Guides on transition cleans, residential care, and commercial cleaning

An estate sale is more than a weekend of tables and price tags. When a family is settling a home, the sale is one step in a longer process, and the way it is handled sets the tone for everything after it. Our estate sales follow three steps. First, we inventory the home, price the items, set a date, and promote the sale. Second, we run the sale itself over two days, staffed and secure. Third, we close out the sale, handle what is left, and pay out the proceeds with a full accounting.

What families tell us they love most is that we do not stop there. Blues Cleaners is a 360 company. After the sale, our transition cleaning team can clear and clean the property, and we can take care of interior and exterior improvements upon request, so the home is ready to list. One team carries the whole process, which means fewer calls, fewer handoffs, and no gaps between steps. If you have a few trusted real estate agents in mind, great, and if you need an introduction, we have recommendations.

Customers also notice how thoughtful the process feels. We listen first, we explain what happens next, and we treat the home and the people in it with care. You can book the estate sale on its own, or hand us the full process and let us handle it from the first walkthrough to the final clean.

A transition clean is not the same as a routine house cleaning. It covers the moments when a home itself is changing hands or changing purpose, an estate cleanout after a loss, a move into senior living, or a hoarding situation a family can no longer manage alone.

Every transition clean starts with a Compass Visit, a free walkthrough where a care coordinator listens to your timeline and priorities before any work begins. From there, our team sorts, removes, donates, and deep cleans at a pace that respects the people involved, not just the property.

If your family is facing a move, a loss, or a home that has become too much to manage, a transition clean is built for exactly that.

Real estate agents and estate executors often face the same challenge, a home full of belongings that needs to be cleared and cleaned before it can go on the market. An estate cleanout handles both parts of that job at once.

Our team sorts items for keeping, donating, or removal, coordinates with the family or executor at each step, and finishes with a full deep clean so the property is ready to show. Because one care coordinator stays on the job from start to finish, nothing falls through the cracks between the cleanout and the final walkthrough.

For agents working against a closing date, that coordination is often the difference between a home that shows well and one that sits on the market.

Not every home needs the same level of cleaning, and pricing works differently depending on which one fits. A light clean usually runs two to four hours and covers everyday upkeep. A deep clean usually runs six to nine hours and covers a more detailed pass, often used for occupied homes that need a reset or for a move out clean.

Hourly pricing is eighty dollars an hour with a two hour minimum, dropping to seventy dollars an hour after four hours. About thirty minutes before your booked time ends, we let you know where the clean stands so you can decide on additional time.

If your home is lived in day to day, this hourly approach flexes to match the size of the job instead of locking you into a fixed package that may not fit.

Specialty cleans cover the items a standard cleaning often skips, the inside of a refrigerator, an oven, trash cans, or a washer and dryer. Each one is priced individually based on the scope of the job, since a lightly used oven and a heavily soiled one are not the same task.

As a general guide, refrigerators run ninety to one hundred fifty dollars, ovens run thirty to fifty dollars, and trash cans, including bathroom trash cans, run fifty dollars. Washers and dryers are priced in levels, from an exterior only clean up to a job that requires a certified maintenance repair technician.

These can be booked on their own or added to any project, which makes them an easy way to knock out the cleaning tasks that tend to get put off.

Commercial cleaning is handled by our sister company, Blues Corporations, built specifically for the needs of offices, retail spaces, and industrial facilities across the Quad Cities. Two services make up the core of that work.

Janitorial and recurring office cleaning keeps a space presentable on a schedule built around your business hours, so cleaning never disrupts the workday. Post construction and turnover cleaning handles the detailed clean a space needs after a build out, renovation, or tenant change, getting it ready for its next use.

Whether it is a daily routine or a one time job after construction, the same team approach carries over from the residential side of the business.