House cleaning in Tustin, CA

Cleaning a home in Tustin

Tustin runs from a small grid of old wood houses under big shade trees near the center out to the tract neighborhoods of the sixties and seventies and the newer hillside streets east of them: stucco walls, tile roofs, walled back yards. The dirtiest stretch of the year is the turn from fall into winter. Eight or nine months go by with nothing washing anything off, and then the first real storms arrive.

Before the rain, glass and screens carry a dry film that only shows when the sun is low, and porch furniture and sills need going over more than the inside does. After the first storms, the bottom two feet of every door, window and slider comes back spattered, patios hold a gritty runoff, and door tracks fill with wet dirt that has to be dug out before it dries hard.