Playa Vista, from a cleaner's point of view
This is the newest housing anywhere near the coast here by a wide margin, and it behaves differently for it. Floors are engineered wood or large-format tile, walls are drywall with square corners, kitchens have full-height cabinets and stone counters, and the bathrooms have glass enclosures that show hard water inside a fortnight. There is none of the accumulated grime an eighty-year-old bungalow carries. The work is keeping new finishes looking new.
The complication is the buildings themselves. Phase One on the older streets and Phase Two around Runway are both organised into associations, each with its own line on vendor registration, service elevator booking and where a vehicle may stop to unload. Getting a crew up to a fourth-floor flat is a scheduling problem before it is a cleaning problem, and we treat it that way.
The building stock here
Units run small to mid-sized, roughly 800 to 1,900 square feet, usually laid out on one level with a balcony or a narrow terrace. Stairs show up in the townhomes, generally two flights, and in the Phase One houses. Almost everything has an underground garage behind a controlled gate, laundry inside the unit, and a shared corridor with a door that needs a fob. Hard water is the standing problem: shower glass, chrome fittings and stainless all spot fast.