Stairs before the front door
Plenty of homes here are reached only by an outdoor flight of steps up from the street. Let us know how many and whether there is a handrail; it changes what equipment comes up and how the visit is staffed.
✨ House cleaning in Fairfax
House Cleaning & Maid Service in Fairfax
Half the addresses in Fairfax are reached on foot — a lane too narrow for two cars, then a run of wooden steps up through the trees to a cabin nobody has ever called big.
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Fairfax at a glance
MaidSimple is a residential cleaning company serving Fairfax, California. Expect a small crew of employees on payroll, with background checks, workers' comp and liability coverage all handled before anyone is assigned. The stock is compact: cabins, cottages and 1920s bungalows on steep lanes, many of them reached by a flight of outdoor steps. Two bedrooms and one bath is the common shape, and it prices from about $299.85 per clean. The single ZIP served is 94930.
- Serving
- Fairfax, Marin County
- ZIP codes
- 94930
- Area
- The North 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
Fairfax, from a cleaner's point of view
Getting to the front door is the first part of the job. Lanes off Bolinas Road and up toward the Cascades were laid out for summer cabins, not for two-income households with three vehicles, so a crew parks where it can and carries in. That means bringing less and choosing better: a compact vacuum, a caddy, microfiber that gets laundered rather than a cart of bottles. Nobody minds. It is the arrangement the whole town lives with.
What waits at the top is usually small and full of wood. Redwood paneling, board-and-batten walls, ceilings low enough to reach, and windows that have not been square since the sixties. Deer Park and the canyon streets sit under so much canopy that light barely reaches the north rooms, which keeps things cool and encourages mildew in the shower and along sills. We work these houses room by room instead of by square footage, because square footage here tells you almost nothing.
What Fairfax homes are like to clean
The typical house is under 1,400 square feet and older than most of its neighbors' cars: 1920s and 1930s cabins, post-war cottages, a scattering of self-built additions with a step down between rooms. Floors are fir, painted plank or worn tile. Kitchens are narrow. Bathrooms are often one. Steep driveways, outdoor staircases and hillside decks are standard, so the crew’s route through a house is planned before anything gets unloaded. Condominium buildings barely exist here.
The numbers for Fairfax
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.
What's different about cleaning in Fairfax
The small things that decide whether a visit runs smoothly or runs late.
Canopy means damp corners
Under the tree cover on the canyon streets, north-facing rooms stay cool all year. Shower grout, window sills and the backs of closets pick up mildew faster than they would three miles east. Those spots get scrubbed, not just wiped.
Woodstoves and fine ash
A lot of these houses still heat with wood. Fine ash travels well beyond the hearth and settles on shelves, screens and upholstery in a way ordinary dusting redistributes. Crews vacuum with HEPA filtration first, then wipe, in that order.
Our Fairfax coverage
Every Fairfax address in 94930.
- Downtown Fairfax
- Cascade Canyon
- Deer Park
- Manor
- Oak Manor
- Bolinas Park
- Broadway
- Pastori Avenue
The four ways we clean a Fairfax home
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
House cleaning
The whole-home refresh most Fairfax 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 →Why Fairfax homes choose MaidSimple
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.
Common questions in Fairfax
The general FAQ covers access, supplies, rescheduling and paying.
My street is too narrow for a van. Is that a problem?
No, and it is normal here. Crews carry compact equipment specifically so they can park on Bolinas Road or in a wide spot below and walk up. If your lane has a turnaround or a shared pullout, mentioning it when you book helps, but access alone is never a reason we decline a booking.
Do you clean cabins used as short-term rentals?
Yes. Turnover cleans on the smaller canyon properties are a regular part of the work — linens stripped and remade, kitchen reset, bathroom sanitized, deck swept of leaf drop. Because the houses are compact, a turnover usually fits a tight window between guests. Give us the checkout and check-in times and the visit is scheduled inside them.
Can you handle woodstove and fireplace areas?
The hearth surround, glass door, mantel and the floor in front of it are all part of a standard visit. What we do not do is sweep the flue or handle hot or recently used ash — that is a chimney sweep’s job and a genuine fire risk. Clear the firebox cold and we take care of everything around it.
While we are in the area
Fairfax sits inside our The North Bay coverage.
Let's get your Fairfax home sorted
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