Cleaning Services in Taft, CA

Taft is the far west side of this market: about 8,500 people in the incorporated city at an elevation of 955 feet, thirty-two miles west-southwest of Bakersfield. ZIP 93268 covers roughly 17,000 people in total, because it takes in Ford City, South Taft and Taft Heights alongside the city itself -- so the ZIP is meaningfully bigger than the city, and we serve all of it.

This is oil country and nothing else, in the most literal sense. The town was named for President William Howard Taft in 1909 and it sits between two of the largest oil fields in the state: Midway-Sunset, which has produced nearly four billion barrels, and Buena Vista. Kern County was the most oil-productive county in the United States as of 2013 and this is where a great deal of that happened. The West Kern Oil Museum keeps the derricks, pumps and historical photographs; Taft College and Taft Union High School anchor the town; and every five years Oildorado runs, with welding contests, pageants and the local tradition of either growing facial hair or buying a Smooth Puss Badge. Carrizo Plain National Monument is about an hour further west.

For us, Taft matters for two practical reasons rather than for its size. It is the only west-side coverage in this market -- nothing else we serve is out on that road -- and along with Oildale it is the only oil-wage economy in the set, which puts household incomes here well above the farm towns on the SR-99 side. That is a real residential cleaning market, and nobody is servicing it from Bakersfield with any consistency.

The cleaning conditions are their own thing at 955 feet on the edge of the high desert: hot, dry and dusty, with fine grit working into window tracks, door thresholds, screens and return grilles, and oil-field traffic on the roads around town adding to it. Houses here are mostly older and modest, which means the work is in the grout, the vents, the tracks and the trim rather than out on open floor.

We cover Taft (93268) with house cleaning, deep cleaning, move-in and move-out cleaning, and commercial and janitorial work -- including the administrative and break-room side of oil-field operations, which is building cleaning rather than industrial services. Because it is a thirty-two mile run on a road nothing else we serve shares, we schedule Taft as a block and tell you which day we can hold rather than promising a slot we would have to move.