Your Guide to Move-In/Move-Out Cleaning in Palm Beach, FL

Complete turnover cleaning for either end of a move. Cabinets and appliances cleaned inside and out, floors and baseboards detailed, bathrooms sanitized. Scheduled around your closing or lease date.

If you have never booked one, here is the shape of it. Move-in/move-out cleaning is our deep cleaning checklist plus the two jobs an occupied home never allows: the inside of the refrigerator and the inside of every cabinet and drawer. It runs on empty houses only, with the electricity and water still connected. Sellers book it before listing photographs or before handing over keys. Buyers book it for the gap between closing and the moving truck. Landlords and property managers book it between tenancies. In Palm Beach it is often booked twice on the same move, once at the home being left behind and once at the home being taken on.

What's Included

• Every cabinet, drawer and closet floor cleaned on the inside, not just the fronts wiped
• Refrigerator and oven interiors cleaned, appliance exteriors, stove top and drip pans degreased
• Baseboards hand-washed and scrubbed along every wall, doors, casings and jambs wiped down
• Window sills and ledges cleaned, interior windows done streak-free, blinds and shutters hand-washed
• Bathrooms disinfected from tile walls to toilets, chrome shined, mirrors and vanities cleaned
• All accessible floors vacuumed and mopped, including under where the furniture used to sit
• Ceiling fans, high light fixtures, air vents, switches and outlets dusted and wiped down
• Banisters and handrails cleaned and disinfected, fireplace exterior and mantel dusted, walls spot-treated

The Difference Between a Deep Clean and a Turnover Clean

A deep clean is done around your life. Furniture stays where it is, the pantry is full, and the crew works to the edge of what is reachable. A turnover clean starts with an empty floor plan, so those boundaries move. Shelves come out bare and get washed. The refrigerator is empty, so the drawers and door seals get done properly. Closet floors, the wall behind a headboard and the tile under a sideboard get treated as ordinary floor and wall.

On the older houses here that also changes the kit. Terrazzo and marble get a neutral cleaner and a well-wrung mop rather than anything acidic, and hardwood is left barely damp. Deep plaster ledges are washed by hand. A long banister is wiped along its whole run, not just the ends. A fixture in a two-storey entry hall needs two people and a proper ladder, which is the piece a lone cleaner quietly leaves out of the estimate.

Why This Matters in Palm Beach

Older Palm Beach homes are not simple to turn over. The Mediterranean-revival houses here come with terrazzo and marble floors, deep window ledges, long banisters and rooms with ceilings high enough that dusting a fixture becomes a two-person job. Age adds its own layers. Cabinet interiors in a kitchen nobody has renovated in decades hold years of shelf paper dust. The door casings in these houses are wide and moulded, so they catch far more than a plain modern casing does. Terrazzo hazes when it has been mopped with the wrong product for years, and it shows worst in an empty room with light coming across the floor. When one of these homes sits vacant between owners, all of it appears at once, and it appears to precisely the people whose opinion counts: the buyer walking through with an agent, or the incoming tenant. An empty house is the single chance to reach any of it, so we schedule around your closing or lease date and work the full floor plan while it is clear.

Timing the Clean Around a Closing or Lease Date

Give us the date as soon as you have one, even if it might still move. Closings slide, and shifting a slot we hold is easier than finding a new one that week. The ideal booking is the day after the house is emptied and at least a day before the walkthrough, the photographs or the handover. That leaves room to look at something twice without anybody waiting in the doorway.

Keep the utilities running through the clean. This catches sellers out more than anyone, because the instinct is to close the accounts the day the truck leaves. Decide early, too, whether you are cleaning one end of the move or both. If you are buying and selling in the same week those are separate bookings with separate quotes, and the calendar fills fastest in the weeks either side of the season.

Frequently Asked Questions

Think of a turnover clean as one job with two possible dates, the day the house empties or the day before it fills. Either way the property must be vacant with the utilities running. Send the address, the square footage and your closing or lease date, and we will come back with a flat price and a slot. Ask anything before you commit.

Booking a full clean instead of a single task? Move-In/Move-Out Cleaning in Palm Beach covers this and everything else in one visit.