We clean homes all over Gloucester

Salt air settles on Gloucester windows

Gloucester is a harbor city out on Cape Ann, and salt air reaches most of it. The wind carries a fine mist off the water that lands on the glass and the patio door, then dries into a gray film. A window cleaned in the spring can look dull again by midsummer. Houses on Eastern Point and along the Annisquam River get the heaviest dose, and a winter nor'easter pushes it well inland.

Left on the glass, that film grabs pollen and dust and gets harder to wipe off each time. Beach sand causes trouble on the floors. It comes home from Good Harbor Beach and Wingaersheek in shoes and beach bags. It fills the patio door track until the door drags, and it grinds into the carpet by the entry. None of it looks like much on a given day. After a season, the whole house looks dull.

So on a Gloucester house we pay close attention to glass and door tracks. Where you have booked window cleaning, the crew wipes the salt film off inside and out, door windows included. We vacuum the sand out of the patio door track and dust the mini blinds and ceiling fans. The floors come last, so nothing falls on a clean floor. If your house sits close to the water, mention it when you call so we can plan time for the glass.

• Salt film wiped off windows inside and out
• Sand vacuumed out of patio door tracks
• Mini blinds and ceiling fans dusted
• Carpets and floors vacuumed last
• Beds made and linens changed

Older Gloucester houses need more dusting

Much of Gloucester's housing is old. Around the harbor and downtown you find wood houses with clapboard or shingle siding and trim around every door and window. Out in Annisquam and Lanesville there are shingled summer places built for the view. These houses are lovely to live in, and every sill and door frame in them catches dust faster than a newer house would.

Heating season adds to it. Radiators and wood stoves stir dust up and drop it on the trim and the tops of wall hangings. Old wood floors have gaps where grit settles. Many of these houses sit on stone or granite foundations, and in a damp Cape Ann summer the basement can pick up a musty smell. A laundry room down there needs wiping out more often than one upstairs.

On an older house, a deep clean is the right place to start. It gets into the door frames and the inside of the oven. Dust and grease have had years to settle there. Recurring cleaning then keeps it from building back up. "I work from home and having them come every other week keeps the place manageable," wrote Nicholis in a Google review. Do you have a summer house that sits closed part of the year? Ask about our seasonal services.

Gloucester renovations leave fine dust behind

Fixing up an old Gloucester house makes a lot of dust. Sanding plaster and pulling up old floors throw off a fine powder that drifts into closets and settles on every door frame and window sill. It keeps showing up for weeks after the contractor has packed up. A quick sweep only moves it around, and the next breeze off the water puts it back on the counters.

Patricia Weibel wrote in her Google review: "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." Our post construction clean up wipes that dust off every surface we can reach. We also clear out the leftover mess. Tell us what the work involved, a kitchen or a whole floor. Then we can plan the visit.

Houses in Gloucester also change hands. Rentals empty out between tenants and between summers. Our move-in and move-out cleaning gets an empty house ready for the next people. We clean from the laundry room to the inside of the microwave. Some houses are left in rough shape, as a foreclosure often is. For those we start with a trash out to clear what the last occupants left. Then the real cleaning begins.

Getting a price in Gloucester

Call (617) 803-6705 or request an online estimate on this page. Tell us where the house is in Gloucester and whether you want a deep clean or recurring cleaning. You get a free quote, so you know the price before you decide. We are open around the clock Monday to Friday, Saturday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and Sunday from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM.