Albany packs an entire city into under two square miles, and it shows indoors: small 1920s houses on narrow lots where a two-bedroom counts as the normal size rather than the starter size.
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MaidSimple serves Albany, California with house cleaning and recurring maid service. Cleaners here are W-2 staff, screened before they start. The housing is unusually consistent: Period Revival and Craftsman cottages from the 1920s and 1930s, mostly two bedrooms, one bath, on lots twenty-five to fifty feet wide. That compactness keeps a standard visit efficient, and a 2 bed / 1 bath clean is about at99.85 per clean. Albany addresses fall in 94706 and 94707.
There is no spare room in Albany. The grid runs about twenty-five north-south streets across, blocks are short, and houses sit close enough that you can hear the neighbor’s kettle. Charles MacGregor built a great many of them in the late twenties and thirties, and his floor plans repeat: a front room, a small dining room with a built-in, two bedrooms off a short hall, one bathroom. Once a crew has cleaned a dozen of these they can read the layout from the porch.
What complicates the work is storage and access rather than square footage. Families outgrow these houses without leaving them, so basements get converted, attics get finished, and the garage off the rear lane becomes a bedroom. Street parking along Marin Avenue and the blocks off Masonic is tight most of the day. Sending the address with a note about where a car actually fits does more for punctuality than any amount of scheduling slack.
Single-family stock dominates, nearly all of it built between 1920 and 1945 on lots of 2,500 to 5,000 square feet. Typical interiors run 900 to 1,300 square feet: oak or fir floors, one bathroom with original hex or subway tile, a wall furnace instead of central heat, and a dining-room built-in that collects dust in every groove. Converted basements and finished attics add a level the listing never mentions. Multi-unit buildings cluster along San Pablo Avenue and stay small, usually four to twelve units.
The same maths the quote form uses, printed out. What you see is what you pay.
| How is it looking? | Time we plan | Per clean, recurring | Just this once |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kept upCleaned recently | 2 hrs | $199.90every week, 2 weeks or 4 weeks | $235.18 |
| Lived-inNormal life happens | 3 hrs | $299.85every week, 2 weeks or 4 weeks | $352.77 |
| It’s a messNo judgement, truly | 4 hrs | $399.80every week, 2 weeks or 4 weeks | $470.36 |
You pay for the time it takes: the hours we plan at $99.95 an hour for every recurring clean, or $117.59 an hour just once. Supplies and equipment included. Anything extra you tick — inside the oven, the fridge, baseboards in full — adds its time at the same rate, and a deeper clean or a move-out is simply more hours. Slide the hours before you book if you know your home better than we do.
The small things that decide whether a visit runs smoothly or runs late.
Gravity wall heaters are still standard in these houses, and the floor grilles above them trap lint and hair year-round. Vacuuming the grille face is part of a regular visit here, which is not true in most cities we cover.
A single bathroom serving four people picks up more soap film and mineral scale in two weeks than two bathrooms serving the same household. We budget extra time on the tub surround and the sink fixtures rather than treating it as one room.
Many blocks have a service lane behind them with a single-width garage that no longer holds a car. If that lane is your best access, mention it, because the front approach on some streets means threading between parked cars with an armful of gear.
Every Albany address in 94706 and 94707.
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The whole-home refresh most Albany homes book: kitchens, bathrooms, floors, dusting and tidying.
How it works →Baseboards, inside appliances, grout and vents — the same clean with more hours, at the same rate.
How it works →Empty-home cleaning for deposits and handovers — more hours, the same rate.
How it works →Weekly, every 2 weeks or every 4 weeks, at the advertised rate every clean.
How it works →Most cleaning companies send whoever is available that day. Our cleaners are our own background-checked, W-2 employees — which costs us more in payroll tax and workers’ comp, and is exactly why the standard holds: we employ them and dispatch them ourselves.
Every maid is on our payroll and background-checked before she sets foot in your home. If anything’s not right, tell us and we come back and put it right — you don’t pay twice.
The general FAQ covers access, supplies, rescheduling and paying.
Not at all — small homes are most of our Albany work. Pricing is built from bedroom and bathroom count, so a compact 1920s cottage prices near the bottom of the range rather than being charged as a minimum call-out. Many households here book every two weeks precisely because the visit is quick and predictable.
Yes, and they should be counted when you book. A finished basement room with a shower is functionally another bedroom and bathroom, and pricing it as unfinished storage means the crew runs short on time. Add the space to the room count and the quote adjusts before anyone arrives rather than on the day.
Glass-front doors get cleaned inside and out on a deep clean, and the exterior faces plus the plate rail on every visit. We do not empty and reset the china unless you ask for it as an add-on, because unpacking a full hutch is its own job and it needs to be scheduled with time for it.
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