Matthews homes cleaned for buyers

What a Matthews listing needs before photos

A lot of Matthews is made up of established neighborhoods, with two-story brick and vinyl-sided houses on wooded lots along curving streets and cul-de-sacs. When a house that has been lived in for years goes on the market, it shows that wear. Grease sits on top of the kitchen cabinets. Dust coats the ceiling fan blades and the tops of the door frames. Nobody living there sees it anymore, but it shows up in the listing photos.

Buyers usually see those photos before they ever walk into the house, so the rooms need to be clean on photo day. Candee comes from builder sales and marketing, where a model home has to look perfect for every tour. A buyer who has walked through a model notices a dusty baseboard or a cloudy shower door in a resale right away. We clean a Matthews listing to that same standard.

When we clean matters too. If the sellers are still packing, we do the move-out clean once the rooms are empty. That way we can reach the floor where the beds stood and the closet shelves. A pre-closing clean means the buyer walks into a house that is ready to live in. Buyers moving to Matthews can book a move-in clean before the furniture arrives.

• Grease cleaned off the tops of kitchen cabinets
• Ceiling fan blades and door frames dusted
• Shower glass and tile cleaned before photos
• Move-out cleans once the rooms are empty
• Pre-closing cleans so buyers can move right in

Red clay and spring pollen come indoors

The soil in Matthews is red clay, and it does not stay in the yard. It comes in on shoes and on moving dollies, then settles into the grout by the door and the edge of the carpet. Wet clay smears into a bigger stain if you rush it. On a move-out, the entry floor is often the first thing we work on, because it is the first thing a buyer steps on.

Spring brings a heavy coat of yellow pine pollen to the Charlotte area. It covers cars and porches, then drifts inside every time a door opens for a showing. It lands on window sills and dark countertops, where it looks like a fine yellow film in photos. A house that looked clean on Friday can look dusty by a Sunday open house. A listing refresh right before the event takes care of it.

Summers here are hot and humid, and a vacant house with the thermostat set high can start to smell stale. Dust keeps settling in an empty house too, and nobody is there to wipe it up. Vacant listing prep is the clean for that. We clean the empty rooms from the ceiling fans down to the baseboards, so the house looks cared for when a buyer walks in.

We clean new homes for Matthews builders

Most of Matthews is already built, so new homes here tend to be townhomes or small groups of houses tucked between older neighborhoods. Either way, we do two kinds of cleaning on a new home. A rough construction clean clears out debris and dust while the house is still being built. The final construction clean comes after the last crew finishes. It has to catch the drywall dust in the window tracks and air vents before a buyer walks in.

Builders selling homes in and around Matthews keep model homes and sales centers open to the public. In a community still under construction, red clay and dust come in with every visitor. Candee spent eighteen years in builder sales and marketing, so we know how a sales team wants a model to look on a tour. We keep the model clean between visits, and we clean before and after the builder's events.

Inventory and quick move-in homes around Matthews are finished houses waiting on a buyer, and they can sit for weeks. Dust and pollen collect on the sills and floors the whole time. We come back between showings so the house looks the way it did the day it was finished. Kaili spent four years in purchasing for home builders, on the side of the business that keeps new home communities running.

Getting a price in Matthews

Call or text (704) 493-9636, or email kcpremierclean@gmail.com, and tell us where the house is and what stage it is at. A final construction clean and a move-out clean are priced differently, so the details help. You can also request a quote through this site. We give you a quote for that house and that clean, so you know the price before anything is booked.