Move-In Cleaning in Melrose, MA

Melrose sells itself on Victorians — the deep porches and tall windows of Melrose Highlands, the older homes stretching back from Main Street. They're wonderful houses and they are a great deal of surface area. Tall baseboards, deep window casings, original stair rails, radiators in every room, and closets built when people owned less. Cleaning all of that properly is a different job once the furniture is in.

We take Melrose move-ins while the house is empty and go through it comprehensively: inside every cabinet, drawer, and closet; oven, refrigerator, and dishwasher interiors; bathroom grout, fixtures, and exhaust fans; and then the detail work these houses demand — baseboards, window interiors and tracks, radiator fins, light fixtures, switch plates, and the tops of door frames. Older millwork and painted surfaces get products chosen to suit them, not a single all-purpose cleaner.

Most Melrose buyers we work with are families moving in from Boston or Cambridge on a commuter-rail calculation, and they tend to close and move within the same week. We schedule against that, including weekends, so the cleaning finishes before the truck instead of after.