We clean homes all over Amesbury

Older Amesbury houses collect more dust

Amesbury was a carriage-making town, and much of its housing went up for the people who built the carriages. Around Market Square and on the side streets off it, you find wood-frame houses and multi-family homes that are well over a century old. They have tall ceilings and a lot of painted trim. Many still have their plaster walls, and the hardwood floors have often been sanded more than once.

Old houses hold dust in spots a newer house does not have. It settles on the top edge of every door frame and down in the gaps between old floorboards. Radiators, where a house still has them, are the worst of it. Warm air rising off a radiator lifts dust and spreads it back across the room all winter. Leave those spots alone for a few months and the house starts to smell stale, even when the counters look fine.

Our crew cleans an older Amesbury house from the top down. Ceiling fans and blinds come first, so whatever they drop lands on floors we have not done yet. Trim and door frames get wiped by hand instead of getting a quick pass with a duster. A first visit takes longer than the ones after it. In a house that has not had a real cleaning in a while, a deep clean is the best place to start.

• Ceiling fans and mini blinds dusted first
• Door frames and painted trim wiped by hand
• Interior windows and patio doors cleaned
• Hardwood floors and carpets vacuumed last
• Appliances cleaned, inside the microwave too

Homes near Amesbury's lakes stay damp

Water is close to a lot of Amesbury homes. Lake Attitash sits on the line with Merrimac, and Lake Gardner is just upstream of downtown on the Powwow River. The Point Shore neighborhood faces the Merrimack. A lot of the houses around Attitash began as summer cottages and were winterized later. The rooms tend to be small, and the air stays humid all summer.

Damp air changes what a clean house needs. Grout and caulk in a bathroom near the water pick up mildew faster than they would farther from it. Sand and lake mud come in on bare feet and grind into the floors. Sliding door tracks fill with pollen and grit, and a patio door that sticks often just has a dirty track. In winter it is road salt and sand on every boot instead.

In a lake or river house we spend more time on the rooms that get wet and the doors that open to the yard. Patio door glass and tracks get cleaned, and the entry floors get a careful vacuum because that is where the sand ends up. Bathrooms get scrubbed down to the grout lines. Seasonal cleaning is on our service list, and it fits a cottage you open in spring or close for the winter.

We clean up after Amesbury renovations

When someone fixes up an older Amesbury house, the work leaves a particular kind of mess behind. Tearing out plaster or sanding floors throws off a fine dust that drifts through the whole house. It settles on every flat surface and gets inside cabinets and light fixtures. A contractor usually sweeps up the big pieces and leaves most of that dust where it landed. You notice it again every time the heat comes on.

One of our Google reviewers, Patricia Weibel, called us for exactly this: "Called for a one-time clean after renovations and they handled all the dust and leftover mess without complaining. Communication was easy and the price was fair." On a job like that, we start at the ceiling fans and work down to the floors. Fine dust often needs a second wipe. It keeps settling after the first pass.

Moving day leaves the other big mess. When an Amesbury house sells or an apartment in one of the older multi-family homes turns over, the empty rooms need a full cleaning. We do move-in and move-out cleaning while the rooms are empty. That lets us get inside the oven and into the corners the furniture used to hide. A seller or landlord gets a place ready to show, and the next people walk into a clean house.

Getting a price in Amesbury

Call (617) 803-6705 and tell us about the house and the kind of clean you want. You can also ask for an estimate online from this page. Either way, you get a free quote, so you know the price before you book a visit. Our hours run around the clock Monday through Friday, with daytime hours on Saturday and Sunday.