How Much Does Move-Out Cleaning Cost in Winnipeg?

Short answer: we charge $50 per person-hour (one cleaner, one hour), plus 5% GST, with a $50 minimum. At average condition, a 1-bedroom condo runs about $120, and a 3-bedroom house with stairs and a basement about $215. A well-kept home costs less; one with heavy build-up costs more. Move-in cleaning is priced exactly the same way.

You build the job yourself — pick which rooms we clean and skip the rest — and you pay for the time it actually takes. Want something added on the day? No problem: same $50 an hour.

Typical move-out cleaning prices in Winnipeg

Estimates before GST, for an empty home:

Home	Person-hours (average)	Well kept	Average	Heavy build-up
Studio condo	1.7	$58	$83	$132
1-bedroom condo	2.4	$82	$118	$188
2-bedroom condo, 1 bath	2.7	$93	$133	$212
3-bedroom house, 1.5 baths, stairs, basement	4.3	$149	$213	$340
4-bedroom house, 2.5 baths, 2 living rooms, stairs, basement	5.6	$196	$280	$448

Inside the oven, cabinets and fridge aren’t in these numbers — they’re add-ons (below). For your own home, the price calculator builds the estimate room by room in under a minute.

How the estimate is built

Every area has its own time at average condition, and you can include or skip each one:

Area	Person-hours	About
Kitchen (stovetop, counters, sink, backsplash, cabinet fronts, floor)	1.0	$50
Full bathroom	0.75	$38
Half bath (toilet + sink)	0.3	$15
Bedroom	0.3	$15
Living room, dining room, den or office	0.3	$15
Staircase	0.25	$13
Basement — open area and laundry	0.75	$38

The kitchen and the bathrooms are where the time goes — scrubbing, degreasing, descaling. Bedrooms and living rooms are mostly floors, baseboards and closets, so they go fast.

Condition is the biggest swing. The same house can take 3 hours or 10 depending on what’s built up. A well-kept home comes in at about 0.7 of the average time; heavy build-up — baked-on grease, hard water, pet hair — at about 1.6.

Add-ons are things not every home needs — inside the oven, inside cabinets and drawers, interior windows — so they’re separate.

Common add-ons and what they cost

Add-on prices are estimates too — like the base clean, they’re billed by the time they actually take.

Inside oven: about an hour on a normal oven — around $50, less if it’s been kept up, $80 or more for baked-on, heavy build-up. The oven is the single most-checked item on a walkthrough.

Inside cabinets and drawers: about an hour, around $50 — more if there’s clutter to work around or old liner paper and sticky residue to deal with.

Range hood, inside and filter: $35–$65. Grease collects quietly in range hood filters — and people open them.

Inside fridge/freezer: about $30 per unit. Simple if it’s empty and defrosted the night before.

Interior windows: about $10 a window for the glass, $16 with the tracks and screens. A typical Winnipeg 2-bedroom has 8–12 windows.

Wall spot-washing: $40. Takes care of visible scuffs and marks.

Carpet cleaning: about $40–$45 per room or hallway, about $50 for a staircase — billed by the time it takes, like everything else. A recent job — two carpeted rooms, a hallway and stairs, washed and rinsed — took 3.5 person-hours. It’s a machine shampoo-and-extraction clean — the base price only vacuums carpet. Worth adding if there are stains, pet odour, or a buyer or landlord who’ll look closely. Renting? You get an itemized receipt for the carpet cleaning — date, address and rooms cleaned — so if your lease asks for proof the carpets were professionally cleaned, you have the paper your landlord wants to see.

Balcony or patio: $35. Garage sweep-out: $50.

What the base price covers

Every move-out and move-in clean includes:

• Stovetop, counters, backsplash and sink
• Bathrooms — toilet, tub or shower, all tile, fixtures, mirror, full sanitizing
• Floors vacuumed and washed
• Baseboards, doors, light switches and handles
• Window sills and reachable interior glass
• Exterior vent covers

Not in the base (add separately): inside oven, inside cabinets and drawers, inside fridge. For the room-by-room list — including the spots most people forget — see the complete move-out cleaning checklist.

