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Half a mile of private lane, a gate with a keypad, and no signal to call from is a normal arrival out here. Give us the directions your delivery drivers get and the crew finds you first time.
Castro Valley never incorporated, and the map shows it: conventional tract streets run straight into canyon roads where the nearest neighbor sits a quarter mile of gravel away.
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Castro Valley, California is covered by MaidSimple for residential cleaning and maid service. Cleaners are employees rather than gig contractors, screened and insured, and every visit turns up fully equipped. Lots run bigger here than in the neighboring cities, and the stock spans 1950s ranch homes on quarter-acre parcels, the 1990s subdivisions on the eastern hillsides, and older properties strung along the canyon roads. Expect $335 upward for a 3 bed / 2 bath home, priced flat. Two ZIPs apply here, 94546 and 94552.
What separates this place from San Lorenzo or Hayward is space. Lots are wider, setbacks deeper, and a fair number of properties still carry the shed, the workshop, the fruit trees and the gravel turnaround that came with a semi-rural parcel. It shows up indoors too: bigger utility rooms, mud entries that genuinely get muddy, and more square footage of hard floor per bedroom than the surrounding towns carry.
Access is the other difference. Palomares Canyon Road, Cull Canyon and the upper end of Crow Canyon Road are single-lane in places, unlit, and slow in rain. We book those as one long anchored stop rather than squeezing them between two others, and we ask about the last hundred yards, the gate, the cattle grid, the unpaved drive, before the first visit instead of finding out in the dark.
The core is 1950s and 60s ranch housing, 1,400 to 2,000 square feet, one level, on parcels that dwarf the tract lots downhill. Newer subdivisions on the eastern side go two-story with three-car garages and vaulted ceilings. Out along the canyon roads the properties are older, more individual, and frequently on well water, which means visible iron and mineral staining in sinks, tubs and bowls that a standard bathroom spray will not shift.
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| Castro Valley home | Standard clean | Every 2 weeks | Deep clean | Move in / out |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 bed / 1 bath cottage or in-law unitabout 1.5 hrs on site | $270 | $250per visit | $450 | $440 |
| 3 bed / 2 bath ranch home on a larger lotabout 1.75 hrs on site | $335 | $315per visit | $580 | $560 |
| 4 bed / 2.5 bath Five Canyons two-storyabout 2 hrs on site | $385 | $360per visit | $655 | $635 |
| 5 bed / 3 bath canyon-road propertyabout 2.5 hrs on site | $435 | $405per visit | $745 | $730 |
Flat prices for a lived-in 3 bed / 2 bath home, supplies and equipment included. A home that is kept up prices lower, and a weekly plan is a smaller job so it prices lower again. You never pick a plan — tick the jobs you want in the form above and it works out which one you are on, along with your exact number, in about a minute.
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Half a mile of private lane, a gate with a keypad, and no signal to call from is a normal arrival out here. Give us the directions your delivery drivers get and the crew finds you first time.
Properties beyond the mains show iron and mineral staining that ordinary cleaner will not lift. We carry a separate mineral treatment for those homes rather than scrubbing away at porcelain that is not actually dirty.
Gravel drives, decks and yard work put far more grit indoors than a sidewalk suburb generates. Entry mats, hard-floor edges and the strip inside every exterior door get worked properly, since that is where it collects.
Every Castro Valley address in 94546 and 94552.
Same crews, same standard. Pick the one that fits your week.
The whole-home refresh most Castro Valley 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 lower price per visit.
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, and it helps to tell us the details when you book. Those addresses take longer to reach, usually have a gate or a shared lane, and lose daylight early in winter. We treat them as a single anchored appointment for the day so the crew is not working against a clock set by somebody else on the schedule.
Not because of the address, because of the size. A quote is built from bedrooms, bathrooms and the type of clean, and the houses in this valley simply tend to have more of all three. A modest 1950s ranch off Redwood Road prices much the same as a modest ranch anywhere else in the East Bay.
Yes, and it is a common request given the parcel sizes here. Treat it as its own small home in the quote and add its bedroom and bathroom count separately, because the crew still has to reset a full kitchen and bathroom inside it. If it is let out, we can turn it over between tenants too.
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