Condo cleaning that follows your building's rules

Cleaning a condo on A1A starts before anyone picks up a sponge. Your building may want vendors signed in at the front desk, a pad hung in the service elevator, or a guest spot in the garage instead of the circle drive. Tell us how your association handles it and it goes in your notes, so your front desk sees the same routine every visit. Inside, high-rise units have their own habits. Salt air leaves a gray film on your balcony slider frame and handle. The track fills with grit. Porcelain floors show every footprint between your kitchen and the balcony.

Garden condos and apartments west of the Intracoastal are a little different: a walk up the stairs instead of an elevator ride, parking right outside, and a smaller kitchen that still sees every meal. Whatever the layout, your quote comes from your bedroom count, your bath count and which clean you want. Weekly, every other week and monthly all work for a condo, and so does a single deep clean. Not sure what your unit needs? Describe it, tell us how long it's been since a real scrub, and we'll recommend where to start. Renting an apartment? The same quote method applies to you.

On the checklist

• Kitchen counters, sink and appliance fronts
• Guest and main baths scrubbed
• Balcony slider frame, handle and track wiped
• Balcony railing and table wiped of salt
• Porcelain and tile floors mopped
• Ceiling fans and AC vents dusted
• Mirrors and vanities polished
• Beach sand swept from your entry

Opening up or closing down a snowbird unit

If you spend summers up north, your condo sits shut from about May to November. When you come back, the air feels heavy, dust has settled on every flat surface, and your fridge may smell like it was closed with something inside. Book an opening clean for the week before you fly down. We dust top to bottom, wipe your kitchen and bathrooms, run through your fans and vents, and mop your floors, so you can unpack instead of scrub.

Leaving for the summer is the other half. A closing clean before you go means nothing sits on your counters through hurricane season, your bathrooms are clean and dry, and the unit is ready when you return in fall. If your association has a checklist for owners who leave for the season, send it and we'll handle the cleaning parts. Text us your dates once a year and we'll put both cleans on the calendar.

A good fit when

• You live in a high-rise or garden condo
• Your HOA has vendor rules at the front desk
• You're a snowbird opening or closing a unit
• You rent an apartment and want it kept up