Yes — for exactly half of the job. A cleaning crew can take on everything the storm left on dry surfaces: blown-in grit and leaf dust, the shut-in film of a sealed house without power, the fine dust that repairs leave behind. What it can’t honestly touch is water — extraction, structural drying, and mold remediation belong to a licensed restoration trade.
In Miami that line decides your week. The season runs June through November, and the days after a named storm are exactly the days you can least afford to hire the wrong crew first. This post is the map: what to ask of a cleaning company, what to ask of a remediation contractor, and in which order — with JAS’s published prices where they apply.
What a cleaning crew can honestly do
A storm dirties a house three ways, and all three are cleaning work. First, wind: it drives fine grit, leaf dust, and soil through window tracks, door seals, and lanai screens, and that gray film turns up settled in rooms that don’t even face the yard. Second, the shut-in effect: a house sealed for days without air conditioning in September heat builds the sticky film and closed-house smell that a quick mop-through doesn’t touch. Third, traffic: between tarps, yard debris, and boots going in and out, the entry floor ends up carrying half the garden.
That soil profile — settled, house-wide, on top of things AND behind them — is exactly what JAS’s deep clean is scoped for: a 4–6 hour visit with a 2-person team, 42 items verified by photo, starting at $349. Appliance interiors and windows are priced separately, per that same page — and after a storm, the glass is usually the most visible piece of unfinished business.
If what you want is the sequence — what gets cleaned first when the power comes back, and why the obvious first step is the wrong one — we’ve already written it: how to clean up your house after a hurricane is the full do-it-yourself order of operations. This post answers the other question: which parts you can hand off, and to whom.
The water line: where cleaning stops
The rule is short: if it got wet and stayed wet, it isn’t cleaning. Soaked carpet, drywall that drank water, swollen baseboards, a roof that leaked inside a wall — that’s water-damage restoration. That trade works with moisture meters, structural drying equipment, containment, and state-licensed mold protocols; none of those tools ride in a cleaning van, and a cleaning company that tells you otherwise is selling something it can’t deliver.
We put that line in writing. Our published terms say, verbatim: “We reserve the right to refuse or stop service where conditions are unsafe for our team — such as mold, infestation, biohazards, or abusive behavior. If we stop early for safety, a partial refund applies for the unworked portion.” That isn’t fine print — it’s the reason you can believe us when we say a job IS ours.
With mold, the decision has its own post — when to call a professional instead of cleaning it — and we won’t restate it here. For after a storm, this much is enough: a mildew shadow on a dry surface is a cleaning problem; anything growing, spreading, or coming out of a material that sat wet is a remediation case, and that call goes first. Order matters: a deep clean the day after remediation finishes is money well spent; a deep clean instead of remediation is money wasted.
And the best post-storm mold strategy starts before the storm: the humidity discipline we lay out in how to prevent mold and mildew in a Florida home is exactly what a storm week puts to the test.
Questions about your place specifically? No need to finish the article — call, text, WhatsApp, or email us and we’ll take it from here.
After the repairs: the second cleanup
There’s a third moment almost nobody budgets for. When the roofers patch, when drywall gets replaced, when someone sands and paints, the house ends up coated in construction dust that is neither storm soil nor everyday grime: fine sanding dust that works into vents, tracks, hinges, and cabinets. A different service exists for that — the post-construction clean, starting at $650 for the first 1,000 sq ft. It books through our deep-clean flow but is priced as post-construction, and the exact scope and price are confirmed before scheduling.
Said as one sequence: remediation if anything stayed wet, repairs after that, a post-construction clean if there was construction, and a deep clean if there was only a storm. Each trade takes its stretch — and each stretch has its page and its price in the open.
FAQ
The carpet got soaked. Can you clean it?
No — soaked carpet, and the drywall and baseboards behind it, are a water-damage job, not a cleaning job. Call a restoration company first. Once the space has been dried out and cleared, a deep clean is the right finishing step, and that part we do take.
How soon after a storm can a crew actually come?
You request a time like any other visit, with one honest caveat from our published terms: “We may need to reschedule for weather, safety, or staffing reasons — we will tell you as soon as we know, and you never pay a fee for a reschedule we initiate.” The week after a named storm is exactly what that clause exists for.
There’s a musty smell but nothing visible. Cleaning or remediation?
Smell alone, with dry surfaces and nothing visibly growing, usually points to the shut-in film a sealed house builds while the power is out — a cleaning problem. Anything that stayed wet, or growth you can see spreading, points the other way. If you are not sure, describe what you see through our quote page and we will say plainly which call to make — including when the answer is “not us.”