Hampton Roads area · Virginia · Professional Home Cleaning
House cleaning planned around Virginia Beach homes: houses from the 1970s and 1980s, townhouses near the bases, beach cottages near the oceanfront, sand at the door and a wet, muggy July.
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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
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Hampton Roads area · Virginia
Chesapeake covers 353 square miles of urban, suburban and rural land. Its water is soft, most homes are detached, and its housing runs from South Norfolk porches to the residential communities around Greenbrier.
Norfolk has an older housing stock than its neighbors and a majority of renters. Ghent's turn of the century houses sit a short way from apartment buildings with leases always ending.
About half of Portsmouth homes date from before 1970, and the city has five local historic districts, from Olde Towne to Cradock's wartime cottages. Older finishes are the main concern here.
Suffolk has some of the softest water in Hampton Roads. About 44 percent of its homes were built in 2000 or later, while New Town and Chuckatuck hold far older houses.
Other places in the Hampton Roads area: Alanton, Chuckatuck, Churchland, Courthouse Estates, Cradock, Edgewater, Ghent, Great Bridge, Greenbrier, Harbour View, Kempsville, Larchmont, North Suffolk, Port Norfolk.
Local Guides
A One-Time Deep Clean starts at $311.00 and resets the parts of a home regular cleaning misses. In Virginia Beach, that often means decades of grime in a house from the 1970s or 1980s.
Before giving anyone a key in Virginia Beach, a few free state and city checks and a few direct questions will tell you most of what you need to know about a cleaner.
Virginia gives a landlord 45 days to return a deposit with an itemized list, and the move-out inspection has a short deadline of its own. A One-Time Moving Clean starts at $391.00.
A Recurring House Clean can be weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. In Virginia Beach, the choice usually depends on the number of people in the home and how much summer comes through the door.
A month by month plan based on Oceana normals: mild winters with about 3.4 inches of snow, mosquito work from May through October, and July and August as the wettest months.
Virginia Beach requires a zoning permit for each short-term rental address, renewed every year. This guide covers the local rules and how a cleaning plan can fit around sand and guests.
Virginia Beach is a coastal city and a Navy city at the same time. Its homes are mostly from the decades after 1970, a good share of its households rent, and its busiest months for mess are summer, when the rain and the beach both come home on people's feet.
TotalCare Cleaning will service Virginia Beach and the cities around it in Hampton Roads. This page sets out what is true of homes here, what the services will be, and where to read more, starting with the cost page, which has the full tables.
About 45 percent of Virginia Beach homes were built in the 1970s and 1980s, the largest share of any era. About 22 percent were built in 2000 or later, and about 20 percent before 1970. So the typical house here is neither fragile nor new. It has had forty or fifty years of cooking and showers, and the wear shows on cabinet fronts, baseboards and bathroom surrounds.
About 52 percent of housing units are single family detached, about 19 percent are attached townhouse-style homes, and about 22 percent are in buildings of five or more units. About two thirds of homes have three or more bedrooms. A three bedroom townhouse and a three bedroom detached house read from the same row of the price table, even though stairs and a small entry take the wear in one and a back door and a garage in the other.
The city also has older pockets. The 37th Street Cottages Historic District, one block from the oceanfront, preserves Craftsman beach cottages built between 1913 and 1928, and the Cavalier Shores Historic District was developed from 1927. Old wood and paint there call for a gentler hand than a 1980s subdivision does.
Virginia Beach tap water starts as surface water carried by the 76-mile Lake Gaston Water Supply Pipeline to Lake Prince in Suffolk, then is treated at Norfolk's Moores Bridges plant. Virginia Beach Public Utilities reports hardness of 48 to 74 parts per million, with an average of 56, and describes the water as between soft and slightly hard. That means mild spotting, and soap film more often than crust.
NOAA normals for Naval Air Station Oceana show 46.62 inches of precipitation a year, with July the wettest month at 5.76 inches and August next at 5.09. The July average high is 87.4 degrees and the low is 70.3. So the wettest weeks are also the warmest, and bathrooms and closets dry slowly. Winter is mild by comparison, with about 3.4 inches of snow a year and about 50 nights at or below freezing. The seasonal guide lays out the year.
Standing water is a local concern as well. Virginia Beach Mosquito Control treats breeding sites from May through October and says mosquitoes breed in containers such as buckets, flowerpots, bird baths and clogged rain gutters. Emptying those weekly keeps down the numbers that come through a screen door.
TotalCare Cleaning will offer the same four services across Hampton Roads, each priced by the home, not by the hour, with starting prices in the tables.
Naval Air Station Oceana is the Navy's East Coast master jet base, home to more than 300 aircraft, and Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story is also in the city. Bases mean moves. Virginia law gives a landlord 45 days after the tenancy ends, or after the tenant moves out if later, to return a security deposit with an itemized list of any deductions, and the move-out inspection must be made within 72 hours of the tenant handing back possession.
Hosts have their own rules. Virginia Beach defines a short-term rental as an entire dwelling rented for less than 30 consecutive days, and each address needs a zoning permit renewed every year. The short-term rental guide covers how cleaning fits around that, and the hiring guide explains how to check any cleaner with state and local offices.
Each neighboring city has its own water supply and its own age of housing, which is why they have their own pages:
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Virginia Beach 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.
