Philadelphia · House Cleaning
Flat-rate, all-in cleaning for Chinatown homes — from the converted lofts above the restaurants on Race Street to the small studios where roasted-duck and market smells work into every surface. Vetted local cleaners, supplies included, flat pricing every visit. See your price in about a minute.
We clean ZIP code 19107 in and around Chinatown.
Enter your ZIP and pick a reset. The flat, all-in number shows in about a minute — no quote forms, no phone tag.
Choose a day that works. We match a vetted, background-checked cleaner to your home for the visit you booked.
Supplies and city taxes are in the price. If we miss a booked area, report it within 48 hours; we'll re-clean that area free or refund that portion.
Chinatown is a working residential neighborhood packed into a three-by-four-block rectangle, roughly 7th to 11th and Arch to Vine, with the densest stretch around 9th and Race. It has been here since 1871, starting from a single Chinese laundry, and it's the oldest Chinatown on the East Coast. The forty-foot Friendship Gate at 10th and Arch, built by artisans from Tianjin in 1984, marks the entrance to a grid of restaurants, bakeries, grocers, and herbalists where the primary language on the street is Cantonese and a full meal costs what a latte does elsewhere. The homes are studios and converted lofts carved in above those kitchens, plus a few high-rises out toward Callowhill.
We clean those apartments, including the small studios and lofts over the restaurants. The thing that makes the food here worth the trip is also the cleaning problem: cooking grease, roasted-meat smoke, and market air work into every surface in the building.
Small apartments sitting directly on top of the restaurant grid. Everything about the work here follows from that.
Converted lofts sit directly over the kitchens, and the food smells run twenty-four hours — roasted duck seeps through the walls whether or not you cooked. We run a degreasing, odor-aware pass over the hard surfaces that hold exhaust film, since wiping the visible spots leaves the smell behind.
So much of the neighborhood is commercial that residential stock stays limited, and most of what's left are small studios. In one room doing every job at once there's no low-traffic corner to skip — the whole floorplan is high-traffic.
A few high-rises sit on the quieter Callowhill edge of the neighborhood. Those buildings come with a front desk and elevator rules, so we get the access details on file before the first visit rather than sorting them out in the lobby.
Apartment quality swings wildly here — some units are updated lofts, others are old walk-ups, sometimes on the same street. Aging fixtures and worn floors take a lighter touch; a renovated unit takes whatever its newer surfaces were built for.
Three numbers that explain why people here go car-free — and why the neighborhood has outlasted everything aimed at it.
Everything is close. From the Friendship Gate you can walk to Reading Terminal in three minutes, City Hall in five, Independence Hall in eight, and Old City in ten. Jefferson Station sits at 10th and Market, the Broad Street Line stops at Race-Vine, and the Callowhill loft district is two minutes north for anyone who wants a quieter block without giving up the walk. Race Street between 9th and 11th is restaurant row, and 10th north from the Gate is where the density hits hardest — grocers spilling produce onto the sidewalk, bakeries every half block.
The neighborhood runs on its own calendar: Lunar New Year in late winter, the YèShì Night Market in October, the Mid-Autumn Festival in September. Each one closes streets and fills them. Parking is effectively nonexistent the rest of the year too — street spots are competitive, delivery trucks double-park all day, and garages run $200 to $300 a month — so people take SEPTA and walk. When your front door opens onto all of that, a cleaning that arrives on its own schedule is one fewer thing to coordinate.
A Standard reset starts at $170 — a flat rate covering labor and supplies, with applicable tax added to your booking total. Deep and Move resets are flat-priced too, and you see the exact number before a card is ever held. No quote forms.
Yes — it's routine work on these blocks. Living over a kitchen means grease and roasted-meat smoke settle on everything, so we run a degreasing, odor-aware pass and pull the exhaust film off the hard surfaces holding it, rather than just wiping what shows.
Those are the core of what's here, so yes. In a compact footprint we work the whole space rather than a room list — tell us the layout when you book so the visit is sized right.
Yes. A Move reset gets the place truly clean between leases — worth knowing that some Chinatown buildings also charge their own move-in/move-out fee ($100–400), which is separate from the cleaning.
We actively clean 19107 — the same ZIP as most of Center City, covering the 9th-and-Race core out to the Callowhill edge. Not sure your building is covered? Enter your address at booking and you'll know in seconds.
Your Chinatown home, handled.
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