House Cleaning in Fairhaven, Saskatoon
Fairhaven waited nearly sixty years to exist. The name first appears on a 1913 map compiled by City Commissioner Christopher J. Yorath, which plotted a ring of proposed communities around the edge of Saskatoon — most of which were never built. Fairhaven was one of the ones that sat on paper.
It reappeared on city maps around 1971, development began in earnest in the mid-1970s, and most of the construction was complete by 1985.
That Yorath map is worth knowing about if you live on the west side, because it explains several Saskatoon neighbourhoods. The pre-war land boom platted far more of this city than anyone built, and names sat unused for decades — Greystone Heights was mapped as Queens Park, Eastview as Megantic Park, and Holliston under four different names.
Late-seventies and eighties houses
- Fibreglass tub and shower surrounds from the period, roughened with age so they hold soap scum and resist ordinary cleaning.
- Wood-burning fireplaces in the earlier houses, with ash that travels well past the hearth.
- Original hardwood or the carpet that replaced it, and frequently both in one house.
- First renovation cycle done, second one due. Most of these houses were updated once around the twenty-year mark. That leaves mixed-era finishes and dust collecting at every junction where they meet.
- Forty-plus years of tree growth, with the seasonal seed and leaf load that comes with it.
Winter on the west side
One habit saves more money here than any amount of cleaning: a two-mat system at every door, one outside and one in, plus a boot tray with a lip.
The reason is what the City puts on the roads. Its winter mix is sand with a small proportion of potash salt and a magnesium chloride de-icer, and on the busier routes it is wetted before it goes down so that traffic cannot blow it off the pavement. Whatever makes it cling to asphalt makes it cling to a boot sole.
Sand is an abrasive, so what walks in cuts carpet fibre and dulls floor finish along the lanes people actually use — which is why entry carpet wears out years before the rest of a room. The de-icer is the sneakier half: it draws moisture out of the air, so an entry that looks dry stays faintly damp, and a chalky bloom surfaces days after somebody vacuumed. You cannot vacuum it out, because it is dissolved into the fibre rather than lying on top of it. Between November and April we treat entries as a separate job with its own method, not as the first few feet of the floor.
Booking a Fairhaven clean
Call or text 306-700-6576. Flat-rate quote by phone or text, with no hidden fees.
Nearby: Parkridge, Montgomery Place and Pacific Heights, plus the rest of our Saskatoon service areas.