Windsor Home Cleaning
Ottawa

About Windsor Home Cleaning Ottawa

Windsor Home Cleaning, an Ottawa-based home cleaning service, started back in 1978 as a response to the growing number of homes where both adults worked all day. A local business couple, Patrick and Lillian Irwin, recognized that households needed more support, when no one worked full time as a homemaker.

The Irwins discovered that, although private house cleaning services had been around for generations in Ottawa, no one had set up residential cleaning as a structured service. Windsor became the first organized service to offer regular cleaning to homes, not just in Ottawa, but in all of Canada. From the outset, Windsor matched one cleaner per household. The customer set the routine. The cleaner left a record of the start and finish times. The cleaner left a check list of what was done. By the end of the first...