A professional spring cleaning checklist is the annual layer on top of routine cleaning: baseboards, blinds, ceiling fans, A/C vents, window tracks, inside the oven and refrigerator, the floor under furniture that never moves, mattresses rotated, and fabrics laundered. Room by room, here is the working version — and in Miami the deadline is the wet season, not the equinox.
The whole list is below, with no email gate and no PDF. One thing is worth settling first, because it reorders everything after it: down here, spring isn’t the reason. It’s the deadline.
That’s the whole of it. If you’d rather have someone else keep it up, tell us about your place and we’ll send a price for it — nothing is booked until you say so.
In Miami it isn’t spring cleaning. It’s pre-summer cleaning
The tradition comes from cold climates: the house spends winter sealed, and the first mild week is for throwing everything open and clearing out what settled inside. Miami has no such winter. What Miami has is a humidity calendar — the wet months run roughly June through November — and that inverts the logic completely. Here you aren’t cleaning up what winter left. You’re setting the house up for what’s coming.
That moves the date. The northern tradition points at March or early April; here the useful window sits later — late April into May — because it’s the last stretch where you can open the house, run laundry, and leave closets airing without fighting the very humidity you’re trying to get ahead of. It also changes what belongs on the list. Dust inside a vent cover, standing water in a window track, and a closet backed onto an exterior wall matter in a way a northern list never had to weigh. That’s why the one below has a sixth block.
If what you were after is the definition — whether “spring cleaning” and “deep cleaning” are the same purchase — that has its own article: spring cleaning vs. deep cleaning. This is the other side of it: the working list.
The checklist, room by room
None of this replaces routine cleaning — kitchen, bathrooms, dusting, vacuuming, mopping. It’s what gets added once a year on top. Each block says whose job it is.
1 · Every room: the once-a-year pass
Almost every line here is inside the published deep-clean scope.
- Baseboards, door frames, and the tops of the doors
- Ceiling fan blades and reachable light fixtures
- Blinds, slat by slat, and the window sills under them
- A/C supply and return vent covers
- Light switches, outlet plates, and door handles
- Cobwebs in ceiling corners and above the cabinets
- Floors under and behind the furniture that never moves
2 · Kitchen
Cabinet faces are deep-clean work; appliance interiors are separately priced add-ons.
- Cabinet faces, handles, and the dusty tops nobody looks at
- Inside the refrigerator: shelves, drawers, and the door gasket
- Inside the oven, and the range-hood filter run through the dishwasher
- Behind and underneath the range and the refrigerator
- The pantry, shelf by shelf, with the expired things out
3 · Bathrooms
Buildup is deep-clean work; the expiry pass is yours.
- Grout lines, and the caulk where the tub meets the tile
- Shower glass, and the track the door slides in
- The exhaust-fan cover, taken down and washed
- Under the sink: everything out, shelf wiped, leaks looked for
- The medicine cabinet, with the expiry dates actually read
4 · Beds and fabrics
None of this is on a cleaning company’s standard list. It is laundry and rotation, and it stays yours.
- Strip every bed down to the bare mattress
- Vacuum the mattress, then rotate it end to end
- Wash mattress pads, pillow protectors, comforters, duvet covers
- Curtains and washable drapes through a gentle cycle
- Closet floor cleared, top shelf emptied and wiped
5 · Living areas, glass, and tracks
Interior panes and tracks are named add-ons; the cushions are a Saturday.
- Cushions off, the sofa frame and its crevices vacuumed
- Throws, slipcovers, and washable pillow covers laundered
- Interior window panes, then the frames around them
- Window tracks and sliding-door tracks: vacuumed first, then wiped
- Tops of shelves, picture frames, and the doors themselves
- Rugs lifted, and the floor under them cleaned
6 · The damp list — the block a northern checklist never needed
Look, dry, and leave dry. This is the block that makes the timing matter.
- Under every sink, dried out and left dry
- Behind and underneath the washer and dryer
- Closets against exterior walls, emptied and left open to air
- The A/C return filter replaced, not just inspected
- Window and slider tracks cleared of standing water and grit
- Whatever lives on the balcony, in the garage, or under a bed
Which half you can hand over
Read the six blocks again with one question in mind: is this line a decision, or is it buildup? Decisions can’t be hired out — nobody else settles what gets donated, tossed, or kept. Buildup can, and it’s close to half the list.
