Move-In Cleaning in Union City

In Union City a home is empty for about a day, sometimes only an afternoon, between the handover of keys and the truck double-parked on a side street off Bergenline Avenue. That window is the only time the floor of the second bedroom, the back of the hall closet and the inside of every kitchen cabinet can be reached with nothing in the way. A move-in clean is built to use it.

What gets handed over here varies block by block. The upper floor of a two-family off Bergenline comes with a kitchen the last tenant cooked in daily and a shared stairwell that carries street dust up with every trip. A walk-up in Union Hill or near the Transfer Station has had bus exhaust settling on its sills for years. A pre-war apartment on Summit Avenue has plaster walls, original wood floors and radiators with decades of dust between the fins, and a new Palisade Avenue condo arrives with film on the stainless and fingerprints across the glass facing the skyline.

None of it is clean when you get the keys, whatever the landlord's super or the building's turnover crew says. The grease line above a range hood, the hair in a small bathroom drain, the drywall dust on a freshly built closet shelf, the gray coat of tunnel-approach dust on every blind: these are what a broom-and-bag turnover leaves behind. In the most densely built city in the country, other people's dust is a given.

Our Union City move-in cleaning works the empty rooms the way they deserve. Cabinet and drawer interiors are wiped, not just the fronts; pantry, linen and bedroom closets are cleared of everything left on the shelves; floors are mopped wall to wall on every level, and the bathrooms are scrubbed down to the grout. Where a two-family includes a basement, that floor gets the same pass as the rest.

We also plan around how Union City hands over a home. A Palisade Avenue front desk wants a fob and a check-in, a two-family usually means a relative on another floor holding the key, and a walk-up means carrying the equipment up four flights and finding parking on a block where there is none. Tell us the building, the floor and the date, and we schedule the clean to land between the keys and the movers.