San Francisco, California house cleaning
House cleaning in San Francisco for apartments, condos and houses
We do house cleaning in San Francisco for renters and owners. The place can be a studio in a mid-rise or a house up a flight of front stairs; a call about the home sets the plan either way.
What needs cleaning right now
Keys going back to a landlord at the end of a lease
A move-out cleaning on an empty unit opens every cabinet, every drawer, every closet shelf and the inside of the appliances once the furniture is gone. The lease date drives this one. The last touch to the kitchen and the bathroom is the piece a landlord looks at next.
A kitchen that never gets past a wipe-down
The counters get a swipe every night and the stovetop gets a wipe on the way out. The baseboards, the hood vent, the back of the sink and the tops of the cabinets have been quiet for months. A deep clean for the parts a regular visit skips resets those spots on its own.
Regular visits on a rhythm
A maid service on a schedule you set hands the kitchen, the bathrooms and the floors to someone who does the work for a living. The Saturday the deep clean was penciled in also had laundry on it, a doctor's appointment and friends in town, and the week ran out.
Apartment and condo cleaning in bigger buildings
Apartments and condos in bigger buildings often need a cleaning that starts at the lobby. On the call, the resident tells us whether the building has a buzzer, a doorman with a visitor sheet or a service elevator that needs reserving. The cleaning inside is standard. Getting a cleaner to the door takes a different conversation.
After a remodel, before guests or between short-term stays
Drywall and sanding dust can sit on every ledge, inside every drawer and along every door frame once the trades leave. A cleaning after a remodel takes that off finished surfaces. For parents flying in on Friday, a one time cleaning covers the visit with no schedule afterward, and a short-term rental has its own rhythm on the page for turnovers between guests.
Renters, small homes and old buildings
About 62 percent of San Francisco's households rent, about 41 percent of the city's housing units are studios or one-bedrooms and about 45 percent were built in 1939 or earlier, with a median year built of 1946. On a call, tell us about the building, the stairs up to the door or the elevator, and how we get in. A quote comes together from the rooms and bathrooms you name and the kind of cleaning the home wants.
House cleaning services by the job
Every kind of cleaning we do has its own page, from regular visits on a weekly or every other week rhythm to a deep clean, a move-out and a cleaning after a remodel. The lists below group the services by the kind of cleaning they are.
Regular cleaning
Bigger cleans
Moves, apartments and rentals
How a visit moves through a home
Dusting runs high to low from the floor, nothing climbed, so nothing out of reach has to come down. The kitchen is next: counters, the sink, the stovetop and the fronts of the appliances and cabinets. The bathrooms are the tub or shower, the toilet, the sink and vanity, the mirror and the floor. Living and sleeping areas are a reset of the surfaces you touch, with beds made or linens changed if you ask. Floors come last, vacuumed and then a damp mop on hard floors, on the way out of each room.
What we collect on the way goes into the home's own blue, green and black bins the way the household sorts them.
Everyone in San Francisco is required to separate recyclables, compostables and trash under a 2009 City ordinance, and the bins are blue for recycling, green for compost and black for trash. A regular visit does this on its rhythm, and a longer piece on what a visit covers has the room by room list.
What happens when you call us
- You call (415) 704-7703 and tell us about the place. Rooms and bathrooms, the building and how we get in, pets, the stairs or the elevator, products you want used or avoided, anything to leave alone.
- We go over which cleaning fits: a regular visit, a deep clean, a move-out, a turnover, a cleaning after a remodel. We note anything we would skip and anything to tell the building about a service elevator or a loading dock.
- You get a price and decide. No cleaning starts before you give us the go-ahead.
- The cleaning. If you are home, a last look together before we leave.
Households, buildings and homes in San Francisco
A lease ending, a move into a new place, a condo in a building of five or more units, a landlord or property manager between tenants, a host between guests, an owner in a house: about 18 percent of the city's housing units are detached houses and about 12 percent attached. About 39 percent of San Francisco households are one person living alone.
San Francisco house cleaning guides
House cleaning in San Francisco: your questions
What does a house cleaning cost in San Francisco, and why not a price over the phone?
What a cleaning costs is set by what the cleaning actually is: the rooms and bathrooms, how long since the last thorough visit, whether a pet lives in the home, whether we are reaching the apartment through a lobby or a service elevator, and whether this is a one time cleaning or part of a schedule. What goes into a price walks through each driver with no price list.
Which cleaning should I ask for?
Call and tell us what the home needs. For a reset on the kitchen, bathrooms and floors on a schedule, a regular visit fits. For the parts a regular visit skips (baseboards, hood vent, inside the oven and fridge, grout), a deep clean is the better match. Move-out, after a remodel and a one time cleaning have their own pages.
What does a standard house cleaning include?
A standard visit covers the kitchen (counters, the sink, the stovetop and the fronts), the bathrooms (tub or shower, toilet, sink, mirror, floor), dusting from high to low, and the floors last. Beds get made if you ask. Nothing personal gets sorted into drawers. The guide on what a cleaning covers has the full room by room list.
Should the first visit be a deep clean?
If the place has been kept up and only wants a reset, a standard visit is enough. If it has been a long while, or if a schedule is about to start, a deep clean on the first visit catches up on what the regular rhythm skips. We suggest the smaller job when the home is ready for it.
Do I need to be home, and what about keys, buzzers and a front desk?
You do not have to be. Whether anyone will be there, and how we get in if nobody is, go on the call: a buzzer and a code, a key or a lockbox, a doorman with a visitor sheet, a service elevator with a reservation. We settle it before the day; no promise about any building's rules.
Do you clean apartments and condos as well as houses?
Yes. Apartments and condos as much as single-family houses. A studio in a mid-rise, a condo in a tower, a house up a flight of front stairs with the home over a garage. The apartment and condo cleaning page covers what changes when the cleaning starts at the lobby.
Can you work around pets?
Yes. Tell us what kind of pet, where they stay during a visit, and whether they are nervous around people they do not know. Products get sorted on the call too, so anything a pet or a person in the household is sensitive to can be swapped before anyone arrives.
When your place needs a cleaning
Call (415) 704-7703 and tell us about the home. If you would rather be called back, the callback form below the number takes a name, a number and a short note. More on what happens after you call.