House Cleaning & Maid Service in Cambridge, MA
Recurring cleaning for apartments, condos and houses across Cambridge, Somerville and Medford, on a schedule you set.
42-Point Clean Checklist·Free Re-Clean in 24h·No Contracts
We reply within 30 minutes, Mon-Sat 7am-7pm
The Same Kitchen, One Clean Apart
Drag the handle to see what our crew leaves behind.
What Is Included
Three Steps to a Clean Home
- 1
Send us the address and we quote you within 30 minutes.
- 2
Pick the day and the time that suit you.
- 3
We clean to the 42-point checklist -- and re-clean free if you are not happy.
Not satisfied? We come back and reclean for free within 24 hours.
Our detailed checklist ensures nothing gets missed.
The price we confirm before we start is the price you pay.
Ask in English or Spanish -- you get the same answer either way.
Safe for your family, pets, and the environment.
All cleaning supplies and equipment included. You provide nothing.
Where We Provide This Service
Kiwi Cleaning provides recurring house cleaning across three cities north of the Charles: Cambridge at the center, