House Cleaning in Sacramento

Apex Home Point is a locally owned cleaning company with its office at 2020 Hurley Way Unit 150, Sacramento, CA 95825. The house cleaners who come to your home are our own background-checked crew, not a franchise or a booking app, and they bring their own supplies and equipment.

• Book one time, weekly, every other week or monthly.
• Your price shows before you book, based on bedrooms and bathrooms.
• Recurring customers get the same crew whenever possible, with your notes on file.
• Tell us within 24 hours if something was missed and we come back to re-clean it free.

If you’re comparing maid services in Sacramento, ask each one three things: is the price published, who actually does the cleaning, and what happens if something gets missed. Our answers are on this page.

For what a month of cleaning costs and how to compare quotes, see our house cleaning cost guide.

Every house cleaning in Sacramento follows the same written checklist, so you know exactly what gets done:

Most homes only need a standard clean. Book a deep clean if the home hasn’t been professionally cleaned in a few months, and a move-out clean when the home is empty and a landlord or buyer will inspect it.

• Busy families who want the house clean without spending weekends on it
• Professionals and couples who want a reliable every-other-week clean
• Seniors who want help with floors, bathrooms and kitchens
• Anyone preparing for guests or a party

Our prices are published so you can compare before you call. These are the things that can move a price up or down:

• Home size (bedrooms and bathrooms)
• Condition: a home that hasn’t been cleaned in months may need a deep clean first
• Pets (hair adds time)
• Add-ons like inside the oven or fridge
• How often you book: regular visits stay quick

You always see your price before booking, and anything unusual is confirmed with you before work starts. Text a photo to (916) 465-1850 if you’re not sure.

1. 1Pick up clutter, toys and clothes so we can clean surfaces, not around piles
2. 2Leave clean linens out if you want beds made
3. 3Tell us about pets, alarms, parking and how to get in
4. 4Point out priority rooms when you book

Much of our work in Sacramento is helping people at the moments a home changes hands: tenants moving out, owners getting a rental ready for the next tenant, sellers preparing for listing photos, and new owners or renters moving in. We clean houses, apartments, condos and offices: empty or furnished.

One company for the clean-out and the clean means one appointment, one crew and one invoice. Move-out cleaning starts at $400; junk removal at $75.

The Sacramento Valley has a few cleaning seasons of its own, and Sacramento homes feel all of them:

• Spring pollen settles on sills, screens and patio furniture: a good time for a deep clean and window cleaning.
• Long, dry summers bring fine dust indoors; vents, ceiling fans and baseboards collect it fastest.
• Wildfire smoke in late summer and fall leaves residue on surfaces and windows; wipe-downs and HVAC filter changes help.
• Winter rain tracks mud into entryways and onto floors, so regular floor care matters more.

Many customers book a deep clean in spring or fall and keep the home maintained with regular cleaning in between.

A good house clean follows an order, and the order is most of the difference between a clean that looks right and one that only looks busy. Dust falls, water drips and crumbs travel, so the work goes from high to low and from dry to wet.

1. 1Dry dusting first, from the top down: ceiling fan edges, the tops of frames and shelves, lamps, then furniture. Anything knocked loose lands on surfaces that haven’t been wiped yet.
2. 2Kitchens and bathrooms next, because they take the longest and need cleaners time to sit. Sprayed on first, they work on grease and soap film while the rest of the room gets done.
3. 3Surfaces wiped and dried, sinks and fixtures polished last so they don’t pick up splashes.
4. 4Floors at the very end, vacuumed before they’re mopped, working toward the door so nobody walks across a wet floor.
5. 5A last walk-through against the checklist before the crew leaves.

If you’ve ever watched a floor get mopped and then dusted onto, you know why this matters. It’s also why we work from a written checklist instead of memory: the same order every visit, in every home.

There’s no right answer for everyone, but there is a right answer for most households. Start from how fast your home gets dirty, not from what sounds like a reasonable budget.

Recurring visits cost the same per visit as a one-time standard clean: $200 for a 1-bedroom up to $350 for 4 bedrooms. If the home hasn’t been cleaned professionally in a few months, the first visit should be a deep clean (from $300), or the regular visits will spend their time catching up.

