How we clean Burlingame
The tree canopy over Easton Addition and Burlingame Park is the first thing visitors notice, and the second is that almost nothing has been torn down. Houses were built here between roughly 1910 and 1940: arched doorways, coved plaster ceilings, oak laid in narrow strips, small square bathrooms floored in white hexagonal tile. Much of it is original. Some of it is a century old and has never once been sealed.
That changes what a crew can safely do. Open grout absorbs anything acidic. Plaster marks if it gets wet and stays wet. Divided-light windows have to be done pane by pane. Newer construction exists — Ray Park has 1950s ranch homes, and there are condo buildings near Burlingame Avenue and Broadway — but the period stock sets the standard everyone here trains to.
The housing stock in Burlingame
The core house is 1,600 to 2,600 square feet on a generous lot, built before 1940, two storeys, with oak floors, plaster walls, a formal dining room and one or two original tiled bathrooms. Ray Park and the Mills Estate blocks bring 1950s single-storey ranch plans. Around Burlingame Avenue and Broadway sit mid-rise condos with garage entry and association vendor rules. Divided-light windows, picture rails and deep baseboards all add time that floor area alone will not predict.