Not by default. A standard house cleaning is interior work, and the published Residential checklist carries no outdoor group at all. Your screened lanai, patio or balcony is an add-on you select: at JAS, “Patio or balcony cleaning” is $75 for one small outdoor area. Ask for it at booking rather than assuming it.
It is worth taking apart, because in Florida “the patio” can mean four different things — a concrete balcony, a screened lanai, a paver terrace, the pool deck — and each one falls on a different side of the line.
That’s the South Florida version of it. If you’d rather not run this schedule yourself through a Miami summer, tell us about the place and we’ll send a price for keeping it on one.
Why the standard list stops at the slider
The published Residential checklist is organized into six groups: kitchen; bathrooms; living areas and surfaces; floors; linens and soft goods; and proof and reporting. Read it through and the interesting part is what is missing — there is no outdoor group. That is not an oversight, it is the definition of the service. Residential cleaning in Miami publishes “Starting at $189” with a “2–3 hour visit · 2-person team” and “28 items verified by photo”. Those two or three hours are scoped for the rooms inside. A lanai nobody counted does not appear inside that clock for free.
And you do not have to infer it. The pricing note at the foot of the residential service page says it outright: “Final price comes from the booking form. Add-ons (inside fridge, balcony, laundry, etc.) are priced separately.” The balcony is named right there, in the list of examples. If you want the indoor half in detail, our guide to what a standard house cleaning includes walks the list group by group.
The outdoor rows we do publish
Every one of them is an add-on you choose. These are the four a patio question usually reaches first, at the prices the booking form resolves for a standard clean at a Miami-Dade ZIP:
- Patio or balcony cleaning — $75. One small outdoor area; water access may be required. The move-out flow prices the same row from $50.
- Sliding-door track cleaning — $25 per door. Vacuum and detail each sliding-door track — the sand-and-grit channel between the room and the patio, and the one people mean when they say the slider sticks.
- Front porch cleaning — +$35. Sweep, cobweb removal, and surface wipe-down of the entry porch. A checkbox on the details step of a standard clean; the deep and move-out flows price the same porch at their own rates.
- Backyard cleaning — $0.15/sq ft, $75 minimum. Debris pickup, furniture wipe-down, cobwebs, and surface cleaning. The flow says it plainly on the field itself: not pressure washing.
Look at how they are worded. The porch and backyard rows describe the work in verbs — sweep, cobwebs, furniture wipe-down, surface cleaning — while the patio-or-balcony row publishes a single line: one small outdoor area, water access may be required. It is short on purpose, because a 40-square-foot balcony with two chairs and a screened lanai with an outdoor dining set and a ceiling fan are not the same job. That is why we ask you to describe it instead of assuming it, and why this article will not invent a task list that line does not publish.
Nor are those four the whole outdoor shelf. The same form also publishes “Exterior window cleaning” from $15 per accessible ground-floor pane, “Window-screen cleaning” from $7 per removable screen, and “Garage cleaning” at $180 for one accessible garage bay — different corners of the same rule: outdoor-facing work exists as a row you select, priced on top of the interior visit, never folded silently into it.
“Inside, we price by rooms. Outside, we price by what you tell us — because ‘the patio’ does not describe a size.”
Where our line actually ends: pressure and mesh
Two words mark the boundary. The first is pressure: the backyard field in the booking form states outright that it is not pressure washing. We arrive with a bucket, a brush, cloths and a vacuum — not with a pressure washer. The second is mesh — and here the form itself draws a finer line than most people expect. A removable window screen has its own published row: Window-screen cleaning, from $7 per screen. The fixed mesh of a screened lanai or pool cage is a different object — splined into the structure, its washing is soft-wash work on the enclosure itself, and that job is in none of our rows. The cage, the pool deck and the roof are another trade’s work, and saying so costs us less than disappointing you.
If that is the half you actually need, we have already written it without selling it: our guide to what pool cage and lanai cleaning costs in Miami reports the $200-to-$600 band where the price guides Florida enclosure-washing companies publish keep landing — their numbers, not ours. And if you want the wider view of what a cleaning service declines and why, that is what a house cleaning service will not do.
How to ask so that nobody has to guess
The booking form asks about the outdoors in two different places, and they do different things. The “Patio or balcony cleaning” add-on sits in the outdoor and specialty group, and selecting it puts its $75 onto the on-screen estimate right away. The “Patios / balconies” counter in the room list does something else: it flags the quote for a person to review, precisely because a counted patio can be anything from a two-chair balcony to a screened terrace the size of the living room.
So, practically: select the add-on, then use the special-instructions field to describe what is out there — the rough size, whether it is screened, how much furniture, whether there is a hose bib, and whether the building wants an elevator reservation or a front-desk check-in. Three lines typed there are worth more than a phone call afterward. The buying order is the one our Terms publish: “We price before you commit: you request a quote, see it, and then request a time”. On eligible completed visits, your CleanCheck report follows with checklist status and photos.
The Miami version of the question
A few blocks from the ocean — Miami Beach, Sunny Isles, Key Biscayne — a balcony does not collect dust so much as salt film, the gray haze that comes back week after week on glass railings, aluminum furniture and the slider frame. That is a rhythm job: adding it to every visit costs fewer hours than rescuing it twice a year. Inland, across south Miami-Dade, the patio is usually a screened lanai, and the split there is different: the room inside and the tracks are ours, the mesh and the structure are not. And if that lanai has been shut for months, what settled inside is deep clean work — a 4–6 hour visit with a 2-person team, 42 items verified by photo, starting at $349.
One honest limit to close on, because this search sometimes hides a worse problem than dust: if what is growing in the closed room behind the slider is active mold, a cleaning is not remediation and we will not describe it as one. Our Terms reserve the right to refuse or stop service where conditions — mold, infestation, biohazard — are unsafe for the team, and the right first call is a remediation professional.
FAQ
Will the crew at least wipe the glass door and the sill on the patio side?
Interior glass is its own published row: Interior windows & frames, $12 per reachable interior pane, and the row itself says sliding tracks are separate. So the inside face of a slider is priced per pane, the track is the $25 add-on, and the outside face is not on the interior row at all. None of the three is folded into a standard visit.
My balcony is on the 14th floor and there is no hose. Can you still do it?
That is exactly what the published line “water access may be required” is warning you about. Tell us in the booking notes whether there is a hose bib on the balcony or only the kitchen sink — a bucket-and-cloth balcony is a different job from a rinseable one, and we would rather scope it before the visit than discover it at the door.
The screens are green. Is that part of the patio add-on?
No — but it matters which screens you mean. A removable window screen has its own published row: Window-screen cleaning, from $7 per removable screen. Green screens in Florida usually mean the fixed mesh of a screened lanai or pool cage, though, and washing that enclosure mesh is in none of our published rows — not the patio or balcony add-on, not the sliding-door tracks, and not the window rows, whose scope stops at removable screens and reachable panes. A full cage wash lands between $200 and $600 in the price guides Florida enclosure-washing companies publish. That is their trade, not ours.