We clean homes across Dedham

Old Dedham houses need a gentler clean

Dedham is one of the oldest towns in Massachusetts, and a lot of its housing shows it. Around Dedham Square and along the old roads you find antique colonials and Victorians with wide plank floors and plaster walls. Out in Oakdale and Greenlodge the houses tend to be newer capes and colonials with a more standard layout. Both are good houses. They just do not clean the same way.

Old wood floors are the big one. Soft pine boards and old finishes do not like standing water. A soaking wet mop can raise the grain and leave the boards dull and rough. Plaster walls and tall baseboards hold a layer of dust that a quick pass never touches. Radiators are worse, because dust packs in between the fins and bakes there every time the heat comes on.

So in an older Dedham house we slow down in the places that matter. Floors get a damp cloth, never a flood of water. Sills and baseboards get dusted by hand, and so do the radiators. We use eco-friendly, non-toxic products, which is what you want on old finishes that do not handle harsh chemicals well. The goal is a clean house with the old wood and plaster left the way you like them.

• Wood floors cleaned with a damp cloth, never soaked
• Baseboards and window sills dusted by hand
• Dust cleared out from between radiator fins
• Eco-friendly, non-toxic products on old finishes
• Kitchens and bathrooms scrubbed top to bottom

What Dedham weather does inside your house

Winter is the hardest season on the inside of a Dedham house. Snow and slush come in on every pair of boots, and so does the salt and sand that goes down on the roads. Salt dries into a white film on hardwood and works its way into the fibers of an entry rug. Left there all season, it dulls the floor finish and wears the carpet thin near the door.

Water is part of life in Dedham too. The Charles River winds along the edge of town and loops right around Riverdale, and Mother Brook cuts across East Dedham. On the low streets near the water, basements and first floors can stay damp through the humid summer. That damp holds odors and dust in carpet and upholstered furniture, so a room can smell musty even right after a vacuum.

Spring brings its own layer. Dedham has a lot of old oak and maple trees. The pollen settles on sills and screens and drifts in through any open window. We clean windows inside and out. Carpets and upholstery get a deep clean that pulls out the grit and the musty smell, and in winter the entryway gets extra time. Those are the spots that wear a house down fastest here.

Bigger jobs we do in Dedham

When an old Dedham house gets opened up for a renovation, it makes a lot of dust. Cutting into plaster throws a fine powder that settles on every ledge in the house, including rooms nobody worked in. It gets inside cabinets and vents and keeps coming back for weeks if nobody deals with it. Our post-construction cleanup goes after that dust from the light fixtures down to the floor. Then you can actually use the rooms you paid to redo.

Moving is the other big one. Empty rooms show everything, like the dust where the dresser stood and the grease on the stove hood that nobody saw behind the pots. Our move-in and move-out cleaning covers the whole place. That works whether you are handing keys to a buyer or you want the house clean before your own boxes come through the door. Kitchens and bathrooms get the most time, because that is where a buyer or a new owner looks first.

We clean businesses in Dedham too. Our commercial cleaning covers offices and retail stores, from a shop near Dedham Square to an office close to the county courthouse. We can come in the evening or on the weekend, so the work gets done after your staff and customers are gone. The same background-checked, trained team does the job, and we can add sanitization if you want door handles and shared surfaces disinfected.

Getting a price in Dedham

Call (781) 414-1969 or send a quote request through the contact form on our website. Tell us what you have, whether it is a colonial off High Street that needs a deep clean or an office that needs regular visits. We come out to look at the place and give you a free estimate on site, with no obligation to book. You will know what the job covers before anyone starts, and every job comes with our satisfaction guarantee.