Move In/Move Out Cleaning for July 1st in Toronto

July 1st in Toronto is a beautiful kind of chaos. Half the city is waving flags for Canada Day. The other half is hauling a couch down a third-floor walk-up while a cube van double-parks on the street. And this year? There's a third thing happening — the FIFA World Cup is in town, the patios are packed, and BMO Field has had the whole city buzzing since June 12th. So when your lease flips over on July 1st and you're trying to clean an entire apartment between the moving truck and the next match kickoff, something has to give.

Usually, the thing that gives is the cleaning. And usually, that's the thing that costs you your tenant deposit.

That's where Papi comes in. We're Clean Papi — Toronto's most trusted house cleaning service — and move in/move out cleaning on July 1st is basically our Super Bowl. Or, fittingly this year, our World Cup Final. While you're carrying boxes and arguing about whether the bookshelf will fit through the door, our crew is making your old place look like nobody ever lived there and your new place look like you should have moved in a week ago.

This guide is the only thing you need to read before the busiest moving day of the year. We'll walk you through exactly what July 1st moving cleaning involves, how to protect your tenant deposit, what a proper deep cleaning Toronto crew actually does, and why hiring professional cleaners to work alongside your professional movers is the single smartest decision you'll make all summer. Grab a coffee (or a cold one — there's probably a game on), and let's get into it.

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Why July 1st Is the Most Insane Moving Day in Canada

If you're new to the city, here's the lore: a huge share of Toronto's residential leases run from July 1st to June 30th. That means on a single day, tens of thousands of households across the GTA are simultaneously moving out and moving in. Elevators in every condo tower are booked solid. Every U-Haul within 50 kilometres is spoken for. Streets are clogged. Professional movers are charging peak rates and still turning people away.

Now layer 2026 on top of that. Toronto has been a FIFA World Cup host city since June 12th, when Canada kicked off the first-ever men's World Cup match on Canadian soil at BMO Field. The matches keep rolling right through the end of June and into a Round of 32 knockout game on July 2nd. The city is full of visitors. Hotels are full. Patios are full. And right in the middle of all that energy, your lease still ends at noon on July 1st whether your team won or lost the night before.

Here's the part people underestimate: moving and cleaning are two completely different jobs, and trying to do both yourself on July 1st is a recipe for losing your deposit and ahem your mind. You can't scrub an oven and carry a TV at the same time. You can't detail a bathroom and direct the movers up the stairs at the same time. Something gets rushed, and the thing that gets rushed is almost always the deep clean your landlord is going to inspect.

This is exactly why smart Torontonians book their move in/move out cleaning weeks in advance for July 1st. The good crews — the safe and trusted ones — book up fast. Papi's calendar around July 1st fills earlier than any other date on the year, World Cup or not.

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Move In vs. Move Out Cleaning: They're Not the Same Job

People say "move in/move out cleaning" like it's one thing. It's actually two very different missions, and Papi treats them differently.

Move Out Cleaning: Get Your Tenant Deposit Back

When you're moving out, the cleaning has one job above all others: protect your tenant deposit and your relationship with your landlord. Your landlord (or the incoming tenant) is going to walk through that empty space and look for reasons to keep your money or knock you for damage. Dust on the baseboards, grease on the stove, soap scum in the shower, a fridge that smells like the leftovers of three roommates ago — every one of those is a line item someone can use against you.

Move out cleaning is empty house cleaning Toronto at its purest. The furniture is gone, the walls are bare, and suddenly every flaw is visible under the light. That's actually good news — an empty home cleans up far better than a furnished one because there's nothing in the way. But it also means there's nowhere to hide. Papi's move-out crews clean like the landlord is standing right behind them with a clipboard, because functionally, they are.

Move In Cleaning: Start Fresh in a Place Someone Else Lived

Moving into a new place is exciting right up until you open a kitchen cabinet and find crumbs that aren't yours. No matter how nice your new home looks, someone else lived their whole life in it — cooked in that oven, showered in that tub, stored their stuff in those closets. A move-in clean is about making the space genuinely yours before your first box even crosses the threshold.

