We clean homes across Poquoson

We clean raised and waterfront Poquoson homes

Poquoson is low, flat ground with the bay and tidal rivers wrapped around it, and the houses show it. After hurricanes pushed water into living rooms here, many owners raised their homes well above the ground, with parking and storage underneath. Older brick and frame ranches still sit close to the ground on wide lots beside them. Both kinds of house get cleaned, but they do not get cleaned the same way.

A raised house means stairs, and everyone who climbs them brings sand in on their shoes. Out here that sand is mixed with marsh mud and pine straw, and it gets ground into the floor just inside the door. We vacuum the rugs and mop the hard floors through the whole house. The entry and the landing get extra time, because that is where the grit piles up. Leave it for a few weeks and a wood or vinyl floor starts to look dull and scratched in a path from the door.

Houses near the bay have a lot of glass facing the water, and salt air leaves a hazy film on it. Humid summers keep ceiling fans running day and night, so the blades pick up a gray, sticky layer of dust. We clean the windows inside and out and wipe down every fan blade. We also wipe the door knobs and cabinet fronts that everyone grabs, because those are the spots you notice when they get skipped.

• Tracked-in sand cleaned off stairs and entry floors
• Rugs vacuumed and hard floors mopped
• Salt film cleaned off interior and exterior windows
• Ceiling fan blades wiped down
• Oven and microwave cleaned on the inside

Humid air leaves grime that we clean off

Poquoson sits right on the Chesapeake Bay, and the air here stays damp for much of the year. That moisture settles on the cooler surfaces inside the house and mixes with whatever is already there. In the kitchen it is cooking grease on the cabinet doors. In the bathroom it is soap scum on the tile and the glass. Wiped off every couple of weeks, it comes right up. Left for a season, it turns sticky and holds on to dust.

Walls collect that film too, and most people do not see it until afternoon light hits a hallway from the side. Handprints by the light switches and a gray haze along the stair rail do not come off with a duster. We offer wall washing, and it makes sense to add it to a deep clean when a house has gone a long stretch without one. One reviewer wrote: "Alina and team gave my house a much needed deep clean."

Damp air also reaches the rooms nobody checks. Lint and damp dust build up behind the washer and dryer. The shelves inside kitchen cabinets collect crumbs and sticky rings under the oil bottles. We clean the laundry room and the inside of the cabinets, along with the inside of the oven and the microwave. If your house has not had a professional clean before, start with an initial cleaning and tell us which of those spots you want included. Regular visits after that keep it from building back up.

Poquoson moves and remodels need a deeper clean

When a house in Poquoson is sold or rented to someone new, the cleaning is one of the last jobs before the keys change hands. We do move-in and move-out cleaning for owners and renters. In an empty house, nothing is hidden. Every scuff on the wall shows, and the next person will open the oven and the kitchen cabinets on the first day. So we clean the inside of both.

Real estate agents and property managers hire us too. Agents book pre-listing cleans so a house looks right in the photos and at the first showing. Managers call us to clean rental units between tenants. “As a local realtor I’ve worked with many cleaning companies and they definitely set the bar high,” wrote one realtor. If you are listing a house in Poquoson, book the clean after the last box leaves and before the photographer arrives.

Plenty of Poquoson houses have been raised or remodeled, and that work leaves a fine dust in every room. It settles on window sills and cabinet tops, and a single wipe usually just spreads it around. We do renovation cleaning after the contractors are done. We start at the ceiling fans and finish at the floors, so the dust we knock loose gets picked up last. We can move furniture out from the wall to get what collected behind it.

Getting a price in Poquoson

Call (757) 831-0333 with your Poquoson address, or ask us for an online estimate. Tell us the size of the house and the kind of clean you want, whether that is a deep clean or a regular visit. The estimate comes to you in writing, so you know the price before we set a day. We are open every day of the week, from nine in the morning to five in the afternoon.