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Pre-Holiday · Fall · Los Angeles
Fall Pre-Holiday Cleaning in Los Angeles
Thanksgiving photos. Out-of-town family. Hosting friends. Holiday cards. The November deep clean is the single most important seasonal cleaning of the year for LA households — and the most-booked. Our pre-holiday clean resets your home top to bottom in one visit. From $290 flat-rate, eco-friendly, licensed.
Licensed, insured, eco-friendly. Flat-rate pricing — no hidden fees.
When to book
Timing is everything in LA.
Local seasonality, weather, and demand all push booking windows tighter than most homeowners expect.
- Book the Saturday before Thanksgiving 4–6 weeks ahead — it sells out first.
- First two weeks of November are peak demand — book by mid-October.
- If hosting Thanksgiving, schedule for the Monday or Tuesday before.
- If holiday photos are planned, schedule 1–2 days before the photoshoot.
- December cleans (Hanukkah, Christmas, NYE) follow a separate schedule — see Holiday Hosting page.
- Existing recurring clients: lock your November slot in October.
Exactly what we clean
A focused, written checklist for this season — every item included, no hourly billing surprises.
Inside oven fully degreased ahead of holiday cooking
Inside refrigerator: shelves removed, washed, dried, restocked
Inside microwave top to bottom
Range hood filter degreased or replaced
Cabinet fronts degreased and polished
Backsplash scrubbed, grout brightened
All bathroom grout scrubbed line by line
Hard water removed from glass shower doors
Tub, shower pan, and tile fully descaled
Toilets including base, behind tank, bolt caps
Baseboards wiped detail in every room
Door frames, door tops, and trim wiped
Blinds dusted slat by slat
Window tracks vacuumed and damp-wiped
Interior windows streak-free cleaned
Ceiling fans disassembled and washed
Light fixtures cleaned, bulbs dusted
Vents and return registers HEPA-vacuumed and wiped
Under and behind movable furniture vacuumed
Guest bedrooms and bathrooms reset (linen-fresh)
Photo report sent on completion
Pricing
Flat-rate pre-holiday cleaning
Bedroom-count pricing. No hourly billing. All supplies and tax included. Holiday-window pricing locked in October.
1–2 Bedroom
$290pre-holiday deep clean
- Up to 1,400 sq ft
- Crew of 3, 3–4 hours
- Inside oven + fridge
- Guest room reset
Most booked
3 Bedroom
$420pre-holiday deep clean
- Up to 2,200 sq ft
- Crew of 3, 4–5 hours
- Blinds + baseboards + grout
- Free re-clean guarantee
4+ Bedroom
$590pre-holiday deep clean
- 2,200 to 3,500 sq ft
- Crew of 4, 5–7 hours
- Crew lead + supervisor
- Interior windows included
Add Thanksgiving morning-of touch-up for $150 (1-hour 2-cleaner refresh). Add post-Thanksgiving recovery for $190 (kitchen reset + dish handling). Pair with a January post-holiday clean and lock in 10% off both.
Why November is the deep-clean event of the year in LA
If you only book one professional deep clean a year, make it the first or second week of November. There is no other window in the LA cleaning calendar where the demands on a home compress this hard. Within a 6-week stretch, most homes will host out-of-town family for Thanksgiving, get photographed for holiday cards, host at least one major social event, and welcome friends and neighbors for casual gatherings — all while the kitchen runs at restaurant-level intensity for the largest cooking week of the year.
And the LA-specific complications stack on top. By early November we are deep into Santa Ana wind season, which means dust and debris from the canyons get blown into homes through every poorly-sealed window and door. Wildfire-related smoke residue, if there has been a major event in October or early November, settles invisibly on every surface. The marine layer has retreated, the air is dry, and dust accumulates faster than at any other time of year. The kitchen, which has been on light duty all summer, is about to absorb a Thanksgiving-week pounding. The guest bathroom, which may not have been used heavily since spring, needs a full reset. Bedrooms that doubled as offices need to function as guest rooms.
The pre-holiday clean is built to handle all of that in a single visit. We are not doing a maintenance pass; we are doing a full reset that gets the home to a baseline that can absorb the next six weeks. Inside the oven, because Thanksgiving will leave the oven looking unrecognizable if it starts at half-clean. Inside the fridge, because it will be packed for two weeks straight starting the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Guest bathrooms scrubbed because they will be in heavy use. Floors, baseboards, and rugs deep-cleaned because they are about to absorb the foot traffic of every visitor. This is not vanity cleaning — it is preparation cleaning, and the difference shows in how the home holds up across the season.
