We clean homes all over Downey

Downey's older houses need a closer clean

Most of Downey was built in the years after the Second World War, block after block of single-story ranch houses on wide lots. Many still have their original tile bathrooms with plenty of grout, and a lot of them have aluminum slider windows and wood kitchen cabinets. Plenty also have a wall or floor heater with a metal grate. From the doorway it all looks fine. Up close, those are the spots where years of dust and grease collect.

Old grout is the biggest job. It is porous, so it soaks up water every time someone showers, and after decades it turns gray even when the tile gets wiped often. Slider tracks fill with grit and dead bugs, and a regular vacuum head does not fit down into them. Heater grates collect dust all year. When the heater runs for the first time each fall, that dust burns, and you smell it through the whole house.

So on a first visit to an older Downey house, we usually suggest a deep clean. That visit is where the grout lines get scrubbed with a brush and the window tracks get vacuumed out. Cabinet fronts get degreased by hand, and the heater grate gets dusted so it stops sending up that burnt smell. Once that old layer is gone, a standard cleaning on a regular schedule keeps the house that way, and each visit goes faster.

• Grout lines scrubbed by brush in older tile bathrooms
• Aluminum slider tracks vacuumed and wiped out
• Wall and floor heater grates dusted
• Wood cabinet fronts degreased by hand
• Hard water spots cleared from shower glass and faucets

Inland wind pushes dust into Downey homes

Downey sits inland, away from the ocean air that keeps the beach cities mild. Summers here run hotter and drier, and in the fall the Santa Ana winds blow in from the desert. That wind carries fine dust. It gets into a house through every gap around an old wood door or a slider that no longer seals tight. You find it as a layer of grit on sills and baseboards a day after the wind drops.

Several freeways run through and along Downey, and the blocks closest to them deal with a second kind of dirt. Exhaust leaves a dark, oily grime that settles on window sills and the slats of blinds. Wipe it with a dry cloth and it just smears. It takes a cleaner that cuts grease and a cloth that gets rinsed often. Otherwise you spread a gray haze across the surface instead of lifting it off.

Then there is the water. Tap water in this part of Los Angeles County is hard, so every shower and every run of the faucet leaves a little mineral behind. On glass doors and chrome it builds into white spots, then a cloudy crust. Regular cleaning keeps it from setting. Once it has set, it takes a mineral remover and patience, which is part of what a deep clean in Downey is for.

We also clean Downey shops and offices

Firestone Boulevard and the blocks around downtown Downey Avenue are full of boutiques and small offices. Many of them are run by a few people who have no spare hour to clean. We handle office and workplace cleaning for businesses like these. We work Monday to Saturday, so a visit can be set for a time that stays out of your customers' way.

For shops with a steady flow of customers, we also offer sanitation cleaning. We clean the things people touch all day, like door handles, counters, card readers and fitting room hooks. We wipe them with a disinfectant and let it sit long enough to work. If you wipe it off right away, it mostly just moves germs around. So the wait matters as much as the product.

We are a woman-owned cleaning company based in Los Angeles, and Downey is one of the cities we drive out to. Every job is done on site, at your home or your shop. Our Google listing shows a 5.0 rating from 2 reviews, and you can read both of them there. We work 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM, Monday to Saturday, and we are closed on Sunday.

Getting a price in Downey

Call (310) 736-5266 or send us your details online. Tell us about the house, such as how many bedrooms and bathrooms it has and whether it has had a deep clean lately. If something needs extra time, like old grout or a greasy range hood, mention that too. For a shop or office, give us the size of the space and how often you want it done. You get a free quote back before you agree to anything.