Every region has its own kind of dirt. Here, four things do most of the damage between cleans:

• Dust. Long dry summers mean fine dust comes in on shoes, through screens and through the HVAC system. It shows first on dark furniture, ceiling fans and the tops of door frames.
• Pollen. Spring pollen collects on window sills, screens and patio furniture, and gets tracked onto floors. Damp-wiping sills and mopping hard floors removes it; dry dusting mostly moves it around.
• Wildfire smoke. Smoke days leave a gray film on surfaces and windows. Public health guidance is to damp-wipe instead of dry-dusting and to vacuum only with a HEPA-filter vacuum, so fine particles are trapped instead of blown back into the air.
• Hard water. Mineral spots on shower glass, faucets and around drains come back quickly. They wipe off easily when they’re fresh and take real scrubbing once they’ve built up for months, which is one more reason regular visits stay cheaper than catching up.

Source: US EPA: Create a clean room to protect indoor air quality during a wildfire

Source: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health: 3 ways to reduce risk from wildfire smoke at home

If your home has had a stretch of smoke days, mention it when you book, and change your HVAC filter the same week so the system doesn’t blow the dust back out.

Most cleaning damage comes from the right effort with the wrong product. A few surfaces in Sacramento-area homes need care:

When you book, tell us about natural stone, unsealed wood or anything you’ve been told to treat carefully. It goes on the notes for your home, so every visit handles it the same way.

Homes with kids and pets aren’t harder to clean, they just get dirty in more places at once. A few things make each visit go further:

• Pets add hair everywhere fabric is, so tell us about them when you book (+$15). Secure pets in one room during the clean, both for their comfort and so doors can stay open.
• Pick up toys and clothes the night before. We clean around belongings, so the more floor and counter we can reach, the more of the visit goes to cleaning instead of moving things.
• Point out allergy priorities: bedding left out for making beds, upholstered furniture to vacuum, or rooms where someone with asthma sleeps.
• If you’d rather we avoid a product near kids or pets, leave yours out and tell us. We’ll use it.

For homes with heavy pet hair or a lot of foot traffic, weekly visits usually cost less in the long run than letting it go two weeks and booking a deep clean to catch up.

A professional clean resets the house. What happens between visits decides how long the reset lasts. You don’t need a cleaning schedule, just a few habits:

• Wipe the kitchen counters and stovetop after dinner, while spills are fresh.
• Squeegee or towel the shower glass after the last shower of the day. It’s the single best way to stop hard-water spots.
• Run the dishwasher at night and empty it in the morning, so dishes never stack in the sink.
• Keep a basket by the stairs for things that belong upstairs.
• Shake out entry mats once a week; most of the dirt in a home comes in on shoes.

None of this replaces the deep work: baseboards, bathrooms, floors. That’s what the visit is for.

Close to half of Sacramento households rent their home. Census figures put the city’s owner-occupied rate at about 51.5%, so a regular cleaning service is as much a renter’s question as a homeowner’s.

Source: US Census Bureau QuickFacts: Sacramento city, California (owner-occupied housing unit rate, 2019–2023)

For renters, regular cleaning has a second payoff: the home never builds up the oven grease, bathroom scale and dusty blinds that turn into deposit deductions at move-out. When it is time to move, a move-out clean (from $400) handles the inside of the oven, fridge and cabinets that a regular clean doesn’t.

Check your lease too. Some leases ask tenants to keep the home in a certain condition or allow periodic inspections, and a regular clean makes those visits a non-event.

Sacramento is California’s capital and the center of a region of more than two million people. Its neighborhoods range from historic homes in Land Park, Curtis Park and East Sacramento to apartments and condos in Midtown and Downtown and newer subdivisions in Natomas and South Sacramento.

Our team is based in the Arden-Arcade area at 2020 Hurley Way, so most Sacramento addresses are a short drive away, and same-day or next-day appointments are often open.

We serve every part of Sacramento, including Downtown, Midtown, East Sacramento, Land Park, Curtis Park, Oak Park, Pocket/Greenhaven, Natomas, South Sacramento, North Sacramento, Tahoe Park, River Park.