Two homes in three here are apartments in buildings of fifty-plus units.

What the towers change about the job

A tower unit, not an attic.

Here the job is organized around the building. Of the town’s 4,641 homes, 67.4% are in buildings with fifty or more units, the largest share among the six towns we serve, and only 10.4% are detached houses. Inside each apartment, though, the system is yours alone: an air handler, most often behind a closet door, feeding a few short runs. That system, not the building’s, is what we clean.

Salt is the other local factor. The towers stand directly on the Atlantic. Exposed metal on your duct and dryer vent, from collars to hoods and fittings, tends to corrode earlier than it would in a building of the same age further from the water. Age adds to it: most of the town went up in the 1970s and 1980s (32.4% and 37.5% of its homes), so the short runs behind your grilles have been gathering dust for decades.

Booking follows the building’s rules. For a unit in a tower of fifty-plus units, the date is agreed with your condo association or whoever manages the building, and what we will do is settled in advance, never improvised at your door. The choice of what gets cleaned stays with the owner, and in 94.7% of homes here the owner is the resident.