Getting a South Florida home ready for holiday guests comes down to three moves: a deep cleaning one or two weeks before they arrive, a regular cleaning visit in the last days before the date, and an early look at the pool, because a pool that has turned green takes days to bring back. Between the two visits, your part is a short list of things to put away so the crew can reach every surface.
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When should you book cleaning before holiday guests arrive?
Book the deep cleaning one or two weeks before the first guest arrives, and the regular visit as close to the arrival date as your schedule allows. The order matters because the two visits do different jobs. Our deep cleaning is the one built for buildup: its checklist recommends it for first-time cleanings, homes with buildup and spaces that have not been professionally cleaned recently. The standard checklist, in turn, says in writing that it is meant for homes already in livable condition.
Doing the heavy work a week or two ahead also keeps it out of the busiest days of your own calendar. The visit near the date, on our recurring cleaning service, then only has to undo what the household did since. If you already have recurring service, that visit is simply your regular one, booked to land just before the guests.
What does each visit cover?
Each visit follows a written, room-by-room checklist, and the deep cleaning starts at a higher price because it covers more ground.
- Deep cleaning, starting at $250 for one bedroom, $290 for two and $325 for three: more than 70 touch points. On top of everything in a standard visit, the crew scrubs shower tile and grout, hand-washes the baseboards, dusts the tops of the kitchen cabinets, cleans behind and under furniture that can be moved, and dusts and vacuums the air vents.
- Regular visit, starting at $150 for one bedroom, $175 for two and $195 for three: 57 touch points, closed by a final walkthrough. Countertops are sanitized, the microwave is cleaned inside and out, mirrors are left streak-free, toilets are scrubbed and sanitized, beds are made, cushions get fluffed and floors are vacuumed and mopped.
Homes with 4 or more bedrooms are quoted individually, and every visit is priced starting at $150, the company minimum.
For the guest room, the add-on list of the recurring service includes changing the sheets and washing them. Add-ons have to be arranged before the visit, so the time can be set aside and the cost confirmed with you first. The full lists are on the deep cleaning and recurring cleaning pages.
What should you do before the cleaning team arrives?
Before the crew walks in, pick up personal items from the floors and surfaces, empty the sink, put away anything fragile or valuable, and make sure every area on the list can be reached. That is the entire list, and the crew takes care of the rest.
In the holiday season, that includes decorations already set out on tables and shelves, which count as fragile items. If you would rather have the crew do the picking up as well, say so before the visit so the estimate accounts for the extra time.
Don't forget the pool
When a house fills up with guests, the pool usually becomes part of the plan, and it is the one place our checklists do not reach. They cover the kitchen, the bathrooms, the bedrooms and the living areas, and the pool is not on them.
The pool is a job for our sister company, Talent Pool Cleaning, run by the same family since 2006 in Broward County and Boca Raton. Its technicians come once a week to keep the water clear and its chemistry in check, fix pumps, filters and the rest of the equipment, bring back pools that have turned green, and start up pools that are new, seasonal or just renovated. Talent Pool Cleaning puts a weekly visit at $25 to $50 in most cases, a reference point rather than a closed quote, because every pool is measured on its own.
Call early if the water has already gone green. By Talent Pool Cleaning's own account, most green pools need a few days to clear, and that margin is exactly what disappears when the call waits for the week of the gathering.
Ask for your estimate
Request a free estimate with the number of bedrooms, your city and the dates your guests arrive, and a written number comes back with no commitment attached. Request it here. We clean homes in Fort Lauderdale and across the rest of Broward County, plus Boca Raton.