Lincoln Avenue sits at the middle of Willow Glen, and nearly everything around it went up before 1945 — narrow driveways, deep front porches, and floors that were laid by hand.
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MaidSimple runs house cleaning and maid service across Willow Glen, California. Cleaners here are payroll employees rather than contractors, each background-checked before hire. This corner of San Jose runs to pre-war bungalows: original oak boards, tiled baths, sash windows that collect grit. A three-bedroom bungalow is one flat figure about $299.85 per clean. Homes in 95125, 95126 and the 95124 edge below Foxworthy are all on the route.
Bungalow stock is the whole story on these blocks. The streets off Minnesota Avenue and Hicks Avenue were built between 1922 and 1941, which means lath-and-plaster walls, built-in cabinets with small brass latches, and hex tile in the bathroom whose grout was never sealed. Treat that tile like modern porcelain and you lift the color straight out of it. Our crews use a neutral cleaner and a hand brush on those floors, and it takes longer than anyone expects.
The other thing about a pre-war lot is the parking. Driveways are one car wide, garages are half-size or gone, and the curb around Lincoln Avenue and through Palm Haven fills by mid-morning at weekends, so weekday visits run smoother. Mature street trees drop a fine litter onto porches and window ledges from October, and old sash windows let a surprising amount of it inside.
Typical square footage runs 1,100 to 1,700 across a single floor, though plenty of houses have gained a rear addition or a second story since 2000, and the two halves clean differently: engineered plank at the back, original fir at the front. Basements are rare, crawl spaces are not. Kitchens stay small and galley-shaped even after a remodel. There are almost no HOA buildings, so getting in usually means a lockbox on a porch rail rather than a front desk.
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.
Hex and subway tile from the twenties is still underfoot in a lot of these bathrooms, with grout that has never had a sealer on it. Acidic bathroom sprays eat it. Crews carry a pH-neutral cleaner for those rooms and leave the aggressive stuff in the van.
Most lots take a single vehicle off the street, and the street itself is often full. Leaving the driveway clear helps, and if you cannot, a line in the booking notes about where to stop keeps the crew from boxing a neighbor in.
Camphors and sycamores along these streets shed for months. Fine debris tracks in through porch doors and settles along sills and baseboards, so window ledges get a pass of their own between October and January rather than a wipe on the way past.
Every Willow Glen address in 95125, 95126 and 95124.
One rate, one standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Willow Glen 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 — leave it out and say so at booking. That matters when a refinisher has specified something for old fir or oak. Otherwise the floors get a barely damp microfiber pass and no wax, because wax build-up on a 1930s board is far harder to undo later than a missed week ever is.
Yes, and the number reflects them. Pricing runs off the bedroom and bathroom count you enter, so a bungalow with two bedrooms upstairs sits above a flat one of the same footprint. Stairs slow a visit more than extra floor area does, and that is already built into the figure you see.
Leaded and stained panels get dusted dry and never sprayed, since moisture behind the came is what loosens it. Milk-glass shades and cast fixtures come down only if you ask. Anything you would rather nobody touched at all, list it in the booking notes and it stays exactly where it is.
Willow Glen sits inside our San Jose coverage.
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