New Hampshire Seacoast · New Hampshire · Professional Home Cleaning
House cleaning for the New Hampshire Seacoast: brick downtown buildings, houses from before 1940, snowy boots from December through March and water that changes from town to town.
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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
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New Hampshire Seacoast · New Hampshire
New Hampshire's oldest settlement mixes pre-war houses, apartments near the old millyard and moderately hard well water. TotalCare Cleaning will service Dover homes with those in mind.
A Revolutionary era capital with old houses near the Academy and the river, plus water notices worth knowing. TotalCare Cleaning will service Exeter, from downtown to Swasey Parkway.
About a fifth of Hampton's housing is held for seasonal use, and beach sand finds its way into all of it. TotalCare Cleaning will service homes from Hampton Beach to Winnacunnet Road.
The Lilac City has three bedroom houses, a large share of mobile homes and former mill villages along its rivers. TotalCare Cleaning will service Rochester, Gonic and East Rochester.
Other places in the New Hampshire Seacoast: Downtown Portsmouth, North End, South End, Downtown Dover, Central Avenue, Henry Law Park, Downtown Rochester, East Rochester, Gonic, Downtown Exeter, Academy area, Swasey Parkway, Hampton Beach, Hampton town center, Winnacunnet Road.
Local Guides
A One-Time Deep Clean for Seacoast homes tackles what a closed up winter leaves behind: salt on the thresholds, dust on old trim, dark marks on fixtures and neglected window tracks.
Handing over a key or a door code on the Seacoast deserves some care. A few direct questions, a look at the state's consumer protection office and some simple habits go a long way.
The Moving Clean for Seacoast rentals and sales, set against New Hampshire's 30 day deposit deadline, the local trash rules that differ from town to town and how to clear a home first.
Choosing weekly, bi-weekly or monthly visits on the Seacoast depends on boots in winter, beach sand in summer and how many people use the back hall. Here is how to think it through.
A year of home care built from local numbers: the snowiest weeks of January, the last frost around May 4, a mild July, a wet October and the first freeze not long before it.
From brick downtown Portsmouth to the old mill towns inland, much of the Seacoast's housing is old. These homes need a gentle hand, and pre-1978 paint needs some real caution.
Sixty-five inches of snow and about 143 freezing nights make winter the hardest season on Seacoast floors. Here is how to keep salt, sand and condensation from running the house.
Portsmouth was settled in 1630, and its homes are a long record of everything since. Nearly a third were standing before 1940. Add months of snow and slush at the door and a mix of apartments, condos and old family houses, and no single cleaning routine fits them all.
TotalCare Cleaning will service Portsmouth and the Seacoast towns around it. This page explains how the local homes and weather shape a cleaning plan, what each service covers and which town or topic guide to read next.
Census estimates put about 32.5 percent of the city's homes at 1939 or earlier, with the median built in 1959. Downtown carries a distinct history: after fires in the early 1800s, including one in 1813 that destroyed 244 buildings, the city required brick construction with slate roofs in its fire district. Puddle Dock in the South End survives as the nearly 10 acre Strawbery Banke Museum, and houses saved from 1960s urban renewal in the North End were moved to the area called The Hill.
All of this means many homes here have steep stairs, painted trim, plaster walls and floors that have been refinished many times. The EPA says homes from before 1978 are more likely to contain lead-based paint and that settled lead dust can re-enter the air during vacuuming or sweeping, so old sills and stairs call for damp wiping. The older homes guide covers this in more depth.
Size varies as much as age. Two bedroom homes are the most common at about 40 percent, and three bedroom homes follow at 24 percent. Only about 39 percent of units are single family detached, and about 48 percent of occupied homes are rented. So plenty of households here are in condos or apartments and need something different from a family with a big house on the cost page.
NOAA normals for Greenland, next door, show 65 inches of snow a year, with about 68 winter days with an inch or more on the ground. January averages a high of 32.6 degrees and 17.1 inches of snow. Freezing nights number about 143 a year, and the first and last freezes usually land around October 8 and May 4. Boots, road salt and wet mittens are the main housekeeping story for a good stretch of the year. The winter guide deals with that directly.
Summer is short and comfortable by comparison, with July highs around 80 degrees. Rain still totals about 50 inches a year when snowmelt is counted, and October is the wettest month. The seasonal calendar walks through the months, including browntail moth caution from the University of New Hampshire for anyone who hangs laundry or airs linens outdoors.
A One-Time Deep Clean starts from $311.00 and resets a home that has gone a while without professional care. It adds hand washed baseboards, wet-wiped blinds, cleared window tracks and ceiling fans and vents wiped in place. The deep cleaning guide explains when it makes sense here.
A Recurring House Clean comes weekly, bi-weekly or monthly, with bi-weekly visits starting from $160.00. The first visit on a plan is an Initial Deep Clean. The recurring guide compares schedules across a snowy winter and a mild summer.
A One-Time Moving Clean starts from $391.00 and is designed for empty homes. It is the only service that includes the inside of the oven, refrigerator and cabinets. The move-out guide explains New Hampshire's 30 day deposit rule and how to clear a home through Portsmouth's bulky pickup.
Within the city, Downtown, the North End and the South End each have their own housing. Portsmouth's water system also reaches the Pease Tradeport, Newington, New Castle, Greenland and parts of Rye and Madbury, and it averages a soft 44 parts per million of hardness, though results vary widely.
Dover, settled in 1623, relies on wells and describes its treated water as moderately hard. Rochester, the Lilac City, includes Gonic and East Rochester and has more three bedroom homes and mobile homes. Exeter has a long history as a Revolutionary era capital and home to Phillips Exeter Academy. Hampton runs from Winnacunnet Road to Hampton Beach, with roughly a fifth of its housing held for seasonal use. All of them use one price table, based on the size of the home.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Portsmouth 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.
