Cleaning homes in Beverly Hills
Scale is the first thing to plan for. A house in the Flats is typically 4,000 to 8,000 square feet on a wide, level lot, with formal rooms used a few times a year and family rooms used daily, and those two categories need completely different visits. Marble and limestone are everywhere, in entries, primary baths and kitchen surrounds, and none of it tolerates the acidic products that work fine on ceramic.
Above Sunset the streets narrow and coil. Benedict Canyon and Coldwater Canyon properties sit behind gates on drives too tight for two vehicles to pass, while Trousdale Estates homes are long, low and glazed along the view side, which makes glass a bigger share of the job than square footage suggests. Almost every property here has a service entrance, a staff hallway or a back stair. We ask which door you want used, and then that is the door we use.
What we walk into in Beverly Hills
The pre-war apartment buildings in 90211 and 90212 are the other half of the city: two and three bedroom units from the 1920s through the 1950s with parquet or oak floors, plaster mouldings, one small service elevator and a garage on a lift. Detached houses run larger than anything else on this side of Los Angeles, five to eight bathrooms is unremarkable, several finished in stone, and many include a staff room, a butler’s pantry and laundry on its own floor.