Recurring house cleaning in Northern Michigan | Exclusive Housekeeping
Recurring house cleaning in Northern Michigan
🏠 Weekly & biweekly

Recurring house cleaning in Northern Michigan

A standing visit so the kitchen, baths, and floors stay ahead of the week — not a scramble before company arrives.

What a standing clean looks like

Weekly & biweekly

Most year-round homes here do not need a deep clean every visit. They need a crew that already knows the house: which bath actually gets used, where winter grit hits the entry, and what you prefer left alone. That is what a recurring plan is — weekly or every other week, same checklist, same notes.

Each visit is maintenance, done carefully. Kitchens and baths are finished. Floors are vacuumed and mopped. Reachable surfaces are dusted. Beds are made when linens are out. Trash leaves with us. The aim is a house you can live in, not a Sunday night spent catching up.

Families in Indian River and Petoskey often begin every other week, then move to weekly if the house stays busier than expected. Monthly still works for cottages that only see long weekends and need a reset between trips.

The next date and the invoice live in the Customer Portal. You should not have to message three people to find out whether Thursday is still on the calendar.

Who it is for

  • Year-round homes that want the same crew and the same checklist, week after week
  • People who travel and would rather walk into a finished house than a two-week pile-up
  • Owners who live here part of the year and still want the place kept between guest seasons

How to prepare

  • Secure pets that are uncomfortable with visitors
  • Clear floors enough that we can vacuum properly
  • Add lockbox, alarm, and skip-room notes when you book
  • Tell us if you prefer eco-friendly products on that visit

We are based in Indian River, licensed and insured, and we work from a written checklist — not a new profile found on Saturday morning.

House cleaning pages for Petoskey, Indian River, Harbor Springs, Cheboygan, and Gaylord.

Kitchen

  • Counters, sink, and faucet wiped; dishes left in the sink are not washed unless we agreed
  • Appliance exteriors (fridge, oven, dishwasher, microwave door)
  • Stovetop wiped; heavy baked-on grease is a deep-clean or add-on
  • Floor vacuumed and mopped
  • Trash emptied if a liner is available

Bathrooms

  • Toilet, sink, and faucet cleaned
  • Tub or shower wiped; mineral film that needs extra dwell time is called out on deep cleans
  • Mirror and accessible fixtures
  • Floor and base of vanity
  • Trash emptied

Bedrooms & living areas

  • Beds made when linens are left out
  • Reachable dusting of furniture and open surfaces
  • Floors vacuumed; hard floors mopped
  • Light tidy of items already on surfaces — we do not reorganize closets

Throughout the home

  • High-touch points we can reach (switches, handles) on recurring and deep visits
  • Notes you leave in the booking or portal
  • Pets secured by you before we arrive

Optional add-ons

  • Wash-and-fold: on-site machines or $18 a load at our 8-machine shop
  • Dishes and a reset sink when you ask for it on that visit
  • Linen change and beds made with the sets you leave out — or the duplicate sets we bring back
  • Pet-hair pass on furniture and floors (we are not a groomer; this is extra vacuum time)
  • A real tidy-up of toys, mail piles, and couch clutter before the clean starts
  • Hand-wipe of marked walls and door kicks — not a full paint-prep wash
  • Grout and tile extra dwell in the worst bath or entry
  • Blind wipe, priced per blind so a lake-house wall of slats does not surprise the quote
  • Interior window glass and sills, priced per pane
  • Screens washed when they come out without a fight
  • Front entry, porch, or deck sweep so sand does not walk back in
  • Patio furniture wipe after a lake weekend
  • Oven interior, fridge interior, or both
  • Inside cabinets and drawers on an empty or move-out day
  • Garage, mudroom, or bunk-wing extra time
  • Ceiling fans and reachable light fixtures
  • Extra refrigerator or freezer in the garage or bunk house
  • Hot-tub cabinet wipe and cover dust-off (not a spa service)
  • Key pickup / key return when the lockbox is not an option
  • Eco-minded products on that visit only
  • Same-week holiday or open-house reset on top of the standing plan
  • Customer Portal access so you stop texting for the next date and the invoice
  • Residential carpet shampooing — about $50 per average 10×15 room, chemicals included

What we do not include

  • Hoarding or biohazard situations
  • Exterior windows on tall stories or icy roofs
  • Commercial carpet extraction for offices and restaurants (residential shampooing is a separate, priced add-on)
  • Moving furniture heavier than we can safely shift with two people
  • Washing dishes stacked in the sink unless the quote says so
FAQ

Questions about Recurring house cleaning

Will I see the same people?

We keep notes on your house and try to send familiar teams on recurring routes. Peak summer on the lakes sometimes means a trained backup crew — the checklist stays the same.

Can I leave special instructions?

Yes. Put them on the booking form or in the Customer Portal. Alarm codes, lockboxes, rooms to skip, and product preferences all travel with the job.

What if I need to cancel?

Give us as much notice as you can — 48 hours helps the route. Same-day cancels may still be billed when we cannot fill the slot. Call 231-290-0737.

Do you serve only Petoskey?

No. Home base is Indian River (49749). We work Indian River, Petoskey, Cheboygan, Gaylord, Harbor Springs and the lake towns inside 30 miles of 49749.

Serving every town within 30 miles of 49749

Recurring house cleaning is available in Indian River, Topinabee, Burt Lake, Mullett Lake, Alanson, Wolverine, Brutus, Ponshewaing, Cheboygan, Onaway, Pellston, Vanderbilt, Petoskey, Bay View, Harbor Springs, Levering, Boyne Falls, Walloon Lake, Carp Lake, Mackinaw City, Afton, Bay Harbor, Boyne City, Millersburg, Conway, Johannesburg, Elmira, Gaylord, Aloha, Cross Village.

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