What we focus on for Thanksgiving hosting
Kitchen first and hardest. The Thanksgiving oven works at full intensity for 6–10 hours, and any pre-existing grease or carbon will burn into a permanent layer if not removed first. We fully degrease the oven interior, scrub racks, polish the glass, replace or degrease the hood filter, and clear the range top of any film. Inside the fridge gets emptied (shelves and drawers out), washed, dried, and reinstalled — this matters because the fridge will be packed full of prep ingredients within days of Thanksgiving, and you want the surfaces clean before that. Cabinet fronts get degreased because they will be touched constantly during cooking week.
Dining room next. Tabletop polished or treated for whatever finish it is, chairs vacuumed (especially upholstered chairs that will host guests for 3-hour meals), light fixture above the table cleaned (because Thanksgiving photos always include the chandelier shadow), windows in the dining room polished. If you have china or special-occasion glassware that lives in a sideboard, we wipe the sideboard but do not touch the china unless specifically requested.
Guest spaces. Guest bedroom: full reset including dust on all surfaces, vacuum of carpet or rug, mattress vacuumed, fresh linens if you provide them, closet floor wiped. Guest bathroom: full deep clean including grout, glass, fixtures, behind toilet, vanity inside and out. Front entryway: full clean because it is the first thing every visitor sees — door wiped, hardware polished, doormat vacuumed, baseboards detailed.
What our pre-holiday checklist covers across the rest of the home
Living areas. HEPA-vacuum sofas, chairs, and area rugs to remove the dust that has accumulated through October's dry-Santa-Ana stretch. Wipe baseboards, door frames, picture frame tops. Clean ceiling fans by disassembly (not in-place dusting). Polish and check any soft-close hinges on cabinets so they do not become a holiday-week embarrassment. Vacuum and damp-wipe window tracks. Polish interior windows so the November light comes through clean.
Bathrooms across the home. Even bathrooms that will not be used by guests get the full deep clean treatment because the household uses them more intensively in the holiday weeks (everyone is home more, more showering, more guests in and out). Grout scrubbed line by line. Glass descaled. Toilets full deep clean including base and behind tank. Mirrors streak-free. Exhaust fans HEPA-vacuumed (this almost never gets done and is a major dust source).
Bedrooms. Full vacuum including under the bed and behind nightstands. Dust on all flat surfaces. Window sills wiped. Closet floors vacuumed. Mattresses HEPA-vacuumed (this matters more in November because everyone spends more time indoors and bedrooms get more use). Fresh linens placed if provided.
Pre-holiday timing — when to book what
If you are hosting Thanksgiving, book the Monday or Tuesday before. The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the single most-requested cleaning slot in our calendar and we cannot accommodate everyone — book six weeks ahead in mid-October if you want it. Saturday-before-Thanksgiving fills almost as fast.
If you are not hosting but you have holiday photos planned, book 1–2 days before the photoshoot. The home photographs better when it has been touched within 48 hours, especially under daylight or warm-tungsten setups where dust shows on every surface.
If you are not hosting and not getting photos, book the first or second week of November anyway. This will be your November-through-mid-December baseline, and it sets up biweekly maintenance to handle the rest of the season comfortably. December tends to be hosting-recovery and pre-NYE cleaning — see our Holiday Hosting Cleaning page for that.
What we do not do, and what to schedule alongside
We do not do carpet shampooing as a default — it is a separate add-on at $75–150 per room because it requires drying time that pushes our crew schedule. If your carpets need shampooing before Thanksgiving, book it for the first week of November so it dries fully and we follow up with the deep clean a week later. We can coordinate.
We do not do window-exterior cleaning above ground floor — that requires specialized window-cleaning service. We do all interior windows including streak-free polish. If you want both interior and exterior windows done before Thanksgiving, book your window cleaner for the same week so both happen in alignment.
We do not move large furniture beyond what is reasonable for cleaning underneath. We will move a sofa, vacuum, and put it back. We will not move a bookcase to vacuum behind it — that is a moving job and requires its own service. Same for refrigerators (we do not move them unless specifically requested and the floor is verified) and large freezers.
Frequently asked
Real questions LA homeowners ask about this service.
Book by mid-October for any November slot, and 4–6 weeks ahead if you specifically want the Saturday or Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Those two days are the highest-demand slots of the year. Existing recurring clients should lock their November slot in October.
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Ready your home for the holidays.
Most-booked seasonal clean of the year. Book by mid-October for any November slot. 24-hour re-clean guarantee.