Treasure Coast · Florida · Professional Home Cleaning
House cleaning planned for Stuart, Palm City, Port St. Lucie, Hobe Sound and Jupiter Island: river condos, 1980s ranch homes, newer Port St. Lucie houses and a long, wet hurricane season.
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 $311
Inspection-ready move-out cleaning for tenants, landlords, sellers, and buyers. Interior appliances, all cabinets, baseboards, inspection-ready standard.
From $391
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Treasure Coast · Florida
Hobe Sound is a small Martin County town on the Indian River Lagoon, with compact homes, a large share of manufactured housing, seasonal residents and a national wildlife refuge on its doorstep.
The Town of Jupiter Island is a barrier island of large single family homes, many of them seasonal, with its own beach protection district and softened water. What those homes need from a cleaning.
Palm City, across the St. Lucie River from Stuart, is a community of larger, owner occupied homes built mostly in the 1980s and 1990s, with river clubs and an older neighborhood near the water.
Port St. Lucie is a young city of single family homes, most built since 2000, from Tradition to PGA Village. What those homes need from a regular cleaning, and what the local water and trash rules mean for it.
Other places in the Treasure Coast: Downtown Stuart, Tradition, PGA Village, Harbour Ridge, Hobe Sound Estates, Jupiter Island Village, Cobblestone, Heritage Ridge, Lake Charles, River Club, Rocky Point, The Soundings, South Fork, St. Lucie Inlet, Tequesta.
Local Guides
What a One-Time Deep Clean is for in Treasure Coast homes: 1970s block houses, river condos, newer Port St. Lucie builds and seasonal homes reopened after the wet months.
The checks that matter when you let a cleaner into a Treasure Coast home: the Florida business registry, Stuart and Martin County tax receipts, the state consumer office and how keys and payment should work.
The Moving Clean for Treasure Coast rentals, condos and home sales, timed around Florida's security deposit deadlines and each town's bulk trash pickup.
How to pick a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly Recurring House Clean for a Treasure Coast home, based on the local rain, pollen and bug calendar and how many months a year you live there.
The Treasure Coast does not have four seasons so much as two: a dry, pollen heavy winter and spring, and a hot, wet summer and fall with hurricanes in the mix. Here is what to clean when.
Florida's pollen seasons run longer than most, and the Treasure Coast adds year-round grass pollen and humid air that feeds dust mites. How to set up a cleaning routine for allergy sufferers here.
Why Treasure Coast bathrooms, closets and grout grow mildew so fast, what a regular cleaning routine can do about it, and the point where a problem needs a professional rather than a cleaner.
What owners of Treasure Coast vacation rentals and seasonal homes should know: the state's transient lodging threshold, both counties' tourist development taxes, and how to plan turnovers and season-end cleans.
Stuart sits where two hurricanes came ashore within three weeks in 2004. How to keep a Treasure Coast home ready before a storm, what to clean after one, and where house cleaning stops.
The Treasure Coast is three counties, Indian River, Martin and St. Lucie, and the homes along it change a lot from one town to the next. Stuart, the Martin County seat, has a historic downtown and a large share of condos and two bedroom units. Port St. Lucie, a few miles north, is mostly single family houses built since 2000. Palm City and Jupiter Island lean toward larger homes on the water.
When TotalCare Cleaning comes to Stuart, it will service all of these towns with the same menu. This page explains what local homes need, what the climate does to them through the year, what each clean will cost by home size and where to find the detailed local guides.
Stuart's housing is older and more compact than most people expect. Census estimates put the median home in the city at 1982, and about 46 percent of units were built before 1980, with the 1970s alone accounting for about 28 percent. Only about 28 percent of Stuart homes are single family detached, while about 39 percent sit in buildings of 10 or more units, and about half of all units have two bedrooms.
That mix shapes the work. A two bedroom condo near the river is mostly kitchen, two baths, tile and sliding glass. A 1970s block home has older grout, original cabinet boxes and jalousie or aluminum windows with tracks that collect sand. Across Martin County as a whole, the median home dates from 1986, and about 43 percent of units were built in the 1980s and 1990s, so stucco, tile floors and screened lanais are the norm outside the city.
About 41 percent of occupied homes in Stuart are rented and close to 16 percent of units are held for seasonal or occasional use. A lot of the cleaning here happens around a lease change or a seasonal return, which is why the move-out cleaning guide and the short-term rental guide exist.
NOAA's 1991 to 2020 normals for the Stuart station show 62.72 inches of rain a year, and the split between seasons is sharp. June through October each normally get more than 6 inches, with August at 8.49 and September at 8.28. From December through April the monthly normal drops to about 2.6 to 3.8 inches, and February is the driest month.
Summer heat is steady rather than extreme: normal July and August highs sit near 91 degrees with lows near 76, and the station logs about 81 days a year at 90 or above. Warm nights and daily rain keep bathrooms and closets damp, and the Florida Department of Health advises keeping indoor humidity below 60 percent to help prevent mold. The humidity and mildew guide covers what a cleaning routine can and cannot do about that.
The hurricane season runs June 1 to November 30 and peaks around September 10, which lines up with Stuart's two wettest months. Two hurricanes, Frances and Jeanne, came ashore at the southern end of Hutchinson Island just east of Stuart three weeks apart in September 2004. The storm season guide and the seasonal calendar lay out what that means for a home month by month.
TotalCare Cleaning will offer four services here, each priced by bedrooms, bathrooms and square footage. Bi-weekly visits will run $160.00 to $497.00 across the five size rows, a One-Time Deep Clean $311.00 to $690.00 and a Moving Clean $391.00 to $817.00. The full tables are on the Stuart house cleaning cost page.
Port St. Lucie is the big one: more than 260,000 residents across about 120 square miles, and about 87 percent of its homes are single family detached. Three bedroom houses make up about 55 percent of units, and the master-planned Tradition community and PGA Village sit inside the city. See Port St. Lucie house cleaning.
Palm City, across the St. Lucie River from Stuart, is mostly owner occupied, with only about 10 percent of homes rented and about 31 percent at four or more bedrooms. Harbour Ridge is one of its private river communities. See Palm City house cleaning.
Hobe Sound keeps a small-town feel along Bridge Road, and about 28 percent of its housing is mobile homes, next to the Nathaniel P. Reed Hobe Sound National Wildlife Refuge. See Hobe Sound house cleaning. Jupiter Island, the barrier island town to the east, is almost all large single family homes, about 36 percent of them held for seasonal use. See Jupiter Island house cleaning.
TotalCare Cleaning will also service Downtown Stuart, Rocky Point, the St. Lucie Inlet area, Cobblestone, Heritage Ridge, Lake Charles, River Club, Soundings, South Fork, Tequesta, Hobe Sound Estates and Jupiter Island Village, all priced on the same Treasure Coast table.
Water on the Treasure Coast comes from several utilities, and each blends sources differently. The City of Stuart softens and filters water from 23 surficial aquifer wells and one Floridan well, and keeps it slightly positive on the Langelier Index so it lays down a thin calcium carbonate film inside pipes. That same tendency is what leaves faint white spots on shower glass and faucets as water dries.
Martin County Utilities blends reverse osmosis water with surficial aquifer water, which adds some hardness back. In Port St. Lucie, the utility notes that the pink ring in a toilet bowl is a bacterium, Serratia marcescens, not the water itself, so it responds to regular cleaning rather than a filter.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Stuart 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.
