House cleaning in Watertown, TN

Cleaning a home in Watertown

Watertown is a small town east of Lebanon with an old square at the center of it and farmland right up against the edge. The older houses near the middle of town are frame, one or two stories, with deep front porches and windows that slide up in a wooden sash. Under foot it is usually pine board or narrow oak, laid a long time ago, over a crawl space rather than a slab.

Old board floors have gaps between them, and a dust mop drags dirt along the seams instead of picking it up, so a vacuum with a hard-floor head goes first. Floor registers cut into the boards fill with crumbs and lift out to be emptied. Wooden sashes and their sills hold grit that only a brush gets out. Rooms are not square, so corners and the space behind doors get missed unless somebody looks.