House Cleaning in the Garden District
Fourteen-foot ceilings, plaster medallions, marble mantels and floors older than the state of Louisiana. These houses are not hard to clean — they are just easy to damage. We know which is which.
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Prytania to Magazine · First, Second, Third, Fourth and Coliseum
Same crew every visit · Insured & bonded · Background-checked employees · No contract
House cleaning in the Garden District is priced wrong by almost everybody, and the reason is ceiling height. A 1,900 square foot house on Third Street with fourteen-foot ceilings, full crown molding and a plaster medallion in every main room has more cleanable surface than a 3,000 square foot slab house out in Kenner. Quote it on square footage alone and the crew runs out of hours somewhere in the second bathroom.
We price it on what is actually in the house. You get a flat number before anyone is scheduled, and it does not move on the day.
What these houses need
Plaster medallions and crown
Extension duster, worked in sections, top down. We do not lean ladders on plaster and we do not use anything wet up there.
Marble mantels and thresholds
Stone cleaner only. No vinegar, no citrus, no all-purpose spray. Acid etches marble and the mark is permanent.
Heart pine floors
Barely damp microfiber, pH-neutral, dry pass behind it. Standing water in a two-hundred-year-old seam is how boards cup.
Original shutters and transoms
Louver by louver on a deep clean, dusted on a maintenance visit. The ledges above doors are where the grey film lives.
Humidity and mildew
Baseboards and the inside corners of exterior walls get checked every visit. In this part of town that is not optional.
Cast iron galleries
Swept and wiped. We leave the rust and the paint alone — that is a restoration call, not a cleaning one.
Parking, and why we mention it
There are no driveways on most of these blocks. First, Second, Third and Coliseum are residential permit or two-hour meter, and a crew that shows up in two vehicles spends the first twenty minutes of your appointment circling.
So we come in one vehicle and we build the walk into the schedule instead of into your bill. You do not need to save us a spot, and you do not need to be home to let anybody in if you would rather leave a code.
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How often people book here
| Schedule | Who it fits |
|---|---|
| Weekly | Full households, frequent entertaining, or a house that is also showing to buyers. |
| Every two weeks | The most common. Enough to keep plaster, stone and original wood from ever needing aggressive treatment. |
| Monthly | Smaller households who want the high work and the detail handled and manage the rest. |
| One-time deep clean | Before an event, after contractors, or ahead of a listing photo shoot. |
The streets we work
- First, Second, Third and Fourth Streets — the big Italianate and Greek Revival houses between Prytania and Magazine.
- Prytania Street — including the double galleries where the front rooms take the most dust off the street.
- Coliseum and Chestnut — smaller Victorians and raised centre-halls, a lot of original detail still intact.
- Magazine Street side — converted doubles and apartments above the shops, usually tighter and quicker.
- Toward Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 and Commander’s — the blocks that get the heaviest foot and tour traffic, and the most street grit in the front rooms.
Why grit shows up faster near the tour routes
If your house is on a walking-tour block near Washington Avenue, you get more of everything through the front door. Foot traffic pushes street dust onto galleries and into entryways at a rate that surprises people who moved from Uptown or Lakeview.
Practical fix: entry and front rooms go on every visit, back of the house alternates. Same price, better result. Tell us and we will build the rotation that way.
What we do not do
- Second-floor or gallery-level windows from outside. Interior glass we reach from a two-step, yes.
- Pressure washing brick, stucco or cast iron — different equipment, different trade.
- Chandeliers that have to come down. We dust them in place.
- Moving or emptying antique case pieces. Surfaces yes, interiors only if you ask.
Nearby and related
We also clean Uptown, Lakeview and the rest of New Orleans. Listing the house or ending a lease? See move-out cleaning. First time with us usually starts as a deep clean, then drops to recurring.
Carriage houses, dependencies and the unit out back
Half the Garden District addresses we clean are not one dwelling. There is the main house, and then there is a carriage house, a converted dependency, or a rented unit over the garage — and they are often on separate schedules with separate people living in them.
Tell us at booking how many separate doors there are. It is the single biggest thing that changes the time on site, and it is the thing people most often forget to mention. A main house plus a rented carriage house is two cleans, priced as two, scheduled together so the crew makes one trip.
Main house only
The default. We clean the house and leave the dependency alone entirely.
Main house plus dependency
Priced together, cleaned in one visit. Cheaper than booking them apart because the crew and the drive are shared.
Tenant-occupied unit
We need the tenant to know we are coming. We will not let ourselves into somebody’s home on a landlord’s say-so without that.
Short-term rental out back
Different scope and different timing — that is an Airbnb turnover, not a house clean.
Garden District house cleaning — what people ask
How much does house cleaning cost in the Garden District?
Most Garden District homes run $220 to $400 for a recurring clean. Ceiling height is the reason — a 1,900 square foot house with fourteen-foot ceilings, medallions and full crown molding is more surface area than a 3,000 square foot house in Kenner. The estimator accounts for it and gives you a flat number.
Where does your crew park?
We use street parking and we plan for it. Most of First, Second, Third and Coliseum are residential permit or two-hour metered, so the crew arrives in one vehicle rather than two and we build the walk into the schedule. You do not need to hold a spot for us.
Do you clean plaster medallions and crown molding?
Yes, up to what we can reach from a two-step. Ceiling medallions at fourteen feet need an extension duster, which we bring, but we do not put ladders against plaster. Anything higher than that is a specialty job and we will say so rather than guess.
Can you clean around antiques and art?
We dust around framed work and we do not move anything hanging. Case pieces get dusted on the surface, not emptied. If there is something you would rather nobody touch, put it in the booking note and the crew skips it entirely.
Do you handle the galleries and porches?
Sweeping and wiping the gallery floor and rails, yes. Pressure washing brick and cast iron is a different service with different equipment and we do not offer it.
Get your Garden District home on the schedule
A flat price before anyone is booked. The same crew each visit. No contract to sign.
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