Condo cleaning in Toronto: the elevator is the hard part

The service elevator decides your day

Check with your building whether cleaning requires a service elevator booking or any contractor paperwork. If a resident must make the booking, arrange it after we confirm a suitable cleaning window.

Book it yourself once you have a confirmed time, then pass on the window you were given. If your building does not require one, let us know.

Entry, if you are not home

There are three arrangements that work and one that does not.

• A key left with the concierge, under your name, with the desk told who is collecting it.
• A lockbox code, sent in writing before the day.
• A fob left at the desk, same conditions.
• Sorting it out at the door on the morning. This is the one that does not work, and it is the most common.

Parking

Visitor parking in a downtown building is frequently paid, occasionally full, and sometimes a fifteen minute walk from the elevator lobby. None of that is a disaster if it is known in advance.

Parking costs are separate from the cleaning price and are discussed before confirmation. If your building charges and there is a free option nearby that works better, tell us and we will use it.

What is different inside the unit

Window walls and balcony doors pull in noticeably more dust than a house does, particularly above the tenth floor where nothing blocks the wind. Those surfaces come first in a tower rather than last.

Hard finishes show more. Concrete ceilings, exposed ducting and polished floors in a hard loft leave far more visible surface than a painted wall and a carpet, which is worth flagging when you book so the time is planned for it.

Storage lockers and bike rooms

They are outside the unit and outside a standard quote. If you want the locker done, ask for it to be priced separately rather than assuming it comes along with the apartment.

Does a condo cost less than a house?

The rate follows the layout, not the building type. A one bedroom is $130 on our card whether it sits in a tower at Yonge and Sheppard or in a semi off Davisville. Smaller condo layouts land at the lower end because they have fewer rooms, which is a different thing from a condo discount.