The JAS deep clean publishes its scope in these words: baseboards, cabinet faces, reachable light fixtures, blinds, sills, switches, door frames, cobweb removal, and reachable areas under furniture — on top of the full kitchen and bathroom work. That is block one almost line for line, the faces in block two, the buildup in block three, and the surface lines in block five. We’ve walked it item by item in what’s included in a deep house cleaning.
Now what it doesn’t cover, in that same page’s own words: appliance interiors, cabinet interiors, and window cleaning remain separately priced unless your confirmed scope explicitly includes them. On the services hub those extras are published with prices: empty refrigerator $49 · refrigerator with food $69 · inside oven $49. Windows are their own group of add-ons — “Interior windows & frames” per reachable pane and “Window-track cleaning” per reachable track — selected inside the booking flow rather than folded into the base price.
And blocks four and six stay yours almost entirely. Laundry is a per-load add-on — wash, dry & fold from $30 per load, with working machines on site — not part of the base scope, and rotating a mattress isn’t a line we publish at all. That’s the honest split: we take the surfaces; you keep the decisions and the laundry.
The order matters more than the product
Top down, and dry before wet. Fans and vent covers go first, because everything you knock loose there lands on whatever you already cleaned; floors go last, always. Laundry starts before anything else, because the machine is the whole day’s bottleneck and a comforter takes what it takes. Glass comes out better on an overcast morning than at noon, when the sun dries the cleaner before your cloth reaches it. And tracks get vacuumed before they get wet: put water on grit and you’ve made mud.
If you’re hiring the surface half, the order is different: your decisions go first. The service page is frank about it — the longer it’s been since the last professional deep clean, the more hours the 42-item checklist takes. Every cleared counter and every box off the floor is an hour pointed at buildup instead of spent working around your things. Purging on Saturday and booking for Monday is, in practice, the cheapest way to buy a deep clean.
What it costs: in hours or in dollars
It’s worth sizing before you block out a weekend. The hired version of those surface blocks is, on the deep clean page, a 4–6 hour visit with a 2-person team and 42 items verified by photo: starting at $349, with 1 bedroom and 1 bath at $349 and 3 bedrooms and 2 baths at $510. Two people for most of a day is the honest measure of blocks one through three — done alone, it isn’t an afternoon, it’s a long weekend with a ladder.
How often to repeat it is a separate conversation, and it has its own article too: how often you should deep clean a house. The short answer is that Miami’s clock runs faster than the national one, and that a house getting the annual pass twice — before and after the wet season — never accumulates a full year of anything.
The honest boundaries
Block six is a look-and-dry list, not a remediation manual, and there’s a clean line where it stops being cleaning. If emptying a closet or pulling out the washer turns up visible, spreading mold — not a damp mark or a surface film — the right call is a remediation professional, not us. Our terms put it plainly: we reserve the right to refuse or stop service where conditions are unsafe for our team — such as mold, infestation, biohazards, or abusive behavior.
One note on format: there’s no PDF and no printable version behind an email address. This page is the list. Print it from your browser, forward it, or mark the blocks you plan to hire and take those into the booking flow — which is where the hours, the add-ons, and the price become visible.
FAQ
Is a spring pass worth doing if I already have a cleaner every two weeks?
Yes, because a recurring visit is scoped to maintenance, not to the annual layer. Two weeks of dust comes off a surface in seconds; a year of it inside a vent cover, along a blind slat, or under a bed does not. The recurring visit holds the result. The annual pass resets what it is holding.
When is the right week to do this in Miami?
Ahead of the wet months, which in South Florida run roughly June through November. Late April into May is the practical window: it is the last stretch where you can open the house, run laundry, and leave closets airing without fighting the humidity you are trying to get ahead of. The other sensible date is the far side of that season, once those months have left their buildup behind.
Can I get this as a printable checklist to hand to a cleaner?
The list above is it, on a public page you can forward or print from your browser — no email gate and no PDF, because a working list is not a lead magnet. If you are handing it to a crew, mark which lines you are buying: block one, the cabinet faces in block two, the buildup in block three, and the surface lines in block five map onto the published deep-clean scope, while the appliance interiors, the window work, and the laundry are add-ons selected at booking, and the decision lines — the pantry purge, the medicine-cabinet expiry pass — stay yours.