Detroit North area · Michigan · Professional Home Cleaning
House cleaning planned for Northville Victorians, Novi townhomes, Plymouth bungalows and new Lyon Township builds, with road salt winters and hard well water in mind.
Answered 24/7, day or night
Recurring weekly or biweekly cleaning to the same TotalCare Cleaning standard every visit, with Hotel Finish detail.
From $160 / visit
One-time or seasonal deep cleaning. Baseboards hand washed, cabinet fronts degreased, ceiling fans, blinds and vents. Every detail surface your standard clean misses.
From $311
Inspection-ready move-out cleaning for tenants, landlords, sellers, and buyers. Interior appliances, all cabinets, baseboards, inspection-ready standard.
From $391
Service Areas
Every TotalCare Cleaning professional is background-checked and screened before their first job.
Detroit North area · Michigan
Lyon Township is the newest corner of the Detroit North area, with big family homes, softened public water and subdivisions that wait their turn for the plow. Here is how to keep those homes clean.
Milford is a river village with very hard water, a mix of old and newer homes and Kensington Metropark on its doorstep. Here is what that means for cleaning a Milford home.
Northville Township sits beside the city of Northville but has its own history and much newer, larger homes, with Maybury State Park in its backyard. Here is how that shapes house cleaning in the township.
Novi is young, fast growing and full of newer homes, condos and townhouses, with lakes, Great Lakes water and a large share of renters. Here is what that means for keeping a Novi home clean.
Plymouth's homes are older on average than Northville's, with a big share of rentals and a busy downtown. Here is how that shapes cleaning in Plymouth and Plymouth Township.
South Lyon pairs a historic depot and parks with mostly newer homes and its own deep wells. Here is what the iron in the water, the trails and the housing mean for keeping a South Lyon home clean.
Other places in the Detroit North area: Plymouth Township, Downtown Northville, Downtown Plymouth, Downtown Milford, Twelve Oaks, Providence Park, Meadowbrook, McHattie Park, Taft Road, Highland Lakes, Eagle Creek, Emerald Lake, Five Points.
Local Guides
What a One-Time Deep Clean will do for Northville area homes, from Queen Anne trim and plaster to hard village water in Milford and a full winter of road salt at the door.
A practical checklist for vetting any cleaning company or independent cleaner in Northville, Novi and Plymouth, using Michigan's own business and consumer protection offices.
The Moving Clean for Northville, Novi and Plymouth rentals and sales, timed around Michigan's security deposit deadlines, local bulky trash pickup and a snowy moving season.
How to choose weekly, bi-weekly or monthly Recurring House Cleans for a Northville area home, with a schedule that follows salt season, a wet May, park trails and fall leaf cleanup.
A month by month plan for Northville, Novi and Plymouth homes, built from federal climate normals for Detroit Metro Airport and the local leaf, yard waste and festival calendar.
Why a shower door in Milford scales up faster than one in Novi: a town by town look at the water systems of the Detroit North suburbs and how to clean the spots and stains each one leaves.
A care guide for the Queen Anne houses of Northville, the prewar homes of Plymouth and the old village houses of Milford and South Lyon: wood, plaster, old paint and what to leave alone.
How to keep Northville, Novi and South Lyon homes clean through a Michigan winter of snow, slush and road salt, from the mudroom and hardwood entry to furnace dust on every shelf.
Northville sits on Eight Mile Road with one foot in Oakland County and the other in Wayne County, and the homes around it span almost two centuries. A Queen Anne house a few blocks from Main Street and a four bedroom built after 2000 in Lyon Township need very different things from a cleaning visit, even though they are a short drive apart.
This page explains what TotalCare Cleaning will do when it comes to Northville and the suburbs around it: how local houses age, what a Michigan winter tracks indoors, which clean fits which home, and what each one will cost by home size.
The city of Northville was settled in 1825 and became a village in 1867, and its age shows. Census estimates put the median home there at 1968, with close to a quarter of houses built in 1939 or earlier and about two thirds built before 1980. Many of the houses near downtown are Queen Anne Victorians, with tall painted trim, original wood floors, deep window sills and staircases that collect dust on every spindle.
