No stress. No guesswork. Just a clean home, done right. Flat pricing before we arrive. Room-by-room checklists. A 24-hour re-clean promise that backs it up.
Cleaning the whole north Brooklyn side
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New clients
10 % off
Code FIRST10
Ten percent off the first visit, whichever service you start with. The easiest way to see how we work before you commit to a schedule.
Most flexible
5 % off
Code FLEX5
Give us a four-hour window instead of a fixed hour and we can route more efficiently. That saving comes back to you on every visit.
Biggest saving
$30 off
Code RESET30
Thirty dollars off a first deep clean or a move-in / move-out clean, the two jobs where the difference is most visible when you walk back in.
Your neighbors
Same converted lofts, same fifth-floor walk-ups, same narrow galley kitchens as yours. Unedited reviews from people a few blocks away.
David R.
Williamsburg · one-time clean
We had family coming into town unexpectedly and our apartment was a disaster zone. They transformed the place just in time. Our guests even said how fresh everything smelled.
Emily S.
Williamsburg · bi-weekly
Work plus a toddler left our home in complete disarray. They scrubbed the living room and kitchen till it sparkled. Now I can focus on work calls without the mess distracting me.
Mark T.
Williamsburg · move-out clean
We needed a deep clean to get our security deposit back. They did the oven, the bathroom grout, all the baseboards. The place looked better than when we moved in.
How it works
From the pile you have been walking past all week to a loft you are glad to come home to.
Work ran late all week, the weekend vanished on Bedford Avenue, and now the kitchen and the bathroom are asking for time you genuinely do not have.
Size, bathrooms, and how long its been. Sixty seconds online or one phone call, and a flat quote appears before anyone is booked.
A screened, trained cleaner arrives with everything needed and works top to bottom through the written list, so nothing gets skipped or improvised.
Floors done, surfaces done, everything back where it belongs. Nothing left on your list except deciding what to do with the evening.
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Lauren D. called us from a converted factory building off Kent Avenue on a Thursday night. Her loft had not had a proper deep clean in almost a year. Two cats, one big open room with exposed brick, and radiators that had been running since October. She kept wiping the coffee table and by the next morning there was a grey haze on it again. Her allergies were worse than they had been in years, and she was starting to wonder if it was the building.
It was not the building. It was brick dust, pet dander and a winter of radiator heat pushing both around a room with barely any cross ventilation. Old industrial conversions in Williamsburg do this. The brick sheds a fine mineral grit, the tall windows are usually sealed shut, and a single open floor plan means anything that gets airborne lands on every surface you own. You cannot fix that with a cloth and a spray bottle. It takes a HEPA vacuum, a top-down order of work, and going back over the same horizontal surfaces a second time a few hours later. We did Lauren's loft on a Saturday. She wrote on Monday saying the air felt lighter, which is exactly the phrase most of our loft clients use.
We are Green Hands Cleaning Services Corp, based at 22-16 79th Street in East Elmhurst, and we have been cleaning homes across Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan since 2015. If you are looking for the best cleaning services in Williamsburg, this page explains what we actually do, what it costs, and why cleaning a north Brooklyn loft or walk-up is a different job from cleaning a house anywhere else. If your building went up before 1978 and anyone has done work on it recently, the EPA's lead-safe guidance is worth a read before anyone starts wiping surfaces, and that covers a lot of the housing stock between Metropolitan and Grand.
Why people stay with us
Your home is kept on one Williamsburg route with notes attached to it, so whoever arrives already knows how you like it done. That is why the standard does not drift from one visit to the next.
We are …
… roughly forty cleaners working out of East Elmhurst, most of whom have been with us for years. Whoever arrives at your door in Williamsburg is one of them, trained on the same checklist and working from notes kept on your home.
You come home to a place you have been avoiding.
We turn it back into somewhere you want to be.
No judgment. Just clean.
The result
Real Williamsburg homes, the evening after we finished. Kitchens reset, bathrooms done, floors clear, nothing left on your list.
What we do
Kitchen, bathrooms, floors, dusting and surfaces on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly rhythm that fits your schedule.
View serviceInside the oven and fridge, grout, baseboards, door frames, vents and behind furniture. The reset before or after a season.
View serviceLight tidying, laundry, bed linens and dishes alongside the standard clean, for homes that need more than surfaces.
View serviceEmpty-unit clean top to bottom, cabinets and closets included, timed around your lease dates and deposit inspection.
