The Stars and the Cookie Jar

1. MD/DC area people: do you know a good house-cleaning service? Our main floor is in need of the we've-lived-here-for-two-years deep clean, and we are so overscheduled (and overstocked with disruptive live animals who want to KILL THE BROOOOOM) that I'm more than willing to hand a few Benjamins to a service that will even get that stuff behind the kitchen faucet. No organizational stuff required, no bedrooms, no laundry,  only a half bath to clean. I'm way more interested in someone who can get the ...crap off our hardwood downstairs floor.  You see, our house was kind of grimy-dingy when we got it -- the kind of grime that comes from years of neglect, and vents not venting properly, and tenants not really taking care of the floor -- and the best we've ever been able to get it is "less meh". For the holidays, I'd like it to maybe look like new.

2. I'm planning a knitted crazy quilt, with different blocks knitted of different oddments of yarn. If I use yarns of similar weights (e.g. cotton and "baby yarn", no chunky wool) will I be able to sew the "quilt blocks" together semi-nicely, or will the end result look saggy and sad?