Kensington is under a square mile of hillside, and most of it is reached by roads that were laid out for one car at a time. Homes step down the slope from the pavement, not up from a driveway.
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In Kensington, California, MaidSimple handles residential house cleaning and maid service. Crews are payroll employees rather than gig contractors, each one screened, and they bring equipment sized for houses without vehicle access. This is an unincorporated hill community of roughly 5,400 people, mostly detached homes built between the 1920s and the 1960s on steep, narrow lots. A 3 bed / 2 bath visit is about at99.85 per clean. Addresses here sit in 94707 and 94708.
Ask anyone who has had work done in Kensington and the first thing they mention is the road. Streets off the Arlington were cut into the hill decades before anyone imagined a full-size van, they carry parked cars on one side, and there is often no sidewalk to stand on while you unload. Our crews plan the approach before the day: where the vehicle can legally sit, whether the house is above or below the road, and how many steps are involved.
Then there are the houses themselves. A three-bedroom here can easily have four floor levels, with the entry on the middle one, bedrooms below and a kitchen that opens onto a deck in the treetops. Cleaning it in an efficient order matters more than raw speed, because carrying a vacuum up and down the same stairs three times is how an hour disappears. Fog rolls over the ridge from Tilden Regional Park most mornings, and the damp it leaves shows up as mildew on bathroom ceilings and window frames.
Nearly everything is detached and owner-occupied, built from the 1920s through the 1960s and added to since. Styles jump from period-revival cottages to postwar contemporaries within a single block. What they share is verticality: entry-level living, bedrooms a flight down, a garage tucked under the house, and exterior stairs connecting all of it. Interiors favor hardwood and tile over carpet, ceilings are often open-beam, and the windows are large because the view is the point. There is no apartment stock to speak of.
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.
Local detail is the difference between a crew that shows up and a crew that knows what it is walking into.
Several streets will not take a full-size vehicle past a parked car, so crews here work out of a compact car with a carry kit. It means one trip in with what the job needs, planned from your booking notes rather than improvised at the curb.
Marine air sits on this ridge well past sunrise and bathrooms dry slowly. Ceiling corners and the top of window casings need treating on a schedule, not just when they show, which is why a biweekly cycle beats a monthly one up here.
A house described as two-story often turns out to have four half-levels once you are inside. When you book, counting bedrooms and bathrooms accurately matters more than the story count, because that is what the quote is built from.
Every Kensington address in 94707 and 94708.
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The whole-home refresh most Kensington 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 — that describes a good share of Kensington and we plan for it. Crews arrive in a small vehicle and park legally, sometimes a short walk from the door, then carry in a kit rather than wheeling a cart. If there is a specific spot that works for your address, note it at booking and it goes on the job sheet.
No stair surcharge, no. The price comes from bedrooms and bathrooms, and a multi-level house tends to have more of both, so it lands higher on its own. Where stairs do matter is duration: a four-level house takes longer than a flat one of the same size, and we schedule the slot accordingly.
It is, and the postal address makes no difference to us. Some Kensington mail reads Berkeley and some reads El Cerrito, which occasionally confuses booking forms. Enter the street address and the 94707 or 94708 ZIP and the system will place it correctly. Coverage runs from Colusa Circle up to the ridge.
Kensington sits inside our The East Bay coverage.
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