House Cleaning Services in Historic Downtown McKinney, McKinney

Cleaning built for Historic Downtown McKinney homes

Historic Downtown McKinney is century-old housing around the square — Victorian and Craftsman homes with original wood floors, transom windows, high ceilings and converted attic space.

Narrow drives, rear alleys and square-side event traffic shape arrival, and the original finishes need products suited to unsealed wood and period tile.

High ceilings put the light fittings, the tops of door frames and the transom windows above the internal doors out of reach, and the transoms in particular are usually painted shut with a ledge that has not been touched in years. Original wood floors here are typically waxed or oiled rather than hard-coated, so they take a barely damp cloth and no steam. Converted attic space is common, reached by a narrow stair with a low head height, and it is where the house's storage and its dust live. Period tile in the bathrooms has a high ratio of grout to surface, and painted-over grout is common enough that it is checked before anything acidic goes near it.

Drives are narrow where they exist and several properties are reached from a rear alley, so the arrival is planned rather than assumed. Square-side events fill the surrounding streets on a schedule that has nothing to do with the week, and on those days the van stops further out. Porches are used as living space and are included rather than treated as outside. Because the ceilings are high and the stair to the attic is narrow, a ladder is brought in on the first trip rather than fetched, and overhead work is finished before the floors are touched. Original glazing is wiped dry rather than washed wet to protect the putty.