House Cleaning in Springfield, MA

More than a third of Springfield's homes -- 36.7 percent -- were built before 1940, and the median home dates from 1952. More than a quarter, 27.7 percent, are in two- to four-unit houses, another fifth are in buildings of five units or more, and the detached single-family house is a minority of the stock. So the job here is very often one floor of a two- or three-family house: a shared stair, a narrower kitchen, one hard-working bathroom, plaster walls, original hardwood, deep window casings, and radiators that collect dust behind them where a vacuum does not reach. That is why the first question on a Springfield quote is which floor you live on, long before it is how many bedrooms -- and why a company that only asks for square footage quotes these homes wrong.

Half the city rents. 50.4 percent of Springfield's occupied homes are renter-occupied, so move-in and move-out cleaning is steady demand here all year rather than a seasonal favor: a floor emptied between tenants, a landlord's walk-through on a date that will not move, a family taking over the upstairs unit. We plan those backward from the day your lease ends. We do not promise what a landlord will decide about a deposit; we make sure the cleaning is not the reason for a deduction.

Springfield is also one of the most Spanish-speaking cities we serve. 48.6 percent of residents are Hispanic or Latino and 38.7 percent are Puerto Rican; a third of the city speaks Spanish at home, and more than 20,000 residents speak Spanish and say they speak English less than very well. Every page on this site has a complete Spanish version, and through the quote form or by email you can ask for a quote, agree the scope, set a schedule and raise a problem in Spanish.

Hampden County is really two markets wearing one name, and we treat it that way. Longmeadow, about five miles south, is 89.3 percent detached houses, fewer than one household in ten rents, and it has the highest median household income in the county. Holyoke, about eight miles northwest, is 58.7 percent renter-occupied, with 42.5 percent of its housing built before 1940 and more than a third of it in buildings of five units or more. A weekly clean of a detached house in Longmeadow and a move-out from a Holyoke apartment are different jobs, and each page on this site says which one it is describing.

The hours matter as much as the house. Springfield is home to Baystate Medical Center, and a city with a major hospital in it has a lot of households that do not work nine to five. Our hours are Monday through Saturday, 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM, and a recurring plan here is built around when the home is actually empty -- an evening, a Saturday, the day after a night shift -- rather than around a standard office week.

Five places around the city have pages of their own: Chicopee on Springfield's northern line, Holyoke, West Springfield across the Connecticut River, Westfield to the west, and Longmeadow to the south. From this page we also cover East Longmeadow, Agawam -- home of Six Flags New England -- and its Feeding Hills section, Wilbraham, Ludlow and the town of Hampden, on the same schedule and to the same standard. Inside the city, if your mail says Indian Orchard, you are in Springfield: that is the post office's name for ZIP 01151, and it is a Springfield neighborhood like any other. Each town page is written for that town, not a template with the name swapped.

Springfield is a new market for Kiwi, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Cleaning companies have worked this county for years, and some of them are good at it. What travels with us is the part that does not depend on how long we have been in town: a written 42-point checklist every visit follows, eco-friendly products that are safe around children and pets, all supplies and equipment brought to the job, no hidden fees, and the Kiwi Clean Guarantee -- if a clean is not right, we come back and reclean it free within 24 hours.