House Cleaning in West Des Moines, Iowa
Recurring, deep, move-out, and apartment cleaning across West Des Moines, from Valley Junction to Jordan Creek. Locally owned, fully insured, and background-checked.
- 73,744Residents, up 7% since 2020
- 1994Median year homes were built
- 4 in 10Households rent
- 4Counties the city spans
West Des Moines is the newer half of the metro, and that shapes the house cleaning we do here. Nearly six in ten homes in the city were built since 1990, and the median West Des Moines home dates to 1994. Only about 4% predate 1940. That is close to the opposite of Des Moines proper, where half the houses are older than 1960, and it means a different kind of job: open floor plans, more glass, more bathrooms, and lighter finishes that show everything.
We are a locally owned company run by Stephanie and Tony Dacey, and we clean across the whole city: a 1920s bungalow near Valley Junction, a 1970s split-level off Ashworth Road, a two-story built last decade west of I-35, an apartment near Jordan Creek. 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.
Newer homes need a different kind of clean
West Des Moines more than doubled in size between 1990 and 2020, and most of its housing went up in that stretch. Our crews spend much of their week in homes built in the last 30 years, and that changes how we work.
A newer West Des Moines two-story has fewer nooks than an old Des Moines foursquare, but it has more of everything else. Bigger windows and more of them. Open kitchens with islands, stainless appliances, and pale quartz that shows every fingerprint and water spot. Two and a half or three bathrooms instead of one. Tall ceilings, ceiling fans, and light-colored floors, tile, and grout that show dust and tracked-in salt within days. Clean looks clean here, and so does anything less.
We know these houses. The difference is in the details that show.
Stainless fronts, glass shower doors, quartz and granite counters, and big south-facing windows. The finishes that make a newer home look sharp are the ones that show a rushed wipe-down. We use the right product on each one and do not leave streaks.
Bathroom count matters more than floor area in this city. A three-bath two-story near Jordan Creek is more work than a one-bath ranch of the same size. We price the one you actually have, up front, rather than discover the difference halfway through.
Luxury vinyl plank, engineered hardwood, and large-format tile are everywhere in West Des Moines. Each takes a different product, and light grout lines need more than a mop. We treat the floor you have, not a generic one.
In a home built in the last 20 years? Tell us the bathroom count and the floor type and we will give you an honest estimate of the time it takes.
Call 515-513-3187Every part of West Des Moines
The city covers 47 square miles across Polk, Dallas, Warren, and Madison counties. We clean in all of it. These are the areas we are in most often.
Valley Junction
The original town, incorporated in 1893 as a Rock Island railroad junction and renamed West Des Moines in 1938. The Fifth Street commercial district is on the National Register of Historic Places, and the streets around it hold the city's oldest homes: bungalows, foursquares, and cottages from the 1900s through the 1930s. The one part of the city where we work the way we do in Des Moines, with more time on trim and original woodwork.
The mid-century core
Roughly between 63rd Street and Interstate 35, along Ashworth Road, Grand Avenue, and the Westown corridor, are the ranches, split-levels, and two-stories of the 1950s through the 1980s. Established yards, finished basements, and often a second owner who has updated the kitchen. The steady core of our recurring work in the city.
West of I-35 and the Jordan Creek side
Everything around Jordan Creek Town Center, which opened in 2004, and the neighborhoods that filled in behind it: West Glen, the golf-course homes of Glen Oaks, and the two-story subdivisions between Mills Civic Parkway and the Waukee line. Almost all built since 2000. Larger homes, more bathrooms, and the newest finishes in the city.
Apartments, townhomes, and condos
Nearly four in ten West Des Moines homes are in buildings of five or more units, and another one in eight is an attached townhome. Newer complexes on the west side near Jordan Creek, plus older garden-style buildings on the east side near Valley Junction. A large share of our apartment cleaning and move-out work in the metro is here.
It does not matter which part of the city you are in. If you are in West Des Moines, we cover you.
The services West Des Moines households book most
Recurring cleaning, weekly or every other week
The steady core of our West Des Moines work. Our recurring cleaning clients get the same crew each visit, so nobody has to be re-briefed on the dog, the good countertop, or which door actually locks. About 19% of the city works from home, well above the 13% in Des Moines proper, so we schedule around a lot of people who are actually in the house.
Move-in and move-out cleaning
More than four in ten West Des Moines households rent, and about one in six residents moved in the last year. That is a lot of lease ends and a lot of closings. 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.
Deep cleaning
Where we recommend starting, especially in a home that has been kept up but never fully reset. A deep cleaning covers grout, glass shower doors, inside the oven and fridge, ceiling fans, window tracks, and the built-up film on cabinet fronts that ordinary weekly tidying never reaches. It gets the house to a baseline that is realistic to maintain.
Apartment and condo cleaning
Studios, one-bedrooms, and townhomes all over the city, on a recurring 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. We are used to leasing-office access, key fobs, and garage codes.
Why West Des Moines households hire us
West Des Moines has plenty of cleaning options, including national franchises and app-based gig platforms. We are neither.
- We are local, and we are close. Our team is based in Urbandale, minutes up I-35 and I-80. When you call 515-513-3187, you reach us, not a call center in another state.
- We know newer homes. Stainless, quartz, glass, LVP, and light grout are most of our week. They get the right product and a streak-free finish, not a generic all-purpose wipe.
- We are insured and background-checked. Every cleaner is vetted before they set foot in a client's house, apartment, or townhome.
- 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 West Des Moines because a Valley Junction bungalow, a Westown split-level, and a four-bedroom near Jordan 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 this city, bathrooms drive the price more than square footage does. A three-bath home takes longer than a one-bath home of the same size, and 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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