Recurring House Cleaning in Abbotsford, Langley and Surrey
The same cleaner, on the same day, working from a checklist you wrote. It is the least dramatic thing we sell and the one that changes a house most, because a home cleaned every second week never gets the chance to build the sort of soil that needs a harsh product to shift.
Recurring cleaning is a maintenance visit on a fixed schedule, weekly, every second week or monthly, with the same cleaner each time working from a checklist you set. Most three bedroom Fraser Valley homes start at $149 a visit. We use plant-based products and add no fragrance unless you ask for one.
- Fragrance-free by default
- Same cleaner each visit
- Full product list before we start
- No lock-in contracts
What is included in a recurring clean?
Room by room, every visit. Most companies publish four bullet points for this. Here is the actual list, and you can add to it or cross things off.
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Kitchen
Counters and the backsplash behind them. Sink and taps, descaled with citric acid where the water is hard. Fronts of every appliance, including the fridge door handle and the oven glass. Microwave inside and out, including the ceiling of it. Stovetop, knobs and the drip trays under the elements. Range hood face and the underside filter wiped. Cupboard and drawer fronts at hand height, where the fingerprints actually are. Table and chairs, including the rungs. Bin wiped, liner replaced. Floor washed by hand along the toe kicks and around the fridge feet, not just mopped down the middle.
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Bathrooms
Toilet inside and out, including the seat hinge caps, the bolt covers and the base where it meets the floor. Shower or tub, walls, and the glass, with dwell time on the scale rather than a fast wipe. Taps, shower head and the drain surround. Grout lines checked and scrubbed where they have gone dark. Mirror and the light bar above it. Vanity, sink and the underside lip. Towel rails. Extractor fan cover wiped. Floor washed by hand behind and around the toilet, which is the spot a mop never reaches.
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Bedrooms and living areas
Beds made, or linen changed if you leave a fresh set out. All surfaces dusted with damp microfibre rather than a dry duster that moves dust into the air: dressers, nightstands, headboards, shelf edges, the tops of picture frames, the top of the door frame. Mirrors and glass. Under and behind the sofa cushions vacuumed. Lamp bases and shades. Skirting spot-cleaned where marked. Floors vacuumed with HEPA filtration, hard floors damp-mopped.
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Everywhere, every visit
Light switches, door handles and both faces of the door around the handle. These are the highest-touch surfaces in any house and the most commonly skipped. Stair treads and the outer edge of each tread, plus the spindles. Entry mat lifted and the floor beneath it cleaned. Cobweb check at every ceiling corner and light fitting. Bins emptied, liners replaced. Windowsills wiped. A last walk through with the lights off and on, because that is when you see streaks.
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Add-ons, priced separately
Inside the oven, inside the fridge, interior windows, inside emptied cupboards, and laundry. These are real extra hours rather than a marketing upsell, particularly the oven: baked-on soil comes off with washing soda and an enzyme degreaser, but that needs dwell time and agitation where a caustic oven cleaner needs neither. Ask for them on a specific visit, or put them on a quarterly rotation.
What is not included?
Published in full, because finding out on the day is worse for both of us.
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Heavy furniture, and anything above the second step of a ladder
We move what is on castors and what one person can shift safely. We do not move wardrobes, pianos, full bookcases or appliances that are plumbed in. High light fittings, ceiling fans over a stairwell and anything needing a real ladder are out for the same reason: that is a fall, and a WorkSafeBC claim, waiting to happen.
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Carpet extraction, exterior windows, and walls
Carpet and upholstery steam extraction is a different trade with different equipment. So are exterior windows and pressure washing. We spot-clean wall marks where they lift without taking the paint with them, and we stop when they do not.
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Animal waste, human waste and hoarding
Litter trays, accidents, and anything biohazard are outside what we ask our cleaners to handle. Hoarding cleanouts need a specialist firm with its own certification.
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Mould beyond a small surface patch
We clean surface mould on non-porous surfaces with detergent and water. Beyond roughly a square metre, or once it is inside drywall, insulation or subfloor, it is a remediation job needing containment and moisture diagnosis, and we will tell you so. The full list of what we decline, and who to call instead.
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Tidying that is really sorting
We will put things away where there is an obvious place for them. We will not file your paperwork, sort children's toys into categories or decide what is rubbish. A cluttered surface gets cleaned around, and the clean looks worse for it, which is why the one thing worth doing before we arrive is clearing the counters.
Frequency beats chemistry.
