Pittsburgh Spring Deep Clean Checklist
By spring, every house around Pittsburgh has had a long winter. Boots tracked salt across the entry for months. Windows stayed shut through the snow. The furnace ran for so long that a fine layer of dust settled on every flat surface, every ceiling fan blade, every window sill. Spring is when all of it catches up with you at once.
A spring deep cleaning is the reset that makes the rest of the year manageable. Done well, it reaches the surfaces and corners a regular weekly or every-two-weeks visit doesn’t. Done poorly, it eats an entire weekend and still leaves the bathroom grout looking the way it did in January.
Here’s a room-by-room checklist, built around what matters this time of year.
Kitchen: the room that sets the tone
The kitchen takes the most daily wear and shows it first. A proper spring deep clean here means going past the surfaces you wipe every week.
Start with the appliances. The oven interior, the microwave and the refrigerator gaskets all need attention they don’t get during a recurring visit. Pull the refrigerator out and clean behind it. Coil dust is the kind of thing you only notice when something starts running hot.
Move on to the cabinets. The fronts get a wipe regularly, but the tops of cabinets, the insides of doors and the corners where grease and dust have settled together need a real clean. The same goes for the range hood filter, which a lot of people forget about entirely.
Finish with the floor. Move the trash can, the stools and the floor mat. Mop the spots that have been hidden since fall.
A spring kitchen checklist:
- Oven interior, racks and door glass
- Microwave inside and out
- Refrigerator coils, gaskets and the floor underneath
- Tops of cabinets and the refrigerator
- Range hood and filter
- Pantry shelves
- Backsplash and grout
- Inside small appliances like the toaster and coffee maker
Bathrooms: where winter buildup hides
Closed windows mean months of moisture, condensation and product residue with nowhere to go. By spring, the grout looks darker, the showerhead is crusted with scale, and the exhaust fan grille has a layer of dust thick enough to slow it down.
A spring bathroom reset covers what a weekly cleaning skips:
- Grout scrubbing in the shower, tub surround and around the toilet
- Showerhead descaling
- Exhaust fan cover and grille
- Inside the medicine cabinet and vanity drawers
- Behind and under the toilet
- Baseboards and door frames
- Caulking check (replace any that has pulled away or grown mildew)
If you do nothing else in the bathroom, do the grout and the exhaust fan. Those two have the biggest visible impact for the time.
Living areas and bedrooms: where the dust settles
The rooms where you spend the most time are where heating-season dust settles heaviest. Anything that hangs in the air all winter eventually lands on something flat.
Work top to bottom. Start with ceiling fans, light fixtures and the tops of door frames and built-ins. Move down to shelves, art and TV screens. Then handle baseboards, vents and floors last. Working in this order keeps dust from settling on what you’ve already cleaned.
A spring living-area checklist:
- Ceiling fans, light fixtures and chandeliers
- Tops of bookshelves, picture frames and door frames
- Window blinds, glass, sills and tracks
- Heating and cooling vents and returns
- Behind and under furniture
- Baseboards and corners
- Couch cushions removed and underneath vacuumed
- Rugs rolled back and floors cleaned underneath
- Bedding washed, mattress vacuumed, under the bed cleaned
Open the windows while you work if the weather allows. Fresh air helps after a long winter shut in.
What to hand off to a professional team
The point of a checklist like this isn’t to do every line yourself. It’s to know what needs to happen, so you can decide what’s worth your weekend and what isn’t.
The deep cleaning jobs that take the most time and make the biggest visible difference are the ones a professional team is set up for: oven interiors, grout, baseboards and the under-and-behind work in every room. A regular weekly or every-two-weeks clean doesn’t include them, and they benefit from a team that does them all the time.
If you’re already a recurring client, you can add extras to a visit at booking: inside the oven ($20), inside the fridge ($20 empty, $50 full), inside cabinets ($20), interior windows ($60), walls ($60) and blinds ($10 per set). We bring all the supplies and equipment.
If you’re not on a recurring schedule yet, a one-time deep clean is a good entry point: one deep clean to catch up, then a steady recurring clean to keep the home in that state. If your home hasn’t been professionally cleaned in the last month, the first visit includes a First Time Clean extra, priced by bedrooms from $100 for 1 to 2 bedrooms to $250 for 6. See full pricing.
Ready to book your spring deep clean?
Spring is a busy time, so the earlier you book, the easier it is to get the date that fits your week.
You can book a deep clean online in about a minute, or call 412-981-1122, Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and Saturday 9am to 3pm, if you’d rather talk through what your home needs first. Every cleaner is background-checked and interviewed in person, and both our cleaners and our company are insured. If something isn’t right, tell us within 24 hours and we’ll come back to fix it at no charge.
The winter is finally over. Let’s get your home caught up so you can enjoy the rest of the season. We serve Wexford, Pittsburgh and 45 more communities across Allegheny, Butler and Beaver counties.