Bare redwood needs restraint
Interior trim in the older shingle houses was never sealed. We keep degreasers away from it entirely and use a barely damp cloth, because once that grain lifts and grays there is no cleaning it back.
✨ House cleaning in Berkeley
House Cleaning & Maid Service in Berkeley
Shingle houses that have never seen a coat of paint, flatland bungalows with original fir floors, and hill homes reached by forty steps — Berkeley asks a lot of a cleaning crew.
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Berkeley house cleaning, the short version
MaidSimple cleans homes throughout Berkeley, California. The people who arrive are employees on our payroll, screened before hire, and they bring their own kit. Housing here runs from 1905 brown-shingle houses with unsealed redwood trim to postwar flats near campus that turn over every June. A standard visit to a three-bedroom, two-bath house opens about $299.85 per clean. Work covers 94702, 94703, 94704, 94705, 94707, 94708, 94709 and 94710.
- Serving
- Berkeley, Alameda County
- ZIP codes
- 94702, 94703, 94704, 94705, 94707, 94708, 94709, 94710
- Area
- The East Bay
- Per clean
- About $299.85 for a lived-in home (3 hrs at $99.95 an hour)
- One-time
- About $352.77 for the same clean, just once
- Availability
- 7 days a week, booked up to 14 days ahead
What Berkeley is like to work in
Cleaning a Berkeley house means knowing what not to do. So much of the older stock — the brown-shingle houses off Euclid, the Craftsmans through Elmwood — was built with redwood and fir left deliberately bare, waxed at most. A general-purpose spray strips that down over a few years, so those surfaces get dry cloths and a mild soap, nothing else. Same story with the hexagonal bathroom tile and the unglazed hearth brick that turn up constantly in houses from the teens and twenties.
Above Cedar the ground tilts hard. Homes in the Berkeley Hills often sit below their own street, so the front door is a flight or two down from where a car stops, and the interior stacks across three or four half-levels. Those visits run longer than the square footage implies. Down in the flats near campus the rhythm is different again: a lot of what we do in Southside is turnover work between tenancies, booked in a compressed stretch around the end of the spring term.
Inside a typical Berkeley home
Most of Berkeley’s houses predate 1940, which sets the terms. Expect narrow-plank fir or oak floors, painted wood windows with real sash weights, tile counters with grout lines, and radiators rather than ducts. Bedroom counts stay modest even in large homes because the rooms are small and numerous. The hills add stairs and hard flooring throughout; the flatlands add one-story bungalows on 4,000 square-foot lots. Rental buildings around Telegraph bring shared entries and buzzer access into the mix.
House cleaning rates in Berkeley
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.
Things worth knowing about Berkeley
Knowing these before the van arrives is most of what makes a visit go well.
June is turnover season
Leases around campus end within the same two weeks, so move-out cleans stack up fast in late May and June. Booking those a few weeks ahead is the difference between getting a slot and waiting.
Parking permits in the flats
Most residential blocks below the hills run two-hour limits with resident permits. If you have a guest hanger or a driveway spot, leaving it out saves the crew a lap of the block and starts the clock sooner.
Berkeley, neighborhood by neighborhood
Every Berkeley address in 94702, 94703, 94704, 94705, 94707, 94708, 94709 and 94710.
- Elmwood
- Claremont
- North Berkeley
- Berkeley Hills
- Southside
- Westbrae
- Thousand Oaks
- Northbrae
- West Berkeley
Every kind of clean, in Berkeley
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
House cleaning
The whole-home refresh most Berkeley homes book: kitchens, bathrooms, floors, dusting and tidying.
How it works →Deep clean
Baseboards, inside appliances, grout and vents — the same clean with more hours, at the same rate.
How it works →Move in / move out
Empty-home cleaning for deposits and handovers — more hours, the same rate.
How it works →Recurring cleans
Weekly, every 2 weeks or every 4 weeks, at the advertised rate every clean.
How it works →The difference in Berkeley
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.
- Employed, background-checked cleaners — our own payroll, never a third party
- Before-and-after photos of every room, sent to you
- Honest pricing — you pay for the time it takes
- Pay after the clean, in the app or online — no contract
W-2
Our own employees
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.
Asked and answered, Berkeley
The general FAQ covers access, supplies, rescheduling and paying.
Can you clean a student rental between tenants?
Yes, and it is a large share of what we do near campus. A move-out clean covers the inside of cabinets and appliances, closet shelves, window tracks and baseboards, which a routine visit does not. Tell us the walk-through date when you book so the work lands before the landlord inspection rather than after.
My house has forty steps up from the street. Is that a problem?
No, it just changes how we load in. Crews working the hills carry a compact kit rather than wheeling a full caddy, and we plan a single trip up instead of running back to the car. Let us know at booking if the approach is stairs only so the right equipment comes with the team.
Do you work on original fir floors and old tile?
Yes, with dry methods first. Unfinished or wax-finished fir gets swept and buffed, never wet-mopped, and old glazed tile gets a pH-neutral solution rather than anything acidic that would eat the grout. If a floor has been refinished with polyurethane, say so and we can use a damp pass instead.
Neighbouring cities we cover
Berkeley sits inside our The East Bay coverage.
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