Levels, not square feet
A house that steps down four times has four sets of stairs, four thresholds and four changes of flooring. That is what drives time on site, so the quote asks how many levels you have before it asks how big they are.
Sun almost every day and a gradient that turns houses into split-levels: on Potrero Hill the living room is often two floors above the garage and the bedrooms sit below the street.
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MaidSimple runs house cleaning and maid service across Potrero Hill, California. Quotes are flat and open about $299.85 per clean, built from levels as much as bedrooms, because homes here step down a slope instead of sitting on one plane. Expect Victorian cottages, mid-century infill and newer condominiums, most with a deck and a lot of view glass. Cleaners are W-2 staff who have passed a background check. Coverage takes in 94107 and the hill side of 94110.
This hill collects more sunshine than almost anywhere else in the city, and it changes what needs doing. Strong afternoon light shows every mark on a south or west-facing window, dries a mopped floor in minutes, and slowly fades the finish on wood near the glass. Households along 18th Street and around McKinley Square tend to ask for interior glass and sills every visit rather than monthly, and the request makes sense here in a way it would not out in the fog.
The other half of the story is wind and slope. Decks and roof terraces catch grit blowing up off the flats below and it walks straight in through a sliding door. Houses are entered at whatever level the street happens to meet them, sometimes the garage and sometimes a landing halfway up. Tell us which door to use and how many flights are inside, and the visit gets scoped properly.
Nothing here is uniform. Small Victorian and Edwardian cottages sit beside 1950s stucco boxes and three-unit contemporary infill, with converted industrial buildings toward Showplace Square. What they share is the slope: two, three and occasionally four levels linked by internal stairs, with a garage cut into the downhill side. Decks and roof terraces are near-universal, and so is large view glass facing north and east. Ceilings swing from seven-foot cottage rooms to double-height conversions.
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.
A house that steps down four times has four sets of stairs, four thresholds and four changes of flooring. That is what drives time on site, so the quote asks how many levels you have before it asks how big they are.
North and east-facing windows here look at the skyline and get looked through constantly. Inside faces, sills and the frame runs are on the standard list, along with a dry buff so the low winter sun does not pick out streaks.
Wind carries fine dust up the hill and drops it on terraces, from where it comes in on shoes and paws. Threshold tracks and the first few feet of floor inside every deck door get their own pass, every time.
Every Potrero Hill address in 94107 and 94110.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Potrero Hill 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.
The quote counts levels, so yes, a four-level house prices above a two-level house with the same room count. Stairs, landings and moving equipment between floors are real minutes. All internal stair treads and rails are included in that, and so are the small half-landings that tend to get skipped.
Yes. Loft conversions here are quoted on levels, reachable surfaces and glass rather than on bedrooms, since an open plan with a mezzanine has few rooms and a lot of area. Exposed ductwork and beams within pole reach are dusted; anything needing a lift is priced separately once we have seen photographs.
Gently, and with very little moisture. Boards beside a big south or west window dry out and the finish grows brittle, so a soaking mop is the wrong tool entirely. We vacuum first, then use a barely damp microfibre with a neutral cleaner, keeping water away from board ends and gaps where it swells the wood.
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