bring to San Antonio, planned around Edwards Aquifer hard water, mountain cedar pollen, months of 90 degree heat and a city of very old and very new homes.
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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
Service Areas
Every TotalCare Cleaning professional is background-checked and screened before their first job.
San Antonio area · Texas
Alamo Heights is a 2.1 square mile city of older, varied homes about five miles northeast of downtown San Antonio, with its own trash days, its own bulky item rules and plenty of hard water scale.
Boerne is the Kendall County seat on Cibolo Creek, thirty miles northwest of San Antonio, with a German founding, a mixed water supply whose hardness varies by street and Hill Country cedar every winter.
Fair Oaks Ranch grew from a 5,000 acre ranch sold as ranchettes and spans three counties, with blended well and river water, a city ban on feeding deer and Hill Country cedar each winter.
Helotes sits at the Hill Country edge on State Highway 16, with SAWS water and its hard water scale, a city wildfire protection plan, heavy winter cedar and the record 2016 hailstorm nearby.
Other places in the San Antonio area: Castle Hills, Olmos Park, Terrell Hills, Champion Heights, Cordillera Ranch, Tapatio Springs, Fair Oaks, Helotes Park Central, Hidden Springs, Iron Horse Canyon, Skyline Ranch, Sonterra, Stone Oak, The Dominion.
Local Guides
What a One-Time Deep Clean will tackle in San Antonio homes: Edwards Aquifer scale, juniper pollen in the window tracks, dust pulled through the air conditioning and the gentle work older floors need.
A practical checklist for choosing a house cleaner in San Antonio and Bexar County: which Texas records you can look up, why there is no state cleaning license, and what to ask about insurance, keys, payment and older homes.
The Moving Clean for San Antonio renters, sellers and buyers, with the Texas Property Code deposit rules, city bulky pickup and the hard water and dust that landlords notice at the walkthrough.
How to choose weekly, bi-weekly or monthly Recurring House Cleans for a San Antonio home, with a schedule that follows cedar pollen, the hot season, the May and fall rains and the hard water that never lets up.
A month by month home cleaning calendar for San Antonio, built from NOAA climate normals, the Texas A&M cedar pollen calendar, city mosquito and ozone seasons and the area's hail and flood history.
A San Antonio allergy cleaning guide built around mountain cedar, the Ashe juniper pollen that peaks in mid January, plus the long ozone season that keeps families indoors through the hot months.
Why San Antonio water leaves white crust on every fixture, what the SAWS hardness number means, how the supply differs in Boerne, Fair Oaks Ranch and Helotes, and how to clean limestone scale without damaging finishes.
A guide to cleaning San Antonio's older houses: the 32 local historic districts, homes built before 1950, original wood floors and tile, hard water on old fixtures and the paint precautions every pre-1978 home needs.
A turnover guide for San Antonio short term rental hosts, covering the city permit types and blockface cap, hotel occupancy tax, trash and recycling rules and the cleaning standard guests expect.
San Antonio homes get dirty in their own way. The water comes up through limestone and leaves scale on every fixture, the Hill Country junipers coat window sills with cedar pollen in the middle of winter, and summer heat keeps the air conditioner running for most of the year. A house in the King William historic district and a house finished three years ago need very different visits.
This page lays out what San Antonio homes need from a cleaning, what TotalCare Cleaning will charge by home size when it comes to San Antonio, and which local guides go deeper on water, pollen, rentals and older houses.
Census estimates put about 40 percent of San Antonio housing units before 1980, including roughly 60,000 built before 1950. At the same time about a third of the city's homes were built in 2000 or later, and around 30,000 went up after 2020. Few large cities have both ends of the age range in such numbers.
That split changes the work. An older house in Monte Vista, Tobin Hill or Dignowity Hill tends to have original wood floors, deep window sills and tile that has been regrouted more than once, so it gets mild products and soft pads. A newer two story often has more square footage, more bathrooms and builder finishes that show water spots quickly. The older home guide covers the historic side of the city in detail.
Single family detached homes make up about 58 percent of the city's 629,160 housing units, and the median home has 5 rooms. In practice that means yards, back doors and garage entries, all of which bring dust, mud and grass clippings onto the floors.
The San Antonio Water System says its water typically runs 15 to 20 grains per gallon of hardness. That is calcium carbonate picked up from the Edwards and Trinity aquifers, and while SAWS notes it is not a health hazard, it dries into white crust on shower glass, faucets and the rim of every toilet. The hard water guide explains what that number means at home.
Winter is pollen season here, not spring. Texas A&M reports that Ashe juniper, the mountain cedar, usually starts releasing pollen in mid December, peaks in mid January and tapers toward early March. The pollen is especially heavy west of Interstate 35, which puts the whole northwest side and the Hill Country suburbs in its path.
Then the heat sets in. The 1991 to 2020 normals at San Antonio International Airport average about 122 days a year at 90 degrees or hotter, with August highs near 96. Closed windows and constant air conditioning mean dust settles on vents, fan blades and baseboards rather than blowing out. The seasonal cleaning calendar lays the year out month by month.
A One-Time Deep Clean is the reset: hand washed baseboards, wet-wiped blinds, window tracks, ceiling fans and vents wiped in place, cabinet fronts degreased, shower glass treated for hard water spots and faucets detailed. Deep cleans run $311.00 to $690.00 by home size. A Recurring House Clean on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly plan keeps a home there, starting at $160.00 per bi-weekly visit for the smallest homes. A Moving Clean covers an empty home, inside the oven, refrigerator and cabinets included, starting at $391.00.
About 48 percent of occupied San Antonio homes are rented, so lease turnover is a big part of the local calendar. The move-out guide covers the Texas deposit rules.
When TotalCare Cleaning comes to San Antonio, it will service the city and the communities around it. Four have their own pages. Alamo Heights is a 2.1 square mile city about five miles northeast of downtown, with building that began in the 1890s. Boerne, the Kendall County seat on Cibolo Creek, draws water from its own lake as well as wells. Fair Oaks Ranch grew from a 5,000 acre ranch and still lives with deer at the back door. Helotes, on State Highway 16, takes SAWS water like the city.
The service area will also include Castle Hills, Olmos Park, Terrell Hills, Stone Oak, Sonterra, The Dominion, Champion Heights, Hidden Springs, Iron Horse Canyon, Skyline Ranch, Cordillera Ranch, Tapatio Springs, Fair Oaks and Helotes Park Central.
Some San Antonio chores belong to someone else. The city's Solid Waste department picks up brush and bulky items such as furniture, mattresses and water heaters twice a year at the curb, so large items wait for that pickup rather than a cleaning visit. Mold on drywall after a leak is work for a mold assessor or remediator holding a license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, not for a house cleaner. Clearing those out of the way first lets the cleaning focus on the home itself.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service San Antonio 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.
