Los Angeles, California house cleaning
House cleaning in Los Angeles for apartments, condos and houses
House cleaning in Los Angeles has to work for a mix of homes. A one-bedroom off a courtyard walkway and a condo stacked over a shared parking garage set up a different visit from a Craftsman bungalow with a hedge between its porch and the sidewalk. The service runs for renters at the end of a lease, for owners who want the week back, and for landlords and property managers between tenants or short-term stays. What a visit actually touches inside the home overlaps a lot: the kitchen and the bathrooms carry most of it, with dusting and the floors on the same plan.
What needs cleaning right now
Keys going back to a landlord at the end of the lease
An empty rental on the last day is a different kind of visit from any other. Every shelf is open, every corner reachable. Cabinet interiors and appliance interiors open up for a move-out cleaning before the keys go back. Under California Civil Code 1950.5, a security deposit may go toward the cleaning needed on move-out to put the unit back at its starting level of cleanliness.
Boxes arriving at a new place
The condo looks ready in the listing photos. Then you pull open the first cabinet and find crumbs still on the second shelf. A cleaning before the furniture lands resets cabinet interiors, the bathrooms and the floors while the rooms are bare. That first clean in a new unit walks each room.
A shower door that never comes clear
Hardness varies across the city by water source, and USGS describes the spots or film hard water leaves on glassware as unsightly but not dangerous. A deep clean for the buildup covers soap scum and mineral spots on glass.
Weekends that keep going to errands before the cleaning gets done
By Sunday evening the vet took the morning, laundry is half folded, and friends are flying in tomorrow. A weekly or every-other-week visit keeps the kitchen, the bathrooms and the floors from drifting through weeks like that.
Guests checking in to a short-term rental
Between one guest leaving and the next entry code opening the door, a rental has to read as untouched. Turnovers between guests cover the kitchen reset, the bath glass and the surfaces touched during a stay.
Fine dust after a remodel
Drywall and sanding dust works its way into rooms where the trades never set foot. Dust after a remodel is its own visit, with its own page.
Renters, apartments and hard water
Nearly two in three Los Angeles households rent. The pages for move-out cleaning and cleaning in apartments and condos carry as much weight here as the one for houses. A landlord between tenants and a renter at the end of a lease are calling about the same empty unit.
Nearly half of the city's housing units sit in buildings of five or more units. Building access is what the caller tells us about: a gate with its code, an exterior stair up to the walkway, a service elevator with a reservation window, a front desk and a visitor sheet. We work from whatever arrangement you tell us about the building.
Then there is the water. Hardness varies across the city by water source. LADWP's 2025 tests put total hardness at an average of 103 milligrams per liter in Aqueduct water, about 115 in its well water, and 234 to 236 in water from the Metropolitan Water District's Weymouth and Diemer plants, with 140 from its Jensen plant. Anything above 180 mg/L sits in the very hard band. The guide on hard water spots on glass covers what shows up on a shower door.
House cleaning services, by the job
Each kind of cleaning has its own page. The groups that follow sort them by the shape of the job, with a link to each; for one combined list, every kind of cleaning we do sits on the services page.
Regular and one-time cleaning
Bigger cleans
Moves and rentals
How a call starts the visit
- You call (310) 945-2735 and tell us about the place. Rooms, bathrooms, pets, parking, and how we get into the building.
- You tell us how to get in: a gate code, an exterior stair up to a walkway, an elevator reservation, a front desk with a visitor sheet, or a key or lockbox.
- The price for the visit is settled with you from there, and the cleaning does not start before you say go.
- The cleaning, then a last look through the rooms together if you are home.
Los Angeles homes, from bungalow courts to towers
The housing stock covers more than a century, with a median built year of 1965. The oldest Craftsman houses carry wide overhanging eaves, low-pitched roofs, exposed rafter tails and front porches, mostly in the city's earliest-built neighborhoods. Bungalow courts are a multi-family type found throughout Los Angeles, particularly in areas that were originally developed in the first two decades of the 20th century, most commonly in Craftsman and Spanish Colonial Revival styles. SurveyLA counts the dingbat, the stucco box apartment of 1954 to 1968, as part of postwar Los Angeles; it was once common across parts of the city. About 36 percent of all housing units are detached houses, and buildings of five or more units account for close to another half.
The housing mix behind the door changes a lot about how a visit sets up.
What shifts between buildings is parking, stairs and elevators, which the caller walks through on the phone. The counters and the shower stay the same job. The pages for the apartment visit and a regular maid service cover what each building adds.
What the City says about mop water and old cleaners
City code bars discharging anything but stormwater to the storm drain system unless a permit or a listed exemption allows it, and the same code counts streets, gutters, conduits, channels and watercourses as part of that system.
Old cleaners from under the sink do not come with us. LA Sanitation says household hazardous waste, including batteries, paint, light bulbs, electronics and chemicals, has to go to a S.A.F.E. Center rather than the black bin, and that oversized items such as furniture, mattresses and tires can go on a free curbside bulky item pickup instead. The resident is the one to make either trip.
Food scraps and paper towels have a home in the green bin. Coffee filters, napkins, paper towels and pizza boxes count as food-soiled paper the green bin takes. In buildings the City serves, each unit gets one 60-gallon black bin and one 90-gallon blue bin, and the property gets one 90-gallon green bin shared by all units; buildings served by a recycLA service provider work out bin sizes and quantities with the owner or manager.
House cleaning in Los Angeles: your questions
What does house cleaning cost in Los Angeles, and why not a price over the phone?
The price depends on the home. Rooms and bathrooms sit at the baseline. How long since the home had a thorough clean sits on top of that. Pets, the building and whether this visit is a one-off or the start of a schedule move the number up or down. The cleaning cost guide walks each piece.
Do you charge by the hour?
The cost guide walks what moves the number up or down for a given home.
What does a standard house cleaning include?
The kitchen and the bathrooms draw the biggest share of a visit. High dusting is done from the floor; anything out of reach that way stays where it is. Counters, the sink, the stovetop and appliance fronts go in the kitchen row. Shower or tub, toilet, vanity and mirror go in the bathroom row. Floors are vacuumed and mopped on the way out. Beds get made on request. What a standard visit covers runs the full room-by-room list.
Should the first visit be a deep clean?
Not always. A lived-in home where only the surfaces drift between visits reads as a standard clean. A home that has gone quiet, or one about to start a schedule, may read as a deep clean first.
Do I need to be home, and what about keys, gate codes or a front desk?
How we get through the building and the door is settled on the call: a gate code, a key or a lockbox, an exterior stair, an elevator with a reservation window, a front desk and a visitor sheet. We work from whatever arrangement you tell us about the building. What happens after you call walks through the setup.
Do you clean apartments and condos as well as houses?
Yes, as much as houses. A courtyard walk-up, a mid-rise, a tower, a detached house with a side driveway. The page for apartments and condos covers what the building adds to the day.
Can you work around pets?
Yes. On the call we go over the animal: whether they stay in one room during the visit and what shampoo or detergent the pet needs. Products are gone over on the same call.
Reaching us about a cleaning
(310) 945-2735 is the number for house cleaning in Los Angeles. Have the rooms, the bathrooms, when the home was last thoroughly cleaned, the building and how we get in, pets, and anything you want kept exactly as it is on hand before you dial. The rest is what you tell us on the call. The callback form below the number is the other way through; it takes a name, a number and a short note.