Dunmore, Pennsylvania
House cleaning in Dunmore.
Dunmore has its own borough government, its own school district and its own everything, and shares a street line with Scranton. Fourteen thousand people across nine square miles, from the flat near Roaring Brook up onto the Moosic Mountain slopes.
It was Bucktown, then Corners, before someone named it after Dunmore Park in the Falkirk area of Scotland. In 1847 there were four houses here; the Pennsylvania Coal Company turned it into a borough of 23,086 by 1940. It holds 14,042 today, with a median age of 42 — an older, settled place where a lot of people are living in the house they raised a family in.
That matters most on the hill side. The southeastern edge of Dunmore climbs the slopes of the Moosic Mountains, which in practice means short steep driveways, split-level and multi-storey layouts, and a real number of stairs between the front door and the rooms that need doing. We would rather know about the stairs before quoting than after, so mention them at intake — they do not change the price, but they do change how the visit is planned.
What we do in Dunmore
Same four services, same published prices, same laminated checklist as everywhere else we go.
Regular upkeep
Weekly, every two weeks or monthly on a slot we hold for you. The same cleaner every visit, so she learns your house instead of relearning it. No contract.
Deep cleans
Baseboards, inside the oven and fridge, grout, vents, sills and light fixtures. Always the first visit for a new Dunmore client — it's how we set an honest upkeep price.
Move-in and move-out
Empty-property cleaning for tenants chasing a deposit, owners handing over keys, and realtors prepping a listing. The photo set doubles as proof of condition.
Short-term rental turnovers
Fast, checklist-driven turnovers between guests, scheduled around your calendar. We don't no-show, which is most of what a host is actually buying.
What we actually walk into
The houses in Dunmore.
Dunmore has the most duplex-heavy housing we work in anywhere: 31% of units sit in two-to-four-unit buildings, the highest share on our map. Add a median build year of 1944 and 46% of the stock predating 1940, and the result is shared entries, shared stairwells and unit-by-unit access rather than whole houses. Worth knowing the context — the borough peaked at 23,086 residents in 1940 and holds about 14,000 now, so the housing was built for a town more than half again the size.
Dunmore adjoins Scranton directly and slots onto the same routes, but the southeastern side climbs the slopes of the Moosic Mountains, so grade is a real variable here that the flat valley boroughs do not have. Residents know their section — Petersburg, Little England or Frogtown — and telling us which one narrows the trip considerably.
Dunmore questions
We rent half a double block. Can we book, or does the landlord have to?
You can book it yourself. Roughly a third of Dunmore's housing is in two-to-four-unit buildings, so most of what we do here is a single unit rather than a whole building. We clean the unit you live in and the price is set by its size, not the building's.
How soon can you get to Dunmore?
Usually within the same week. Recurring slots are held in route blocks, so if you want a specific morning it's worth asking early — once a slot is taken it tends to stay taken.
Do I have to be home?
No, and most of our clients aren't. We agree one documented way in before the first visit and it doesn't change without your say-so. The before-and-after photo set lands the same day either way.
Is the price different because of where I live?
No. Dunmore pays the same published rate as every other town on our list. We group visits by route so drive time never lands on your invoice.
I am up on the hill side toward the Moosic Mountains. Do the stairs and the steep driveway change my price?
No. The price is set by bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage and how often we come — not by grade, stairs or how hard the parking is. Mention them anyway at intake. Stairs change how long the visit is planned for and where equipment gets staged, and a cleaner who knows about them in advance does a better job than one who finds out on arrival.
Real rooms, real jobs
This is the standard.
Two rooms from real jobs. Same room, same visit, before and after. Every room we clean is photographed the same way.
In her words
Not only am I a professional mother, but I’ve always loved cleaning, and it has been the way I show and express love to my family for the past 40 years of my life.The person who will be in your home. Same one, every visit.
Our promise
If a clean is wrong, tell us by the end of the next day.
We come back and do the room again — the whole room, not the one spot you pointed at — and it costs you nothing. You don't have to argue for it or prove anything. One text is enough, and you have until the end of the day after your visit to send it.
The window is there so it means something. An open-ended promise is what everyone else writes, and it's worth about as much as it costs to write. A day and a half is long enough for you to actually walk the house, and short enough that we can still remember the room.
Same routes
We clean these towns too.
Grouping visits onto shared route days is how a Dunmore clean stays the published price instead of quietly picking up a travel charge. These are the towns that ride along with it.
Get your price in one call.
No estimate visit, no hourly meter. A flat number on the phone, fixed once we've seen the place.