Carpet cleaning, air duct cleaning and dryer vent cleaning in Shorewood, you’re not on the list we publish, and a whole house gets us out here.

The census puts the median housing unit in Shorewood at 1987 and the median owner occupied one at 1987 as well, so the middle house here isn’t quite forty years old. The two decades behind that are near enough tied, with 712 units built in the 1980s and 720 in the 1990s out of 3,041, about 47 percent of every home in the city between them, and it couldn’t have come much earlier than that, because the city’s own plan says the sanitary sewer system was first installed in the early 1970s and thirteen of its fourteen lift stations were built between 1970 and 1973.

The water went in the other way around, one subdivision at a time, and the council wrote the whole timeline down in a memo in June 2025. Before 1973 every resident here was on a private well. Amesbury came in 1973 with a deep well and its own distribution piping paid for by the developer, Boulder Bridge and Woodhaven followed in the late 1970s and 1980, the Badger well arrived with Wild Duck Third Addition in 1981, Shorewood Oaks pulled about a mile of watermain across from the Boulder Bridge system in 1987, then Brynmawr and Heritage south of Edgewood Road, and Marsh Pointe in 1996. If you’re in one of those, you already know roughly what era your house is from and we don’t have to guess at it.

There’s an older Shorewood underneath all of that, which the sewer arrived to rather than created, with 288 of the city’s 3,041 housing units built in 1939 or earlier or during the 1940s, and the city is younger than those houses, since Shorewood was organized as a village in 1956 out of the old Excelsior Township and only became a statutory city in 1974. We don’t assume one age per street here either, because the plan says the city “routinely encounters teardowns of lower value single family homes and replacement with new, higher value homes” and counts 52 of them demolished and rebuilt between 2008 and 2016, and the one large piece of genuinely new housing is the old Minnetonka Country Club, 117 acres of golf course south of Smithtown Road approved in 2016 for 142 homes.

The median owner in Shorewood moved in around 2010, so the middle house has had the same people in it for about fifteen of its years and no move in that time ever made anybody stop and think about the ducts. It’s an older city than the county around it too, with a median age of 48.3 against 38.0 across Hennepin County and the plan expecting the retired age group to be the fastest growing part of the population in the coming decade, which is a lot of hours spent inside a house that hasn’t turned over. Whether yours have ever had a brush through them isn’t something anybody can tell from a website, so we won’t be claiming it, but you’ll hear what’s actually in there from the person looking at it, 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.

94.5 percent of the housing in Shorewood is single family, 2,392 detached houses and 482 attached ones out of 3,041 units, and 93.2 percent of the occupied homes are lived in by the people who own them, so whoever’s reading this is near enough always the one who decides.

The lots out here are big and the city counts them itself, putting the mean single family lot at 38,000 square feet, single family density at 1.31 units per acre and a third of its lots above 40,000 square feet, and it gives its own reason for that: “Municipal water supply is not available to all lots in Shorewood, which increases the need for larger lot sizes to accommodate private water supply.” Half of Shorewood is still on a private well today, most of them 100 to 250 feet deep, and 531 households have city water sitting available to them and haven’t hooked up to it.

None of that moves the number, because we count rooms rather than square feet of lawn, and it’s truck mounted hot water extraction on every job, so the machine stays out in the van and far more water comes back out of the carpet than any portable unit pulls, and if we clean in the morning it’s dry by the evening in normal conditions.

2,392 of the homes here are detached houses standing on their own ground, so the run goes from your laundry to your own outside wall and there’s no shared wall in it. How long that run is depends on the house rather than the city, and nobody has written that down for Shorewood, so tell us on the phone where it comes out and roughly how far it goes and we’ll tell you what we’re looking at.

The other 482 units here are attached, and a good number of those are their own kind of building, with The Seasons at 24 low maintenance twinhomes, Shorewood Ponds at 62 attached cottages in four unit buildings for residents 62 and older, and Shorewood Landing built in 2017 with 105 units of independent living, assisted living and memory care. If you’re in something like that, the laundry is often the building’s business rather than yours, so it’s worth one phone call to work out whose it is before you pay for anything.

There’s one limit and we’d rather have it printed here than have you find out on the day. Ground level only. We do not do roof vents or anything twenty feet up.

Shorewood has Lake Minnetonka islands in it and they’re the exception to everything else on this page. The city is sewered end to end otherwise, with four properties in the whole of it still running their own septic system, and two of those four are Gale Island and Spray Island, which the plan says outright are not served by the public system. The fire cover splits the same way, with the Excelsior Fire District covering “all of the mainland portion of the City” while Enchanted and Shady are looked after by the Mound Fire Department instead.

What that means when you call is that we don’t know yet, and we’d rather say so than take the booking and work it out on the day. Getting a van and a hose out to a house on an island is a different question from parking in a driveway, so if that’s where you are, give us a call and you’ll get a straight answer on whether it’s something we can do at all.