Apartment Cleaning in Los Angeles

What apartment cleaning covers

• Every room in the unit, down to a studio's single space
• Bathrooms done in full, tub or shower, mirror and fixtures
• Floors in one pass, with no stairs to carry equipment up
• The sliding door glass and the balcony floor, where there is one
• The in-unit washer and dryer wiped down on the outside
• Trash carried out to the building chute or the dumpster

What is usually not included

• Shared parts of the building: hallway, lobby, laundry room, gym
• Your storage locker, your parking stall, anything outside the door
• Washing windows from the outside on any floor above the ground floor

When to book apartment cleaning

Book this for a rental or a condo. If you are moving out and want the deposit back, ask for a move out clean instead, which is a different job.

How long it takes

A studio or a one-bedroom goes quickly compared with a house, and a two-bedroom with two bathrooms comes closer to a small one. Getting in counts too: a gate, a front desk, an elevator and parking all take time before the work starts.

What makes the price go up

• No parking for the cleaner, or a paid garage with no visitor pass
• A walk-up with no elevator, or a service elevator that has to be booked
• A building that only allows this kind of work during set hours
• No trash chute on the floor, so every bag goes down to the dumpster outside

What to ask before you book

• How do you get into the building, and do you need a code or a pass?
• My building has quiet hours. Can you work inside them?
• Do you do the balcony and the sliding door, or just the inside?

What apartment cleaning looks like in Los Angeles

Los Angeles is not one place. A Spanish bungalow on a flat street, a hillside house that is mostly glass and stairs, an apartment over a garage in between. Neighborhoods sit far apart with freeway between them. Traffic keeps a fine road grit in the air, and when there is a fire in the hills, ash settles on patios, sills and outdoor furniture.

Two things change here. Distance: a job across town is a different day than one two streets over, so the schedule is built around driving. And the housing does not repeat from one street to the next, so the work shifts from hardwood floors in a bungalow to stairs and floor-to-ceiling glass on a hillside.