Family owned cleaners serving Fordham

Cleaning Fordham's older apartment buildings

Most of Fordham is brick apartment buildings put up decades ago, many of them five or six stories with a walk-up stair or an old elevator. Inside you find plaster walls, radiators under the windows and wood floors that have been sanded and refinished more than once. Every one of those details holds dust in places a quick wipe never reaches.

Steam heat causes the most trouble. When the radiators come on in the fall, they bake the dust that settled on them all summer and push it up the wall behind them. You can see it as a gray shadow above each window. Kitchens in older buildings have their own problem: grease settles on top of cabinets nobody can reach without a step stool, and it turns sticky.

That is why a move in clean here takes longer than people expect. Before your furniture comes up the stairs, we wipe inside the cabinets and closets, clean around and behind the radiators, wash the baseboards, and clean the tops of door frames. All of that is much easier in an empty apartment, and it is the one time it gets done properly.

• Radiators and the wall behind them wiped down
• Cabinet tops and insides degreased
• Baseboards and door frames washed by hand
• Wood floors cleaned with care for the finish
• Bathroom tile and grout scrubbed

We keep Fordham Road businesses clean

Fordham Road is one of the busiest shopping streets in the Bronx. Shops, offices, clinics and restaurants sit side by side, and people are on the sidewalk from morning until well after dark. All of that foot traffic comes through the front door, and it brings the street in with it. A store that looked fine at opening can look tired by closing.

Winter is the hardest season for a storefront here. The sidewalks get salted, customers track slush across the floor, and it dries into a white film that dulls tile and wears at the finish. Mats catch some of it. The rest gets ground into the grout lines and carried to the back of the store unless someone washes it out.

We clean offices and commercial spaces around Fordham on a schedule that suits the business, so the work can happen when the doors are closed. That covers floors, restrooms, break rooms, the glass at the entrance, and the spots everyone touches, like door handles and counters. If you run a shop, a clinic or an office here, tell us your hours and we will plan around them.

Renovation dust in Fordham apartments

Landlords and owners in Fordham are always updating something, whether it is one kitchen or a whole floor of an old building. Old plaster and new drywall both turn into a fine white dust when they are cut or sanded. That dust settles on every surface in the apartment, and it keeps coming back for days after the renovation crew packs up and leaves.

A post renovation clean works from the top down. We vacuum and wipe light fixtures, vents and ledges first, then the walls, then cabinets inside and out, and the floors last. Wiping construction dust with a wet rag before vacuuming it turns it into paste, so the order matters. Paint drips and sticker residue on new windows come off by hand.

Many Fordham apartments are small, with few windows and not much air moving through them. Strong cleaning fumes hang around in a space like that long after the job is done. We offer eco friendly cleaning for customers who want gentler products, which is worth asking about if you have kids or pets at home. Tell us when you call and we will plan the job around it.

Getting a price in Fordham

Call PBL Cleaning at (516) 537-2367 or send us your details through the form on this page. Tell us the address in Fordham, what kind of space it is, and whether you need a deep clean, a move in clean, a renovation cleanup or regular office cleaning. We will give you a free quote, so you know the price before any work starts.