We clean homes across Manorville

Most Manorville houses sit among pines

Manorville is inland, west of our home base in Hampton Bays, and it looks nothing like the waterfront towns farther east. Houses here are set back from the road on big lots cut out of the Pine Barrens, with pitch pine and oak close around them. You find older ranches and capes near the main roads and bigger colonials in the newer subdivisions. Whatever the age of the house, trees and sand sit right outside the door, and both end up inside.

Late spring is the hardest stretch. The pines release a yellow pollen that coats every flat surface and gets pulled in through the window screens. Wipe it dry and it smears. Leave it and it turns into a film on the sills and deck railings, and then it gets walked across the floors. We take it off with a damp cloth and work from the top of each room down. We also clean the screens and the slider tracks, where it collects and blows back in with the next breeze.

Then there is the sand. Pine Barrens soil is sandy, and it comes in on shoes and on the dog after a walk in the woods. On hardwood it scratches the finish under every step. In carpet it sinks down where a quick pass never reaches. So we shake the entry mats outdoors before we start. After that we vacuum the carpet edges and under the furniture, and wash the hard floors where the grit collects.

• Pine pollen wiped damp from sills and ledges
• Window screens and slider tracks cleaned out
• Entry mats shaken out outdoors first
• Sand vacuumed from carpet edges and under furniture
• Hard floors washed where the grit collects

Winter salt and dust build up inside

Away from the ocean, Manorville winters tend to run colder than the south shore, and snow hangs on longer in the shade of the pines. The roads get salted and sanded all season, and every bit of it comes in on boots. Salt dries into a white crust on hardwood and tile. Leave it for a few weeks and it dulls the finish, and it spreads well past the front hall.

The other winter problem is a closed-up house. The windows stay closed for months while the heat runs. Dust settles on the things nobody looks at, like ceiling fan blades and the tops of door frames. Baseboard heaters collect it in their fins, and that is the smell of burning dust when the heat first comes on in the fall. A regular clean through the winter keeps it from building up, so spring starts from a clean house.

Spring is when the winter buildup comes out, and in Manorville that lines up with the pollen. We do spring cleaning as its own job, and the order of the work matters. Glass and screens cleaned a week before the pines drop their pollen will need doing again. So we plan it with you: the inside work first, then the windows and sills once the worst of the pollen has passed.

Bigger jobs need a different plan

Big wooded lots leave room to build. When a house here gets an addition or a new kitchen, the dust does not stay in that room. Drywall sanding leaves a fine powder that hangs in the air for days, and it drifts into rooms nobody worked in. Post construction cleaning is one of our specialties. We work in passes: the loose dust comes out first, and the wipe-down of fixtures and cabinets waits until the air settles.

When a Manorville house changes hands, the empty rooms show everything the furniture was hiding. There are dust lines along the baseboards and grime behind where the fridge stood. Move in and move out cleaning is where we take those on, with the cabinets and closets empty so every shelf gets wiped. One seller wrote that we "left the entire home very clean for the purchaser." The next owner should be able to walk in and unpack.

A Manorville yard has room for a crowd, and the house needs a real clean the morning after. We do post party cleanup. The kitchen is usually the bigger half of it, along with the floors guests walked across from the yard. We also offer kitchen and party help, so we can be there during the party as well as after it. Tell us which you need when you call, so the estimate covers the right job.

Getting a price in Manorville

Call (631) 875-8993, or send a request from this page with your Manorville address and what the house needs. We are open Monday to Saturday from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM, and Sunday from 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM. The estimate is free. After a spring cleaning, one customer wrote that Suave came out first. Suave "quickly created a detailed and fair quote." You will know the price and what it covers before anything gets booked.