House Cleaning in Indianola, Iowa
Recurring, deep, move-out, and apartment cleaning across Indianola, from the old houses around the square and Simpson College to the 1970s ranches in between and the new streets north of Hillcrest Avenue. Locally owned, fully insured, and background-checked. Indianola is the southern end of our route, and there is no travel fee.
- 1979Median year Indianola homes were built
- 1 in 5Homes built in the 1970s, the most of any city we serve
- 3 in 10Households that rent
- 4 in 10Workers who commute out of Warren County
Indianola is not a suburb. It is the Warren County seat, 19 miles south of downtown Des Moines on Highway 65/69, with its own courthouse square, its own college, a summer opera festival, and a nine-day balloon festival that has filled the sky every summer since 1989. Nearly six in ten of its workers have a job inside Warren County. The town has grown slowly and steadily, from about 14,800 people in 2010 to just over 16,000 today, and it has never had a building boom the way Norwalk or Waukee did.
That shows in the houses. The median Indianola home was built in 1979, and one in five was built in the 1970s, a higher share than any other city we clean. More than a third of the town's homes date from 1950 to 1979, one in eight was built before 1940, and only three in ten have gone up since 2000. Add a college of about 1,200 students and a county seat's worth of apartments, and three in ten Indianola households rent. The typical cleaning job here is a ranch or split-level that has been lived in for forty years, and the next most common is a rental turning over.
We are a locally owned company run by Stephanie and Tony Dacey, based in Urbandale, about 40 minutes from Indianola. Diamond House Cleaning is locally owned and fully insured, and every cleaner who enters your home is background-checked.
The 1979 house: how we clean a home that has been lived in for decades
Indianola has more 1970s houses, by share, than any other city on our schedule. They are good houses. They also hold dirt in places a 2015 two-story does not have.
A 1970s ranch or split-level has textured ceilings that shed dust, original oak or laminate cabinets with a grease film on top, a tiled tub surround with grout that has seen four decades of showers, and window tracks and baseboards that were painted over instead of cleaned. None of that is a problem. It just means the first visit is a real deep clean, and it takes longer than it will on a newer house of the same size. We plan for that up front so the price does not surprise you.
After the first visit, these houses are easy to keep. Most 1970s floor plans are one level or a short split, with two or three bedrooms and one or two bathrooms, and a recurring visit lands at or within $50 of our minimum. That is why most of our Indianola clients do one deep clean and then move to every-other-week.
The most common house in Indianola. Popcorn ceilings, a galley or L-shaped kitchen, a tiled hall bath, and a finished lower level that gets used more than the living room. We start with a deep clean that gets the grout, the cabinet tops, the vents, and the window tracks, then keep it there on a recurring plan. Every-other-week is the plan most of these households land on.
One in eight Indianola homes was built before 1940, and most of them sit in the blocks around the square and Simpson College. Tall baseboards, wood floors, radiators or old registers, plaster walls, and a bathroom that was added later. We clean them the way old houses need to be cleaned: more time on the woodwork and the edges, and the right products for the surfaces.
Three in ten Indianola households rent, and more than one in five homes is in a building of five or more units. Between Simpson's May and August turnover, the county offices, and the new townhomes going up along Highway 65/69, there is always a unit changing hands. Our move-out clean is done to the standard a deposit inspection actually expects.
Not sure which one you are? Tell us the address and roughly when the house was built. We will know.
Call 515-513-3187Every part of Indianola
Indianola grew outward from the square, and each ring cleans a little differently. Here is where we are most often.
The square and Simpson College
The center of town is the courthouse square, where the new Warren County Justice Center replaced the 1939 courthouse, and the 85-acre Simpson College campus a few blocks north, with Buxton Park, the city's oldest park, on its north edge. The blocks around both hold Indianola's oldest houses, plus the rentals and converted homes that come with a college and a county seat. More wood, more edges, and a first deep clean that earns its keep.
North side: Summercrest Hills, Quail Meadows, and Emerald Bay
North of Hillcrest Avenue on both sides of Highway 65/69 is where Indianola is growing. Summercrest Hills holds the Indianola Wellness Campus, medical offices, and retirement communities, reached by the Hillcrest Trail off the Summerset Trail that starts at North 5th Street and runs 11 miles to Carlisle. New single-family plats in Summercrest and Quail Meadows and the mixed apartment, condo, and townhome project at Emerald Bay are adding hundreds of homes here. Newer builds, bigger bathrooms, and builder dust on the first visit.
