DeKalb County, GA
House cleaning in Decatur, GA
Decatur is an older, denser housing market than the suburbs north of it. Craftsman bungalows, cottages and four squares from the 1910s through the 1940s make up much of the city, tightly spaced on small lots and a significant share of them have been renovated at least once with the original floors and trim kept. That combination of old material and new finishes is what makes cleaning here specific.
We work across the city on single visits and repeating schedules. Decatur homes are typically smaller than the metro average and denser in original detail, so the time in a visit goes into hand work on trim, floors and older bathrooms rather than into covering square footage.
Housing here
Predominantly craftsman bungalows, cottages and four squares from the 1910s through the 1940s on small lots, many renovated with original floors and trim retained.
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Services
Cleaning services available in Decatur
Every service we run is available in Decatur and across DeKalb County.
House Cleaning
Room by room cleaning of the spaces you use every day, worked to a set checklist so the same surfaces get covered on every visit.
House Cleaning in DecaturDeep Cleaning
A longer visit that reaches the build up a standard clean leaves behind. Baseboards, grout, vents, tracks and appliance interiors.
Deep Cleaning in DecaturMove In / Move Out
Empty property cleaning worked inside every cabinet, drawer, closet and appliance, timed around a lease end or a closing date.
Move In & Out in DecaturRecurring Cleaning
The same checklist on a weekly, every other week or monthly visit, so the home never falls far enough to need a reset.
Recurring Cleaning in DecaturPost Construction
Removing drywall dust, adhesive residue, paint flecks and site debris after a build or a remodel, in more than one pass.
Post Construction in DecaturOffice Cleaning
Scheduled cleaning for suites, clinics, studios and small commercial floors, worked outside the hours your people are in.
Office Cleaning in Decatur
Coverage
Neighborhoods and areas we cover in Decatur
If your street is not named here, call and ask.
- Oakhurst
- Winnona Park
- Great Lakes
- MAK Historic District
- Clairemont
- Ponce de Leon Heights
- Glenwood Estates
Local conditions
What the housing here needs
What cleaning a Decatur home involves
Original detail is the reason a bungalow takes longer than its square footage suggests. Deep baseboards, picture rails, wide door and window casings, built in bookcases, coffered or beamed ceilings and paneled interior doors all have more surface and more edges than the flat trim in a newer house. All of it is hand work. A 1,600 square foot Oakhurst bungalow can take as long as a 2,600 square foot suburban house for exactly this reason.
The floors are original heart pine or oak in most of these homes, often refinished more than once and thin. They get damp cleaned and dried rather than wet mopped and the gaps between boards, which are wide in a hundred year old floor, need a vacuum with a proper crevice pass rather than a mop pushing grit further into the seam.
Bathrooms in the unrenovated houses are usually the original small tiled room: hexagonal or square floor mosaic, subway tile to shoulder height and a grout that has never been sealed. Old grout holds soap and mildew and lightens slowly under a brush, so it is timed into the visit rather than squeezed into it. In the renovated houses the bathroom is frequently new and then the constraint flips to protecting new stone or large format tile from anything acidic.
Small lots with mature trees mean the same pollen and leaf litter load as the rest of the metro, concentrated into a much shorter path from the street to the door. Porches are near universal in Decatur and a covered porch collects pollen and grit and then feeds it straight into the entry. Front room floors and entry mats take a real share of the visit here for that reason.
Access is the practical constraint. Streets in Oakhurst and around the square are narrow with on street parking on both sides, driveways are short and many houses have no off street space at all. Tell us where a vehicle can sit for the visit when you book.