Unpacking & Organizing Help for Your New Home
Custom Maids can send an experienced housekeeper to help you unpack and organize your new home, room by room, at your pace.
Professional moving companies do an excellent job of packing up household belongings, labelling boxes, and making sure everything arrives safely at your new home. But . . .
What do you do when hordes of moving boxes arrive at your new home?
If you’re like most people, you’ll have your moving company place the labelled boxes in the various rooms where they belong. Then you’ll spend the next several days, weeks, even months, sifting through each box and deciding how to organise your items in their appropriate rooms.
This is where Custom Maids unpacking services come in.
Although we’re best known as a home cleaning service in the GTA, we also offer unpacking and organizing assistance. We can send an experienced housekeeper to help you unpack your boxes, put belongings away, and organize each room so your new home starts feeling settled much sooner.
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You’re welcome to work alongside your housekeeper if you just need an extra pair of hands to give you the momentum. Or, you can have your housekeeper handle the unpacking independently by leaving her with a priority list.​
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Either way, you’ll have practical, hands-on help turning a home full of boxes into a comfortable, well-ordered space.
And, if you want to close the door on your moving process . . .
We can provide Move-Out Cleaning Services at your former home or Move-In Cleaning Services at your new home.
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​​​And, once you’re resettled, you can set up regular Cleaning Services to ensure that your new home always remains clean and organised. We offer weekly, bi-weekly and monthly service, or you can have us in just occasionally on an as-need basis. For details, see our House Cleaning or Condo & Apartment Cleaning pages.
Why Choose Custom Maids' Unpacking Services?
We Have the Experience
Established in 1978, Custom Maid is the GTA’s first and original housekeeping service. We have spent nearly five decades working inside GTA homes.
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Our experienced housekeeping staff understand that helping someone organize their personal belongings requires more than cleaning ability. It requires patience, discretion, respect and trust.
We Send One Housekeeper Only!
We never send a teams or crews of housekeepers to sort through your personal items.
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We assign one carefully selected housekeeper to work with you at your pace and according to your priorities.
And, if you go on to use our regular cleaning services after your unpacking visit(s), we like to send that same housekeeper back to you each time.
We Have the Right People
Our professional housekeeping staff is comprised largely of traditional cleaning ladies who have had many years of experience prior to joining Custom Maids.
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Some of our housekeepers have been with us 2 or 3 years; some have been with us 10 or 15 years; others have been with us for 20, 30, even 40 years. With Custom Maids, you know you’re dealing with professional housekeepers who have been in positions of trust for most of their lives.
Custom Maids housekeepers are employees of the company, not independent contractors.
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As direct employees, all staff members undergo extensive training and background checks. And they are covered by the protections maintained by Custom Maids, including bonding, workplace injury coverage and liability insurance.
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So, when you invite someone into your home to work among your personal belongings, you know who you’re dealing with.
We offer a More Personal and Affordable Alternative
Professional moving companies can provide excellent unpacking crews, but full unpacking services can also be expensive and may involve several people working through your home at once.
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Custom Maids offers a simpler alternative:
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One experienced housekeeper, working at your pace, for the time you need. Whether you want help with a few rooms or an entire home, you can decide what needs attention first and how involved you would like to be.
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It’s practical, flexible and personal – without paying for a full moving-company unpacking crew.
Where We Clean
Our Unpacking Services in the GTA
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Toronto: Central Toronto, North York, Scarborough and Etobicoke
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Vaughan: Woodbridge, Maple, Kleinburg, Thornhill and Concord
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Richmond Hill: Oak Ridges & Lake Wilcox, Jefferson, Elgin Mills, Bayview Hill, Mill Pond, Richvale and Langstaff
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Markham: Unionville, Thornhill, Markham Village, Cornell, Milliken, Angus Glen, Berczy Village, Wismer, Buttonville and Box Grove
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Wherever you live within our service area, you’ll receive the same Custom Maids care, the same high cleaning standards and the same rates.
Frequently Asked Questions About
Unpack Services
We send one experienced housekeeper to help unpack boxes, organize belongings and arrange items room by room. You can work alongside the housekeeper or provide a priority list and let them work independently.
Yes. Many clients arrange move-in cleaning before the boxes are opened and then use unpacking help afterward. This lets you begin with clean cupboards, appliances, bathrooms and floors before putting everything away.
Not necessarily. If the placement of belongings has already been clearly explained, your housekeeper can work independently. For projects involving many personal decisions, it may be more efficient for you to be available for at least part of the visit.
Your housekeeper can break down and gather ordinary boxes and packing materials as part of the work, provided there is an appropriate place at the property for recycling or disposal. Large-volume hauling is not included.
Yes. Organizing items as they are unpacked is one of the main advantages of the service. You can give instructions about where things belong or work alongside the housekeeper while each room is set up.
Unpacking is priced according to the amount of time you need. The number of boxes, size of the home and amount of organizing involved will determine how much time is appropriate.
Yes. Where possible, the same housekeeper who helped you unpack can continue with your regular cleaning. They will already know the layout of your home and how you like things organized.
Yes. Larger moves can be divided into several sessions so you can work through the home room by room at a comfortable pace.
Ready to Get Unpacked and Settled?
Moving is one of life's most stressful events. Let Custom Maids take the unpacking off your plate so you can settle into your new home faster and with less pressure.
Moving is one of life's most stressful events.
Let Custom Maids take the unpacking off your plate so you can settle into your new home faster and with less pressure.
Call us to talk it through, or send us a message.
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We’re always in the office and ready to assist you
Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm.
Born in the GTA. Canadian-Owned. Trusted Since 1978.