Berkeley homes don’t all clean the same way. A 1920s bungalow off a narrow street, a two-bedroom apartment over a garage, a family place with a dog and a busy week — they need different amounts of time, and they should be priced that way. Sygora is a small home cleaning and maid service working in Berkeley, Oakland, and San Francisco, with one dedicated cleaner assigned to you. Here’s what we cover, what it costs to start, and how to get a firm number.
House cleaning in Berkeley starts at $179 for a single clean. No plan, no pack, nothing to sign.
It takes about two minutes.
Photo — a Berkeley brown-shingle living room in warm natural daylight, eye-level
The same person, visit after visit. They learn your home, so the second clean goes faster than the first.
General liability insurance appropriate to a residential cleaning business. Sygora LLC, a California company.
If anything’s not right, tell us within 24 hours and we’ll re-clean the affected areas. No forms, no argument.
Three cities, and that’s the whole map.
We serve Berkeley ZIP codes 94702 through 94710, and we work in San Francisco, Oakland & Berkeley — three cities, and that’s the whole map. We keep it that way on purpose, so we’re never far when you need us and the schedule doesn’t fall apart over a long drive.
If your address sits outside those three cities, we can’t book it. Better to tell you that in ten seconds than to waste your afternoon.
Berkeley is known for its Brown Shingle, First Bay Tradition, and Arts and Crafts homes. In an individual house, that can mean more woodwork, built-ins, and window detail than the square footage suggests — and finishes you can’t always identify at a glance. Our answer is the careful one: inspect first, use gentle methods on old wood, and give the detail work the time it actually takes rather than spraying and wiping past it.
Photo — original woodwork and built-ins in a Berkeley brown shingle
Every Sygora house cleaning starts with our Essential tier — the standard clean, complete in itself. It’s the front door to everything else, not a stripped-down version of something better.
Counters, backsplash, and sink. Appliance exteriors and the stovetop and range exterior. Cabinet and drawer faces wiped down. Floors swept and mopped. Trash taken out.
Toilet cleaned and sanitized — bowl, seat, and exterior. Shower, tub, and the surrounding tile. Sink, vanity, counters, and mirror. Floors and trash.
Dusting of reachable surfaces. Vacuuming carpets and rugs in place. Sweeping and mopping hard floors. General tidying. Trash and recycling out to your designated bin.
“Reachable” means from the floor or a two-step stool. Anything higher than that we leave alone — nobody should be on a ladder in your home.
Here’s the part worth reading twice. Essential does not include bed-making, linen changes, inside appliances, interior windows, or baseboards. Those live in our Complete and Signature tiers, or you can add them to any clean. We’d rather you know that now than find out on the day.
We also don’t offer same-day or rush service. If that’s what you need, another company is the right call.
Ready for a number? It takes about two minutes.
Every one of these is available at a Berkeley address.
The standard clean above, in three tiers. Essential covers the whole home. Complete adds interior windows, appliance fronts, cabinet detailing, light fixtures, blinds, inside the microwave, and bed-making with fresh linens. Signature adds specialty detailing, range hood degreasing, priority scheduling, a walkthrough before we start, and two eligible add-ons at no charge.
A heavier first visit for a home that hasn’t had a professional clean in a while. Fixed scope, no tier to pick. Deep cleaning starts at $293 in Berkeley.
For the empty-home clean at the end of a lease or the start of one. Starts at $299 — put your Berkeley address into the quote tool and you’ll see your own number.
Standalone carpet work with steam and hot-water extraction, booked on its own, minimum $149. We also clean upholstery on its own, minimum $179.
Different service, different reader. If you host a Berkeley rental rather than live in it, short-term rental turnover cleaning is the page you want.
A lot of Berkeley is apartments, in-law units, and small flats, and those are perfectly normal jobs for us. A one-bedroom is our most common booking.
$179 is our booking minimum, so a studio or a small one-bedroom lands at the minimum rather than below it. If your place is genuinely small, the good news is the visit is short and the price is the floor — it won’t climb.
That minimum is also why some very small single tasks are better bundled. If you’re after just a rug or just a sofa, tell us at booking and we’ll build the visit around it.
House cleaning starts at $179 — a single clean, bought once, with no plan and no commitment behind it.
