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.

CoverageOakland County

House cleaning in Royal Oak

Small lots, small houses, and a lot of them renovated well enough to need two approaches in one room.

Oakland County

The houses in Royal Oak

Pre-war bungalows and Tudors on narrow lots, typically 1,000 to 1,600 square feet, many with a rebuilt kitchen or a rear addition bolted onto a 1930s shell. Newer infill builds have replaced some bungalows outright.

After cleaning: the same emptied room from the same doorway in the same bright late-morning light. The oak floor is swept, vacuumed and mopped so the dust film and lint around the furniture outlines are gone, the dust bunnies are cleared from the baseboards and corners, the scuff and drag marks are scrubbed off the wall, and the hanger and packing paper are removed. The unfaded rectangles where pictures hung and the small nail holes are still there, because cleaning does not repaint. — Move-out

3 things

What that changes

Parking is street parking on most of these blocks. If your street has a permit rule, tell us in the notes.

01
Original hex tile and a modern frameless shower in the same bathroom need two different methods and two different cloths.
02
A tight footprint means the clean is quick and the difference is immediate. Every other week suits most of these houses.
03
An addition almost always means a floor transition, and that seam collects everything. It is part of the floors, not an optional detail.

A Basic Clean starts at

$133

a visit, weekly

What it costs in Royal Oak

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.

How the price is built The three services

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

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