Pittsburgh Spring Cleaning Checklist
Pittsburgh winters are no joke: road salt tracked in on every pair of boots, windows shut for months, the furnace running and pushing dust through every vent. By the time March rolls around, your home has quietly collected a winter’s worth of grime in places you probably haven’t looked since October.
Spring cleaning here isn’t just a feel-good ritual. Here’s a room-by-room checklist to get your home back to fresh, including the seasonal jobs most people forget.
Kitchen
The kitchen takes the biggest beating all winter. Between holiday cooking, comfort food and the oven running overtime, grease and grime build up fast, especially in spots you don’t see every day.
- Clean inside the oven and the oven racks
- Pull out the refrigerator and clean the coils
- Degrease the range hood filter
- Wipe all cabinet faces and handles
- Clean behind and under appliances
- Wipe down walls near the stove
Bathrooms
With the windows closed all winter, bathrooms stay humid, which means mildew and grime build up in grout lines, exhaust fans and all the corners that don’t get scrubbed regularly.
- Scrub grout on floors and shower walls
- Clean the exhaust fan and vent cover
- Scrub behind and around the toilet base
- Clean under the sink cabinet
- Wipe shower door tracks and runners
Bedrooms
After months of closed windows and forced-air heat, dust settles on fan blades, collects under the bed, and your mattress could use a turn.
- Flip or rotate the mattress
- Wash pillows and duvet covers
- Wipe ceiling fan blades
- Clean under the bed thoroughly
- Wash interior windows and sills
Living areas
Baseboards, door frames and light fixtures are dust magnets that rarely get touched during regular cleaning. Spring is the time to get them all.
- Dust all baseboards and door frames
- Clean light fixtures and lampshades
- Wipe window sills and tracks
- Vacuum under and behind furniture
- Clean upholstered furniture and cushions
Seasonal jobs most people forget
These are the ones that come with living somewhere with real winters. Other checklists often skip them.
- Wipe salt residue off entryway floors and mats
- Clean porch or deck furniture before first use
- Check window screens for winter damage
- Clean the garage entry door and floor
The bottom line
A proper spring clean can easily take a full day if you tackle it yourself, and that’s assuming you have the supplies, the energy and a free Saturday.
You can book a deep clean with us instead. We bring all the supplies and equipment, and a deep clean typically takes 3 to 5 hours for most homes. Extras like inside the oven, inside the fridge, inside cabinets and interior windows can be added at booking. After that, a recurring clean every two weeks or every month keeps everything maintained, so you never have to do a marathon cleaning session again.
Every cleaner is background-checked and interviewed in person, our cleaners and our company are both insured, and if something isn’t right, tell us within 24 hours and we’ll come back to fix it at no charge. See what a clean costs.
Rather skip the checklist? Book online or call 412-981-1122, Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm. We serve Wexford, Pittsburgh and 45 more communities across Allegheny, Butler and Beaver counties.