Worked example: 2-bedroom condo with typical add-ons

A common order for a 2-bedroom condo that’s been kept up day to day, but where nobody has scrubbed the oven or the inside of the cabinets in a while:

Item	Person-hours	Cost
Kitchen, 1 bathroom, 2 bedrooms, living room	2.65	$133
Inside oven	1	+$50
Inside cabinets	1	+$50
Subtotal pre-GST	4.65	$233
GST (5%)		+$12
Estimated total		~$245

If the oven turns out lighter than expected and the job takes 4 hours, you pay for 4.

Move-in cleaning prices

Move-in cleaning is priced exactly like move-out — same $50 per person-hour, same add-ons. The job is the same: an empty home, cleaned top to bottom, before anyone unpacks. Most buyers add the inside of the cabinets and fridge, because that’s where food and dishes go first. More detail in how much move-in cleaning costs in Winnipeg, or book through our move-in cleaning page.

Selling a house: what changes

Nothing changes in the price — but the deadline is different. On a house sale, possession day is fixed in the paperwork: the lawyers hold the keys, and the buyers are already loading a truck. We book the clean around that date, give you an exact arrival time, and work in the gap after your movers leave. If anything we covered is missed, we come back and finish it — free.

If you’re not sure how clean the house legally has to be, see how clean to leave a house when selling in Manitoba.

Leaving a rental: is it worth it?

A small apartment, cleaned by a careful person with a clear day and the right supplies? Fully doable — the checklist covers it room by room.

Hiring it out makes more sense when your keys overlap (common in Winnipeg’s June–August moving season), when your landlord is detail-oriented, or when the unit has had several years of use, especially in the oven and cabinets. Manitoba landlords can deduct for dirt beyond normal wear and tear — see our guide to getting your damage deposit back for where that line falls. If your landlord flags anything we covered, we come back and re-clean it free. And if you need proof the place was professionally cleaned — some leases ask for it, especially for carpets — just ask: we give an itemized receipt for any clean, ready to hand your landlord.

How the age of the home affects what you’ll spend

A newer home in Waverley West or Linden Woods — built in the last 10–15 years — is usually in decent shape, and the base price covers most of it.

An older walk-up in Osborne Village or a house in St. Vital that’s been lived in for years usually needs the oven and cabinet add-ons, because those surfaces carry decades of cooking. Budget for at least those two lines.

Frequently asked questions

How much does move-out cleaning cost?

We charge $50 per person-hour plus GST, with a $50 minimum. At average condition a 1-bedroom condo is about $120 and a 3-bedroom house with a basement about $215; oven, cabinets, fridge and windows are add-ons. The final bill is the time the clean actually takes.

Is move-in cleaning cheaper than move-out cleaning?

No — it’s the same job (an empty home, cleaned top to bottom), so it’s estimated the same way.

Do I pay the estimate, or by the hour?

You pay for the time the clean actually takes. The estimate is a realistic number to plan around, and it works both ways: if your home cleans up faster, you pay less than the estimate; if it needs more time, you pay more.

What if the home is much dirtier than “standard condition”?

Then it takes longer, and the bill reflects that. We photograph the condition on arrival, so the record of what we walked into is clear for both of us.

Is GST included?

The table estimates are before 5% GST. The calculator shows the estimated total with GST included.

Get your estimate

Prairie Spotless Cleaning gives you an estimate upfront — based on home size, bathrooms, condition and whichever add-ons apply — then bills the time the clean actually takes. You also get before/after photos of the finished home, and an itemized receipt whenever you need one.

See your estimate at the move-out price calculator — it takes under 60 seconds — or read more about our move-out cleaning services in Winnipeg.