View serviceStudios, showrooms and small retail along Wythe and Berry, after hours or before opening, on a schedule that fits your week.
View serviceFine dust removal after a renovation, including fixtures, window tracks and every horizontal surface twice over.
View serviceIncluded with every booking
In detail
category 01
Most of Williamsburg is apartments, and most of those apartments are either a pre-war walk-up off Grand Street or a newer glass building near the waterfront. The two have opposite problems. In the old buildings, plaster and brick shed a chalky grit that lands on picture frames, window sill tops and the top edge of every door. In the newer towers the windows do not open, the HVAC vents hold dust, and floor to ceiling glass shows every single mark.
We clean both, and we do not use the same method on both. Ask about apartment cleaning in Williamsburg, or look at Greenpoint and Bushwick if you are just over the border. Studios are their own thing too, since everything you own lives in one room, so see studio apartment cleaning.
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category 02
A standard clean handles surfaces. A maid service handles the rest of it: dishes in the sink, a load of laundry, bed linens changed, towels swapped, the clutter on the counter put back where it belongs. This is what most of our busy-professional clients along Bedford and Driggs actually want, because the mess that bothers them is not dust, it is the pile of things nobody has time to deal with.
Our laundry services can run alongside it, and if you want linens and towels handled every week that is a Housekeeping Service rhythm. See maid service in Williamsburg or the top rated maid service page.
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category 03
This is the checklist and nothing more. Kitchen and bathrooms reset, dusting, vacuum and mop throughout, beds made, wastebaskets emptied. A studio or one bedroom in Williamsburg usually runs two to three hours with one cleaner. A two bedroom with two baths is closer to four.
We quote flat because hourly pricing punishes you for having a home that needs work. You know the number before we ring the buzzer. If you want to keep the cost down, our affordable cleaning service page walks through what actually moves the price, and pricing has the ranges by home size.
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category 04
Williamsburg has a strange mix of housing for one neighborhood. Converted factory lofts with twelve foot ceilings. New condos with balconies over the BQE. Wood frame row houses south of Broadway that have been there since long before anyone called this area desirable. Stairs collect more dust than any other surface in a house, so treads, risers and the banister get done every visit in a multi-floor home.
Relevant pages: loft cleaning, condo cleaning, townhouse cleaning and penthouse cleaning.
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category 05
Inside the oven. Inside the fridge. Grout scrubbed by hand, not sprayed and rinsed. Baseboards and door frames wiped. Light fixtures and vents. Window sills and the tracks under them, which in Williamsburg fill with a black grit off the streets faster than anywhere else we work. Blinds. Behind and under furniture we can safely move.
Most apartments here need one every six months. Make it every four if you cook most nights, have a radiator under a window, or you are on a low floor facing Metropolitan. Book it before guests arrive, not after, and before you list a place, not the week of the open house. See deep cleaning in Williamsburg and spring cleaning.
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category 06
Empty cabinets and drawers wiped inside. Closet shelves and rods. Inside the oven and fridge. The gap beside the stove where things fall. Window tracks. Scuffs on the wall where furniture sat for three years. Move-in is the same list for a different reason: the last tenant's cleaner had twenty minutes and a landlord watching the clock.
Know your rights before you argue about it. The New York security deposit statute spells out what a landlord may and may not deduct, and ordinary wear and tear is not deductible. A clean apartment plus a dated photo set is how you win that. Book seven or more days ahead and RESET30 takes $30 off. See move-in / move-out cleaning in Williamsburg and end of lease cleaning.
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category 07
Weekly takes 25% off every visit, bi-weekly 15%, monthly 10%, for as long as you stay on the plan. Bi-weekly is the right answer for most one and two bedrooms in Williamsburg. Weekly makes sense with kids, pets, or a household where someone cooks every night. Monthly works for a quiet studio, with a deep clean twice a year on top of it.
Reschedule or skip free up to 24 hours ahead, because everyone has a week that falls apart. See custom cleaning plans or the recurring cleaning overview.
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category 08
Before a party. After a party. Before the in-laws land. Or just to see whether you like how we work before you put anything on a schedule. Plenty of our recurring clients in Williamsburg started with a single clean and a lot of skepticism, which is fair given how many cleaning companies in this city are a phone number and a hope.
See one time cleaning, after-party cleaning or holiday cleaning if you are booking around a date.
Book a single cleanAlso on the menu
service
Upkeep instead of rescue. Same cleaner where we can manage it, same day of the week, same written list, so the place never gets far enough gone to need a deep clean again. This one is popular with clients who travel most weeks and want to come back to a home that looks the way they left it, only cleaner.