It's so much easier to do a full deep cleaning Toronto treatment on a new place while it's still empty. Once your sofa, bed, and forty boxes are inside, getting to the baseboards and inside the cabinets becomes a months-long project you'll never actually finish. Clean it empty, move in clean, sleep easy.

Either way, Clean Papi's move in/move out cleaning starts at $169, and it's the kind of service that pays for itself the moment your landlord hands back your full deposit or you don't have to spend your first weekend in a new home scrubbing someone else's shower.

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What's Actually Included in Papi's Move In/Move Out Deep Clean

Here's where a lot of cleaning companies get vague. They promise a "general clean" and then ghost the inside of the oven. Not Papi. When you book a move-out or move-in deep clean, here's the real checklist our house cleaners in Toronto work through, room by room.

The Kitchen: Where Deposits Are Won and Lost

The kitchen is the single most-inspected room in any move-out. It's also the dirtiest, because grease is sneaky and gets everywhere over a year of cooking. Papi's kitchen deep clean covers:

• Deep cleaning oven, inside and out. This is the big one. A baked-on, greasy oven is the number one reason tenants lose deposit money, and it's the number one thing DIY cleaners skip because it's miserable work. Papi degreases the racks, scrubs the glass door until you can see through it, and gets the burnt-on residue off the bottom that's been there since whoever lived there before you. A clean oven alone can be the difference between "full deposit" and "deductions."
• Kitchen cabinet cleaning, inside and out. Every cabinet and drawer gets wiped down — interiors included. We clear out the crumbs, the sticky shelf-liner residue, the mystery stains, and the grease film that builds up on cabinet faces right above the stove. When you're moving in, this means you can put your dishes away without thinking about who touched the shelf last. When you're moving out, it means the inspector opens a cabinet and finds nothing to complain about.
• Fridge and freezer, interior and exterior, defrosted and wiped down so it doesn't smell.
• Microwave inside and out, including that splatter on the ceiling of it.
• Stovetop, range hood, and backsplash degreased.
• Countertops sanitized, sink scrubbed and polished, faucet shined.
• Floors swept and mopped, including the gross strip in front of the stove.

The Bathroom: Grout, Mold, and the Stuff You Can't Un-See

Bathrooms are the second battleground. A year of showers leaves behind soap scum, hard-water stains, and — the real villain — grout that's gone grey and patches of mold creeping into the caulk. Papi's bathroom service includes full bathroom grout and mold removal, which is the kind of detailed, on-your-knees-with-a-brush work that transforms a tired bathroom back into something that looks brand new.

Our crews scrub the grout lines until they're their original colour, treat and remove mold from the caulk and corners, descale the shower glass and chrome, disinfect the toilet inside and out (including the base and behind it), polish the mirror, and sanitize every surface. The reviews don't lie — customers tell us the tile grout comes back "pristine" and the shower glass looks "brand new." That's not an accident. That's a Papi who refuses to leave until the bathroom passes the white-glove test.

Bedrooms, Living Areas, and Everything In Between

With the rooms empty (or being emptied as the movers work), Papi handles:

• Baseboards, door frames, and crown moulding wiped down — the spots that collect a year of dust.
• All closets and wardrobe interiors cleaned out, shelves wiped.
• Window sills, tracks, and blinds dusted and washed.
• Light fixtures and ceiling fans dusted.
• Walls spot-cleaned for scuffs, marks, and the ghost rectangles left behind by picture frames.
• High-touch points sanitized: switches, handles, thermostats.
• Every floor vacuumed and mopped, carpets included. That last point matters more than people think. Several of our reviews specifically call out the carpet cleaning — "carpet looks like new," "the cat fur too." Pet hair and ground-in carpet grime are deposit-killers, and they're nearly impossible to fully remove with a household vacuum. Papi comes with HEPA vacuums and the patience to actually finish the job.

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How a Move-Out Clean Protects Your Tenant Deposit

Let's talk money, because that's the whole point for a lot of people.

