Deep Cleaning Services in New York City
Deep cleaning is not just 'cleaning harder.' It's a fundamentally different job — one that reaches the places a standard cleaning doesn't touch. Inside your oven where a year's worth of baked-on grease has carbonized. Underneath your refrigerator where dust bunnies have evolved into dust colonies. The grout between your bathroom tiles that went from white to gray to something you'd rather not think about. We've done 100,000 cleans in NYC, and we know exactly where this city's grime hides.
What's Included Every Time
Our comprehensive checklist ensures nothing is missed, backed by our re-clean guarantee.
Everything in our 85-point standard clean, plus the 15 below — 100 points in total
Burner grates removed & degreased
Oven racks removed & scrubbed
Oven cavity & door glass degreased & scrubbed
Microwave turntable removed & washed
Refrigerator emptied — contents set aside and put back
Refrigerator shelves & drawers removed & washed
Refrigerator interior walls & door seals wiped
Under the stove & refrigerator — cleaned as far as our tools reach
Bathroom tile grout scrubbed with a grout brush
Mildew treatment on caulk lines & corners
Shower doors & tub surround descaled
Baseboards detail damp-wiped room by room
Ceiling fan blades dusted
Door tops dusted
Wall spot-cleaning & scuff mark removal
Keep your home spotless and save up to 20%
Book recurring service and lock in a dedicated team at a discounted flat rate. No hidden fees, no lock-in contracts. Just a beautifully clean home on autopilot.
Trusted across Queens, BK & Manhattan
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Where We Serve in NYC
Our W-2 professional cleaning teams are dispatched daily across the major boroughs of New York City.
The Grime NYC Buildings Actually Produce
New York apartments accumulate a specific kind of grime that's unique to this city. The combination of old building infrastructure, dense living, and city air creates buildup in places most people never think to check. Pre-war kitchens — and there are a lot of them in Manhattan — have grease residue behind ranges that have been cooking meals since the Koch administration. The exhaust vents in buildings from the 1920s don't ventilate the way modern ones do, so cooking oils settle on cabinet tops, above the refrigerator, and along the upper walls near the ceiling.
Bathrooms are even worse. The combination of old plumbing, limited ventilation (half the bathrooms in NYC have no window), and constant humidity creates mildew in tile grout, around tub caulking, and on shower ceilings that standard cleaning just can't address. A weekly surface wipe keeps things looking acceptable. But underneath, the mineral deposits are building on shower doors, the soap scum is layering behind the toilet, and the grout lines between floor tiles are slowly darkening. That's what deep cleaning is for.
We go room by room with a deep clean protocol that's been refined over 100,000 cleaning appointments. In the kitchen, we remove the oven racks and degrease them individually, lift the burner grates off the stove, and take the turntable out of the microwave to wash it. We empty the refrigerator shelf by shelf, wash the shelves and drawers, wipe the interior walls and door seals, and put everything back where it was. Appliances stay where they are: we clean under the stove and refrigerator as far as our tools reach, and if you want behind them done, slide them out before we arrive and mention it when you book so we schedule the time. This isn't a surface refresh. It's a reset.
When Deep Cleaning Is the Right Call
Not every cleaning appointment needs to be a deep clean — but there are moments where nothing else will do. If you're booking professional cleaning for the first time, start with a deep clean. It establishes a baseline that's much easier (and cheaper) to maintain with recurring standard service. If you've been doing your own cleaning for years and things have slowly slipped, a deep clean is the reset button. Seasonal deep cleans — especially in spring and fall — go after the buildup that collects in the grout, along the baseboards, and under the furniture that's light enough for a crew to shift and set back.
Many of our clients across the Upper East Side (6,000+ cleans), Gramercy and Flatiron (3,000+ cleans), and Williamsburg (nearly 900 cleans) use a hybrid schedule: deep cleaning every quarter, with bi-weekly standard cleaning in between. The deep clean handles the long-term accumulation. The standard cleans maintain the day-to-day. It's the most cost-effective approach to keeping a New York home genuinely clean — not just surface-level presentable.
"An outstanding job. Norma came on her own to clean the apartment I was leaving after living there for 13years. I asked them to give it a deep clean. … I've never been able to get the place that clean, and I've used other cleaning services in the past when I thought it was just me. Maid Marines is worth it."
Arielle C.