Emerald Hills is not a city. It is unincorporated San Mateo County above Redwood City, a maze of one-lane roads with houses on stilts and driveways that fall away from the street.
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MaidSimple runs house cleaning and maid service across Emerald Hills, California. This is an unincorporated community rather than an incorporated city, sitting in the hills above Redwood City and sharing its 94062 ZIP. Cleaners come as W-2 employees who have passed background screening. The housing is hillside: pole-supported decks, downslope entries, half-flights everywhere and almost no level parking. A quote for a three-bed, two-and-a-half-bath is about at99.85 per clean.
Nobody who lives here says they live in Redwood City, but the mail does. Emerald Hills is a census-designated place in unincorporated San Mateo County, wrapped around two small lakes and spread over the oak slopes between Edgewood Road, Jefferson Avenue and Interstate 280. Parts of the neighborhood fall under the Town of Woodside and parts under Redwood City, which residents will explain to you at length.
For cleaning, the geography is the whole story. Roads are narrow, winding and often without a shoulder. Many houses are built downslope, so you enter at the top and work downward through two or three levels, and a fair number sit on posts with the living space cantilevered over the hill. Parking is rarely flat and sometimes there is none, which changes how a crew loads in. Above the lake the lots open out toward Edgewood Park and Natural Preserve and the houses get considerably larger.
Lots run from half an acre to a full acre and the houses on them are wildly inconsistent: 1950s and 1960s cabins and modest ranches sitting next to 4,000 square foot custom rebuilds. The common thread is vertical. Split levels, decks on posts, exterior stairs from the parking pad to the front door, and interior runs between three floors are all normal. Flooring skews hard, in wood, tile and stone, with carpet mostly on stairs and in bedrooms.
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.
Knowing these before the van arrives is most of what makes a visit go well.
Several roads up here are barely wide enough for two cars and have no shoulder at all. Where there is no flat pad, the crew parks at the nearest safe pull-out and carries in, so let us know at booking if the walk is a long one.
A cantilevered deck under oaks gathers leaf litter, spider webs and pollen that walks straight through the slider. Interior thresholds, door tracks and the first few feet of floor inside get repeated attention rather than one pass.
Plenty of entrances up here drop below the roadway and are easy to miss on a first pass, and map pins are not always accurate. Confirming a landmark or a mailbox color when you book keeps the crew from circling and losing time from your visit.
Every Emerald Hills address in 94062.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Emerald Hills 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.
Not officially. It is a census-designated place in unincorporated San Mateo County, though it shares the 94062 ZIP with Redwood City and Woodside and a few streets fall inside the Woodside town limits. For booking purposes none of that matters. Enter your address and the quote comes back the same way it would anywhere else on the hill.
Yes, and the lower level should be counted in the booking. Pole-supported homes here often put a bedroom, a bath or a workshop below the main floor, reached by an interior or exterior stair. That is a real room with real square footage, so include it and the crew arrives with the right amount of time held.
Both. Every two weeks is the most common arrangement on these streets, but plenty of households book a single deep clean before hosting or after a remodel. A one-time visit costs more than the same house on a schedule, because a first clean on a property that has not had one always carries backlog.
Emerald Hills sits inside our The Peninsula coverage.
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