San Pablo Avenue splits El Cerrito in two. Below it, flat streets of mid-century houses on regular lots; above it, switchback roads, view decks and gardens that have had sixty years to grow into the house.
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El Cerrito, California is covered by MaidSimple for residential cleaning and maid service. Everyone we send has cleared a background check, works as a W-2 employee, with supplies carried in. Homes split between postwar flats near the Ohlone Greenway and hillside houses above the Arlington, where decks, glass and multiple levels add time. Honest pricing for three bedrooms and two baths is about at99.85 per clean. One ZIP covers the city, 94530, and we work all of it.
The hill half of El Cerrito was built for the view, and the view is what makes the work. Houses in Mira Vista and up along the Arlington face west into afternoon sun off the bay, so their windows show every mark, and the sliding doors onto the deck get opened a hundred times a summer. Around them are mature gardens — oaks, redwoods, camellias, decades of them — which means leaf litter, pollen and a fine grit that walks in on shoes and settles on the sills.
Down the slope the job changes character. The flats between Fairmount and El Cerrito Plaza are largely single-story homes from the late forties and fifties, laid out simply, with hardwood under carpet in a lot of them and kitchens that have been remodeled once. These clean quickly and reward a steady biweekly rhythm. The difference between the two halves is big enough that we quote them separately rather than by square footage alone.
Most of the city went up between 1945 and 1965, so the baseline is a three-bedroom, two-bath single-story house of 1,300 to 1,700 square feet with oak floors, a tiled hearth and aluminum windows swapped for vinyl at some point. The hillside tracts break that pattern: split levels, downhill bedrooms, floor-to-ceiling glass on the bay side and exterior stairs to a lower deck. Condominiums cluster near the Plaza and along the Greenway, mostly two-bedroom, with elevator access and a shared trash room.
Generated by the pricing engine that runs the form above, so nothing here is a teaser number.
| 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.
None of this is on a checklist. It is what you learn by working somewhere regularly.
West-facing windows here take direct low sun from four o’clock on, which turns a faint film into a visible haze. Interior glass on the view side gets done with a squeegee and a dry edge rather than a spray-and-wipe that leaves streaks the sun finds.
Established planting up the hill drops constantly: oak tassels in spring, camellia petals in winter, fine bark all year. Entry mats and the first six feet of floor take the brunt, so those get worked first and again at the end of a visit.
Hillside driveways above Moeser tilt hard enough that a loaded caddy will roll, and many are single-width with a car already in them. Crews park on the street and walk in, which works as long as the route to the door is clear.
Every El Cerrito address in 94530.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most El Cerrito 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.
Decks get swept and the interior side of the glass is standard. Exterior window washing above the ground floor is not part of a regular clean, because a deck cantilevered over a slope needs proper access equipment. Ground-level sliders and the deck-side track can be done on request, and it is worth booking that seasonally rather than every visit.
Only through the room count, which usually differs anyway. A single-story house near the Plaza and a four-level house off the Arlington may both be listed as three bedrooms, but the hill house adds stair runs, more glass and more hard flooring. Enter the actual bedrooms and bathrooms and the quote reflects the real workload.
Yes. Fixed weekday slots are the norm here, and a crew can start in the rooms furthest from a closed door and work toward it. If you would rather have the house empty, mid-morning after school runs and before lunch tends to be the quietest window on these streets, and it is usually the easiest slot to hold week to week.
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