The pet surcharge covers the extra hair and dander workload, not pet waste. Berkeley and Oakland pricing runs about 10% below San Francisco on services where a city figure exists.
A single clean, bought once. Also our booking minimum.
Berkeley figure. Fixed scope, no tier to pick.
$30 minimum per add-on.
Add-ons are priced flat, with a $30 minimum per add-on. They fall into a few groups: kitchen appliances, windows and surfaces, laundry and organizing, eco-friendly products, and carpet, rug, or upholstery work. You pick them at booking and see the price before you pay anything.
A 30% deposit, $50 minimum, is taken at checkout. The balance is due on completion, the same day, by whatever method you choose — we never auto-charge the card on file for the service itself. Cancel at least 7 days before your clean and your deposit is refunded in full; with less notice, it’s applied toward the cancellation fee. Fees scale as notice shortens, and the cancellation policy lays it out plainly.
The quote tool asks about your home and returns a real price, not a range. Full detail on every service lives on the pricing page.
Photo — the same cleaner arriving at a Berkeley flat, eye-level, daylight
You get one dedicated cleaner — the same person, visit after visit. They learn your home, which means the second clean goes faster than the first and you stop having to explain the thing about the guest bathroom door. Sometimes a second person comes along to shorten a long job. Team size changes how long it takes, never what gets cleaned.
You don’t need a plan. A one-time clean is the same scope and the same prices as anything else, with no commitment and no plan required. Book it once and that’s the whole relationship, if that’s what you want.
If you’d rather not think about it again, recurring plans run weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly and reduce the base rate. Recurring rates are commitment-based; see the Cancellation Policy. You get two free skips per rolling six months, because travel and busy weeks happen.
If anything’s not right, tell us within 24 hours and we’ll re-clean the affected areas free. No forms, no argument.
General liability insurance appropriate to a residential cleaning business.
Sygora LLC is a California limited liability company.
Tell us within 24 hours and we re-clean the affected areas free.
One dedicated cleaner, visit after visit.
Some rooms we skip unless you ask for them: home offices with visible documents or electronics, nurseries, pet sleeping and crate areas, rooms with valuables in sight, and any locked room. That’s the default, not a request you have to make. Check the box at booking if you want them included. Your home, your call.
Pets are welcome — mention them at booking and your cleaner works around them safely, keeping doors and gates the way you left them. Sensitive to scents? Say so when you book and we’ll respect your fragrance preferences. And if the job turns out bigger than described, we talk to you first — added time or scope is always confirmed with you before it costs anything more.
Tell us about your home and you’ll have a price in a couple of minutes. Clean home, serene mind.
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We cover Berkeley ZIP codes 94702 through 94710 — our full service area is San Francisco, Oakland & Berkeley. Addresses outside those three cities can’t be booked. If you’re near the edge of the map, put your ZIP into the quote tool and it’ll tell you straight away.
Kitchen: counters, backsplash, sink, appliance exteriors, stovetop exterior, cabinet faces, floors swept and mopped, trash out. Bathrooms: toilet cleaned and sanitized, shower, tub and tile, sink, vanity, counters, mirror, floors, trash. All rooms: dusting of reachable surfaces, vacuuming carpets and rugs in place, sweeping and mopping hard floors, general tidying, and trash and recycling to your bin. “Reachable” means from the floor or a two-step stool. Bed-making, linen changes, inside appliances, interior windows, and baseboards are not in the entry tier — they’re higher-tier scope or paid add-ons.
House cleaning starts at $179 for one clean, bought once, with no plan behind it. The number moves with the size of your home, how many bathrooms it has, how long it’s been since the last professional clean, the tier you pick, and whether you have pets. The quote tool gives you a real price, not a range.
Yes. You have one dedicated cleaner, and that’s who comes back. If a job is long, a second person may join to finish sooner. That changes the duration, never the scope.
No. A one-time clean is available at the same scope and the same prices, with no commitment and no plan required. Recurring plans exist and reduce the base rate if you want them. Recurring rates are commitment-based; see the Cancellation Policy.
Yes — all products and equipment come with us. If you’d prefer eco-friendly products, that’s available as a paid add-on at booking.
If anything’s not right, tell us within 24 hours and we’ll re-clean the affected areas free.
Sygora maintains general liability insurance appropriate to a residential cleaning business, and we’re bonded.
More answers on the FAQ page.
