What's Included in a Deep Clean? A Room-by-Room Checklist

“Deep clean” is one of those phrases every cleaning company uses and almost none of them define. One company means a longer version of a regular visit. Another means the regular visit plus the baseboards. So before you compare prices, it’s worth knowing what you’re actually comparing.

Here’s exactly what our deep clean covers in a lived-in Winnipeg home — room by room, including the parts most companies charge extra for — and the one thing that isn’t in the price.

The short version

A deep clean goes after the build-up a regular clean never reaches. In our deep clean that means:

• The oven, inside — racks, door glass, baked-on grease
• The fridge, inside and behind — cleaned out, then pulled away from the wall so we can clean the floor, wall and sides behind it
• Carpets, machine-cleaned — if the home has carpet, it’s part of the job
• Marks off walls, doors and furniture — scuffs, handprints, splashes
• A steamer on the tough spots — grout, floor edges and corners, taps, the base of the toilet
• Every room in detail — baseboards, door frames, switches, handles, sills

The only add-on is inside the cabinets and drawers, because that means emptying them first, and not every home needs it.

Kitchen

The kitchen is where a deep clean earns its price, because grease doesn’t wipe off — it builds in layers.

• Oven, inside: racks out and soaked, the interior and door glass degreased, the baked-on layer on the floor of the oven worked off rather than smeared around. If it’s been a while, our guide on cleaning an oven properly explains why this is the slowest job in the house.
• Fridge, inside and behind: shelves and drawers out and washed, interior wiped down — then the fridge comes away from the wall. Behind a fridge is usually a mix of dust, crumbs and the occasional lost magnet, on a floor nobody has seen since the fridge went in. We clean the floor, the wall and the sides, then push it back. (More on what lives back there in cleaning a fridge before a move.)
• Stovetop, backsplash, range hood exterior: degreased, including the knobs and the gap along the edges of the stove.
• Counters, sink and faucet: the faucet base and the sink drain area get the steamer — that’s where scale and grime sit.
• Cabinet fronts and handles: the sticky film around the handles is grease plus hands, and it comes off.

Bathrooms

• Tile and grout: this is where the steamer does most of its work. Steam lifts the grey film out of grout lines that a brush on its own only polishes.
• Tub, shower and glass: soap scum and hard-water film removed, shower door tracks steamed out.
• Toilet, inside and out: including the base and the bolts at the floor — another steamer job, because that’s where grime hides.
• Sink, taps, mirror, cabinet front: taps de-scaled at the base, not just wiped on top.
• Floor: edges and corners steamed, not just the open middle.

Every room

• Carpets machine-cleaned: if a room has carpet, we run a carpet machine over it — shampoo and extraction, not just a vacuum. We work around heavy furniture like beds and sofas; the open, walked-on carpet is what gets cleaned.
• Marks off walls, doors and furniture: scuffs along hallways, handprints around light switches, splashes on doors, marks on furniture surfaces. Some marks are paint damage rather than dirt, and no amount of cleaning removes those — we’ll tell you if that’s what we’re looking at. Our piece on cleaning walls covers which marks come off and which need a touch-up instead.
• Baseboards, door frames, tops of doors: the dust line nobody looks at until it’s pointed out.
• Light switches, outlet covers, handles: the most-touched surfaces in the house.
• Window sills and reachable interior glass. Full inside-and-out window cleaning is a separate service — see window cleaning.
• Hard floors: vacuumed and washed, with the steamer along the edges and in the corners where a mop leaves a grey line.

What’s not included

• Inside cabinets and drawers — an add-on, priced by home size, because it means emptying them first.
• Anything above two storeys outside, or exterior windows — that’s window cleaning.
• Repairs. Stains that have become damage — a burn in a counter, a carpet stain that’s bleached the fibre, paint that’s come off with a mark — are past cleaning. We’ll point them out rather than pretend.

How much it costs

Estimates by home size, standard condition, one bathroom, before 5% GST — with the oven, fridge, carpets and steam-cleaning already included. The final bill is the time the clean actually takes:

Home size	Deep clean estimate
Studio	$225
1 bedroom	$255
2 bedrooms	$325
3 bedrooms	$405
4 bedrooms	$490
5 bedrooms	$570

Each extra full bathroom is about $65. The full cost breakdown, with worked examples, is in how much a deep clean costs in Winnipeg.

Deep clean or move-out clean?

A deep clean is for a home you’re living in, worked around your furniture. If the home is going to be empty — you’re handing over keys on a possession date, or moving in before your furniture arrives — you want a move-out clean instead. It’s cheaper, because an empty house is faster to clean. We explain the difference in move-out cleaning vs. deep cleaning.

Book a deep clean

Deep cleaning isn’t in the online calculator yet, so tell us about the home — size, bathrooms, whether there’s carpet — and we’ll reply the same day with an estimate. You get an exact arrival time, and an itemized receipt if you need one.

We deep clean homes across Winnipeg, from River Heights and St. Vital to Transcona and Charleswood. See the full service on our deep cleaning page.