Related: cleaning service for busy professionals and home organization if the clutter is the real issue.
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service
Williamsburg is one of the easier neighborhoods for us to reach late notice, because we already have crews running through north Brooklyn most mornings. Call before about 11am and there is a decent chance we can get someone to you that afternoon. It is never a promise, but its rarely a no either.
See same day cleaning, last minute cleaning, or 24 hour cleaning if the timing is stranger than that.
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service
Linens reset, restocked, staged back to your listing photos, and damage flagged with a photo before the next guest finds it. That last part is the one hosts care about most, because a guest who finds the problem first is a refund conversation and a review you cannot delete.
See Airbnb cleaning, cleaning service for Airbnb hosts and short term rental cleaning.
Discover nowFour common jobs
Empty rooms hide the most. We clean the places furniture was covering, so you hand over keys, or take them, without a single deduction argument.
The reset for when normal upkeep stopped being enough. Grout, buildup, behind and underneath, the corners a quick tidy never reaches.
The recurring visit that keeps a deep clean from ever being necessary again. Same written checklist, every time, so nothing quietly slips.
Renovation dust is finer than household dust, so it settles again after you finish. It takes a HEPA vacuum and several passes hours apart.
What clients say
My in-laws were visiting for the first time and I was panicking. Every corner of our home was gleaming. I felt so proud to host them.
After a major renovation our apartment was covered in construction dust. They removed it from every surface and the place finally felt livable.
I'm nine months pregnant and exhausted. They sanitized the nursery and the whole apartment. I feel so much more ready to bring our baby home.
Came home from a long trip to a messy apartment. I called for an emergency clean and they came right over. Best welcome home gift.
Hosting a large Thanksgiving dinner and our oven and floors were a mess. They worked fast and left the kitchen spotless. We just cooked.
My daughter's apartment needed serious help before we visited. They scrubbed it top to bottom and killed the odors. Booking them regularly now.
Going through a divorce I fell behind on everything. Having the place professionally cleaned made a real difference to my head. It's a sanctuary now.
Important open house and the realtor said it needed a deep clean fast. Hardwood floors and windows came up shining. The showing was a success.
The checklist
Every visit works through the same checklist, in the same order. We go top to bottom so nothing we knock loose lands on a surface we already finished. Deep and move-out cleans are the standard list plus the items below them, not a different list.
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The recurring visit. Every item, every time.
02
Everything in the standard clean, plus:
03
Everything in the standard and deep clean, plus:
Cleaning products, sprays and cloths all come with us. For hygiene reasons we do not carry vacuums and mops between homes, so we ask that yours are available on the day. If you want fragrance-free or pet-safe products, say so when you book and that is what we bring, at no extra charge. One rule we never break, and neither should you: never mix bleach with ammonia or with any acidic cleaner. It makes a toxic gas, and in a windowless Williamsburg bathroom that is genuinely dangerous. The CDC's hygiene guidance covers the basics in plain language, and the EPA's Safer Choice list is where we check a product before it goes in the kit. See eco-friendly cleaning and pet-friendly cleaning.
Local knowledge
approach
A Williamsburg apartment is not a small house. The radiator bakes dust on every winter. The tub has no window over it, so it holds moisture. One closet does the work of four. We built our checklist around those specifics rather than a generic room list, and we keep notes on your home so nothing has to be re-explained.
Our standard
eco & pet-friendly
Households with cats, dogs, birds or small kids get the pet-safe set by default once they tell us. Williamsburg has more dogs per square block than almost anywhere we work, and a floor cleaner that smells nice to you is something a dog is going to walk through and then lick off its paws.
See eco-friendly cleaning, green cleaning and disinfection services.
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Wash, dry, fold, linens changed and towels swapped. Handy in a building where the machines are two floors down and always taken.
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The checklist and nothing more, priced by home size. Studios and one bedrooms run two to three hours with one cleaner.
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Condos, lofts, row houses and brownstones. Stairs collect more dust than any other surface, so treads, risers and banister every visit.
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No plan, no commitment. Before a party, after a party, or just to see whether you like us before going recurring.
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Same day, week after week, on the same written list. Upkeep rather than rescue, for clients who work long hours or travel most weeks.
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Call before about 11am and we can usually reach you the same day. North Brooklyn is the easiest area for this.