In Ontario, the rules around deposits are specific, and a professional clean fits neatly into protecting yourself. Your landlord can't keep your last-month's-rent deposit for ordinary cleaning, but the reality on the ground is messier than the rulebook. Disputes happen. Landlords and incoming tenants notice grime. If you leave a place dirty, you're inviting a fight — and even if you'd technically win at the Landlord and Tenant Board, who has time for that in the middle of a move?

The smart play is simple: leave the place cleaner than you found it, document it, and remove every possible reason for a dispute. A professional move in/move out cleaning gives you exactly that. When Papi's crew finishes, your old place is genuinely spotless, and you can do your final walkthrough with photos that prove it. We've literally had customers book us precisely so their landlord had nothing to point at. One of our reviewers bought a property "destroyed by a squatter," and our crew turned it from a disaster into a unit that was "spotless and ready for new tenants" — that's the same energy we bring to protecting your tenant deposit.

Here's the math that makes it obvious. A move-out deep clean starts at $169. A withheld deposit, or deductions for cleaning, can run several hundred dollars or more. Hiring professional cleaners to guarantee your deposit isn't an expense — it's insurance with a near-guaranteed payout. And unlike the deposit dispute process, it doesn't require you to argue with anyone.

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The Dream Team: Professional Cleaners + Professional Movers

The single biggest July 1st upgrade you can make is to stop thinking of cleaning and moving as one job you do alone, and start thinking of it as two specialist teams working in sequence.

Your professional movers are experts at one thing: getting your stuff from point A to point B without breaking it or your back. They are not there to scrub your oven, and you don't want to pay movers' hourly rates to have them wipe baseboards. Likewise, Papi's professional cleaners are experts at making spaces immaculate — but we're not going to carry your piano down the stairs.

The choreography that works beautifully on July 1st looks like this:

1. Movers clear out your old place in the morning. The moment a room is empty, it's ready for cleaning.
2. Papi's crew moves in behind them to deep clean the now-empty home — this is where empty house cleaning Toronto shines, because we can finally get to every surface.
3. Meanwhile, if your new place needs it, a second Papi crew handles the move-in clean before your boxes arrive, so you're carrying your life into a freshly sanitized home. Coordinate the timing and July 1st goes from the worst day of your year to a surprisingly smooth handoff. We do this all the time, and our team is genuinely good at slotting in around movers' schedules. As one reviewer with a tight move-in deadline put it after their previous cleaner fell through: "Nathan was great arranging something for us. They didn't miss a spot... all was ready on time."

A quick word on booking both around July 1st: book early. Both professional movers and the best house cleaners in Toronto are slammed on that date. Lock in your cleaning the same week you lock in your truck.

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Empty House Cleaning: The Easiest Deep Clean You'll Ever Get

There's a reason Papi loves an empty house. Empty house cleaning Toronto is the most thorough and satisfying type of clean we do, because nothing is in the way.

In a lived-in home, we're cleaning around furniture, working over your belongings, careful not to disturb your setup. In an empty home, every baseboard is exposed, every corner is reachable, every inch of floor is open. We can pull the full deep cleaning Toronto playbook without compromise — get behind where the fridge used to be, into the closet corners, along the full run of the windows. The result is a level of clean that's simply impossible when the place is full.

This is why the absolute best time to deep clean any home is during the gap between tenants — when the old furniture is out and the new furniture isn't in yet. If you're a landlord turning over a unit between July 1st leases, this is your golden window. Book Papi for that empty stretch and your new tenant walks into a home that smells like nothing, which (as we like to say) is exactly what genuinely clean smells like.

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Deep Cleaning Toronto: What "Deep" Actually Means

The phrase "deep cleaning Toronto" gets thrown around so much it's lost meaning. Let's fix that. Here's the honest difference between a regular clean and a deep clean, in Papi terms.

A regular cleaning keeps a home maintained: vacuum, mop, dust, wipe the counters, sanitize the bathroom surfaces, take out the trash. It's the every-week or every-other-week reset that keeps your place from sliding into chaos. It's surface-level by design, and that's fine for upkeep.

