Some of the smallest houses in the city are up this hill: one-bedroom cottages under a thousand square feet, a few of them 1906 relief shacks still standing inside later additions in Bernal Heights.
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MaidSimple serves Bernal Heights, California with house cleaning and recurring maid service. Homes run small and old. Cottages of 700 to 1,200 square feet sit on lots barely wider than the house, many extended downhill at the back with a dug-out room or two. The postal footprint is 94110 with a southern edge in 94112. Cleaners join as W-2 employees, are checked before starting. A quote is about at99.85 per clean and you pay for the time it takes.
Small houses are not fast houses. A nine-hundred square foot cottage off Cortland Avenue has the same number of bathrooms, kitchen surfaces and window sills as something twice the size, packed into rooms where a vacuum has to be lifted rather than pushed. Furniture sits close to walls, storage is stacked, and the useful measure of a visit is edges rather than area — which is exactly what a square-foot quote gets wrong.
Access is the other thing. Several lanes on the north slope are steps or single-track with nowhere legal to stop, and around Holly Park the grades are steep enough that a crew parks once and does not come back for anything forgotten. If your address is on a stair lane, say so at booking. It changes nothing about the price and everything about how the trolley gets loaded.
Stock is mostly small wood-frame houses from 1900 to 1940, with a genuine scattering of 1906 relief cottages absorbed into later buildings, plus post-war infill and the narrow half-houses the hill is known for. Ceilings are low, often eight feet or less. Floors are fir, sometimes original and sometimes covered over. Kitchens and bathrooms keep their original footprint even where fittings are new. Rear extensions dug into the slope add a level below with less headroom.
Real prices from the same engine behind the quote form above, not a range that moves once we see the place.
| 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.
Knowing these before the van arrives is most of what makes a visit go well.
A compact cottage carries the surface count of a much larger house squeezed into fewer rooms. Kitchen and bathroom time barely moves with size, which is why very small homes up here land closer to the middle of the range than owners expect.
A number of addresses on the north slope are reached by public steps or a lane too narrow to stop in. Crews walk in from the nearest through street with a reduced kit, and the arrival window is set with that in mind.
Houses here tend to have real gardens, and soil, leaf litter and dog paws move through the back door all day. The rear threshold, the run of floor inside it and the utility area get a dedicated pass rather than a general sweep.
Every Bernal Heights address in 94110 and 94112.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Bernal Heights 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.
Somewhat, but not in proportion to its size. Bedrooms scale the price and kitchens and bathrooms largely do not, because a compact kitchen has the same counters, splashback, appliance fronts and floor edges as a big one. A one-bedroom cottage with a good kitchen and one bath usually lands near our entry rate rather than below it.
Yes, and most of the neighborhood is that shape. Crews here bring compact machines and hand tools rather than large uprights, because there is nowhere to swing them. Furniture is moved and put back where it can be shifted safely; anything heavy or fragile is cleaned around and mentioned rather than moved without asking first.
Include it in the room count when you book. Downhill extensions here often have low headroom, a concrete or tiled floor and a wall against soil, so they hold damp differently from the rest of the house. Those walls, and any closet backing onto them, get checked and treated as part of the visit rather than skipped.
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