Do cleaners clean inside the refrigerator and oven?

No — a standard house clean does not include the inside of the refrigerator or the inside of the oven. At JAS they are add-ons you select when you book: an empty refrigerator is $49, a refrigerator with food is $69, and the inside of the oven is $49 — the booking menu’s own rows; the add-on catalog lives on our services page. None of that is unusual — almost no cleaning company includes them. What’s unusual is publishing the prices.

Why they’re add-ons — here and almost everywhere

A residential clean is a maintenance routine priced for pace — kitchen and baths, floors, dust, surfaces — starting at $189 for a 2–3 hour visit with a 2-person team. An oven is a different class of work: it’s degreasing, and degreaser needs dwell time on baked-on carbon before anyone can wipe it away. A refrigerator is shelf-by-shelf work — everything out, glass out, drawers, door gaskets. Neither fits inside a visit priced for surfaces.

That’s why the whole industry treats them as separate line items, and so do we. The difference is that our line items carry published prices instead of “ask your cleaner.” Full honesty requires the other half too: even the microwave follows the same rule — on a standard clean it’s a $25 add-on, and it’s the deep clean and the move-out clean that include it at no extra charge.

The published prices

Here are the numbers exactly as they appear on the services page:

• Empty refrigerator — $49. Shelves, drawers, interior walls, and gaskets, with the appliance already cleared.
• Refrigerator with food — $69. The same job, worked shelf by shelf around your groceries. The $20 difference is handling time — empty it the night before and you pay the $49 rate instead.
• Inside oven — $49. Degreasing with proper dwell time, racks included.
• Oven + refrigerator bundle on move-in/out cleans — $89. On a move-out clean, the two together book at $89 instead of the $49 + $49 they’d cost separately.

The same published list carries more add-ons — interior windows, laundry, inside cabinets. We’ve published the full breakdown, with what each one covers, in how much add-ons cost: oven, fridge, windows, and laundry.

Doesn’t a deep clean or a move-out clean include them?

No — and we say so on each page rather than burying it in fine print. The deep clean — starting at $349, 42 items verified by photo — covers everything a residential clean does plus the build-up that grows between cleans, and its own published checklist says it plainly: appliance interiors and windows, priced separately. The move-out clean — starting at $409 — is an empty-property reset: empty cabinet, drawer, and closet interiors are included, but the refrigerator, oven, and window services are quoted separately, with the $89 bundle waiting for you. And since a move-out home is empty by definition, the fridge qualifies for the empty rate — the $69 with-food rate exists for lived-in homes.

The logic is simple: someone who almost never turns their oven on shouldn’t subsidize it in the base price of every visit. A published-price add-on lets each home pay for exactly the work its kitchen needs — and nothing else.

If you’d rather do it yourself

Neither job requires a professional — they require time. We’ve published our full workshop methods: how to clean an oven with baking soda, overnight, and how to clean your refrigerator without losing a Saturday. If you want the checklist result with none of the elbow grease, that’s what the add-ons are for.

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