House Cleaning Services in Lakewood, Dallas

Cleaning built for Lakewood homes

Lakewood is early-twentieth-century detached housing — Tudor and Craftsman homes on tree-lined lots near White Rock Lake, many with original hardwood, leaded glass, tile bathrooms and deep baseboards that a standard clean skims and a deep clean actually reaches.

Detached garages and rear alley entry are common, and the mature tree canopy means real seasonal leaf and pollen load on entryways and sunrooms.

Original oak strip flooring runs through most of the ground floor and it is nearly always finished with a penetrating oil or an old polyurethane rather than a modern hard-wearing coat, so it takes a barely damp mop and no steam at all. Deep painted skirting and picture rails hold a visible ledge of dust that a vacuum brush reaches and a cloth does not. Tiled bathrooms from the period run to small hexagonal or square floor tile with a lot of grout line per square foot, and the built-in cabinetry on either side of a fireplace usually has leaded or divided-light glass in the doors. Radiator recesses and transom windows are the two details people forget are there until they are pointed out.

Most of these houses are entered from a detached garage at the back or from an alley, so the working route runs through a rear door and a utility room rather than the front hall. The tree canopy overhead is the reason the seasons change the job: leaf litter and seed tracks in through the back door from autumn onward, and the yellow-green film that settles on sunroom glass and porch furniture in early spring is pollen rather than dirt and needs rinsing rather than wiping. Detached garages mean there is often an outside tap and somewhere to stage kit, which is a real convenience compared with anywhere closer in.