Aptos is two places at once: Seacliff and Rio del Mar down at the water, and the redwood hills above Soquel Drive. The cleaning those two need has almost nothing in common.
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MaidSimple is a residential cleaning company serving Aptos, California. Crews are W-2 employees with background checks, and they carry their own equipment. Housing spans 1920s beach bungalows near the Esplanade, 1970s and 1980s tract homes through mid-Aptos, and large newer houses up in the hills, so square footage varies more than the county average. A 4 bed / 3 bath home is about from99.85 per clean. The service ZIP is 95003.
Drop down to the Rio del Mar Esplanade and the job is a coastal one: sand tracked up from the beach into the entry and the stairs, salt haze on every pane facing the water, and a fair number of houses that sit empty half the month because their owners live over the hill. Second homes need a different service pattern, a clean before arrival and a clean after departure, with someone checking that nothing has been left damp.
Climb Trout Gulch or head into the Aptos Hills and it changes completely. Redwood canopy, needle litter, a driveway that turns to mud in February, and homes that were built out over decades rather than in one subdivision push. Nisene Marks is right there, and everything that falls off those trees ends up on a deck and then on a floor. Seascape and Aptos Village sit between the two extremes, and that is where most of the standing biweekly work is.
Nothing here is typical, which is the point. Seacliff holds compact 1920s and 1930s beach houses on narrow lots, often three levels with an outside stair. Mid-Aptos runs 1,600 to 2,200 square foot ranch and split-level tract homes from the 1970s. Above them, hill properties reach 3,000 square feet and up, on acreage, with wood-clad interiors, wood stoves and long driveways. Seascape adds condo and townhome clusters with HOAs. Quoting from square footage alone would be wrong in every one of those.
No estimates and no ranges. This is what the quote form will tell you, worked out the same way.
| 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.
Details a crew only knows once they have worked a neighbourhood properly.
A good share of Rio del Mar and Seacliff addresses are weekend or rental properties. Those get an arrival clean and a departure clean rather than a fortnightly rhythm, and we keep keys or codes on file so nobody drives over the hill to open a door.
Under canopy the litter never stops. Needles, bark scale and fine brown dust come in on shoes and pets and settle into rugs, sills and the bottom of every closet. Hill visits start with dry work and finish wet, in that order, always.
The stair from the sand to the house is where it all collects. Treads, landings, mats and the shower base take the brunt. On Esplanade and Seacliff addresses we do those zones first and again at the end of the visit.
Every Aptos address in 95003.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Aptos 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.
Yes, including addresses on gravel and single-lane roads. Those properties tend to be larger with more hard flooring and more exterior debris coming in, so the quote reflects real room count rather than a flat hillside surcharge. If your driveway is steep or gates at the bottom, leave the details in the booking notes.
That is one of the more common bookings here. Give us the arrival date and we schedule the visit the day before, airing the house, clearing any damp smell, wiping the salt haze off the sliders and making beds if linens are out. A departure clean the following Monday can be set up as a pair.
Yes, and usually lower for the same bed and bath count. Condos are single-level in most cases with no deck, stair or entry court to work, while a Seacliff house often stacks three floors with an outdoor stair. Enter the actual rooms in the quote form and the difference shows up automatically.
Aptos sits inside our Santa Cruz & the Coast coverage.
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