House Cleaning in Santa Monica

If you live within a mile of the Santa Monica Pier — anywhere west of Lincoln, basically — you are dealing with two ongoing problems most LA homes never see. First, sand. It rides in on shoes, towels, dog paws, beach bags, and yoga mats and it works its way into rugs, between couch cushions, and into every grout line in the kitchen. A regular vacuum pass actually grinds sand deeper into rug pile and abrades floors. We use a beater-bar-off setting on dense rugs and a fine-bristle brush attachment on hard floors specifically because of this. It is a small thing that adds years to your floors.

Second, salt air. Marine moisture pulls into the home through any open window or door and lands on stainless steel appliances, hardware, hinges, fixtures, and electronics. Over months it dulls the finish on stainless and starts to pit cheaper hardware. We wipe stainless and high-touch hardware with a microfiber and a light film of mineral oil at a set cadence — usually once a month for most Santa Monica homes — and that single habit prevents almost all of the corrosion damage.

North of Montana — the streets between Montana Avenue and San Vicente, climbing up Adelaide and Georgina to the bluff — is mostly 2,500 to 4,500 sq ft single-family homes with kids, pets, and a lot of weekly cadence. We do a lot of school-day morning cleans here, 9am to noon, while parents are at drop-off and pickup. Floors and kitchen are the heaviest scopes; bedrooms are lighter touch.

Sunset Park — south of Pico, east of 11th — is a mix of original Spanish bungalows and aggressively renovated three-bedrooms. Square footage runs 1,400 to 2,800. The cleaning here is detailed but the lots are manageable. Most clients are bi-weekly with a deep clean every quarter.

Ocean Park, between Pico and the Venice border, is a mix of Craftsman bungalows, beach cottages, and newer multi-unit condo conversions. A lot of our work here is short-term rental turnover for the four-to-six-block strip closest to the beach. Turnovers are 90 minutes to two hours, lockbox access, full linen swap, restock of consumables, photo report after.

Santa Monica clients are some of the most product-conscious in LA, and rightly so — runoff from this city literally goes into Santa Monica Bay. Our default product line for Santa Monica homes is plant-based, biodegradable, fragrance-free where requested, and safe for kids, pets, and marine ecosystems. We do not charge a premium for this. We do not push you to upgrade to a 'green' tier. It is just how we clean here.

If you want to provide your own products — many clients with infants or pets with sensitivities prefer this — we will use yours and clean exactly as we would otherwise. The price does not change. We will also flag if a product you want us to use is going to damage a specific surface in your home, before we use it.

Bi-weekly recurring is where the value sits. A 1,200 to 1,800 sq ft two-bedroom condo or apartment runs $180 to $220. A three-bedroom 2,000 to 2,800 sq ft Craftsman runs $230 to $290. A four-bedroom 3,200 to 4,500 sq ft single-family north of Montana runs $310 to $420. Weekly is roughly 15 percent less per visit; monthly is 10 to 15 percent more per visit because the home gets dirtier between visits.

Short-term rental turnovers in Ocean Park and the Pico area run $110 to $160 depending on size and whether laundry is included. Move-in and move-out deep cleans, which are common given how much rental turnover there is in 90404 and 90405, run $320 to $520.