House Cleaning in the North Suburbs

Phes Cleaning serves the North Suburbs with professional house cleaning, deep cleaning, recurring service, and commercial cleaning.

The North Shore has some of the oldest and largest houses in the region, and cleaning them is a question of hours before it is a question of anything else. A Winnetka or Kenilworth home with four levels, original millwork, leaded glass and three or four bathrooms is not a two hour job, and quoting it as one is how a cleaning company ends up rushing your house. We look at these homes before we price them so the number we give you is the number that gets the work done properly.

The North Shore towns share a particular set of surfaces. Original hardwood that has been refinished once or twice, deep baseboards and picture rails, radiator covers, built in cabinetry, tile that predates the home's last renovation, and stone or marble in the kitchen and primary bath. Each of those wants a different product, and the ones that get damaged are almost always damaged by a general purpose spray used on something it was never meant to touch. Our teams are trained on the difference and carry what the house actually needs.

Further west and south the housing changes completely. Skokie, Niles, Morton Grove and Lincolnwood are largely postwar, brick Georgians and ranches on compact lots, many still with their original tile bathrooms and a basement finished decades ago. These are efficient homes to clean well and they reward a recurring schedule, because once a team knows the layout the visit gets faster without getting thinner. Northbrook and Glenview sit in between, with mid century houses alongside newer construction and a lot of finished lower levels that most cleaning quotes quietly leave out. We count them.

Mature trees are the other North Shore constant. Homes here take on more pollen in spring and more leaf litter and grit in fall than almost anywhere else we serve, and nearly all of it arrives through entryways, mudrooms and screened porches. Those rooms carry the whole house, so we treat them as real rooms rather than a pass on the way in.

Whatever the house, the crew is the same crew. Everyone we send is our own W-2 employee, background checked and trained by us, and on a recurring plan you see the same faces. In neighborhoods where people are careful about who holds a key, that consistency is usually the whole reason a client stays.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How long does it take to clean a large North Shore home?

It depends on the square footage, the number of bathrooms and the finishes, which is why we look at the home before quoting rather than pricing by bedroom count. A large Winnetka or Lake Forest house often needs a two or three person team for most of a day on the first visit and less time after that.

Do you clean finished basements and lower levels?

Yes, when they are in the quote. A lot of cleaning estimates in this area quietly exclude the lower level and then charge for it later. We ask about it up front and put it in writing.

Can you work with original hardwood, marble and older tile?

Yes. Our teams carry products matched to the surface rather than one general spray, and the crew that cleans an older North Shore home is trained on which finishes cannot take a standard cleaner.

Do I need to be home during the cleaning?

No, and most of our recurring clients are not. We arrange access however you prefer, whether that is a code, a lockbox or a key we hold, and the same team handles your visits so the arrangement does not change every week.