East side: Ashton Park, Pickard Park, and Kentucky Ridge
The east side runs out along Iowa Avenue to Ashton Park, the biggest single-family plat still adding lots, and down the 1.6-mile McVay Trail to Pickard Park, the biggest park in town. Kentucky Ridge, a townhome development at Highway 65/69 and Kentucky Avenue, is the newest pocket. Family two-stories from the 2000s and 2010s, and a new run of townhomes.
South and west: Highway 92 and the 1970s streets
Highway 92 runs east and west through town and crosses 65/69 southeast of the square. The Schoolyard Townhomes at 92 and South 15th Street are new; much of what surrounds them, and much of the west side out toward the Jerry Kelley Trail and Wilder Elementary, is the 1950s through 1970s housing that makes up more than a third of Indianola. This is the heart of our recurring work here: ranches, split-levels, and the occasional pre-war farmhouse the town grew around.
It does not matter which part of the city you are in, or whether the house is 5 years old or 105. If you are in Indianola, we cover you.
The services Indianola households book most
Recurring cleaning, weekly or every other week
The core of our Indianola work. Our recurring cleaning clients get the same crew each visit and a standing slot, and a one-level ranch or split-level with one or two bathrooms usually lands within $50 of our minimum. Three in ten Indianola households have kids at home, and more than four in ten workers commute out of the county, so most visits happen on a weekday with a garage code or a lockbox while you are gone.
Deep cleaning for a house built before you were
A deep cleaning is where we recommend starting in any house that has been lived in for decades, which in Indianola is most of them: inside the oven and fridge, tub and shower grout, the tops of the cabinets, ceiling fans and vents, baseboards, and window tracks. It is also the right call before Balloon Classic week when the guest room is about to be used for the first time since last August. Most clients do it once, then move to recurring.
Move-in and move-out cleaning
About one in seven Indianola residents moved in the past year, and three in ten households rent. Our move out cleaning is done to the standard a landlord inspection or a buyer's walkthrough actually expects: inside appliances, inside cabinets, baseboards, window tracks, and every bathroom. The same clean, done the day before the boxes arrive, is the best start a 1979 house can get.
Apartment and townhome cleaning
More than one in five Indianola homes is in a building of five or more units, and nearly one in ten is an attached townhome, from the older apartments near campus and the square to Kentucky Ridge, Schoolyard, and Emerald Bay. Our apartment cleaning is priced by the rooms you have, not a flat rate, and our $125 minimum covers most one- and two-bedroom units in full.
Why Indianola households hire us
Indianola is 19 miles south of Des Moines and its own town. For us it is the southern end of a regular route, not a special trip.
- We come to Indianola. Our team is based in Urbandale, about 40 minutes away. Indianola is on our schedule every week, and there is no travel fee. You reach us at 515-513-3187, not a call center.
- We know old houses. Grout, woodwork, textured ceilings, painted-over baseboards. We plan the first visit for the house you actually have, and we tell you before we start that it will take longer than the fifth visit.
- We work while you are at work. More than four in ten Indianola workers leave the county every day. We are used to garage codes, lockboxes, back-door keys, and a note on the counter, and the house is locked when we leave.
- We price the house you have. Bathroom count and condition move the price more than square footage does. A two-bath ranch that has never had a deep clean costs more on the first visit than a new townhome, and less on every visit after. We will tell you the number before we start.
- We are insured and background-checked. Every cleaner is vetted before they set foot in a client's house, townhome, or apartment.
- You get the same crew. Wherever possible we keep the same cleaners on the same home. That familiarity is most of what makes recurring service worth paying for.
- No contracts. Reschedule, skip a visit, or change your plan whenever you need to. We never charge a cancellation fee.
What it costs
We do not publish a single flat rate for Indianola because a 1910 house off the square, a 1975 split-level, and a new four-bedroom in Summercrest are not the same job. What we do publish is our actual math: $50 per hour with a $125 minimum, estimated by the number of rooms and the type of clean.
Here is the honest version for Indianola. Four in ten homes here have two bedrooms or fewer, and most of the rest have three, so on a recurring plan a lot of Indianola houses land at or within $50 of the minimum. The first visit is the one that costs more, because a house that has been lived in since the 1970s needs a deep clean before it can be maintained, and a deep clean runs roughly three times the hours of a recurring visit. We will tell you both numbers up front rather than after the fact. There is no travel fee for Indianola.
First-time clients get 50% off the second cleaning when the first is booked. No promo code, no catch.
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