Philadelphia · House Cleaning
Flat-rate, all-in cleaning for University City homes — from the graduate high-rises around 30th Street Station to the faculty rowhomes near Clark Park and the new-construction rentals off Walnut. Vetted local cleaners, supplies included, flat pricing every visit. See your price in about a minute.
We clean ZIP code 19104 in and around University City.
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.
University City is what happens when two universities reshape a whole district. The University of Pennsylvania and Drexel bring more than forty-five thousand students, faculty, and staff who flood the streets during the academic year and vanish each summer, and they've built a neighborhood of constant motion running from the Schuylkill River west to about 50th Street, Market down to Baltimore Avenue. ZIP 19104 covers most of it. At its eastern gate, 30th Street Station — an Art Deco landmark, the third-busiest station in the country — anchors the whole thing.
We clean everything here: graduate apartments in the high-rises, faculty rowhomes near Clark Park, young-professional rentals in new construction. What that teaches you is that this neighborhood runs on the academic calendar rather than the ordinary one. At the end of each semester the sidewalks around campus fill with abandoned furniture, June through August the same streets go quiet, and the turnover cleans all land in between.
University City runs on high-rises, rowhome conversions, and new construction, so the work spans building access, turnover cleans, and careful work on older detail.
High-rise apartments full of grad students and postdocs on individual leases, which turn over constantly here rather than once a year. A steady cadence is what keeps them livable, with interior window glass on hand as an add-on when the panes need it; flag front desk, elevator, and COI access at booking and we deal with the building.
West toward Clark Park the older row-home conversions carry the character the new construction doesn't. Original floors and detail get the careful version — nothing left standing, and a dry pass over the surfaces an old house collects dust in.
The newer buildings around campus come with modern amenities and finishes locals describe as sterile, rented largely by young professionals working at Penn, Drexel, CHOP, and HUP. Those surfaces want a mild cleaner and a steady routine, on a schedule that survives a hospital rotation.
The El, three trolley lines, and forty-five thousand people on foot put a lot of street on the doormat. We reset the entry first, which is the cheapest way to stop the rest of the apartment from absorbing it.
The numbers behind a neighborhood where a car is optional and transit is the whole argument.
Transit is the neighborhood's superpower. The Market-Frankford El runs along Market with stops at 30th, 34th, and 40th, putting you in Center City in ten to fifteen minutes; trolley lines 11, 13, and 36 cut across the neighborhood; and Regional Rail out of 30th Street Station reaches the suburbs and the airport, with multiple lines terminating there. Between 43rd and 51st, Baltimore Avenue is the food corridor and the place University City feels most like a neighborhood; Clark Park, nine acres with a year-round Saturday farmers market, is the community living room west of 43rd. The Schuylkill River Trail and Indego make it easy to skip the car entirely.
The rest of the city is a short walk across the river: over the South Street or Chestnut Street bridge and you're in South Philadelphia or Rittenhouse in fifteen to twenty minutes, with Center City just beyond. Most people here have concluded the car isn't worth it — circling for twenty-plus minutes is common, and parking tickets run $25 higher here than most of Philadelphia. That's the tradeoff residents make happily, and it's the same logic behind handing off the cleaning: keep the things that need doing on a schedule you don't have to think about.
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 — we clean the high-rise apartments around campus. Flag building access (front desk, elevator, certificate of insurance) at booking and we'll handle the coordination on our end.
It's the busiest thing we do here. Individual leases mean turnover happens year-round rather than once a year, and end-of-semester weeks fill fast — a flat-priced Move reset gets an apartment deposit-ready or move-in fresh, corners included. Book the date as soon as you know it.
Yes. The row-home conversions west toward Clark Park get the careful version on original floors and detail; the new-construction rentals get a lighter modern-surface routine. Tell us the layout at booking and one vetted pro covers both.
We actively clean 19104 — from the Schuylkill River west toward 50th Street, and the blocks around Penn, Drexel, and Clark Park. Not sure your building is covered? Enter your address at booking and you'll know in seconds.
Your University City home, handled.
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