Wilmington area · North Carolina · Professional Home Cleaning
House cleaning for the lower Cape Fear: rain that peaks in August and September, soft city water, old houses in Carolina Heights, beach sand on the islands and new builds across the river.
Answered 24/7, day or night
Recurring weekly or biweekly cleaning to the same TotalCare Cleaning standard every visit, with Hotel Finish detail.
From $138 / 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 $279
Inspection-ready move-out cleaning for tenants, landlords, sellers, and buyers. Interior appliances, all cabinets, baseboards, inspection-ready standard.
From $350
Service Areas
Every TotalCare Cleaning professional is background-checked and screened before their first job.
Wilmington area · North Carolina
A resort town since 1887, with its own well water, many seasonal homes and a large share of condos. TotalCare Cleaning will service Carolina Beach, including Lake Park and Cape Fear Boulevard.
New subdivisions and mobile homes along U.S. 17, soft county water and trash that goes to a convenience center. TotalCare Cleaning will service Hampstead, including Olde Point and Cypress Landing.
Most Leland homes were built this century, and most of those are owner occupied family houses. TotalCare Cleaning will service Leland, including Brunswick Forest, Magnolia Greens and Compass Pointe.
Nearly half of Wrightsville Beach's housing is seasonal, with old cottages on Lumina Avenue and sand in every track. TotalCare Cleaning will service homes from Harbor Island to the South End.
Other places in the Wilmington area: Lake Park, Cape Fear Boulevard, Harbor Island, North End, South End, Brunswick Forest, Magnolia Greens, Compass Pointe, Belvedere Plantation, Olde Point, Cypress Landing, Landfall, Forest Hills, Forest Park.
Local Guides
A One-Time Deep Clean for Wilmington homes goes after what the coast leaves behind: sand in the sliding door tracks, sticky dust on fan blades and dull trim that routine visits do not reach.
North Carolina's Attorney General suggests checking out companies before you commit, and the same goes for anyone who gets a key or code to your Wilmington home. Here is how to do it.
The Moving Clean for Wilmington rentals and sales, explained alongside North Carolina's 30 day deposit rule, the city's three truck bulky pickup and the county's Hazwagon.
Choosing weekly, bi-weekly or monthly visits on the Cape Fear coast comes down to late summer rain, how much sand comes home and who actually lives in the house.
A year of home care built from Wilmington's own numbers: a dry April for the big jobs, a hot and wet late summer to manage, storm weeks to plan for and an easy winter.
About 47 percent of Wrightsville Beach's housing and about 37 percent of Carolina Beach's is seasonal or occasional. Here is how state rules and the coast affect keeping a rental clean.
Florence cut off New Hanover County for days and flooded homes as far inland as Northchase. Here is how to get a Wilmington house ready, and what to clean and not clean afterward.
Wilmington takes in about 60 inches of precipitation in a normal year, more of it in late summer than at any other time. Add sand from the beaches, a large student population and a housing stock that ranges from early streetcar suburbs to recent subdivisions, and you have a place where one cleaning routine rarely fits two homes.
TotalCare Cleaning will service Wilmington and the beach towns and suburbs around it. This page explains how local homes and weather shape a cleaning plan, what each service covers and which guide to read next.
Census estimates put the median Wilmington home at 1989, and the spread around that number is wide. About 38 percent of homes were built before 1980, including about 9 percent from 1939 or earlier, and about 33 percent date from 2000 or later. Carolina Heights and Winoca Terrace went up as a streetcar suburb at the turn of the twentieth century, and National Register districts include Market Street Mansion, Carolina Place, Sunset Park, Westbrook-Ardmore and Brookwood.
Those older homes tend to have painted trim, plaster and old floors, and they want damp cloths and mild products. Newer homes bring more bathrooms and glass instead. The cost page shows how size sets the price either way.
About half of Wilmington's housing units are single family detached, about 15 percent are in buildings with 20 or more units and about 52 percent of occupied homes are rented. UNC Wilmington has nearly 19,000 students on its 650 acre campus, so a good share of households here are on a lease rather than a mortgage, and move-outs are common.
The airport's normals show 60.15 inches of precipitation a year and about 79 days with at least a tenth of an inch. August and September lead at 8.16 and 8.69 inches, while April is driest at 3.07. Highs reach 90 degrees or more on about 45 days. Bathrooms dry slowly, entries stay muddy and closets on outside walls need watching.
Winter is easy by comparison, with about 37 freezing nights, a January average of 46.8 degrees and under an inch of snow in a normal year. NC State Extension notes that camel crickets look for cool, moist spots such as crawlspaces, garages, bathrooms and laundry rooms, and they leave dark smears.
Storms shape planning as well. Hurricane Florence flooded parts of downtown with more than two feet of water in 2018 and cut power to over 90 percent of the county. The storm season guide and the seasonal calendar walk through how to prepare.
A One-Time Deep Clean starts from $279.00 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 $138.00. Its first visit is an Initial Deep Clean. The recurring guide compares those schedules against local seasons.
A One-Time Moving Clean starts from $350.00 and is built for empty homes. It is the only service that includes the inside of the oven, refrigerator and cabinets. The move-out guide covers North Carolina's 30 day deposit rule, and owners of beach houses can start with the vacation rental guide.
Within the Wilmington water system's reach are places such as Ogden, Porters Neck, Monkey Junction, Murrayville and Kings Grant. Forest Hills and Forest Park are among the in-town neighborhoods, and Landfall is a gated community of about 2,200 acres on the Intracoastal Waterway. All share one price table.
Wrightsville Beach, including Harbor Island, has cottages on Lumina Avenue and many seasonal homes. Carolina Beach, with its Lake Park and its Cape Fear Boulevard, runs its own wells. Leland, across the river in Brunswick County, is mostly this century's housing, with Brunswick Forest and Magnolia Greens among its communities. Hampstead, up U.S. 17 in Pender County, has grown fast too and includes Olde Point and Belvedere Plantation.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Wilmington 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.
