Shared stairs, split responsibility
The common stair and entry hall usually belong to the association rather than to your unit. We clean them when the HOA books it, quoted separately from your interior so the two bills stay untangled.
Most buildings on these blocks hold four units or fewer, which means no lobby, no porter and a shared stair everyone uses. That is the detail shaping how a Cow Hollow clean runs.
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MaidSimple serves Cow Hollow, California with house cleaning and recurring maid service. Coverage runs across 94123 and the western edge of 94109. Most of what we clean is a condominium carved out of an older two- to four-unit building: one level, hardwood front rooms, a compact kitchen and a bathroom or two. Crews are W-2 staff, vetted before hire, working, and they bring everything with them. A quote is about at99.85 per clean and is fixed once your rooms are entered.
Ground slopes here, down from the ridge toward the water, so a building that reads as two floors from Union Street turns out to have a third at the back. Garden units sit half below grade with their own entry off a side path. Upper units get the light and the bay windows. Same address, three quite different cleans, and the price should follow which one is yours rather than the building footprint.
Then there is the commercial pull. Union Street and Fillmore Street push traffic and metered parking well into the residential blocks, and the side streets are permit-controlled on weekdays. Crews take one legal space, unload once and work from a compact kit. Households in the small buildings around Allyne Park usually want early slots before the shopping traffic thickens, which suits everyone involved.
Building stock is late Victorian and Edwardian, mostly subdivided into two, three or four condominiums, with single-family houses along Green Street and west of Steiner. Units run 900 to 1,800 square feet on one floor. Expect original fir or oak boards, a hex-tile bathroom that may or may not have been replaced, a bay window at the front and a light well in the middle. Shared stairwells, entry halls and mail alcoves are common ground nobody personally owns.
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.
Details a crew only knows once they have worked a neighbourhood properly.
The common stair and entry hall usually belong to the association rather than to your unit. We clean them when the HOA books it, quoted separately from your interior so the two bills stay untangled.
Half-below-grade units on the downhill side hold moisture against the rear wall. Bathroom grout and the backs of closets show it first, so those areas get a dedicated pass instead of being swept into the general bathroom clean.
Nearly every subdivided building has an interior light well, and the windows onto it go unwashed for years. Inside faces, the sill and the reveal are done on request, which visibly changes how much light reaches a middle room.
Every Cow Hollow address in 94123 and 94109.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Cow Hollow 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. Small associations here do it regularly, usually monthly or fortnightly alongside the individual units. The quote covers the entry hall, stair treads and rails, the mail alcove and the glass in the street door. Bill it to the association or split it between owners — tell us which and it is set up that way.
Weekday permit rules and metered spillover from the shopping streets mean a crew may park a block or two away. That is normal and it does not change your price. What genuinely helps is a gate code or key instruction sent ahead, since most buildings have a locked street door and nobody at it.
Carefully, with a neutral cleaner and a soft brush. Unglazed hex from the 1910s sits in grout that was never sealed, so bleach and strong acids strip it and leave the joints drinking in everything afterwards. The grout lines are worked by hand, rinsed thoroughly and dried, which lifts the grey without wearing the tile.
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