A deep clean goes after everything regular cleaning leaves behind. It's the deep cleaning oven interior, the kitchen cabinet cleaning inside and out, the bathroom grout and mold removal, the inside of the fridge, the window tracks, the baseboards, the light fixtures, the closet interiors, the wall scuffs. It's the layer of grime that builds up so slowly you stopped seeing it. A deep clean is what makes a year-old apartment look like a model unit again — and it's exactly the level your move-out inspection demands.

Every Clean Papi move in/move out cleaning is a deep clean by default. We don't do "move-out cleaning, lite." When the stakes are your deposit or your first night in a new home, surface-level isn't good enough, and Papi doesn't do good-enough.

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Cleaning the Big Ones: Mansion Cleaning Across Toronto's Most Prestigious Neighbourhoods

Not every July 1st move is a one-bedroom condo. Toronto is home to some of the most spectacular real estate in the country, and when one of those properties changes hands or gets turned over, the cleaning is a whole different scale of operation. This is mansion cleaning — and Papi shows up for it with the crew, the equipment, and the standards a luxury home demands.

A large estate isn't just "a bigger house to clean." It's multiple kitchens, half a dozen or more bathrooms (each needing full grout and mold attention), wine cellars, home theatres, sprawling hardwood that has to be treated correctly, and finishes that cost more than a car and have to be handled accordingly. Mansion cleaning requires a team that can coordinate, move methodically through dozens of rooms, and hold the same standard in the eighth bathroom as the first. That's Papi's bread and butter for the city's premier addresses.

Rosedale House Cleaners

In Rosedale, the homes are historic, the trees are old, and the expectations are exactly what you'd expect. Papi's Rosedale house cleaners treat these century properties with the care they deserve — careful around original woodwork, plaster, and heritage finishes, while still delivering the deep, deposit-grade clean a move demands. Whether it's a full estate turnover or a deep clean before a sale, Rosedale trusts Papi to get it right the first time.

Forest Hill House Cleaners

Forest Hill is one of Toronto's most prestigious enclaves, and the properties here are immaculate by default — which means the cleaning has to be flawless. Papi's Forest Hill house cleaners bring the detail-obsessed, won't-leave-until-it's-perfect approach that residents here expect. Move in, move out, or a seasonal deep clean, we hold the standard the neighbourhood is known for.

Lawrence Park House Cleaners

Family homes in Lawrence Park are gorgeous, generous in size, and lived-in by busy families who don't have a weekend to lose to scrubbing. Papi's Lawrence Park house cleaners handle the full move in/move out deep clean — ovens, cabinets, grout, the works — so families can focus on the actual move and the kids' summer, not the inside of the fridge.

Bridle Path Professional House Cleaners

The Bridle Path is, quite simply, the most exclusive address in Canada. The estates here are vast, the finishes are world-class, and there's no room for a cleaning crew that isn't completely buttoned-up. Papi's Bridle Path professional house cleaners are licensed, insured, background-checked, and discreet — the only kind of crew that belongs inside a home of this calibre. Mansion cleaning on the Bridle Path is the most demanding job in the city, and it's one Papi is built for.

Across all of these neighbourhoods, the through-line is the same: these are clients who can hire anyone, and the reason they call Papi is that we're safe and trusted house cleaners who show up on time, hold a luxury standard, and treat the home like it's our own.

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Safe and Trusted House Cleaners: Why Vetting Matters More on Moving Day

Letting someone into your home is an act of trust on any day. On moving day — when the doors are propped open, your stuff is half-packed and exposed, and there's a parade of people coming and going — that trust matters even more. This is the single biggest reason to be picky about who you hire, and it's where the gap between a real company and a random gig worker becomes a canyon.

Every Clean Papi team member is background-checked before their first shift — full stop. We're fully licensed, bonded, and insured in Ontario. That means if something goes wrong (it won't, but if), you're protected. It means the person in your home has been vetted. It means we're accountable in a way that a stranger off a classifieds site never will be.

