Local cleaners for Spuyten Duyvil

Older buildings here hold on to dust

Spuyten Duyvil sits on the hills at the northwest corner of the Bronx, above the spot where the creek meets the Hudson. Much of the housing is apartment buildings: brick prewar blocks on the side streets and taller postwar co-ops on the ridge, with some older single family houses tucked between them. Most people here live in an apartment rather than a house, and the cleaning work follows that.

Older buildings collect dust in places a weekly wipe never reaches. Radiators are the big one. The fins hold a gray layer that bakes every time the heat comes on, and that is the smell people notice on the first cold night. Plaster walls, deep window sills and old window frames hold grit too, and the wind off the river pushes more of it in through gaps in older sashes.

A deep clean here starts with those spots before the open floor. We pull the dust out of the radiators, vacuum the window tracks and wipe the sills, then work down to the floors so nothing falls on a surface we already finished. Wood floors in these buildings are often old, so they get a damp mop and never a soaking. If you want eco friendly products used, tell us when you call.

• Radiator fins and covers cleaned out
• Window tracks vacuumed and sills wiped
• Kitchen and bathroom tile scrubbed, grout included
• Old wood floors damp mopped, never soaked
• Eco friendly products used on request

River weather and steep streets bring dirt inside

This neighborhood gets the full weather off the Hudson. Wind comes straight up the river, and in winter the hills and stairs get treated with salt and sand so people can walk them. All of that comes home on boots. It dries into a white crust on entry floors, lobby tile and the carpet just inside the door, and it wears finishes down if it sits there.

Summer brings a different problem. The streets here are heavily wooded, which is a big part of why people like living here, but the trees drop pollen in spring and leaves and grit through the fall. Open windows on a humid day let all of that settle on every flat surface, and the damp air makes it stick instead of wiping off clean.

For a building lobby or a ground floor office, that means the entry gets the most attention. Salt residue needs a proper wash, because a dry mop just spreads it into a dull film. Mats get lifted and cleaned under. Inside apartments, we wipe down the sills and ledges near the windows, since that is where outdoor dust lands first and stays longest.

We clean up after renovations and moves

Apartments in older buildings get renovated often. A renovation in a prewar unit makes its own kind of mess. Cutting into plaster throws a fine white dust into the air. This dust travels far past the room where the work happens. It settles in cabinets, on top of door frames, and inside light fixtures. It also gets into the radiator fins. One pass with a vacuum just moves the dust around.

Our post renovation cleaning goes from the ceiling down. We start high, on door frames, cabinet tops and fixtures, then do the walls, the inside of cabinets and drawers, the windows and finally the floors. Fine dust takes more than one pass. We keep going until a hand run across a shelf comes back clean, since that is the test you will do yourself.

Move in cleaning is the other job that fits these buildings well. Before your boxes come up the elevator, we clean the kitchen inside and out, the bathroom, the closets and the floors, so you start in a clean unit. For offices on the ground floor or close by, we also handle regular commercial cleaning, and we can talk that through on the same call.

Getting a price in Spuyten Duyvil

Call us at (516) 537-2367 or send us the details through the form on this page. Tell us what kind of space it is, about how big it is and what needs cleaning, whether that is a deep clean, a move in or dust after a renovation. We give you a free quote before any work starts, so you know the price and what it covers. We are a short drive away on Arlington Avenue.