Thirty-six hours to make a house safe to come home to

The caller was arranging things from another city. A relative was leaving the hospital on hospice care, coming home to a house that had been closed up and neglected for years. The discharge date was fixed. She had a day and a half.

Matt took the call, asked what the house needed, and put a two-person crew on the schedule with 36 hours notice. No site visit first, no week of back-and-forth. On jobs like this the walk-through happens the same morning the work starts, because there is no other morning available.

A budget is not an obstacle. It is the plan.

Deep cleans here are billed by the person-hour with a four-hour base for coming out. That structure matters most on exactly this kind of job. The family told the crew how many hours they could afford. The crew walked the house and built the plan backwards from that number: what the patient needed first, what could wait for a second visit, what the family could handle themselves later.

On a hospice prep, first usually means the bedroom, the bathroom, and every step of the path between them. Air, surfaces, floors. The rooms nobody will use for months come last or not at all. A finished half-house that is safe beats an unfinished whole one.

“They helped me make a plan to hit the patient's top priorities while also giving me the biggest bang for my buck. No judgment for our not being in a place to get to perfect.”

Sarah R. · Google review

What careful looks like

Houses that have gotten away from someone still hold the things that matter: photographs, paperwork, keepsakes buried in the piles. Crews here set those aside instead of sweeping them into bags. One family put it plainly in their review: the crew cleared their parents' house quickly and still set aside the important things they would have missed.

The job ended the way these jobs should. The patient came home to a house that was ready. The out-of-town relative flew back knowing the local family had a number to call for the next round. Nobody pretended the house was perfect, because it did not need to be. It needed to be safe by Thursday.

If you are up against a date

Hospital discharges, estate deadlines, closings, inspections. When the date cannot move, say so in the first phone call. Next-day scheduling is normal here, same-day happens, and the crew will tell you honestly what fits inside the time and budget you actually have.