This is what "safe and trusted house cleaners" actually means, beyond a tagline. It means:

• Background checks on every single crew member.
• Full insurance and bonding, so your home and belongings are covered.
• Branded uniforms and a real company behind the work — not anonymous, here-today-gone-tomorrow labour.
• A satisfaction guarantee: if you're not 100% happy, we come back and make it right at no charge.
• Eco-certified, pet-safe, kid-safe products — hospital-grade on the grime, gentle on your family and your lungs. On July 1st, with the city in motion and everyone's guard down, hiring vetted professional cleaners isn't a luxury. It's basic peace of mind. Papi's whole brand is built on showing up when we say we will and earning that trust — 1,000+ GTA households and a 4.9★ Google rating later, it's working.

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A July 1st Moving Day Timeline (The Papi Game Plan)

Let's put it all together into an actual plan. Here's how a smoothly run July 1st looks when you've got your movers and your cleaners lined up — and yes, we'll be honest about how the World Cup factors in, because in 2026 it absolutely does.

3–4 weeks before July 1st: Book your professional movers and your move in/move out cleaning at the same time. This is non-negotiable. Both book out completely for July 1st, and the World Cup has the whole city even busier than a normal summer. Lock in Papi early.

1 week before: Confirm timing with both teams. Decide whether you need a move-out clean, a move-in clean, or both. Start packing in earnest. Use up or donate the food in the fridge so it's empty and easy to clean.

The night before (June 30th): Do your final packing. There may well be a World Cup match on — Toronto's run of fixtures stretched right through late June into the July 2nd knockout game — so by all means watch the game, but don't pull an all-nighter trying to clean. That's literally what you booked Papi for.

July 1st, morning: Movers arrive and clear the old place. As each room empties, it's ready for cleaning.

July 1st, midday: Papi's crew arrives at the empty old unit for the move-out deep clean — deep cleaning oven, kitchen cabinet cleaning, bathroom grout and mold removal, baseboards, floors, the full empty house cleaning Toronto treatment. Meanwhile your movers are en route to the new place.

July 1st, afternoon: If you booked a move-in clean, a Papi crew has already prepped your new home, or arrives to handle it before your furniture is placed. You direct the movers; Papi handles the dirt.

July 1st, evening: Old place is spotless and photographed for your tenant deposit records. New place is fresh and sanitized. Your stuff is in. And if there's a match on — and around July 1st, 2026, there's a real chance there is — you can actually sit down, put your feet up in a clean home, and watch it. Papi already won your day.

That's the difference between surviving July 1st and actually getting through it like a person. The chaos of the busiest moving day in Canada, in the middle of a World Cup summer, handled by people who do this for a living.

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The World Cup Is in Town — Don't Let the Clean Be an Own Goal

We'll lean into the metaphor for a second, because it fits. Moving day is a match. You've got a limited window, a lot on the line, and you only get one shot to get it right. Professional movers are your forwards, moving everything up the field. Papi's professional cleaners are your defence and your keeper — the ones who make sure nothing gets past you, that your tenant deposit stays exactly where it should: in your pocket.

The teams that lose are the ones that try to play every position themselves. The DIY mover-cleaner who's exhausted, out of time, and scrubbing an oven at 10 p.m. while the moving van's meter runs — that's an own goal. The teams that win bring in specialists and let each one do what they're best at.

Toronto has been showing up for the World Cup all month — packed patios, full stadiums, the whole city wearing its colours. Show up for your move the same way: with a real team. Let your movers move and let Papi clean. That's how you go undefeated on July 1st.

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Frequently Asked Questions About July 1st Move In/Out Cleaning

How much does move in/move out cleaning cost in Toronto? Clean Papi's move in/move out cleaning starts at $169, with the final price depending on the size of the space and its condition. It's a flat, transparent quote — no surprise "premium bathroom" fees showing up on the invoice. Given that it protects a tenant deposit worth several hundred dollars, it's one of the highest-return moves you can make on moving day.

Should I book my cleaning before or after the movers? Both, ideally, but the move-out clean happens after the movers empty your old place — an empty home is far easier and more thorough to clean. The move-in clean happens before your furniture arrives at the new place. Papi coordinates around your professional movers so the timing lines up.

