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Algonquin houses are newer — and the water is hard

Happy Maids has cleaned houses in Algonquin — ZIP 60102 — since 1985, from our office in Lake Barrington. Start with the water. Algonquin’s municipal supply is entirely groundwater from village wells, with no Lake Michigan supply at all, and the Village publishes hardness guidance so residents can set their softeners. That turns up as film on shower glass, white scale on chrome and brushed nickel, and a ring in every full bath — and these houses have several. We work those surfaces every visit and take another layer off each time, rather than reaching for anything harsh enough to etch the glass. When a softener is undersized or out of salt the whole house films over at once, and we will say so when that is what we are looking at.

The median Algonquin home was built in 1994, a full generation newer than the region’s 1970, and only 3.5% of the town predates 1940. They are also big houses: 40.5% have four bedrooms and the median carries 7.2 rooms. In practice that is a two-story foyer, three or more full baths, a wide open kitchen and a finished lower level, street after street through Willoughby Farms, Fieldcrest Farms, Manchester Lakes and Algonquin Lakes. The older stock is easy to spot — 1970s split-levels in High Hill Farms out on Algonquin Road east of Randall, and the small pre-1940 pocket down in the river valley by Cornish Park, where lower levels sit in the floodplain and run damp in a way the newer subdivisions never deal with.

There is no Metra station in Algonquin. Nearly three in four workers drive alone, the average commute runs about 31 minutes, and most of these houses stand empty on a weekday. Families split between Community Unit School District 300 and Huntley District 158 out west. Add Randall Road salt on the path in from the driveway from November through April, then honey locust leaflets, linden honeydew and maple samaras the rest of the year, and the entry takes most of it — so we work on coded or keyed access with the same background-checked team whenever we can.