House Cleaning in Old Metairie
Old houses need a different hand than new ones. We clean the homes off Metairie Road, Northline and Labarre the way their floors and plaster actually want to be cleaned — and we give you the price before anyone shows up.
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Based on Cleary Ave · about ten minutes from most of Old Metairie
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A lot of cleaning companies treat an Old Metairie house like any other 2,800 square feet. Then the heart pine starts cupping near the kitchen, the plaster around the bathroom door gets a shiny patch where somebody went at it with a melamine sponge, and the unlacquered brass on the front door turns a color it was never supposed to be.
We are on Cleary Avenue, about a ten-minute drive from most of these streets. We clean a lot of these houses. The difference is not effort — it is knowing which surfaces in a 1920s or 1940s house punish the standard playbook.
What an older house needs that a new one does not
Heart pine and old oak
Damp microfiber and a pH-neutral cleaner, then a dry pass. No wet mop, no vinegar, no steam. Water standing in a hundred-year-old seam is what lifts a finish.
Plaster walls
Spot-cleaned by hand. Melamine sponges strip the sheen off plaster paint and leave a permanent dull patch — we do not carry them.
1920s hex tile
Grout gets a brush, not a mop. A mop just moves grey water around in the grout lines and makes it worse over a few months.
Marble and slate mantels
No vinegar, no citrus, nothing acidic. Stone cleaner only. Etching does not buff out.
Unlacquered brass
Dusted dry. No ammonia and no glass-cleaner overspray — that is what turns old hardware green at the edges.
Transoms and high casings
The ledges nobody reaches. On a first clean this is usually where most of the time goes.
The live oak problem
If you live under the oaks on Northline or anywhere along Metairie Road, you already know about February through April. A fine yellow-green film settles on every windowsill, every plantation shutter louver and the top of every door frame, and it is back four days after you wipe it.
We cannot stop that. What we can do is move shutters and sills onto the weekly list during pollen season instead of the monthly one, and work top-down so what comes loose gets picked up instead of redistributed. Ask for it — it is not automatic.
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How often makes sense here
| Schedule | Who it fits |
|---|---|
| Weekly | Larger houses with kids, dogs or heavy entertaining. Also the right call February through April when the oaks are dropping. |
| Every two weeks | The most common choice in Old Metairie. Keeps original floors and baths from ever reaching the scrubbing stage. |
| Monthly | Couples and empty-nesters who tidy as they go and want the deep detail handled. |
| One-time deep clean | Before a party, after a renovation, or when you are listing. Expect it to take longer than you think. |
Why the first clean takes longer
On a house that still has its original detail, the first visit is not the same job as the fifteenth. Picture rails, transom ledges, the tops of ten-foot door casings, radiator fins, the lip under a clawfoot tub — none of that gets touched by normal tidying, and in a ninety-year-old house none of it is one wipe.
We would rather say that up front than send a crew for four hours and have them leave with the bathrooms half done. The estimator prices the first clean separately for exactly this reason.
After 2017
A lot of these houses had their ground floors redone after the August 2017 flooding, which means one house on a block still has original floors and the house next door has engineered wood over slab. Those two want opposite things from a mop.
There is a note field when you book. Tell us what is actually down there. It takes eight seconds and it is the most useful thing you can hand the crew.
What we do not do
- Windows above the first floor, or anything needing a ladder taller than a two-step.
- Silver, china and crystal unless you add it — we would rather ask than break something with a name attached.
- Refinishing, waxing or polishing floors. We clean them. Restoration is a different trade and we will tell you who to call.
- Mold remediation. Surface mildew on a baseboard, yes. Anything behind the wall is a licensed job.
Nearby and related
We also cover Metairie, Lakeview and Kenner. If this is a one-time job rather than a schedule, look at deep cleaning or move-out cleaning. A repeating schedule costs less per visit — see recurring cleaning.
What the first visit usually turns up
We are not trying to sell you a bigger package. But there are four things we find in nearly every Old Metairie house on the first clean, and it is better you hear them now than as a surprise on the day.
- Transom ledges — the shelf above interior doors. In a house with ten-foot ceilings nobody has wiped these since the last owner. Expect grey.
- Radiator fins and the wall behind them — if the house still has cast iron, the wall behind it holds decades of heat-baked dust that does not come off in one pass.
- The lip under a clawfoot tub — no mop reaches it. It is a hands-and-knees job the first time, then easy forever after.
- Plantation shutter louvers — forty or fifty slats per window. On a first clean we do them; on maintenance visits we alternate rooms unless the oaks are dropping.
Old Metairie house cleaning — what people ask
How much does house cleaning cost in Old Metairie?
Most Old Metairie homes land between $180 and $320 for a recurring clean, and first-time deep cleans run higher because nobody has touched the transoms or the tops of the door casings in a while. Square footage matters less here than how much original detail the house still has. Put your address into the estimator and you get a flat number, not a range.
Do you use wet mops on old heart pine floors?
No. Water sitting in the seams is what lifts an old finish and cups the boards. We use a barely damp microfiber flat mop and a pH-neutral cleaner, and we dry-pass behind it. If your floors were refinished after 2017, tell us what the contractor put down so we match it.
Can you work around a house that is still being lived in?
Yes, and most of Old Metairie is. We work room by room rather than spreading out, so you always have somewhere to be. If you work from home, tell us which room is the office and we do it first or last, your call.
Do you clean inside the butler's pantry and china cabinets?
Not on a standard visit. Glassware and silver are an add-on, and we would rather you ask than have us guess and handle something we shouldn't. You can select interior cabinet and pantry cleaning when you book.
Which streets in Old Metairie do you cover?
All of it. Northline, Beverly Garden, Farnham, Atherton, Labarre, Bonnabel, the streets off Metairie Road down toward the cemetery, and Old Metairie Village. We are based on Cleary Avenue, so most of these are a ten-minute drive.
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