What's Included, Room by Room
Quick Answer: Nook & Cranny’s standard cleaning checklist covers the kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, and living areas throughout your home, with detailed add-ons — interior windows, baseboards, inside-appliance cleaning, and more — available for a more thorough deep clean. This page provides the complete, transparent breakdown of what’s included at each service level for homes across Newport Coast, Yorba Linda, Newport Beach, and the rest of the Orange County.
Transparency about exactly what’s included in a cleaning visit matters — both so you know what to expect, and so you can accurately compare our service against other companies you might be considering. Below is our complete room-by-room checklist, along with a clear breakdown of what’s standard versus what’s an add-on.
Standard: counters, sink, stovetop, appliance exteriors, cabinet fronts, backsplash, microwave (interior and exterior), and floors.
Add-ons: inside-oven cleaning, inside-refrigerator cleaning, cabinet interiors. See our Oven Cleaning, Refrigerator Cleaning, and Cabinet Cleaning pages.
Standard: toilets, tubs, showers, sinks, mirrors, vanities, fixtures, and floors, fully sanitized.
Add-on for more intensive grout/tile attention: see our dedicated Bathroom Cleaning page
Standard: dusting, vacuuming, floor care, and bed-making on request.
Standard: dusting, vacuuming, mopping, trash removal, and straightening of common spaces.
This checklist describes our standard House Cleaning scope, with deep-clean-level items noted separately. Services like Move-In Cleaning, Move-Out Cleaning, and Post-Construction Cleaning include most deep-clean-level items by default, given the nature of those visits. Vacation Rental Cleaning and Airbnb Cleaning follow a related but distinct turnover-specific checklist — see those pages for details specific to short-term rental turnovers.
Cleaning company scopes vary significantly, and “house cleaning” can mean meaningfully different things depending on who you ask. We’d rather you know exactly what’s included before booking than discover gaps or surprises after the fact — and if you’re comparing us against another company, this checklist gives you a concrete basis for comparison rather than a vague marketing description.
For homeowners curious about where cleaning time actually goes, a rough breakdown for an average-size home: kitchens and bathrooms typically account for the largest share of a standard visit, given the level of detail sanitizing requires. Bedrooms and living areas generally move faster, since dusting, vacuuming, and floor care cover more square footage per minute than detailed surface sanitizing. Deep-clean-level additions — baseboards, interior windows, cabinet fronts — each add meaningful time individually, which is why a full deep clean typically runs considerably longer than a standard maintenance visit covering the same square footage.
If you’re evaluating multiple cleaning companies, ask each one directly whether baseboards, interior windows, and inside-appliance cleaning are included in their standard rate or billed as add-ons. Two quotes that appear similar on price can represent very different actual scopes of work, and this checklist gives you specific line items to ask about rather than a vague “what’s included” question that’s easy to answer evasively.
No — this describes our standard House Cleaning scope. Deep Cleaning includes additional items noted above, and specialty services (Move-In, Move-Out, Post-Construction, Vacation Rental) follow adjusted checklists appropriate to those situations.
Yes — while the standard checklist applies by default, you can add or prioritize specific items when booking or as a standing note on your account.
Add-ons like interior windows, inside-oven cleaning, and baseboards are available regardless of which base service tier you book.
This page provides the full breakdown — if something isn’t explicitly listed as standard, assume it’s an add-on and ask us directly if you’re unsure.
Yes — the same core checklist applies, scaled to apartment-appropriate square footage and scope.
