What is included in a standard house cleaning?

A standard house cleaning with JAS is a 28-item maintenance list, worked in a 2–3 hour visit by a two-person team: counters and sink; stovetop, microwave and fridge exterior; cabinet faces; sinks, toilets and mirrors; shower and tub exterior; light dusting; high-touch surfaces; carpets vacuumed and tile mopped; bed linens straightened; and, on eligible completed visits, a CleanCheck Report.

That answer is hard to find not because the list is a secret, but because almost nobody publishes theirs. Here is ours, group by group — and then what is deliberately not on it, and what Miami does to the same list.

The published list, group by group

The canonical source is the Residential panel of the everything each clean includes accordion, beside our residential cleaning in Miami page. We restate it here so the answer lives beside the question.

The residential page puts it in one sentence: it is the maintenance routine — kitchen and bath reset, floors mopped and vacuumed, surfaces dusted, linens straightened, trash out. The six groups above are the shape of the visit; the 28 items are that same list applied to your bedroom and bathroom count, every time, whether you are in a Brickell tower or a Kendall house.

What it does not include — and why that is published too

A hidden add-on is how a cheap clean stops being cheap, so the site publishes the boundary in the same detail as the list. The deep-clean card is labelled “4–6 hr · +14 items” against the standard’s “2–3 hr · 28 items” — adding those two published rows is how you get the deep list. And the deep panel names the fourteen: it adds baseboards, doors, frames, blinds and cobweb removal, plus grout spot-treatment, light switches and outlets, and the floor under movable furniture.

Appliance interiors are out too: the deep panel itself says they are priced separately. So are laundry — which has its own answer in do house cleaners do laundry — balconies, and interior windows. The residential card does not publish a Standard extras table; it points you at the quote form, and the shared pricing note on the service pages says the rest: the final price comes from the booking form, and add-ons (inside fridge, balcony, laundry, etc.) are priced separately.

“A standard clean maintains a home that is already in good shape. It is not the one that recovers a home that got away from you — that is a different list, and it is published too.”

And there is a boundary that is about safety rather than price: a maintenance visit is not remediation. The Terms reserve the right to refuse service in cases of unsafe conditions (mold, infestation, biohazard), and that applies to a standard clean like any other. If the long list is what you are actually after, it is in what is included in a deep house cleaning.

Why the same 28 items behave differently in Miami

A maintenance list is designed around how fast the dirt comes back, and here that speed is different. As our deep cleaning page publishes it, humidity, salt air and year-round pollen mean buildup happens faster here than in drier climates. Salt films slider glass and metal fixtures, and the A/C runs twelve months a year, so dust never gets an off-season.

Where the work lives changes too. In single-family territory like South Miami and Palmetto Bay, floors, patio doors and ceiling fans carry most of the workload on a biweekly visit — not the kitchen, which is what most generic checklists assume. And the local calendar is not “spring cleaning”: the residential page names the seasonal reset by what actually triggers it here — Miami pollen, hurricane dust, holiday entertaining — and hurricane season runs June through November.

In a building the list does not change either; the logistics do. If there is an elevator reservation or a front-desk check-in, you tell us at booking. Many associations also want a certificate of insurance on file before a crew passes the lobby: JAS carries $2,000,000 general liability coverage with every cleaner background-checked, and most certificates are returned within 2 business hours.

The list is fixed; what moves is the time

This is the surprising part of the published table: the starting price is the same on every row, and what climbs is the duration.

• Studio · 2 hr · from $225
• 1 BR · 1 bath · 2–3 hr · from $225
• 2 BR · 2 bath · 2–3 hr · from $225
• 3 BR · 2 bath · 3–4 hr · from $225
• 4 BR+ · 3 bath · 4–5 hr · from $225+

No row there is a final price — the final price comes from the booking form. What the table shows is the logic: the same 28-item list takes two hours in a studio and four to five in a 4-bedroom, 3-bath house, because bathrooms and the kitchen are where the labor lives. The residential page publishes the rest of the factors: condition matters on the first visit (if it has been months since the last professional clean, that appointment runs longer), and pets, add-ons and building logistics add time when they apply.

Frequency works in your favor, and it is published as such: HomeCare saves 15% weekly and 10% every two weeks, while every four weeks uses the Standard rate, for customers planning at least 3 cleanings. A home on a rhythm finishes the same 28-item list faster, simply because nothing had time to build up between visits.

How you check the 28 were actually worked

A list nobody verifies is a promise, not a scope. On eligible completed visits, your CleanCheck Report carries checklist status and customer-safe photos, so you can see the result before you are back home. And if something is not right, the Terms say it in their own words: contact JAS within 24h and include your CleanCheck when available so we can review the request under the reclean guarantee.

The money works in the same order: nothing is charged at booking, and after each completed visit we issue an invoice for the service delivered. Cancellations are free up to 24h before; inside 24h they are $25.

Quick answers

The short version

A standard house cleaning is 28 items in six groups — kitchen, baths, surfaces, floors, linens, proof — across a 2–3 hour visit with a two-person team. Baseboards, doors, frames, blinds, cobwebs, grout and appliance interiors are deliberately not on it: they live on the deep list or in the booking form’s extras. Humidity, salt air and pollen do not change the list — they change how many hours it takes and how often you need it.

This guide is part of the JAS operating playbook — written to answer in public the question the rest of the industry prefers to answer on a phone call.