Those houses reward a patient, gentle clean. Old varnish and plaster do not like harsh products, and decades of paint mean nothing gets scraped or sanded. Because the city's historic district commission rules on exterior changes and even exterior paint colors, the cleaning work stays inside the house. The older home cleaning guide covers the details.
Step outside the old core and the picture flips. Northville Township's median home dates from 1993 and close to half of its houses have four or more bedrooms. About two in three city homes are single family detached, roughly one in eight is an attached townhouse style unit, and about one in five sits in a building with two or more units. Square footage, not age, drives the work in those larger homes.
Federal climate normals for Detroit Metro Airport, the closest long record, show about 45 inches of snow a year, with January the snowiest month at 14 inches. The ground holds an inch or more of snow on about 47 days, and the low drops to freezing or below on roughly 120 days a year. The Road Commission for Oakland County follows written salt guidelines for each condition, so the brine and grit on the roads end up on boots, paws and stroller wheels.
That salt is the defining cleaning problem of a Northville winter. It leaves a white film on hardwood and tile near the door and dulls finishes if it sits. Entry floors, mudroom benches and the first stretch of hallway need attention every visit from December to March, which is why the winter cleaning guide exists.
Summer swings the other way. The normal July high is close to 84 degrees, there are about 13 days a year at 90 or hotter, and the July and August dew point averages about 61 degrees. May is the wettest month. The seasonal cleaning calendar lays the whole year out.
A One-Time Deep Clean ($311.00 to $690.00 across the five home sizes) is the reset for a home that has gone a while without professional care, or one at the tail end of a long winter. It adds hand washed baseboards, wet-wiped blinds, window tracks, ceiling fans and vents wiped in place, degreased cabinet fronts, detailed faucets and shower glass treated for mineral spots. On a plan, the first visit is an Initial Deep Clean.
A Recurring House Clean keeps the home there on a weekly, bi-weekly or monthly schedule. A bi-weekly visit for a three bedroom, two bath home is $256.00 per visit. Each recurring visit also dusts the reachable baseboards and blind slats, which matters in a Victorian with tall trim. The recurring cleaning guide helps pick the right frequency for snow months and summer.
A Moving Clean covers an empty home before a lease ends or a new owner moves in, inside the oven, refrigerator and cabinets included. About one in five Northville homes and about one in three Novi homes are rented, so tenants leaving under Michigan's deposit rules book it as often as sellers do. See the move-out cleaning guide.
Novi became a city only in 1969 and has grown fast since, to more than 66,000 residents in 2020. Its median home dates from 1993 and close to a third of its housing is in buildings with two or more units. See Novi house cleaning.
Plymouth was settled the same year as Northville and its houses are older still, with a median build year of 1961. It is surrounded by Plymouth Township, a separate community. See Plymouth house cleaning.
Milford grew around an 1832 sawmill and its mill pond, and the village reports water hardness of about 25 grains per gallon. See Milford house cleaning. South Lyon runs on three deep wells with iron filtration and has more than 200 acres of parks. See South Lyon house cleaning.
Lyon Township is the newest part of the area, with a median home built in 2003, and Northville Township, a separate community next to the city, has larger homes and Maybury State Park. See Lyon Township house cleaning and Northville Township house cleaning. Neighborhoods such as Downtown Northville, Twelve Oaks, Providence Park, Meadowbrook, McHattie Park, Highland Lakes, Eagle Creek, Emerald Lake, Five Points and Taft Road are part of the same service area.
Water is not the same across the area, and it changes what builds up on glass and chrome. Novi buys treated water from the Great Lakes Water Authority, mostly from its Lake Huron plant, and Plymouth's report names the Detroit River as its source. Milford, South Lyon and Lyon Township run their own systems: Milford reports hardness of about 25 grains per gallon, South Lyon filters iron out of its well water, and Lyon Township now softens its supply at two plants.
That means a shower door in Milford needs far more mineral work than one in Novi. The hard water cleaning guide compares the systems town by town.
Frequently Asked Questions
TotalCare Cleaning will service Northville and surrounding areas with background-checked cleaners and is insured up to $1 million. Re-clean guarantee: if we missed something, tell us by the end of the next day and we come back to fix it. Beyond Clean. TotalCare.
