Los Angeles does not really have spring cleaning, because it does not really have winter. What it has is a dust season, and it does not arrive in March — it arrives whenever the Santa Ana winds do.
Wind, not season, is what dirties an LA home. Santa Ana conditions push fine desert dust through window tracks, under doors and onto every horizontal surface within a day. If you are going to schedule one deep clean a year around the weather, schedule it after a windy stretch, not on a calendar date.
Pollen runs from February to June here. It settles on sills, blinds and slider tracks and comes indoors on shoes and pets. Blinds are the single most-skipped surface in a home and the one that holds pollen longest, which is why they are on the deep checklist and not the standard one.
Fireplaces and heaters. Most LA homes use a fireplace a handful of evenings a year, and fine ash settles on the hearth and the shelves near it and stays there until someone deals with it. That is its own pass, not part of general dusting.
What a deep clean covers that upkeep does not. Forty items instead of twenty-eight: baseboards, door tops, vents and fan blades, light fixtures, window sills and tracks, limescale, inside the microwave, cabinet fronts top to bottom. For a 3 bed / 2 bath house it is $419 as a one-off, after which regular visits at $220 keep it there.
Once a year is usually enough. Homes with pets, open windows or a hillside slope nearby do better twice. Everything in between is upkeep, and upkeep is cheaper than catching up.
FAQs
Early spring, before pollen season peaks.
Oven, grout, vents, and windows — where a pro saves the most time.
Yes — start with a deep clean, then maintain bi-weekly.
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