Brownstone & Apartment Cleaning in Park Slope

Park Slope is a brownstone neighborhood, and cleaning a brownstone is not the same job as cleaning a flat. CleanWhale is set up for the four-level rowhouse — garden, parlor, second, and third — with its single main staircase, its stoop, and the separate door underneath to the garden unit. That is why we book house cleaning here by the floor, not the bedroom count.

Why book CleanWhale for a Park Slope house

The homes that lined up along these 40 blocks came back to one- and two-family use decades ago, and they kept their period detail. A crew that knows the Slope expects to find turned newel posts and balusters up the stairs, pocket doors between double parlors, plaster cornices and medallions overhead, interior shutters on tall parlor windows, and a marble mantel in more than one room. Each of those wants the right approach — polished marble is cleaned with pH-neutral products so the surface is never etched, and original plank or parquet is treated for its finish instead of flooded with water. We clean cast-iron steam radiators too, cover panels included, which is routine in a borough where the majority of buildings run on steam.

Two local specifics that change the quote

First, the staircases. A parlor-through-third owner's triplex often has two flights of stairs, and stair flights are a real factor in what a cleaning takes — a two-staircase house is more house than any apartment. Second, the stoop. Those 10-to-14 steps get washed as their own item, and in winter that means road salt and grit, separate from anything we do inside. Neither of these shows up when someone just says "three-bedroom," which in Park Slope frequently means a four-level house of roughly 3,000 square feet with a backyard and three fireplaces.

How flat-rate booking works

Apartment cleanings are flat-rate from the start: $151 for a one-bedroom, $179 for two bedrooms, $207 for three bedrooms. For a full brownstone we count the floors, the staircases, and the fireplaces and give you a set price before we arrive — no hourly surprise. Sales tax at this Park Slope address is 8.875%. If you keep the house on a schedule, recurring weekly, twice-monthly, or monthly plans come at a discount off the one-time price, and a home cleaned on a rhythm holds its condition between visits.

Access and your board

There is rarely a concierge on a Slope block, so we work from a key, a lockbox, or you being home — and for owners who travel, a lockbox on the under-stoop garden door keeps things simple, with every key handoff logged. Many small brownstone co-ops here are self-managed and ask for a certificate of insurance; we carry the standard $1M COI naming the building as additional insured, and some boards require limits up to higher multiples, which we can meet, usually issued within 30 days.

Book house cleaning in Park Slope online in a couple of minutes, or reach us to price a full brownstone by the floor. We also serve Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, Carroll Gardens, and Cobble Hill.