The Petaluma River splits this town into two housing eras: an intact Victorian downtown on the west bank, and forty years of tract building spreading east from the freeway.
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MaidSimple cleans homes throughout Petaluma, California. The people who come to your door are employees on our payroll, background-checked. West of the river you get 1880s and 1890s houses with high ceilings, wooden stairs and picture rails. East of it, 1970s through 2000s subdivisions with carpet, slab floors and attached garages. Those two need different visit lengths for the same bedroom count. Pricing opens about $299.85 per clean for a 3 bed / 2 bath. We work 94952 and 94954.
Petaluma kept its downtown, which is rarer than it sounds. The iron-front buildings and the Victorian blocks around Oakhill-Brewster survived the twentieth century largely because the money went north instead. What that means in practice is a stock of tall, narrow houses with steep staircases, plaster and lath, transoms above the doors, and floor grates where a modern house would have a ceiling vent.
Cross the river and it is a different town. Old East Petaluma gives way to Payran, Cherry Valley and the McDowell corridor, where the houses are single- and two-story tract builds on regular lots, and the interiors are the ones most people picture: carpet in the bedrooms, vinyl or tile in the wet rooms, a slider onto a fenced yard. Both halves book the same way, but a west-side Victorian rarely takes the same time as an east-side four-bedroom of similar size.
West-side houses run 1,400 to 2,600 square feet across two or three floors, with narrow hallways, original wood you cannot flood, and windows in wooden sashes that hold dust in the corners. East-side homes are wider and flatter: 1,500 to 2,200 square feet, slab foundations, one or two stories, more carpet and simpler layouts. Fog comes up the river most summer nights, so the west side sees more mildew around window frames and in north-facing bathrooms than the east side does.
The same maths the quote form uses, printed out. What you see is what you pay.
| 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 small things that decide whether a visit runs smoothly or runs late.
A three-story house on D Street or the Oakhill blocks means carrying equipment up and back several times, plus a full flight of spindles and a handrail to wipe. That is time, and it is priced honestly rather than rushed through.
Summer nights pull damp air up the channel, and the older west-side bathrooms with a single small window are where it shows. Ceiling corners, grout and window frames get checked every visit before it turns into something that needs scrubbing.
Parking around Kentucky Street and the blocks above the turning basin is tight from mid-morning, especially on market days. Homes with a rear alley or a driveway are easy. For the rest, we plan the visit earlier in the day.
Every Petaluma address in 94952 and 94954.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Petaluma 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 they are among our more frequent bookings in this town. Those houses have more rooms, more staircases and more delicate surfaces than the square footage implies, so the estimate is driven by bed and bath count and the number of floors. Original wood, plaster and painted trim are cleaned damp with neutral products, never soaked.
Not by address, no. The price comes from the time it takes and the clean you choose. In practice a west-side house with three floors and one and a half bathrooms often lands near an east-side four-bedroom, because vertical distance and old-house detail cost time even when the footprint is smaller.
Yes. Market mornings make the streets near the turning basin slow, so we generally schedule nearby homes for a weekday or a Saturday afternoon slot. If you specifically want a Saturday morning and your house has off-street parking, that works fine. Just mention the driveway when you book.
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