The product
Plant-derived surfactants, mineral chelators and food-grade acids. One synthesised exception, an EPA-registered peroxide disinfectant, named on the products page rather than hidden in a phrase like "our proprietary blend".
Portland house cleaning
Cleaning you can breathe in.
Plant-based products, fragrance-free by default, and every ingredient published before you are asked to trust us.
- 7products, every ingredient published
- 4cloth colours that never cross rooms
- 0added fragrance, unless you ask for it
Nobody regulates the word non-toxic. So we publish the ingredient list instead.
- Every bottle, in full
- Seven products, every ingredient named, including the one that is not plant-derived.
- Fragrance-free is the default
- Scent is an option you have to ask for, not something we add and call natural.
- We say when it is not our job
- Mould past roughly ten square feet, carpet extraction and pest work go to somebody else.
How it holds up
Three layers between your family and a bottle of something.
Most eco-cleaning claims stop at the bottle. The bottle is the easy part. What actually changes the air in a house is the cloth discipline and the machine, and those are the two things nobody photographs for a website.
See the whole kitThe method
Colour-coded microfibre with a rule nobody bends: red for toilets, yellow for bathroom surfaces, green for kitchens, blue for living areas. Cloths do not travel between rooms.
4cloth colours, never crossed
The machine
Sealed-system vacuums with true HEPA media, filters replaced on a schedule. An unsealed body lets fine dust bypass the filter entirely, which is the part most companies do not mention.
99.97%of particles at 0.3 microns
A visit, walked through room by room.
Every room has its own products, its own cloth colour and its own order of work. This is the short version. The long one names every surface.
Kitchen
45 to 70 minutes
- Counters cleared, wiped and rinsed, then the things put back
- Sink and drain, taps descaled, and the stainless dried so it does not spot
- Cooktop, splashback and the front and handles of every appliance
Bathroom
30 to 50 minutes each
- Toilet inside and out, including the hinges, the base and the wall behind it
- Shower or tub, glass descaled, and the door track cleared
- Tile and grout wiped, with oxygen paste on grout during a deep clean
Bedrooms
20 to 30 minutes each
- Dusted top down: fan blades, frames, shelves, sills, then skirting
- Beds made, or linens changed if you leave fresh ones out
- Under-bed vacuumed wherever the frame allows it
Living areas
30 to 45 minutes
- Surfaces, shelves and electronics dusted dry, with screens left alone unless you ask
- Upholstery and cushions vacuumed, cushions turned
- Skirting, door frames and switch plates, on rotation
The colour code
Four cloths, and a rule for each.
You cannot verify what is in a bottle by looking at it. You can verify this from the doorway: which colour went into which room, and whether it came back out.
Cloth 1 of 4: Red
Four ways we work in a house.
Three cleaning services and one standing rule about sensitivities. Everything is quoted after a walkthrough, because a square-footage calculator has never once seen your kitchen.
Recurring cleaning
The rhythm that keeps a house from ever needing a rescue.
per visit, two bed one bath, every two weeks
Not included, and we say so first
Recurring cleaning
- Inside the oven and fridge, unless you add them
- Exterior windows, gutters and anything needing a ladder above two steps
- Mould remediation over roughly ten square feet, which needs a licensed contractor
- Sanding, scraping or heat-stripping painted surfaces in homes built before 1978
Deep cleaning
The long visit that resets a house to its actual condition.
for a two bed one bath, quoted after a walkthrough
Not included, and we say so first
Deep cleaning
- Post-construction dust, which needs a different scope and different filtration
- Carpet extraction and upholstery shampooing, which we refer out
- Anything requiring the removal of a fixture or appliance from its plumbing
- Biohazard, hoarding recovery and rodent contamination
Move-out cleaning
An empty house, cleaned to the standard a deposit is judged by.
for a two bed one bath, empty and utilities on
Not included, and we say so first
Move-out cleaning
- Carpet extraction, which most Portland leases require separately
- Painting, patching and any repair work
- Removing anything left behind, including rubbish and furniture
- Exterior surfaces, garages with stored items, and crawl spaces
Plain language
What we will not claim.
That non-toxic means something legal
There is no federal definition of non-toxic for cleaning products and no agency certifies it. The FTC Green Guides ask for scientific evidence that a product is safe for both people and the environment before that claim is made, and very little on any shelf clears it. We use the phrase because it is what people search for, then we show our work.
That your house will be allergen-free
We can reduce settled dust and the allergen load it carries, with damp dusting and sealed HEPA vacuums. We cannot control shoes, an open window in June, or a duct system we do not service. Anyone promising an allergen-free home is selling you a feeling.
That plant-derived always means gentler
Essential oils are volatile organic compounds. Terpenes such as d-limonene react with indoor ozone to form formaldehyde and ultrafine particles, and tea tree and lavender are recognised skin sensitisers. Dose matters more than origin, which is why scent is opt-in.
Notes from clients
These are written notes, quoted with permission. The waveform beside each one is decorative; there is no recording to play, and the control below each card says so.
Priya Raghunathan
Ladd’s Addition. Client since 2021.
0:41
My son has asthma. I stopped dreading the day after a clean.
My son has asthma and every cleaner we tried before left the house smelling of something. Even the ones that said natural. Verdant asked about it in the first ten minutes, put the fragrance-free products in writing, and I stopped dreading the day after a clean. They also told me which of my own products to throw out, which no company had ever bothered to do.
Tobias Grewe
Sellwood. Client since 2019.
0:35
They told me not to book the thing I was trying to pay for.
I called about mould in the bathroom and asked for a deep clean. They came out, looked at it, and told me the patch behind the tub was bigger than they should touch and that I needed a remediation contractor first. Then they gave me two names. They talked themselves out of a job on the first call, which is exactly why they have had my recurring booking for six years.
Annike Sørensen
Beaverton. Client since 2023.
0:28
The floors in this house are 1912 fir. They noticed before I said anything.
The floors in this house are 1912 fir and the finish in the hallway is nearly gone. The first team through noticed before I said anything, tested a corner, and told me they would vacuum that stretch and skip the mop. Small thing. It is also the thing that tells you whether someone knows what they are doing.
Devon Achebe
Alberta Arts. Client since 2022.
0:33
Two dogs, a toddler and a house that finally smells like nothing.
Two dogs, a toddler, and a house that used to smell like whatever the last cleaner had sprayed. Now it smells like nothing, which turns out to be what I wanted the whole time. They use the enzyme treatment on the spot by the back door and they have never once suggested I buy something extra I did not need.
Hana Villanueva
Lake Oswego. Client since 2020.
0:24
They send the ingredient list before they send the invoice.
They send the ingredient list before they send the invoice, and the list has real chemical names on it rather than the word botanical repeated eight times. When I asked what the disinfectant was, I got a product name, a concentration and an EPA registration number in the same afternoon.
From the journal.
Product chemistry, Portland houses, and the occasional correction.
Start with a twenty minute walkthrough.
We look at your surfaces, your floors, your pets and anything anyone in the house reacts to. Then you get a written plan and a fixed price before anything is booked.