Cleaning Services in Somerville, MA

Like Cambridge, Somerville is organized by square rather than by neighborhood: Davis on the northwest side, Union on the southeast, Porter's edge, Ball, Gilman, Magoun, Teele and Powder House, with Assembly on the north end as the newest of them. Winter Hill, Spring Hill, Ten Hills and East Somerville fill in around them. Ask a resident where they live and you will get a square, not a street.

The housing is the story for a cleaning company. This is triple-decker country -- wood-frame three-family houses turned into three apartments or three condos -- with Victorian stock mixed through it and very little of the large single-family housing that suburban cleaning companies build their pricing around. What that means practically: stairs on nearly every job, more edges than open floor, casings, sills, baseboards and handrails that carry the work, and a unit that is a floor of a building rather than a building. We scope the unit, not the address.

And Somerville turns over on the same clock as the rest of this metro. Leases across Greater Boston end together on September 1, and in a city this dense the whole thing happens on the same streets at once -- movers, trucks and cleaning calendars all bottlenecked in the same stretch of late August, deposit walk-throughs lined up behind them. Move-out and move-in cleans are a real season here, not an occasional job. The rest of the year is recurring work: weekly and biweekly cleans for households that would rather have their Saturday back.

Same written standard as everywhere we work: the 42-point checklist on every visit, everything brought with us, eco-friendly products safe around children and pets, English or Spanish, and the free re-clean within 24 hours if a job is not right.