Kanata isn’t one neighbourhood, and that’s the thing most cleaning
companies get wrong about it. Bill Teron started building here in 1964
with Tiffany Crescent, and the place has been growing ever since. It
went from 37,000 people in 1991 to nearly 100,000 today. Sixty years of
housing sits under one name.
So a quote for “a house in Kanata” means very little on its own.
Beaverbrook and Glen Cairn are the original neighbourhoods, and those
homes have the older bathrooms, original hardwood and mature trees that
come with sixty years of living. Katimavik and Bridlewood are the
seventies and eighties, mostly split levels and two storeys with layouts
that repeat in useful ways. Kanata Lakes and Morgan’s Grant are larger
and newer, with the bigger ensuites and glass showers that come with
nineties and two-thousands construction. Emerald Meadows, Monahan
Landing and the newer South March builds are newer again.
What that means practically is that we ask which part of Kanata you’re
in before quoting, rather than pricing off a postal code and hoping. A
1968 Beaverbrook bungalow and a 2015 Monahan Landing four bedroom take
different amounts of time and different approaches, and pretending
otherwise is how a cleaner ends up rushing your last two rooms.
We also do a fair amount of recurring work for households where both
people work in the tech park and nobody wants to spend Saturday on it.
That work runs on consistency more than anything: same cleaner, same
day, no renegotiating every visit.
