No two Oakland jobs look alike: a West Oakland Victorian, a Temescal Craftsman with its original leaded glass, a converted warehouse downtown and a hillside house above 580 all sit in one city.
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Oakland, California is covered by MaidSimple for residential cleaning and maid service. The people who show up are employed and payrolled by us, background-checked, and carrying their own equipment. Housing here runs from 1890s Victorians in West Oakland and Craftsman bungalows in Temescal and Grand Lake to downtown lofts, flatland stucco and multi-level houses in the hills. A 3 bed / 2 bath home runs about $299.85 per clean on a quote. Every residential ZIP is covered, 94601 through 94621.
This is not one cleaning market, it is about six. The Victorians of West Oakland have tall ceilings, narrow stairs and original moldings that trap dust in every profile. Temescal and Grand Lake are Craftsman country, full of box beams, built-in cabinetry, picture rails and leaded glass in the front windows, none of which enjoys a wet cloth. East of the lake the flatlands turn to stucco and slab, quicker per square foot and much more predictable.
Above the 580 the ground rises and the houses turn vertical: garage at the road, living space one or two flights up, decks off the back, windows facing open hillside. Downtown and around Jack London Square the stock changes again into converted warehouses and newer towers with freight elevators, loading bays and building rules to work inside. A day here gets planned around building type as much as address.
The baseline is a pre-1940 house of 1,200 to 1,900 square feet with hardwood floors, plaster walls and original stained trim, slower to clean than a same-sized modern home and needing drier methods. Hill houses run larger and stack over a tuck-under garage, so equipment travels up two or three flights. Downtown units are open-plan with polished concrete, exposed ductwork and high ceilings. Winter damp puts mildew on bathroom ceilings across all of it.
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.
The operational stuff nobody advertises, which is exactly what matters on the day.
Craftsman trim, box beams and picture rails in the older neighborhoods are usually original finish rather than modern paint. Those surfaces get dusted dry, and moisture stays where it belongs, because a wet cloth lifts shellac.
Above the 580 the front door is often two flights up from wherever the vehicle ends up. Vacuums and caddies are carried once and staged on the main level, and crew size is set by the climb rather than the floor area.
Converted warehouse units downtown run twelve to eighteen feet at the ridge. Light fixtures, duct runs and the tops of tall windows need poles and a ladder plan, and we agree what is in scope before the first visit.
Every Oakland address in 94601, 94602, 94603, 94605, 94606, 94607, 94608, 94609, 94610, 94611, 94612, 94618, 94619 and 94621.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Oakland 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, and it is much of what we do here. The approach is drier and slower: dry dusting on unsealed or shellacked wood, nothing with ammonia near leaded glass, no standing water on old fir floors. Original plaster and picture rails collect a surprising amount, and it comes away with brushes and microfiber rather than spray.
Yes. Those units are compact in footprint but tall, so square footage understates them, and much of the surface area is glass, concrete and metal. Most buildings route working crews through a freight elevator on booked hours and keep paperwork for approved vendors. Send us your building contact and we arrange that side.
Straightforward work, and among the fastest visits in the city. Post-war stucco houses out that way are single-level, simply laid out, and mostly slab with tile or vinyl in the wet rooms. No stair time and no hillside access problem, so a three-bedroom out there prices at the lower end of the local range.
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