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Checkout at 11, check-in at 3. Linens reset, restocked, staged to your listing photos, damage flagged before the next guest finds it.
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HEPA vacuum, several passes hours apart, and the places dust hides: door frame tops, window tracks, cabinet tops, radiator fins.
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Studios, showrooms and small retail, after hours or before opening, on a schedule that fits your week.
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Recurring plans
Set a rhythm and the discount applies to every visit, automatically. No contract, no cancellation fee, and you can change or pause it whenever you like.
For busy households and full schedules
25% off every visit
Your home never leaves its best state.
Cancel any time · no fee
Our most popular rhythm
15% off every visit
The sweet spot for most Williamsburg apartments.
Cancel any time · no fee
A steady reset on the calendar
10% off every visit
Keeps things from ever getting away from you.
Cancel any time · no fee
Discounts apply automatically to every visit for as long as you stay on the plan, and are quoted flat by home size before anyone arrives.
Questions
The things people in Williamsburg ask us on the phone, answered here so you do not have to.
Who is the best cleaning service in Williamsburg?
We would say us, so take that for what it is worth. The honest answer: pick whoever gives you a flat quote in writing, tells you which cleaners are screened, and puts a re-clean promise in plain language. We do all three, we have been at it since 2015, and you can read every review on this page before you spend a dollar.
Do I need to be home during the clean?
No. Most clients give us entry instructions or a key and go about their day. Tell us how you would like us to get in when you book, including buzzer codes or a doorman name.
Do you bring your own supplies?
Yes, everything is included: sprays, solutions, paper towels and sponges. For hygiene we do not transport vacuums and mops between homes, because that is how bacteria and worse travel from one building to another. So we ask you provide your own vacuum, mop and toilet brush if the job needs them. If that is a problem we can bring a Swiffer mop with disposable wet pads instead, just say so when you book.
How much does a cleaning cost in Williamsburg?
We price flat by home size and scope, not by the hour. A studio or one bedroom standard clean is the low end, a deep clean on a two bedroom with two baths the high end. You get the exact number before anyone is booked, and it does not move on the day. See pricing for the ranges, or apartment cleaning costs in New York City for the longer explanation.
What if something is missed?
Tell us within 24 hours and we come back and re-clean the area at no charge. No argument, no invoice. See the guarantee page for the exact wording.
How often should I deep clean a Williamsburg loft?
Every six months for most places, every four if you cook a lot, have pets, have exposed brick, or you are on a low floor over a busy street. Between those, a bi-weekly standard clean keeps it from building back up. More on that in how often you should deep clean your apartment.
Can you clean around a moving truck on the same day?
Usually yes, but book it seven or more days out if you can, because move-out dates cluster at the end of the month and Williamsburg is one of the busiest areas in the city for it. The NYC move-out cleaning checklist walks through the order to do things in so we are not cleaning a room you are still carrying boxes through.
Do you do Airbnb and short-term rental turnovers?
Yes, and we do a lot of them here. Linens reset, restocked, staged to your listing photos, and damage flagged with a photo before the next guest arrives. See Airbnb cleaning or Airbnb cleaning tips for New York City hosts.
Which parts of Williamsburg do you cover?
All of it. North Side, South Side, East Williamsburg, the waterfront towers, and over into Greenpoint and Bushwick. See all of Brooklyn for the rest.
How do I pay?
Card on file, charged after the visit. No deposit, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours before your slot.
Testimonials
My elderly mother has mobility issues and cannot keep up. They were kind and respectful and left her home spotless and safe. Real peace of mind for all of us.
Birthday party for our son and the house was chaos. They focused on the living room and kitchen where the guests would be. Everyone raved about how nice it looked.
Our apartment had not had a deep clean in nearly a year and the dust and pet dander were getting to us. Corners, behind furniture, all of it. The air feels lighter now.
My girlfriend moved in this weekend and I wanted the apartment to feel brand new for her, and they did not miss a spot, from the stove to the baseboards.
Tom R.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn · move-in deep clean
Where we clean
Most of our cleaners live in Queens, so Queens and north Brooklyn get the widest choice of times. Manhattan below 96th Street we cover every day.
Brooklyn
22-16 79th Street
East Elmhurst, NY 11370
Ready when you are
Tell us your home size and pick a day. You get a flat quote before anyone arrives, and first-time clients save 10% with FIRST10.
Green Hands
Cleaning Services
Insured, background-checked cleaners serving Queens, Brooklyn & Manhattan since 2015.
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