Apartment Cleaning in Brighton

What apartment cleaning covers

• Every room in the unit, down to a studio's single space
• Bathrooms done in full, tub or shower, mirror and fixtures
• Floors in one pass, with no stairs to carry equipment up
• The sliding door glass and the balcony floor, where there is one
• The in-unit washer and dryer wiped down on the outside
• Trash carried out to the building chute or the dumpster

What is usually not included

• Shared parts of the building: hallway, lobby, laundry room, gym
• Your storage locker, your parking stall, anything outside the door
• Washing windows from the outside on any floor above the ground floor

When to book apartment cleaning

Book this for a rental or a condo. If you are moving out and want the deposit back, ask for a move out clean instead, which is a different job.

How long it takes

A studio or a one-bedroom goes quickly compared with a house, and a two-bedroom with two bathrooms comes closer to a small one. Getting in counts too: a gate, a front desk, an elevator and parking all take time before the work starts.

What makes the price go up

• No parking for the cleaner, or a paid garage with no visitor pass
• A walk-up with no elevator, or a service elevator that has to be booked
• A building that only allows this kind of work during set hours
• No trash chute on the floor, so every bag goes down to the dumpster outside

What to ask before you book

• How do you get into the building, and do you need a code or a pass?
• My building has quiet hours. Can you work inside them?
• Do you do the balcony and the sliding door, or just the inside?

What apartment cleaning looks like in Brighton

Brighton is a dense Boston neighborhood of walk-up apartments and triple-deckers, many of them a century old, with narrow stairs, radiators, painted wood trim and small kitchens. Leases turn over heavily around the start of September. Winter means salt and sand carried up several flights, and radiators that run all season collect dust in the fins and behind them.

Everything comes up and down stairs, so supplies have to be light and few. Old radiators, tall painted baseboards and window casings hold dust that a quick pass misses. Move-out cleans cluster hard at the end of summer, and empty-apartment work is a different job than a lived-in one.