Move-In / Move-Out Cleaning in Los Angeles

In an older Los Angeles house the kitchen and bathroom grout tells us where the home really is, and that decides whether you start with a Details visit or a full Deep Clean. The most common thing we walk into is a home that gets cleaned often but only on top. Counters and floors look fine while window tracks, baseboards, floor edges, and the tops of the cabinets have not been touched in years. We say which one at the walkthrough instead of booking the cheaper visit and leaving you unhappy with the result.

Parking and building access set the arrival time in Los Angeles more than the drive does. Some homes have a driveway. Others have permit only street parking, a gate code, or an elevator that has to be booked ahead, and it is different in every neighborhood. Tell us about permit zones, gate codes, elevators, and loading windows up front and we plan the visit around them. We run Los Angeles on routes rather than scattered trips across town, which is what makes a held weekly or every other week day possible here.

Original tile and wood in the pre war bungalows and Spanish revival homes across Los Angeles get cleaned with products matched to the surface, and we ask at the walkthrough which finishes need specific handling before anything is touched. Decades old grout, unsealed wood floors, and painted tile do not take the same product as a newer condo kitchen, and the mid century hillside houses with big glass walls need their own approach. Point out what you worry about and it goes on the standing list with the product noted. Clients bring up careful handling of the home in their reviews, and that starts at the walkthrough.

A move-out cleaning is priced flat at the free walkthrough, and the price is firm before the day. An empty unit is quicker to walk and easier to price than an occupied home, because we can see the floors, the inside of every cabinet, and behind where the appliances sat. The scope is Deep Clean work, inside the oven, inside the fridge, inside the cabinets and drawers, and the full bathrooms, so the Deep Clean row for your floor plan on our pricing page is the closest reference. Send us your landlord's checklist and we price to that list.

The cleaning is done to your landlord's move-out checklist when you send it to us, and we confirm what is included at the walkthrough so nobody argues on handover day. Property managers check inside the oven, inside the cabinets, and the state of the bathrooms, and those are exactly the areas a rushed clean skips, so they get the time. If your manager flags something after the fact, tell us and we come back and address it. The deposit rides on this clean, so the work has to be complete rather than fast.

The unit needs to be empty or close to it, and the water and the power need to be on, because the team cannot clean without either one. With the furniture gone we can reach the floors, the closets, the baseboards, and behind the appliances, which is the whole point of a move-out clean. Book it after the movers and before the final walkthrough with your landlord or agent. For a move-in, book it before the furniture arrives, because that is the only time everything is reachable.