Will a move-out clean really help me get my tenant deposit back? It's one of the most effective things you can do. A professional deep clean removes the cleaning-related reasons a landlord might withhold money or deduct from your deposit, and gives you photo-documented proof the place was left spotless. The deep cleaning oven and bathroom grout and mold removal alone address the two most common deposit-dispute culprits.

Do you clean empty houses and whole estates? Absolutely. Empty house cleaning Toronto is one of our specialties — and so is mansion cleaning for large luxury properties across Rosedale, Forest Hill, Lawrence Park, and the Bridle Path. Whether it's a 500-square-foot condo or a 10,000-square-foot estate, Papi scales to the job.

Are your cleaners safe to let into my home on a busy moving day? Yes — every Clean Papi crew member is background-checked, and we're fully licensed, bonded, and insured. We pride ourselves on being safe and trusted house cleaners, which matters most exactly on the kind of chaotic, doors-open day that July 1st always is.

Can you really fit me in around July 1st with the World Cup happening? We do our best, but July 1st is the single busiest cleaning date of the year, and 2026's World Cup summer has the whole city booked solid. Reserve your July 1st moving cleaning as early as you can — the earlier you call, the better your odds of locking in the slot you want.

Do I need to be home during the move in/out clean? You don't have to be, and on July 1st most people aren't — they're at the other property directing the movers. Because Papi's crews are background-checked, fully insured, and safe and trusted house cleaners, plenty of clients hand us a key or a lockbox code and go handle the rest of their day. We'll send confirmation when we arrive and when we finish, and for move-outs we can photograph the finished space for your tenant deposit records. If you'd rather be there for the walkthrough, that works too — just tell us when you book.

Is a move-out clean different from a regular deep clean? It's more intense and more inspection-focused. A regular deep cleaning Toronto service gets your home genuinely clean, but a move-out clean is calibrated to pass a landlord's eye — every cabinet interior, the deep cleaning oven job, the bathroom grout and mold removal, the closet corners, the spots behind where appliances stood. It's the difference between "clean" and "leaves no reason to keep your deposit."

What neighbourhoods do you serve? All of Toronto and the GTA — from downtown condos to North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Richmond Hill, and beyond. That includes our specialty luxury neighbourhoods: we've got dedicated Rosedale house cleaners, Forest Hill house cleaners, Lawrence Park house cleaners, and Bridle Path professional house cleaners ready to go.

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Book Your July 1st Move In/Move Out Cleaning With Papi

Here's the bottom line. July 1st is going to be busy no matter what. The movers will be late somewhere, the elevator will be booked, and the whole city will be running on World Cup adrenaline and not enough sleep. The one part of the day you can completely take off your plate is the cleaning — and getting it off your plate is exactly how you protect your tenant deposit, start fresh in your new home, and actually enjoy the summer instead of spending it scrubbing.

Clean Papi is Toronto's most trusted name in move in/move out cleaning. We bring the full deep cleaning Toronto treatment to every job: deep cleaning oven, kitchen cabinet cleaning, bathroom grout and mold removal, empty house cleaning Toronto, and the kind of attention to detail that makes 1,000+ GTA households book us again and again. We're licensed, insured, background-checked, and on time — safe and trusted house cleaners who show up, clean, and don't stop until it's spotless.

Whether you're moving out of a condo downtown, into a family home in Lawrence Park, or turning over a full estate on the Bridle Path, Papi's got a crew for it. And if you book early enough, we'll have one for you on July 1st too.

Don't let moving day cost you your deposit. Hire a Papi.

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This July 1st, let the movers move, let the city enjoy the World Cup, and let Papi handle the dirt. We'll have your old place spotless and your new place sparkling before the next kickoff.

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Clean Papi proudly serves Toronto and the entire Greater Toronto Area with professional move in/move out cleaning, deep cleaning, condo cleaning, post-construction cleaning, and luxury mansion cleaning. Licensed, insured, and background-checked. Book your July 1st moving cleaning today.