House Cleaning in Johnston, Iowa
Recurring, deep, move-out, and apartment cleaning across Johnston, from Merle Hay Road to Beaver Creek and north to Camp Dodge. Our office is next door in Urbandale. Locally owned, fully insured, and background-checked.
- 2004Median year homes were built
- 2 in 3Homes built since 2000
- 7 in 10Households are families
- 24,384Residents, nearly triple the 2000 count
Johnston is the family suburb that got built this century. The median Johnston home dates to 2004, nearly two-thirds of the city's homes went up after 2000, and seven in ten households are families. The typical house we clean here is a two-story with three or more bathrooms, an open kitchen, light floors, and a calendar with no free evening in it. That is the job Diamond House Cleaning is set up for.
We are close, too. Our office is at 2982 99th Street in Urbandale, directly south of the Johnston line, so a Johnston appointment is one of the shortest drives we make. Short drives mean recurring slots that hold, reschedules that are easy to fit back in, and the same crew showing up at your door. Our company is run by Stephanie and Tony Dacey, and we clean homes the way we would want our own cleaned.
Diamond House Cleaning is locally owned and fully insured, and every cleaner who enters your home is background-checked.
Cleaning the house with all the bathrooms
Johnston had 2,236 residents when it incorporated in 1969 and has nearly tripled since 2000. Almost all of that growth is family housing built in the 2000s and 2010s, and those houses are cleaned differently from a 1970s ranch.
Here is the honest version of how house cleaning is priced: bathrooms and condition move the number more than square footage does. A three-bath two-story takes longer than a one-bath ranch of the same size, every time. Johnston has more three-bath two-stories than almost anywhere we clean, so we say that up front rather than surprising you with it.
Quartz, stainless, glass shower doors, LVP and light-colored tile with light grout. They look great and they show everything. Each gets the right product and a streak-free finish, and the glass gets squeegeed, not wiped. A generic all-purpose spray on a 2015 kitchen is how it ends up looking dull in a year.
Seven in ten Johnston households are families, and most of our clients here are at work, at practice, or at a game when we clean. Leave a code and come home to a finished house. Appointment reminders and On My Way texts keep you in the loop, and there are no contracts and no cancellation fees when the week gets away from you.
Because Johnston is the next city over from our office, we can keep the same cleaners on the same home visit after visit. They learn which bathroom the kids use, where the dog stays, and which counter you actually care about. Nobody has to be re-briefed, and the results stay consistent.
Want a real number for your house, bathrooms and all? Tell us the room count and how often, and we will give you an honest estimate of the time it takes.
Call 515-513-3187Every part of Johnston
The city covers about 21 square miles of Polk County, from the Des Moines River and Saylorville on the east to Highway 141 on the west, and from I-80 north to Camp Dodge. We clean in all of it. These are the areas we are in most often.
The Merle Hay Road corridor
The original Johnston, along Merle Hay Road from the I-80/35 interchange north past City Hall to the new Town Center at NW 62nd Avenue. This is where the Interurban stop that named the town once stood, and it holds most of the city's older housing from the 1970s and 1980s: ranches and split-levels with mature trees and finished basements, plus the newer apartment buildings around Town Center. Fewer than one Johnston home in twelve was built before 1980, and most of them are here. We give those homes the time their older trim and tile need.
NW 86th Street and Pioneer Parkway
The center of the city, along the 86th Street artery and the Pioneer Parkway corridor around the 200 acres of Terra Park and its eight-acre lake. Mostly two-stories from the 1990s and 2000s, with established yards, three or four bathrooms, and often a second owner who has updated the kitchen. This is the steady core of our recurring work in Johnston.
Beaver Creek, the west side, and north to Camp Dodge
Green Meadows West along the 55 acres of Lew Clarkson Park and Beaver Creek, Glenstone Ridge off 100th Street, and the newest subdivisions out toward Highway 141, then north past NW 70th Avenue toward Hyperion and the Camp Dodge boundary. Three in ten Johnston homes were built since 2010, and most of them are out here: larger two-stories with open kitchens, quartz, stainless, glass showers, and light floors that show every footprint.
Townhomes, condos, and apartments
About one in seven Johnston homes is an attached townhome, and more than one in four is in a building of five or more units, from townhome associations like Stone Pointe on the west side to the newer apartment buildings along Merle Hay Road. We handle apartment cleaning on a recurring schedule or for a single visit, and we are used to leasing-office access, key fobs, and garage codes.
It does not matter which part of the city you are in. If you are in Johnston, we cover you.
The services Johnston households book most
Recurring cleaning, weekly or every other week
The heart of our Johnston work, and the service a family house is built for. Our recurring cleaning clients get the same crew each visit and a slot that stays put. About 14% of Johnston's workers work from home, so we are used to cleaning around someone on a call, and the rest of our clients leave a code and come home to a finished house.
Deep cleaning
Where we recommend beginning, even in a newer house. A deep cleaning covers grout, glass shower doors, inside the oven and fridge, ceiling fans, window tracks, baseboards, and the film that builds up on white cabinet fronts and light floors. It gets the house to a baseline that a recurring clean can realistically maintain.
Move-in and move-out cleaning
About one in ten Johnston residents moved in the past year, and nearly 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. For sellers, it is the clean that makes a ten-year-old house show like a new one.
Apartment and condo cleaning
Studios, one-bedrooms, and townhomes across the city, on a schedule or for a single visit. Our apartment cleaning is priced by the space you actually have, and our $125 minimum covers most one-bedroom units in full.
Why Johnston households hire us
Johnston has plenty of cleaning options, including national franchises and app-based gig platforms. We are neither. We are a local company from the next city over.
- We are local, and we are close. Our office is at 2982 99th Street in Urbandale, directly south of Johnston. When you call 515-513-3187, you reach us, not a call center in another state.
- 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.
- We know newer homes. Quartz, stainless, glass, LVP, and light grout are most of our week in Johnston. They get the right product and a streak-free finish, not a generic all-purpose wipe.
- We price bathrooms honestly. A four-bath house is a longer job than a one-bath house, and we tell you that before the first visit, not after.
- We are insured and background-checked. Every cleaner is vetted before they set foot in a client's house, townhome, or apartment.
- 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 Johnston because a 1970s split-level off Merle Hay, a 1990s two-story near Terra Park, and a four-bath new build out by Beaver Creek 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.
One thing worth being honest about in a city of newer two-stories: bathroom count and the current condition of the house move the price more than square footage does. A three-bath house takes longer than a one-bath house of the same size, and a first visit takes longer than the fifth. We will tell you that up front rather than after the fact.
First-time clients get 50% off the second cleaning when the first is booked. No promo code, no catch.
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