Woodstock Cleaning and Home Services

After five years in business, Grant and Joe Sappy, co-founders and owners of K/W Lawn Care, are still trying to figure out who is the company’s president and who is the CEO. But the pair agrees on the company’s mission: to make their clients’ landscaping visions a reality. Drawing on the expertise of trained horticulturists, the Sappys help clients select the best plants and trees to meet their goals, and then install them using state-of-the-art equipment. In addition to cultivating relationships with architects and horticulturists, the Sappys partner with local providers to minimize the cost of materials such as mulch, fertilizer, or garden-gnome repellent. K/W Lawn Care maintains existing yards with services such as planting, weed control, and lawn cutting and fertilization as well as snow removal and holiday-lighting installations.

The tiny gecko is known to be quick, green, and immaculately hygienic, which explains why Nickey Stanley decided to name her cleaning business after the cunning reptile. Awarded Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010 by the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, Nickey helms Spotless Gecko Residential Cleaning’s professional crew, which customizes cleaning regimens to make homes gleam with all-natural, eco-friendly products. The insured and bonded staff brings its own equipment to complete each job, and each member has been thoroughly background-checked to ensure that their records are free of citations for illicit mud wrestling.

The technicians from Clean Master Services banish dirt from carpeting, grout, and air ducts with the heavy-duty prowess of a truck-mounted system. The system includes a high-pressure hot-water rinse that heftily extracts grease and residue from tile and grout. The clean team's strategy for tackling upholstery—a dry-foam system—takes advantage of circular brushes, turbo-vacs, and shampoos that crystallize for swift removal. The team also uses a suction device with a 100-kilometre reach to remove contaminants and give houseplants a break from the chore of producing clean air.

For more than seven years, The Right Choice Housekeeping & Janitorial Services’ owner, Cleo Ramos, has returned lustre to Toronto-area homes, offices, schools, hotels, restaurants, and banks. She works with clients to create a cleaning calendar scheduling weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly visits. Crews spin into cyclones of dust-busting action, lifting hardened filth from stovetops, polishing tiles, toilets, and mirrors in bathrooms, dusting blinds, and cleaning the undersides of glass coffee tables or glass-bottomed houseboats.

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.

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.