Novato is the biggest city in Marin by land and the warmest by a good few degrees, and its housing — 1960s ranches, 1990s tracts, the rebuilt airbase at Hamilton — spreads out accordingly.
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MaidSimple works throughout Novato, California, cleaning houses, condos and townhomes. Staffing is direct employment rather than gig contracting, with background screening carried on the company. Most houses were built between 1965 and 1995 on generous lots, plus the converted airbase blocks at Hamilton and lagoon-front properties in Bel Marin Keys. A standard 3 bed / 2 bath quote opens about $299.85 per clean with no add-on fees. Service runs across 94945, 94947 and 94949.
Scale is the thing to understand about working here. The city runs from Black Point in the east to the hills below Mount Burdell, and a crew day covers ground that would take in three or four southern-Marin towns. Most of what they clean is suburban and post-1965: single-story ranches around Loma Verde, two-story tracts in Indian Valley, and the newer construction at Pointe Marin. Wide driveways, attached garages, side yards. After the tight lanes further south, it is straightforward work.
Hamilton is the exception worth naming. The old army airfield was redeveloped into neighborhoods with officers' housing restored alongside new townhomes, and the older buildings there have details — hardwood, tall casements, plaster — that the tract stock does not. Bel Marin Keys is its own case again: lagoon frontage, boat docks, sliding doors facing water that collect a film you can see. We ask which part of the city you are in before quoting, because those three answers mean three different visits.
Detached houses on 5,000 to 9,000 square foot lots dominate, most built between 1960 and 1995, running 1,500 to 2,400 square feet with two or three bathrooms. Carpet in bedrooms, tile or laminate in wet rooms, occasional hardwood in the older Ignacio and Hamilton blocks. Inland heat means air conditioning, which means return-air vents and ceiling fans carry visible dust by August. Several newer developments carry homeowner associations with their own vendor rules.
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.
Details a crew only knows once they have worked a neighbourhood properly.
It runs ten to fifteen degrees warmer up here than at the bay end of the county, so air conditioning works hard from June onward. Ceiling fan blades, register grilles and the tops of door frames collect a grey film that only shows in raking afternoon light.
The converted base buildings keep original wood floors, deep window casings and plaster that does not take scrubbing. Those homes get softer methods than a nineties tract house down the road, and the crew is told which one they are walking into.
Sliding doors and windows facing the lagoons build a mineral haze from spray and irrigation overspray. Left alone it etches. Waterside glass and the tracks below it are cleaned every visit for homes on the water, not only on deep cleans.
Every Novato address in 94945, 94947 and 94949.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Novato 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, both, along with the rest of 94949. Hamilton mixes restored military-era houses with newer townhomes and condominiums, so quotes there vary more than the ZIP code suggests. If your townhome sits in an association with a gate code or a vendor registration requirement, send those details with the booking and it is handled before arrival.
It does. Bookings tighten up between May and September, when open windows, dry grass and heavy air-conditioning use push dust through the house faster. A lot of homes here run every other week through the summer and drop back to monthly once the rains start. Switching between the two costs nothing.
The interior is what we price and clean, including the glass doors, thresholds and floors that take the traffic from a pool deck. Patios, decking and outdoor furniture are not part of a standard visit, but sliding-door tracks — which fill with leaf grit and sunscreen residue on these lots — are.
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