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A plain, bright room in a well-kept older house: cream painted walls, white wood trim and pale oak boards, with a sheer-curtained double-hung window flooding the room with daylight and a white cast iron radiator beneath it. A cream slipcovered armchair and a small light wood side table holding a shallow dish stand just right of the window on a large textured jute rug, and a white panelled door stands open on the left onto another pale room.

CoverageWayne County

House cleaning in Dearborn

Dearborn is where the day starts. It is the closest thing we have to a home city and the easiest place on this list to fit into a short-notice slot.

Wayne County

The houses in Dearborn

The east end is 1920s and 1930s brick bungalows and colonials built for Rouge plant families: plaster walls, original oak under a lot of carpet, small hex-tile bathrooms with grout that has had ninety years to darken. West Dearborn adds mid-century ranches and bigger colonials on deeper lots, and a good share of those have been through a kitchen renovation in the last decade.

After cleaning: the same basement from the same angle under the same bare bulb. The lint is stripped from the dryer and vent hose, the joists, pipes and window are brushed clear of dust and cobwebs so the glass block reads bright green again, the laundry is folded into the baskets and stacked on the table, the detergent is reduced to two jugs, the hose is stowed on the shelving and the concrete floor is swept and mopped with the drain surround scrubbed. The flaking wall paint, the efflorescence and the dented old machines are all still there.
Basement laundry

3 things

What that changes

Being based here means less drive time than anywhere else we cover, so the early and late ends of the day are genuinely available rather than theoretically available.

  • 01

    Ninety-year-old grout does not come back from a spray and a wipe. It has to be worked, which on a first visit usually means a Deep Clean rather than a Basic.

  • 02

    Original oak takes a damp mop and never a wet one. Standing water on a hundred-year-old finish is how boards cup.

  • 03

    Kitchens here get cooked in every single day. Backsplash, stovetop and the exterior of the range hood are on the checklist for exactly that reason.

A Basic Clean starts at

$133

a visit, weekly

What it costs in Dearborn

The same as everywhere else we go. Price comes from the size of the house and the number of bedrooms, not from the ZIP code — a Basic Clean starts at $133 a visit on a weekly schedule, and the booking form shows your number before you commit to anything.

Deep Cleans and Move In / Move Out cleans are priced on the same form. There is no separate quote call and no visit-first survey.

Nearby in Wayne County

Metro Detroit Maids is a service-area business based in Dearborn, MI. We cover Dearborn; we do not hold premises there and there is no office to visit. Everything is booked online or by phone.

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