We clean Westwood homes and offices

Older Westwood colonials need careful cleaning

A lot of Westwood was built out in the decades after the war. Many streets are lined with colonials and capes that have real hardwood floors and painted wood trim. Along the older roads you still find farmhouses that were standing long before the subdivisions came. These are well built houses. They also hold dust in places a new build does not have, like the grooves of raised panel doors and the gaps between old floorboards.

Grit does the most harm to an old floor. Sand that sits on hardwood gets ground into the finish every time someone crosses the room, and the hallways wear through first. Too much water is its own problem, because it swells the boards at the seams. So we vacuum the grit up before any mop touches the floor, and the mop is damp, never wet. Then we wipe down the doors and trim that a quick clean skips.

Many older Westwood houses have been opened up over the years, with a new kitchen or an addition off the back. Renovation dust is fine and pale, and it drifts into rooms the contractor never worked in. It settles inside cabinets and in the heat registers, then comes back for weeks if it only gets swept. Our post-construction cleanup is a full pass through the house after the trades leave. We start with the high surfaces and finish with the floors, so the dust comes down once and goes out the door.

• Hardwood vacuumed first, then damp mopped
• Painted trim and panel doors wiped down
• Window sills and tracks cleared of grit
• Kitchens and bathrooms disinfected
• Eco-friendly, non-toxic products throughout

Westwood trees coat windows with pollen

Westwood is an inland town with a lot of mature trees. They run from the woods around Hale Reservation to the oaks and pines over quiet side streets. Every spring that canopy drops pollen for weeks. It lands as a yellow film on window glass, and it piles up on sills and in the tracks of sliding doors. A spring shower just turns it into a paste that dries back onto the glass.

Pollen comes inside too. It rides in on shoes and through open windows. Then it sits in the carpet and the sofa long after the trees are done. Our carpet and upholstery cleaning gets it out of the fibers, deeper than a household vacuum can reach. Fall brings a second round. Wet leaves and grit get tracked across the front hall for a couple of months. A light colored rug shows every step of it.

Window cleaning in a town this green is worth doing inside and out, and timing helps. The best time is after the heaviest pollen has dropped in late spring. A second cleaning after the leaves come down gets the fall grime off before winter. We clean the glass on both sides and wipe out the sills and tracks, so the windows slide easily again. In a house that sits in shade most of the day, clear glass makes a real difference to the light inside.

Winter salt wears down Westwood floors

Winter here means snow on the driveway and salt on every road, and both come into the house on boots. Salt dries into a white crust that scratches hardwood and leaves a dull haze on tile. On carpet it pulls moisture back in, so the entry rug never quite dries. The front hall and the mudroom take the worst of it. Those floors need a proper wash on a regular schedule through the cold months, or the haze gets harder to lift.

When a Westwood house changes hands, the move-out clean is usually the last job on a long list. It is also the one the buyer notices first. Our move-in and move-out cleaning covers the empty house from the inside of the kitchen cabinets down to the floors. Empty rooms show everything, from the outline where a dresser stood to the dust along the top of the baseboards. Buyers can book the same clean before their furniture arrives.

The town has working buildings too, from the stores and apartments at University Station to the smaller offices around town. We clean offices and retail stores. We can work evenings and weekends, after the doors close. A shop with lots of foot traffic tracks in the same winter salt and slush as a house, but over a much bigger floor. We also offer sanitization. That is a disinfection pass on shared surfaces like door handles and restroom fixtures.

Getting a price in Westwood

Call us at (781) 414-1969 or ask for a quote through our website. Tell us about the house or the business and what you need done. We will come out to Westwood for a free on-site estimate and walk the rooms with you before anything is booked. There is no obligation. Every job we take on comes with our satisfaction guarantee.