We clean homes all over Nahant

Nahant houses get salt from every side

Nahant is almost all shoreline. The town sits at the end of a narrow causeway from Lynn, the only road in, and no street is far from the ocean. So nearly every house takes wind straight off the water, and that wind carries salt. It dries as a dull film on windows, glass doors and anything with a shine, and it builds back up faster than most people expect.

You notice it on the glass first. A slider that faces the water looks clean from inside, then the late sun hits it and every streak and salt spot shows. Wiping it with a dry cloth just drags the salt around and leaves a haze. Nor'easters make it worse. They push spray at the house for a day or more, and the film they leave is thicker and harder to lift.

Sand is the other half of it. Long Beach and Short Beach are a short walk from a lot of front doors. Sand comes home in shoes and towels, then settles into rugs and the corners of wood floors. On a Nahant house we vacuum carpets and entry rugs slowly enough to pull the grit out of the pile. Glass gets washed so the salt comes off instead of being smeared around, inside and outside if you want both.

• Salt film washed off windows and patio doors
• Outside glass cleaned when you ask for it
• Sand vacuumed out of carpets and entry rugs
• Mini blinds and ceiling fans dusted
• Door frames and door windows wiped down

Older Nahant homes have more trim to dust

A lot of Nahant houses are old. The town was a summer resort long before it was a year-round suburb. Plenty of homes started as summer cottages and were made into full-time houses later. Others are large shingled houses from the same period, with smaller capes and ranches built in between them. Each kind cleans a little differently, and the older ones take the most time.

Old houses give dust more places to sit. There is wood trim around every door and window, plus tall baseboards, stair spindles and radiators. All of it holds a fine layer of dust mixed with salt. Leave it for a season and it turns gray and gritty. We dust trim and door frames by hand and wipe down wall hangings and ceiling fans. Floors get vacuumed last, so nothing we knock loose lands on a clean floor.

If your house sits closed up over the winter, or you are opening it for the summer, the first clean is a bigger job. Dust has settled on every surface and the linens smell shut in. The kitchen needs more than a quick wipe, too. A seasonal clean covers it, from changing the linens to cleaning inside the oven and microwave. The house is ready when you walk back in.

Nahant renovations and moves need deeper cleans

Renovating an old Nahant house often means opening plaster walls, and plaster dust is as fine as flour. It drifts into rooms nobody worked in and settles on door frames and the tops of cabinets. It keeps coming down off ceiling fans and light fixtures for days after the builders leave. A regular cleaning visit is not set up for that. It takes a post-construction clean that starts high and works down, so the dust ends up on the floor and gets vacuumed out last.

One Google review came from a customer we cleaned for after a renovation. "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." That is the job in two sentences. We clean every room after a renovation, including the ones the builders never touched, because fine dust does not stay where it was made.

When a house in Nahant changes hands, the empty rooms show what the furniture was hiding. You see dust lines along the baseboards and beach sand packed into the corners of closets. We do move-out cleans for sellers and landlords, and move-in cleans for new owners who want to start fresh before the boxes come in. Foreclosure cleaning is on the list too. That job starts with a trash out of whatever the last owner left behind.

Getting a price in Nahant

Call (617) 803-6705, or send us the details through this page with the size of the house and what you want done. We offer estimates online, and the price comes back in writing, so you know what the clean covers before we come out. If the job follows a renovation or a move, say so up front. Those take longer than a regular clean, and the estimate should show that.