Cleaning Services in Wasco, CA

Wasco is the fourth-largest city in Kern County -- about 27,000 people across 9.39 compact square miles, twenty-four miles northwest of Bakersfield at an elevation of 312 feet, up about six percent on 2010. It sits on the same west-side SR-99 run as Shafter and Delano, which means it adds essentially no new route for us and gets served on the same day rather than as a special trip.

Wasco has had three economies in a century and all three are still visible. It is the Rose Capital: this town grew fifty-five percent of America's roses in 2007, and although two major nurseries closed in 2010 and output fell to roughly forty percent of the domestic supply, the nursery ground is still here and the Festival of Roses still runs every year. Oil came before and stayed -- the Wasco Oil Field was discovered in April 1938 and the larger Semitropic field sits nearby. And Wasco State Prison is a large and stable employer that runs around the clock. Amtrak's Gold Runner still stops at Wasco station, though the service's future is uncertain now that California High-Speed Rail is bypassing the city.

For a household here, the cleaning problem is the one the whole west side shares and it is not subtle. Flat, hot, compact town; open agricultural ground on every side; about six and a third inches of rain a year across this part of the county; and a valley that ranks first in the nation for year-round particle pollution. Windows stay shut through the summer, air handlers run, and fine dust ends up in returns, on blinds, in window tracks and along baseboards rather than in the middle of the floor. Then tule fog arrives in November and everything goes damp for four months, which is when grout and tracks stop being a dusting problem and start being a scrubbing one.

We cover Wasco (93280) with house cleaning on a weekly, biweekly or monthly schedule, one-time deep cleans, move-in and move-out cleaning, and commercial and janitorial work. About eighty-five percent of Wasco residents are Hispanic, so quotes, scheduling and every page on this site work in Spanish.