Deep cleaning · St. Louis, MO
St. Louis area
When a One-Time Deep Clean earns its price in St. Louis: old brick homes full of trim and radiators, hard river water on every fixture, and a humid summer that leaves film behind.
The TotalCare Cleaning standard
The One-Time Deep Clean addresses every surface a standard maintenance clean cannot reach. Every St. Louis 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 $279 for 1 bedroom up to $614 for 5 bedrooms. Priced by the home. All supplies included. No hidden fees.
🍽️ Kitchen
🚿 Bathrooms
🏠 All Rooms
Trust & Safety
Every TotalCare Cleaning professional will be background-checked and screened before their first job in St. Louis.
✓ Background-checkedEvery TotalCare Cleaning house cleaning in St. Louis 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 St. Louis 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 St. Louis. 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 St. Louis 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$279supplies included | Join → |
| 2 Bed / 2 Bathabout 1,600 sq ft | The full TotalCare Cleaning standard, all rooms, baseboards and blinds | starting at$360supplies included | Join → |
| 3 Bed / 2 Bathabout 2,000 sq ft | The full TotalCare Cleaning standard, all rooms, baseboards and blinds | starting at$395supplies included | Join → |
| 4 Bed / 3 Bathabout 2,800 sq ft | The full TotalCare Cleaning standard, all rooms, baseboards and blinds | starting at$476supplies included | Join → |
| 5 Bed / 4 Bathabout 4,500 sq ft | The full TotalCare Cleaning standard, all rooms, baseboards and blinds | starting at$614supplies 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 weekly tidying never does: the tops of door casings, the slats of old wooden blinds, the grout around a 1920s tub, the grime on a ceiling fan that has spun all summer. In St. Louis, where most city homes are far older than the people living in them, that hidden layer is thicker than it is in a newer city.
This guide explains what the One-Time Deep Clean covers, why St. Louis houses build up the particular grime they do, and how to time a reset around the local year. Prices by home size are in the table on this page, from $279.00 for the smallest row.
Census estimates show about 58 percent of homes in the City of St. Louis were built in 1939 or earlier. Those houses were built with detail that a modern drywall box lacks: deep window casings, baseboards eight or ten inches tall, plate rail and picture rail, pocket doors, built-in bookcases and cast iron radiators with dozens of fins. Every one of those surfaces is a ledge, and ledges hold dust.
In St. Louis County the houses are younger but still past middle age. About 53 percent of county homes date from 1950 through 1979, so the county version of the same problem is a ranch or split-level with original kitchen cabinets, a paneled basement and decades of grime on the ductwork registers. A deep clean is how either kind of home gets back to a baseline that regular visits can keep.
Everything in a standard visit is included, the kitchen, bathrooms, floors, dusting and trash, and the deep clean adds the detail work on top. In a St. Louis home that list maps onto the house like this:
City water comes from the Missouri River at Howard Bend and from the Chain of Rocks plant just below the confluence, and the Water Division softens it before it reaches the tap. The softening helps but does not finish the job: the 2025 report lists an average hardness of 129 parts per million, with readings from 80 to 206, which the U.S. Geological Survey places in the hard range. The plant also runs the water at a high average pH of about 9.5.
In practice that means a chalky line where water dries on glass shower doors, white crust at the base of faucets and spots on chrome. A deep clean treats the glass and details the fixtures. It does not remove etching that has eaten into glass over many years; that damage is permanent, and the goal is to stop it getting worse.
Lambert airport averages about 47 days a year at 90 degrees or hotter, and July dew points run near 67 degrees. Air conditioners run hard, ceiling fans spin day and night, and the moist air holds cooking grease and dust that settle as a sticky film on fan blades, cabinet fronts and light fixtures. Late summer is a natural moment for a deep clean, once the heaviest heat breaks.
Winter brings the other half of the year's grime. About 85 nights a year fall at or below freezing, and road salt and cinders come into the house on every boot. A spring deep clean, after the median last freeze in early April, clears the white salt haze off hardwood and tile and the grit ground into door tracks.
The city Building Division notes that many homes built before 1978 contain lead-based paint. On painted window sills, porch rails and old radiators, a deep clean means a damp cloth and a light hand. Cleaners do not sand, scrape or strip paint, and they flag paint that is chipping so the owner can have it checked. City households with young children or a pregnant woman can ask the Building Division about a free lead inspection.
Old plaster, shellacked woodwork and original floors also get mild products rather than strong solvents. Test spots come first on anything that looks fragile.
A One-Time Deep Clean is the right call for an occupied home that needs a reset: before guests, after a long winter, or as the first visit before a plan. When it starts a plan it is called the Initial Deep Clean, and the bi-weekly visits that follow are priced at the recurring rate. The recurring cleaning guide helps pick a schedule.
If the home is empty because someone is moving, book the Moving Clean instead. The Moving Clean includes everything in a deep clean plus the inside of the oven, refrigerator and cabinets, which an occupied-home deep clean does not reach. That is the one most St. Louis renters need, since about 55 percent of city homes are rented; see the move-out guide.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything St. Louis homeowners ask about a One-Time Deep Clean.
TotalCare Cleaning will service St. Louis 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.
