Toronto Yard and Garden
Cleaning Services
Contact me (call or text) at 416 455 0575 or through the website contact form to discuss cleaning, ask any questions, and/or arrange a home or business visit
I am available for cleaning commercial (offices, storage rooms, Air BNBs and others) and residential spaces (garages, bathrooms, kitchens and others).
As a cleaner, I try to balance productivity, cleanliness, and health with my cleaning service. I try to complete the most work in the shortest period of time by doing my best to use processes and tools that are productive. I research and apply approaches for cleaning different surfaces and aim to leave them spotless and free of damage that comes through inappropriate cleaning techniques. I try to use the healthiest approaches to cleaning surfaces.
I do not subcontract cleaning work that clients provide, and if additional employees are required to complete a job, they are supervised by me. I have a vehicle and my own supplies and tools. I am flexible with regard to the supplies that I will use at a property if the client has specific requests.
Pricing: $20/hr labor rate (no minimum number of hours) plus the cost of supplies used during the work paid on completion of the day
I offer the following services (you may ask about others)
Glass cleaning technique
- Windex or 2.3% vinegar and water solution with some dawn ultra dish soap. Cleared with a squeegee, sponge, and lint free micro-fiber glass cleaning rag
Cleaning window and mirror glass
Room organization
Fridge and Freezer
Backsplash near oven
Getting grease and grime off oven backsplash near a stovetop
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I use a baking soda paste (2:1:0.3 baking soda to water to dawn ultra soap), applied, scrubbed in, 15 minutes dwell time, rinsed off with soap and water solution, then clean water. Repeated 3 times to get all the grime off. If a faster solution presents itself in the future, I will consider it.
Blinds
Car Detailing (exterior)
Ceramic and Porcelain in bathrooms
Toilet cleaning
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Warm water and dawn ultra solution with paper towel
Stainless steel cleaning
Stainless steel
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Stainless steel cleaner and a paper towel. At the moment, I'm not sure how to clean stainless steel in a healthy manner without leaving streaks. Specialty cleaners are good at dealing with that issue.
Floors and walls
Approach to cleaning floors and walls
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For floors, flip mop (mop on one side, duster on the other). Dust, vacuum, and mop with a water:vinegar ratio that is acceptable for the type of flooring the client has.
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For walls, dusting, vacuuming, removal of scuffs with a pink rubber eraser. Pre-wet a flip mop in water and spray wall with dawn ultra soap and warm water
Patio furniture
Patio furniture cleaning
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Leaf blowing debris and dirt off furniture, followed by soap and water and rinse
Eavestrough cleaning
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Leaf blowing and running water through the eavestrough. Making sure downspouts are secured to the wall and clearing any physical obstructions in them
Gutter cleaning
Caulk cleaning
Bathroom caulking
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I use a paste that is 1:1 bleach to baking soda applied with a paint brush on the areas that need to be cleaned. It is then covered with plastic wrap and left for 1 hour. Rinse and repeat. The smell afterwards is not good, but it doesn't last as long as if you had applied bleach directly to the surface
Metal polishing
Metal cleaning
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Metal cleaner will restore melchior spoons damaged by bleach (erroneously used to stir the bleach and baking soda solution above)
Ovens and grates
Cleaning ovens and grates
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For self-cleaning ovens, just press the button.
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For ovens without a self-clean option, it may be acceptable (if the coating allows for it) to use an oven cleaner followed by a cleaning with 1:1 vinegar and water
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Oven grates, if stainless steel, can be effectively cleaned with Zep oven cleaner and 1 hr dwell time. If a less caustic approach is preferred, soaking in tide pods in bathtub with warm water for up to 24hr is also effective (though less so)
Cleaning baseboards
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I use dawn ultra and water solution with pink erasers to remove scuffs
Cleaning teapots and microwaves
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For a teapot - 1:1 vinegar and water ratio boiled for 20 minutes then wiped clean
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for a microwave - high heat steam the same ratio for 5 minutes then wipe clean
Teapots and Microwaves
Stove top
Stove top cleaning approach
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Removal of stuck-on foods can be done either with a specialty stove top cleaner or with a soap and water solution and 0000 steel wool. This second approach will leave some scratches, but using soap and water and the least abrasive steel wool will, relatively speaking, leave fewer scratches.
Tile grout
Grout cleaning
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I clean grout with a steam cleaner and a scrubber, which reduces damage to grout while providing some cleaning results
Television
Cleaning television screens
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Dusted with a Home Depot glass cleaning cloth. Smudges wiped with distilled water on a rag (small amount)
Windowsill
Cleaning windowsills
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Cleaned with a soap and water solution with the help of a toothbrush, stiff brush, screwdriver, razor blade, and towel to allow the screwdriver to help scrape off hard to reach surfaces without scratching them
