Eliot shares a line with Kittery and sits along the Piscataqua River, so for Perham it is the same trip as a job across town. It is a residential town with very little commercial strip: single-family homes on larger lots off State Road and Route 236, older farmhouses and capes near the river, and newer subdivisions further up toward South Berwick. That mix suits recurring house cleaning. Bigger homes on bigger lots track in more dirt, and the published bedroom rate does not change with square footage, so a four-bedroom Eliot colonial is $280 per clean whether it is weekly, bi-weekly or one-time. Window washing on homes with a lot of glass facing the river, and hard-floor care on the tile and wood that most of these houses have, are both booked on their own or added to a recurring clean.