Recurring cleaning is the single strongest case for plant-based products, and it is a practical argument rather than a moral one. Almost all household cleaning is soil removal, done by surfactants, mild acids and mechanical action. A surface cleaned two weeks ago has two weeks of soil on it, and soap, hot water and microfibre take that off completely. The products people reach for because they feel powerful are answers to a problem that only exists when a house has been left for six months.
The second argument is cumulative exposure, and it applies to recurring work more than to any one-off job, because whatever we use goes into your house twenty-six times a year. Household VOC exposure is associated with roughly 1.6 times the asthma risk in adults and 1.5 to 2.5 times in children (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, American Lung Association). A 2023 study of 30 cleaning products found 530 unique VOCs, 193 of them hazardous, and it found them in products marketed as green too (Environmental Research). That is exactly why we publish the list instead of using the word green.
Third, and locally: the FVRD's own air quality plan reports asthma and COPD rates in Fraser Valley municipalities above the BC average, with 27 per cent of fine particulate coming from wood burning (FVRD Air Quality Management Plan, 2021). Homes here already carry an outdoor air burden. Adding to it every second Tuesday is a choice, and it is avoidable. See the plant-based products we use.
What does recurring cleaning cost?
Flat rate per visit, quoted before we start, with GST added on top like every cleaning price in Canada.
From $149 per visit, most 3 bedroom homes.
What moves the number: bedrooms and bathrooms first, then how many people and animals live there, whether the floors are hard or carpeted, whether the house is on hard well water, and how often we come. A weekly visit is less work per visit than a monthly one, and it prices accordingly. We hold the rate for the job, so if a visit runs long that is our problem, not a surprise line on an invoice.
For context, published Lower Mainland rates put a standard three bedroom clean at $190 to $270, and biweekly house cleaning at $220 to $330. Companies working with certified natural products in this market typically charge $55 to $70 an hour against $40 to $55 for conventional. Our full breakdown is on the pricing page.
Recurring visits across the Valley.
Route density is why the price holds. We cluster visits by day and by city rather than crossing the Valley twice.
- Cleaning in Abbotsford
- Cleaning in Langley
- Cleaning in Surrey
- Cleaning in Chilliwack
- Cleaning in Mission
- Cleaning in Maple Ridge
Also Aldergrove, Cloverdale, South Surrey, White Rock, Delta and Pitt Meadows. Water hardness matters more on a recurring schedule than on any one-off job: Surrey and Maple Ridge run very soft Metro Vancouver water, around 3 to 4 mg/L, while Abbotsford and Mission draw from wells running 72 to 218 mg/L with no hardness treatment. Soft water leaves soap film, hard water leaves scale, and they need opposite treatments. All service areas.
The ones we get about recurring visits.
How often should a house be cleaned?
Every second week is what most households here settle on, and it is the schedule the whole model is built around. Weekly suits homes with young children, indoor pets that shed, or someone working from home all day. Monthly works for a tidy couple or a small condo, but be realistic: a month of dust in a wood-heated Chilliwack house is a different job from a month in a Surrey townhouse, and the visit runs longer.
Do I have to be home?
No, and most clients are not. You can leave a key, a lockbox code or a garage code. Keys are labelled without an address, stored locked, logged when they are signed out, and handed back the day you cancel. If you would rather be there for the first visit so you can walk the house with the cleaner, that is the better option and we will book it that way.
Will it be the same cleaner every time?
That is the intention and it is one of our four standing promises. Someone who has cleaned your house eight times knows which tap spots, which floor cannot take water and which room to skip. If your regular cleaner is ill or away, we tell you before the visit rather than sending a stranger and hoping you do not notice.
Do I need a deep clean before recurring visits start?
Only sometimes, and we will say which. Several companies make a first deep clean mandatory because it lifts the first invoice. If the house has been maintained, a recurring visit holds it from day one. If nothing has moved behind the fridge in two years, the first few recurring visits will run over and still miss things, so one deep clean first is genuinely cheaper.
What if something is not right?
Tell us within 24 hours and we come back and redo that area at no charge. We would rather hear it than read it later. If the same thing keeps coming up, it usually means the checklist is wrong rather than the cleaner, so we change the checklist.
Is it safe with a cat, a dog and a toddler in the house?
That is the reason most of our clients call. No chlorine bleach, no ammonia, no quats, and no added fragrance by default. We are also cautious about essential oils rather than enthusiastic: tea tree, pine and citrus oils are genuinely toxic to cats, so we do not spray or diffuse them in homes with animals. The reasoning is on what we actually use.
Tell us about the house.
Same working day reply, with the product list attached. Or just call.
Price a recurring clean
We reply the same working day. Or call (819) 743-5953.