Cleaning homes in San Juan Capistrano
Old houses need a different hand. Around Los Rios Street and the blocks near the depot there is genuine age — thick plaster, uneven brick and tile, wood that has never been sealed with anything modern, hardware nobody makes replacements for. On those homes the crew works dry where it can, keeps water off unsealed surfaces, and asks before touching anything that looks original. Getting that wrong costs more than a cleaning.
Out in the valley the horses take over. Properties along San Juan Creek keep stalls, arenas and tack rooms, and the fine sand off an arena floor gets into the house on boots and blankets no matter how careful the household is. Then there is the third city: Marbella, Whispering Hills and the newer hillside tracts, gated in places, conventional inside, four bedrooms and three baths. All three get quoted from the same form and cleaned by different methods.
The housing stock in San Juan Capistrano
There is no single modal house. Downtown holds small one-story cottages of 900 to 1,400 square feet with original wood floors and plaster walls; the hillside tracts run 2,200 to 3,500 square feet, two stories, tile and carpet; the equestrian parcels are large single-level ranch houses with a mudroom that does real work. Saltillo tile shows up constantly and needs sealing rather than scrubbing. Summer heat inland of the freeway is stronger than the coast strip suggests.