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Core Cleaning Ontario

Cleaning services for homes and businesses.

Eight services across Waterloo Region, Milton and Guelph. Whether it is a Tuesday tidy or an empty house at handover, you describe it once and we quote it.

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Read it across, not down.

Most cleaning companies describe their services and leave you to guess where one ends and the next begins. Here is the whole scope in one table, so you can pick the service that matches the job instead of the one with the biggest name.

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Which tasks each kind of clean usually covers
What it coversRecurringDeepTurnoverMove-in / out
Kitchens, bathrooms, floors and dusting throughoutIncludedIncludedIncludedIncluded
Beds made and linens changedIncludedNot includedIncludedNot included
Beds stripped, remade and staged to a listingNot includedNot includedIncludedNot included
Towels folded and placed to a set standardNot includedNot includedIncludedNot included
Grout, tile and shower screens worked in detailNot includedIncludedNot includedIncluded
Baseboards, door frames, switch plates and ventsNot includedIncludedNot includedIncluded
Behind and beneath movable furnitureNot includedIncludedNot includedNot included
Inside cabinets, drawers, wardrobes and closetsAdd-onAdd-onAdd-onAdd-on
Appliance interiors: oven, fridge, dishwasherAdd-onAdd-onAdd-onAdd-on
Interior glass and window tracksNot includedIncludedNot includedIncluded
Consumables checked and restocked to your listNot includedNot includedIncludedNot included
Damage and low stock reported back to youNot includedNot includedIncludedNot included

This is what each kind of clean covers as standard, so you know which one to ask for. “Add-on” means available when you select it on the quote form. The exact scope is confirmed in the quote we send you, and anything specific to your property goes on top of it. Commercial scopes are written per site rather than picked from this table, and go on the work order as agreed with you.

Standard Cleaning

The one most requests start with. It covers the rooms you actually live in, to a consistent standard, in a single visit. Book it once to see how it goes, or set it to repeat and it becomes your recurring clean. Prices start at $165 + HST for a one-bedroom home and are set by bedroom count, and the form asks about bathrooms, size and condition so the final price is right rather than guessed.

Best for: Households who want the living space kept to a consistent standard.

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Recurring Cleaning

Choose weekly, every two weeks or every four weeks. We aim to keep recurring service with the same partner where availability allows. You choose the day too, and it goes on the work order as fixed rather than as a preference, so the house holds its standard instead of swinging between spotless and overdue, and your preferences travel with every visit.

Best for: Households who want the same standard every visit, without asking for it.

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Deep Cleaning

Not a bigger version of a maintenance clean. It works top-down through the property and gives time to grout, tracks, vents, and the backs and undersides of things. It is usually the right first visit before a recurring schedule starts, so say on the form that you want both and we quote the two together. Because a deep clean varies enormously with condition, it is one of the jobs we may come back to you on before confirming the final price.

Best for: First visits, spring resets, and homes that have been left a while.

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Move-In Cleaning

A house is only ever empty once for you, and that is the window. Cabinet interiors, closet shelving, behind and under the appliances, the tops of doors, all of it is reachable now and effectively unreachable the day after the van arrives. It is also the moment to get the previous household out of the place: bathrooms and kitchen taken back to bare, floors done before anything is set down on them. Give us the day you get the keys and we work to it.

Best for: Anyone taking keys who wants the place clean before it is theirs.

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Move-Out Cleaning

This one is graded. A landlord, a property manager or a buyer's agent walks the property with a list, and the list is always the same: appliance interiors, cabinet interiors, tracks, frames, and whether the bathrooms come up. We quote it as a handover job rather than as a house clean, and we put it to a service partner who does handover work regularly, because knowing what gets checked is most of the skill. Tell us the date the keys change hands.

Best for: Tenants at handover, landlords turning a unit, sellers before closing.

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A rental bedroom made up with crisp white linens and folded towels ready for a guest arrival

Airbnb & Short-Term Rental Turnover

Turnover is its own discipline, not a small house clean. It runs to a window, it includes the linen, and it ends with the property staged the way the listing photographs show it. Give us your check-out and check-in times and we put the job to a service partner who can work inside them, because on a changeover the clock matters as much as the clean. Regular hosts are usually better off on a recurring arrangement so the same partner holds the calendar.

Best for: Hosts, co-hosts and property managers working to a check-in clock.

The full turnover service
A small kitchenette reset with clear counters and a restocked coffee station

Commercial & Office Cleaning

Commercial work goes to service partners who already run this kind of routine, because an office cleaned like a house ends up with the wrong things done well. We agree the scope with you in writing before the first visit and quote it as a schedule rather than as a single job, and we can set it outside business hours where that matters. Larger sites and anything post-construction we will usually want to look at properly before confirming a price.

Best for: Offices, studios, clinics and retail units.

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Add-On Services

A standard visit has a scope, and these sit outside it: they take real extra time, so they are asked for rather than assumed. Add any of them to any service on the quote form and they go into the work order as agreed scope, quoted with the job rather than sprung on you afterwards. Most are things you want once or twice a year rather than every visit, which is exactly why they are not bundled into the price of every visit.

Best for: Anyone who wants a specific job done on top of a normal visit.

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The detail is the service

Anyone can wipe a counter. What separates one service from the next is the grout, the tracks, the door frames and the things nobody photographs.

Priced by the size of the home.

Every service has a published starting price, set by bedroom count and shown before HST. Standard cleaning starts at $165 + HST, recurring at $135, deep at $250 and move-in or move-out at $300.

Starting prices are set by bedroom count. Bathrooms, square footage, condition, frequency and add-ons can move the final number, which is why we confirm it with you before booking, never after.

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Before you ask.

The six most likely to come up before a first visit. Anything else, ask on the quote form and it goes across with the rest of your request.

By service and home size, before HST. Standard cleaning starts at $165 + HST, deep cleaning at $250 and move-in or move-out at $300. The quote form shows your estimate before you send anything, and we confirm the final price before booking.

Need cleaning help?

Tell us what type of property you have, where it is and what needs cleaning. We will help you work out the right service and give you a straightforward quote, in writing, before anything is booked. If a lighter service will do, we will say so.

Mon–Fri 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM · Sat 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM · Sun by appointment