Aptos is two places at once: Seacliff and Rio del Mar down at the water, and the redwood hills above Soquel Drive. The cleaning those two need has almost nothing in common.
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MaidSimple is a residential cleaning company serving Aptos, California. Crews are W-2 employees with background checks and full insurance behind them, and they carry their own equipment. Housing spans 1920s beach bungalows near the Esplanade, 1970s and 1980s tract homes through mid-Aptos, and large newer houses up in the hills, so square footage varies more than the county average. A 4 bed / 3 bath home is $335 flat. The service ZIP is 95003.
Drop down to the Rio del Mar Esplanade and the job is a coastal one: sand tracked up from the beach into the entry and the stairs, salt haze on every pane facing the water, and a fair number of houses that sit empty half the month because their owners live over the hill. Second homes need a different service pattern, a clean before arrival and a clean after departure, with someone checking that nothing has been left damp.
Climb Trout Gulch or head into the Aptos Hills and it changes completely. Redwood canopy, needle litter, a driveway that turns to mud in February, and homes that were built out over decades rather than in one subdivision push. Nisene Marks is right there, and everything that falls off those trees ends up on a deck and then on a floor. Seascape and Aptos Village sit between the two extremes, and that is where most of the standing biweekly work is.
Nothing here is typical, which is the point. Seacliff holds compact 1920s and 1930s beach houses on narrow lots, often three levels with an outside stair. Mid-Aptos runs 1,600 to 2,200 square foot ranch and split-level tract homes from the 1970s. Above them, hill properties reach 3,000 square feet and up, on acreage, with wood-clad interiors, wood stoves and long driveways. Seascape adds condo and townhome clusters with HOAs. Quoting from square footage alone would be wrong in every one of those.
No estimates and no ranges. This is what the quote form will tell you, worked out the same way.
| Aptos home | Standard clean | Every 2 weeks | Deep clean | Move in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 bed / 2 bath Seascape condoabout 1.5 hrs on site | $240 | $215per visit | $370 | $420 |
| 3 bed / 2 bath Rio del Mar homeabout 1.75 hrs on site | $265 | $240per visit | $415 | $465 |
| 4 bed / 3 bath Seacliff houseabout 2.25 hrs on site | $335 | $300per visit | $515 | $585 |
| 5 bed / 3.5 bath Aptos Hills propertyabout 2.5 hrs on site | $375 | $340per visit | $585 | $660 |
Flat prices for a lived-in home, supplies and equipment included. A tidier home prices lower and a weekly plan saves 15%; the form above works out your exact number in about a minute. Prices are identical everywhere we work — your ZIP code does not change the number.
Details a crew only knows once they have worked a neighbourhood properly.
A good share of Rio del Mar and Seacliff addresses are weekend or rental properties. Those get an arrival clean and a departure clean rather than a fortnightly rhythm, and we keep keys or codes on file so nobody drives over the hill to open a door.
Under canopy the litter never stops. Needles, bark scale and fine brown dust come in on shoes and pets and settle into rugs, sills and the bottom of every closet. Hill visits start with dry work and finish wet, in that order, always.
The stair from the sand to the house is where it all collects. Treads, landings, mats and the shower base take the brunt. On Esplanade and Seacliff addresses we do those zones first and again at the end of the visit.
Every Aptos address in 95003.
Same crews, same standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Aptos homes book: kitchens, bathrooms, floors, dusting and tidying.
How it works →Baseboards, inside appliances, grout and vents — the detail work that resets a home.
How it works →Empty-home cleaning judged against a landlord’s checklist, for deposits and handovers.
How it works →Weekly, bi-weekly or monthly visits from the same team, at a standing discount.
How it works →Most cleaning companies send whoever is available that day. Our cleaners are our own trained, vetted, W-2 employees — which costs us more in payroll tax, workers’ comp and training, and is exactly why the same people come back to your home and the standard holds.
If anything’s not right, let us know within 24 hours and we’ll come back and re-clean it — completely free. No forms, no fuss, no fine print.
The general FAQ covers access, supplies, rescheduling and the guarantee.
Yes, including addresses on gravel and single-lane roads. Those properties tend to be larger with more hard flooring and more exterior debris coming in, so the quote reflects real room count rather than a flat hillside surcharge. If your driveway is steep or gates at the bottom, leave the details in the booking notes.
That is one of the more common bookings here. Give us the arrival date and we schedule the visit the day before, airing the house, clearing any damp smell, wiping the salt haze off the sliders and making beds if linens are out. A departure clean the following Monday can be set up as a pair.
Yes, and usually lower for the same bed and bath count. Condos are single-level in most cases with no deck, stair or entry court to work, while a Seacliff house often stacks three floors with an outdoor stair. Enter the actual rooms in the quote form and the difference shows up automatically.
Aptos sits inside our Santa Cruz & the Coast coverage.
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