North York Cleaning and Home Services

The idea for Fruit Trees to Go germinated in the minds of brothers David and Philip Brook while both were still in high school, an outgrowth of their desire to build a sustainable planet. They broke ground on the business in 2008, growing it into a crew of 20 expert gardeners who install orchards in backyards. To ensure the health of each sapling, gardeners evaluate plots in advance and bring fresh soil and baby bottles filled with C02 to the site on planting day. Biodiversity gets a boost from more than 30 species, whose buds can blossom and ripen without pesticides into Scout apricots, Flemish Beauty pears, and Lodi apples. Varieties are selected for the ability to thrive in cooler weather and to self-pollinate, and as proof of the team's expertise, each tree is backed by a guarantee that it will flourish, bear-fruit, and inspire a children's book within one year.

Sears Carpet & Upholstery Cleaning's master technicians venture out to scour homes of muck with their seven cleaning and emergency services. The home experts can outfit homes with air filtration systems to help maintain clean, breathable air. Turning their vacuums on carpets or upholstery, the staff removes stains with no questions asked. Off-colour tile and grout shines brighter than a new-born sun after Sears's power cleaners blast it, and emergency flood relief is available whenever pipes break.

Miss Clean's professional staff transforms messy homes into sparkling abodes with keen eyes, swift hands, and eco-friendly products. The bonded and insured cleaners spruce kitchen appliances, bathtub tiles, and living-room carpets with family-safe solutions and powerful equipment, following itineraries that include enough detail to annihilate every genus and species of dust bunny they find. When not purifying homesteads, Miss Clean dispatches their cleaners to remedy disarray at commercial spaces and construction sites.

Spotless Cleanliness doesn't just blindly accept every resumé it receives. Instead, the company’s interviewers go to the applicant's house to interview them, fittingly basing their hiring decision on the home's cleanliness. With good reason, too, because the company takes its work seriously. Operating on a foundation of five promises designed to ensure optimal cleanings, the team performs services such as move-out overhauls, everyday household chores, and express jobs for folks who always forget to dust the foyer before the cats come over.

When Unique Furnace & Duct Cleaning’s technicians arrive to clean out air ducts, they take their shoes off at the door. It’s that respect for homes (and their clients) that inspires thoroughness in each of their services. Commercial-grade truck-mounted air-duct cleaning systems suck dust from home airways with the power of about 20,000 household vacuums to keep home air pure and comfortable

Workers also thoroughly clean furnaces to help shrink utility bills and quiet noisy blowers, and dryer vent cleanings prevent fires ignited by lint build-up. To round out their services, carpet cleanings, banish accumulated dust, allergens, and sneeze-inducing tooth fairy dust trapped within the fibs.

Castle Building & Remodeling, one of Remodeling magazine’s Big 50 of 2011, hosts a team of professional designers and builders who overhaul interiors with historically inspired concepts. Two design-selection studios display the custom craftsmanship, showcasing a 1940s–style kitchen with cherry cabinets and a 1910s–style bathroom with hex tile flooring and a sink full of Teddy Roosevelt's mustache trimmings.

The remodelers create a mockup of each project using 3-D CAD software, noting any desired changes before installation. They realize projects with the help of artisanal manufacturers such as Clay Squared, whose artists craft custom ceramic tiles using time-honored methods.