Pinellas Park is our home base

Pinellas Park block homes hide dust

Serenity Cleaning is based in Pinellas Park, and a lot of the houses in town are single-story concrete block homes on flat, sandy lots. Many went up in the middle of the last century, as the city filled in between Saint Petersburg and Largo. They are solid houses. They also have more spots where dust settles than a newer home does, and much of that dust starts as sand from the yard.

Inside, these homes often have terrazzo or tile floors and sliding glass doors that open onto a back patio. Each one holds dirt in its own way. Terrazzo gets a dull film when mop water dries on it. Sliding door tracks fill with sand and dead bugs. Then there are the ceiling fans, which carry a gray fuzz that drops onto the couch the next time someone flips the switch.

For an older house here, a deep clean is often the right first visit. It gets the baseboards, the fan blades, the AC return grilles and the door tracks back to clean in one go. After that, a standard clean on a regular schedule keeps the dust from building up again. One customer wrote this about Terry, the owner: "He finds dirt I didn't even know I had."

• Baseboards wiped down in every room
• Ceiling fan blades and AC return grilles dusted
• Sliding door tracks cleared of sand and bugs
• Terrazzo and tile floors mopped edge to edge
• Shower grout and glass scrubbed for mildew

Summer rain brings mildew and sand inside

Pinellas Park sits inland, away from the beaches, but it gets the same wet summers as the rest of the county. Storms roll through most afternoons, and the air stays heavy with moisture for months. Inside the house, that shows up as mildew. It grows in shower grout and along the bottom of the shower door. You also find it on window sills and around the AC vents, most of all in bathrooms with a weak fan.

The soil in this part of the county is mostly sand, and it comes inside on shoes and pet paws. After an afternoon storm it comes in wet, then dries into a gritty film on tile and along the edges of every room. A floor that looked fine on Monday can feel rough underfoot by Thursday. Left alone, that grit scratches the surface and slowly dulls a terrazzo floor.

That is why weekly or every-other-week cleaning makes sense for a lot of homes in Pinellas Park. Mildew caught early wipes off a shower wall. Mildew left for weeks sets into the grout and takes real scrubbing to lift. Kids and dogs speed all of it up. One customer wrote that "my house needs that weekly clean and they make it feel brand new week after week."

We also clean rentals and offices here

Apartments and rental houses are common in Pinellas Park, so people move in and out all year. A move-out clean is a different job from a weekly one. The rooms are empty, so every scuff on a baseboard and every crumb in a drawer stands out. We start in the kitchen, inside the cabinets and the appliances, and finish with the bathrooms so the place is ready for the walkthrough.

Tenants want their deposit back. Landlords want the unit ready for the next person. A clean that skips the inside of the cabinets or the top of the fridge lets both of them down. One customer hired Terry after moving out of an apartment. They wrote that Terry "made the apartment look like no one ever lived there." Property owners call us for their rentals too.

The city is also full of small businesses, many of them in the shops and offices along Park Boulevard. Office cleaning is one of our services. It gets the same attention to detail as a house. An office customer wrote about Terry: "He even cleaned our garbage cans!" For a commercial space, we can start with a deep clean. Then we come back on a weekly schedule to keep it that way.

Getting a price in Pinellas Park

Call (727) 748-9665 between nine and five on a weekday, or send us your address and a few details through the contact form on this page. Tell us roughly how big the home is and whether you want a standard clean or a deep one. If you are moving out, or you need an office cleaned, say so. Either way, you get a free quote before any work starts.