House Cleaning in Alfama

About our service in Alfama

The building stock here is the oldest in the city and it behaves accordingly. Walls take on moisture from the ground and from the sea air, and rooms that get little sun hold it. That shows up as a musty smell in a wardrobe, dark spotting in the corner of a bathroom ceiling, or a bloom on the wall behind a bed pushed against an outside wall. We treat what we can reach with an appropriate product, dry the surface properly rather than leaving it damp, and tell you plainly when what you have is a ventilation or infiltration problem that cleaning alone will not fix. Old tilework needs a light hand. Nineteenth-century azulejo has a soft glaze and its grout lines are often lime-based, so scouring pads and strong acids strip the surface and open the joints. We use a neutral product, a soft cloth and patience, and we keep water off unglazed edges. Wooden floors get the same care: vacuum first, then a barely damp mop, never a bucket-soaking. A general clean here covers kitchen surfaces and sink, hob and splashback, bathrooms descaled and sanitised, floors done to suit the material, dusting of sills, shutters, skirting and beams, and bins out. A deep clean adds the oven, the fridge, extractor filters, tile grout, the inside of window recesses and the tops of high cupboards. Stairs shape everything else. Narrow flights with a turn at the top mean small machines, smaller buckets and more trips, so we plan the visit around access and tell you honestly how long a deep clean will take in a fourth-floor flat with no lift. For short lets around Santa Apolónia and the Sé, changeover cleans are a fixed list done inside the window between guests, with keys arranged in advance. What we do not do is promise that a single visit will undo decades of damp in a building with no through-ventilation. We clean what can be cleaned, dry it properly, and tell you what is beyond cleaning.

House cleaning in Alfama typically covers:

Services Included

• Deep cleans in walk-up flats, with kit carried in by hand
• Careful cleaning of azulejo, painted wood and stone stairs
• Damp-prone bathrooms and unventilated corners treated and dried
• Changeover cleans for short-let flats near the Sé and Santa Apolónia
• End-of-tenancy cleans with a written scope before we start

Areas We Serve

We cover Alfama and the streets around it, from Castelo and the Sé down to Santa Apolónia, across Mouraria and up the Escadinhas de São Miguel, working on foot where vehicles cannot reach.

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