We clean homes all over Burbank

What older Burbank houses need from a cleaner

A lot of Burbank went up in the years around the Second World War, when the aircraft plants were hiring. Walk through Magnolia Park and you see it in the small stucco bungalows and the ranch houses with their original hardwood floors. Plenty of bathrooms still have the old colored tile. These are well built houses, but they have more trim and corners than a new build, and dust sits on every ledge.

Old hardwood and old tile need gentler cleaning than most people expect. Original floors in these houses have often been refinished more than once, so the finish on top can be thin. A soaking wet mop pushes water into the seams between the boards, so we damp mop and dry as we go. Grout that has been in place for decades can crumble under harsh scrubbing, so we clean it without digging it out of the joints.

Not every Burbank house fits that picture. In the Rancho neighborhood near Griffith Park, people keep horses on their lots, and stable dirt comes inside on boots and jeans. Up in the hillside neighborhoods, houses tend to be bigger and built on more than one level, which means more stairs to clean. We ask about the house before we give a price, so the estimate fits the home you actually live in.

• Hardwood damp mopped and dried, never soaked
• Old tile grout cleaned without digging it out
• Ceiling fan blades and vent covers dusted
• Window sills wiped clean of Valley grit
• Entry floors cleared of tracked-in dirt

Hot, dry Valley summers bring dust indoors

Burbank sits at the east end of the San Fernando Valley, and its summers run hotter and drier than the coast. Air conditioners stay on for months. They pull household dust through the return vents, so the vent covers turn gray fast. Ceiling fans spin all day too, and their blades collect a layer of dust of their own. We dust both, because a caked fan throws that dust across the room the next time someone switches it on.

In the fall, Santa Ana winds push hard, dry air across the city and carry grit off the hillsides. Older windows and doors do not seal as tightly as new ones, so that grit gets in around the frames. After a windy stretch you can run a finger along a sill and pick up a line of fine dirt. The entry floor catches the worst of it, and shoes carry it through the rest of the house for days.

The Verdugo Mountains rise along the north side of Burbank, and when brush burns in those hills, ash can drift down over the city. Ash is fine and gritty, and wiping it with a dry duster mostly smears it around. It comes off with damp cloths that get rinsed often. After a smoky week, a deep clean gets it off the blinds and the flat surfaces a quick wipe misses.

We clean Burbank shops and offices too

Magnolia Boulevard through Magnolia Park is lined with small shops, and a lot of them sell vintage clothes and secondhand goods. Racks packed close together are hard to clean around. Dust settles on stock that sits for weeks, and customers carry in whatever is on the sidewalk. We clean small businesses and boutique stores, and that includes sanitation cleaning of the counters and door handles that every customer touches.

Downtown Burbank has a lot of small offices, and so do the streets around the big studio lots. An office gets dirty in its own way. The carpet can look fine while the break room sink and the fridge handle turn grimy, and shared desks collect fingerprints and crumbs. We do office and workplace cleaning for those spaces. Since we work Saturdays, an office that closes for the weekend can be cleaned without anyone at their desk.

We are a women-owned cleaning company based in Los Angeles, and Burbank sits north of us on the other side of the hills. We come to you, whether that is a house in the foothills or a shop on Magnolia. We work Monday through Saturday, from eight in the morning until six in the evening. Both of our Google reviews so far give us five stars, and we want the next one to come from Burbank.

Getting a price in Burbank

Call (310) 736-5266, or ask for an estimate online, and tell us about the house or the business. Say whether you want a deep clean or a standard clean, and mention anything unusual, like horses on the property or ash from a recent fire. We send back a free quote, so you know the price before we come out to Burbank.