Carpet cleaning, air duct cleaning and dryer vent cleaning in Eden Prairie, we’re driving down from the other end of the metro.

The 1980s alone put 8,945 of Eden Prairie’s 26,557 housing units in the ground, 33.7 percent of the whole city, and no decade either side of it gets close, with 5,603 units in the 1990s, 4,130 in the 1970s and 4,027 in the 2000s. At the other end only 2,232 units, 8.4 percent of the city, were built before 1970 and just 555 of those date to 1939 or earlier, so a pre war system, an octopus furnace or a gravity duct, isn’t what we’re opening up at an Eden Prairie address, and what’s behind the wall instead is the trunk and branch sheet metal a post 1970 suburb got built with, which takes a rotary brush and compressed air rather than a hose pushed into a register.

Add it up and 78.7 percent of the housing here predates 2000, with 18,678 units, 70.3 percent of the whole city, going up in the thirty years between 1970 and 1999. The census puts the median year built at 1988 and gets the same 1988 for owner occupied and renter occupied homes alike, so the typical Eden Prairie house has been standing about thirty eight years, and the city’s water system tells you the same thing from a different direction, because the treatment plant opened in 1974 and it didn’t stay big enough for long, with expansions in 1978, 1988 and 1998 to keep up with the building, and the public works director said in 2025 that much of that system is thirty to fifty years old.

The number that matters most to us though is how long people stay, and 5,232 owner households here, 26.8 percent of every owner in the city, moved into their home in 1999 or earlier, with 2,040 of them in place since 1989 or earlier. That’s better than one owner in four sitting on twenty five years and more in the same house, with the same ductwork moving the same air the whole way through it. We’re not going to put a number on how long yours have been sitting, because that’s the one thing a website can’t know about your house, but we’ll walk you through what’s actually in the trunk line once we’ve got it open, and if it doesn’t need doing we’ll say so and leave.

It’s the same three things at every house, powerful vacuum, compressed air and rotary brush, and all three of them go in every time. We sometimes cut more than two access points in the trunk lines. We never charge for more than two.

53.8 percent of the housing here is single family detached, 14,289 houses, with another 5,867 attached townhomes on top of that, and 76.1 percent of the occupied homes are owner occupied, 19,537 of 25,665, so whoever’s reading this is usually the one who gets to say yes to the carpet getting done rather than somebody who has to take it to a landlord first.

The Metropolitan Council counts 4,689 acres of park, recreation and preserve land in Eden Prairie out of 22,492 total and there’s another 480 acres of golf course on top of that, and the watershed district counts seven lakes in or on the edge of the city, Lake Riley at 297 acres, Staring at 166, Mitchell at 124, Red Rock at 121, Rice Marsh at 83, Duck at 41 and Round at 30. Bryant Lake Regional Park on its own is 170 acres of rolling hills and woodland around 178 acres of water with an eighteen hole disc golf course and a sand bottomed swimming lake in it, and plenty of that sand and grass and lake water finishes the day on the carpet inside your front door.

The city sits on rolling hills and bluffs overlooking the river, which is the terrain that gives a house a walkout or a lookout lower level, and that’s carpet sitting below grade at the end of the longest duct run in the building. For a room down there we’re running truck mounted hot water extraction, so the machine stays outside and only the hose comes in, and it takes far more of the water back out of the carpet than a portable unit gets, which is why a morning job is dry again by the evening in normal conditions.

5,867 of the housing units in Eden Prairie are single family attached townhomes, 22.1 percent of the stock, and there are another 5,651 units in buildings of five or more, 3,170 of them in buildings of fifty units and up. A townhome laundry usually sits further in from an outside wall than a rambler’s does and the run takes more corners to get out there, and every corner is somewhere lint stops moving, so it’s the job nobody thinks about until the laundry stops coming out dry in one cycle.

One limit belongs on the page rather than in your driveway, and it matters more than usual when we’re coming from this far away. Ground level only. We do not do roof vents or anything twenty feet up. That takes out a good share of the 3,170 units the census puts in buildings of fifty or more here, and there’s no version of the conversation where we change our minds about it.

The Green Line Extension adds sixteen new stations and finishes at SouthWest Station, and the Metropolitan Council lists four of those sixteen under Eden Prairie, SouthWest Station, Town Center Station, Golden Triangle and City West, with the Council’s own project page putting the opening in 2027. The building isn’t finished here, because the Council’s 2020 land inventory still records 1,890 acres of undeveloped land here and 437 acres in agriculture. If you’re the one taking the keys on something brand new, an entire construction site went on around that ductwork before the place was ever yours, and that’s worth a call while the house is still new to you.

The other thing about Eden Prairie is how much of it isn’t houses, with 57,739 jobs located in the city in 2024, and Golden Triangle is the office and industrial side of that. If you’re calling about a building rather than a home, the one service where our answer goes the other way around is tile and grout, because that’s Commercial only. and we’d rather say so at the top than at the bottom.