There are no sidewalks in Atherton and most houses are invisible from the road. Behind the hedges are one-acre parcels, gated drives and floor plans that run to several wings.
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MaidSimple cleans homes throughout Atherton, California. Staff are employed directly, not subcontracted, each cleared through a background check. The town’s zoning minimum is roughly one acre, so homes are large, set well back, and often have separate wings, a pool house and a staff entrance. Quotes come from the time it takes, opening about $299.85 per clean for a lived-in home. The single residential ZIP is 94027.
Getting into an Atherton property is the first half of the job. Most drives are gated, plenty run a hundred feet or more from the road, and the address plate is frequently the only thing visible from Middlefield or the Alameda. West Atherton in particular is built for privacy: deep setbacks, mature hedging, no streetlights to speak of and no sidewalk to stand on while you wait.
Once you are inside, the scale takes over. A house here can carry a formal wing, a family wing, a guest cottage and a separate service entrance off the motor court, and each of those has its own floors, glass and bathrooms. Lindenwood and Lloyden Park sit on smaller, more conventional lots near the rail corridor, but even there the interiors are substantial. We build the estimate from a real room-by-room count, not a square-foot guess.
Very little here is small. Detached homes commonly run 4,000 to 10,000 square feet on parcels of an acre or more, mixing prewar estates that have been renovated twice with newer builds finished in stone, wide-plank oak and steel-framed glass. Expect several full baths, a butler’s pantry, a wine room, a pool house and frequently a lower level. Finishes are unforgiving: limestone, marble, unlacquered brass and specialty millwork all want the right product rather than the strong one.
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.
Nearly every booking here needs a gate code, a call box name or a keypad sequence, and some drives are long enough that phone signal drops before the house. We take the access details once, store them securely, and confirm them the day before.
A main kitchen, a caterer’s kitchen and a pool-house galley is a normal count on a larger Atherton property. Each is quoted as its own space, because pretending it is a single kitchen is how a crew runs three hours over.
Many homes here already have a house manager, a nanny or a grounds team on site. Our crews take direction from whoever runs the household, use the service entrance where there is one, and stay out of rooms marked off for the day.
Every Atherton address in 94027.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Atherton 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, though they are counted as separate structures rather than folded into the main house. A guest cottage with a kitchenette and full bath adds real time, and a pool house with an outdoor shower and changing room adds more. List them when you book and the estimate covers everything under one visit.
Yes. Properties above roughly 6,000 square feet are planned so the visit finishes in one day rather than running into a second. That keeps the house occupied for a shorter stretch, which most households here prefer. Tell us the finish time you want and we size the team to hit it.
Crews carry pH-neutral products for limestone, marble and unsealed stone, and never take an acidic descaler to a calcareous surface. Waxed and oiled woodwork is dusted dry or with a barely damp cloth. If a room holds art, instruments or upholstery you would rather nobody touched, mark it and we work around it.
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