Cleaning Services in Lexington Park, MD

The housing is what makes Lexington Park its own job. More than half of its homes are rented -- 52 percent -- and 38 percent are in buildings of five or more units. Nearly half were built in 2000 or later. So a clean here is often an apartment or a townhouse rather than a big house on a big lot: a compact kitchen with stainless that shows every fingerprint, a bathroom or two, carpeted stairs, and a sliding door that collects whatever the season brings in. And because so many homes are on a lease, move-out cleaning is not an occasional extra in this town. It is the second service on our list, behind recurring house cleaning, and the end of every month is when it stacks up.

A few miles north or west, the job changes completely. California, MD, about four miles northwest up Three Notch Road (MD 235), is the fastest-growing large ZIP in the county -- up 30.6 percent in a decade, with more than half its housing built since 2000, the planned community of Wildewood inside it, and the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland campus on Airport Road. Hollywood, MD and Mechanicsville, MD are the opposite of Lexington Park: across their ZIPs, 88 and 94 percent of homes are detached houses, and only 11 to 12 percent of households rent. Leonardtown sits on Breton Bay, with Leonardtown Square up the hill from the Wharf. Each of those four has its own page, written for the place rather than copied from this one. Great Mills, right next door along Great Mills Road (MD 246), and Park Hall are covered from this page, along with the southern end of the county -- St. Mary's City, Ridge, St. Inigoes, Piney Point, Callaway, Valley Lee and Tall Timbers. We stay on this side of the Patuxent River: Calvert County, across the Thomas Johnson Bridge, is not part of our launch area.

This corner of Maryland carries more history than its size suggests. Historic St. Mary's City, at the southern end of the county, was Maryland's first settlement, founded in 1634, and the colony's capital until the 1690s; today it is an outdoor museum and archaeological park with a reconstructed statehouse and the Maryland Dove, and St. Mary's College of Maryland shares the ground. Lexington Park itself was called Jarboesville until 1943, when it took the name of the carrier USS Lexington as Naval Air Station Patuxent River opened on the Chesapeake Bay near the mouth of the Patuxent. The Patuxent River Naval Air Museum keeps an outdoor aircraft park on Three Notch Road, and the United States Colored Troops Memorial stands in John G. Lancaster Park.

The seasons each leave their own kind of mess. Summers on the St. Mary's Peninsula are humid, and humidity finds bathrooms, grout and anything with a seal first. Spring puts pollen on sills, screens and patio doors. Winter is real enough to bring road grit and mud through every entry and onto the first few feet of hard floor. Our 42-point checklist gives each of those its own line, so a clean holds up between visits instead of looking good for an evening.

St. Mary's County is a new market for us, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Other cleaning companies have worked this county for years, and some already publish pages for the same towns we do. What travels with Kiwi does not depend on how long we have been here: a written 42-point checklist every visit follows, eco-friendly products that are safe around children and pets, all supplies and equipment brought to the job, a straight answer on whether we can cover your address and your dates before anything goes on the calendar, and the Kiwi Clean Guarantee -- if a clean is not right, we come back and reclean it free within 24 hours. Every page on this site exists in Spanish as well as English, and you can request a quote and handle scheduling in either language.