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Newburgh's older houses take longer to clean

A lot of Newburgh's housing is old. Around Broadway and down toward the river, the streets are lined with brick row houses and tall Victorian homes. Many are more than a century old, and plenty have been split into apartments. They were built with high ceilings, deep window trim, carved banisters, radiators and wood floors with gaps between the boards. Every one of those surfaces catches dust, and none of it comes off with a quick pass of a cloth.

Radiators are the part people forget. Dust settles between the fins all summer, and when the heat comes on in the fall it bakes and smells burnt. Skip them for a few years and that smell comes back every fall. Old window frames let grit in around the edges, so the tracks and sills fill up. Up high, cobwebs collect on crown molding and around ceiling fixtures, and you only notice them when the low winter sun comes in sideways.

So in an older Newburgh house we start high and finish low. Crown molding and light fixtures come first, then walls, radiators and the window and door tracks. Floors go last, so nothing falls on a surface we already cleaned. "They cleaned the window and door tracks thoroughly," wrote a customer who booked a deep clean. "They clean the light fixtures and wiped down the walls," the customer added. Most older houses do best with a deep clean first, then routine visits to keep them that way.

• Crown molding and ceiling fixtures dusted
• Radiators cleaned between the fins
• Window and door tracks scrubbed out
• Wood floors cleaned along the gaps between boards
• Banisters and window trim wiped down

Salt and slush come into Newburgh homes

Newburgh gets real winters. The streets that climb up from the river get salted all season. Whatever goes down on the road comes inside on boots and dog paws. Salt dries into a white film on wood and tile. On an old hardwood floor, it wears at the finish every time someone walks across it. Grit caught in an entry rug does the same thing to the floor under it.

Summer brings a different problem. Air along the Hudson is humid on warm days, and old stone and brick basements hold moisture long after a rain. That damp shows up as a musty smell in closets and mildew on bathroom ceilings. On shower grout it comes right back if it only gets a surface wipe. Bathrooms with no window or fan get it worst, and plenty of older houses have one.

So the work in a Newburgh home shifts with the season. In winter the crew spends more time on entry floors and hallways. Salt gets wiped off wood with a damp cloth instead of being swept around. In summer the time moves to bathrooms and the corners where mildew starts. If you book monthly or routine visits, you will see that change in where the time goes. One customer wrote, "My bathroom grout also basically looks brand new!"

Newburgh renovations leave dust everywhere

A lot of Newburgh houses are being fixed up right now. Some are full gut jobs on old row houses, and some just need a new kitchen. Dust from remodeling is fine enough to get inside cabinets and vents, and it keeps settling for days after the crew stops. A contractor's cleanup gets the big debris out. It does not make a house ready to live in.

That is the clean we come in for, after the contractors finish and before the furniture goes in. "This team came in and went above and beyond to make it perfect," wrote one customer who bought a house with a filthy garage. "Every tiny space was left spotless," wrote another customer who hired us for a deep clean at a new spa. Tell us which rooms were worked on, because that is where the dust will be heaviest.

Newburgh also has a lot of rentals, from apartments in old houses to Airbnb stays. When a tenant moves out, the next one expects a clean kitchen and bathroom on the first day. We do property management cleaning for owners and property managers, and we clean between guests for Airbnb hosts. Tell us what each unit needs, and it becomes a checklist the crew works through every time.

Getting a price in Newburgh

Call (845) 415-3215 or send us your details through this page. Tell us the address and what kind of clean you want. Mention it if the house is older or just out of a renovation, because both change how long the work takes. You get a free quote before anything is booked. We are open Monday to Friday, 7:00 AM to 6:00 PM, and Saturday and Sunday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM.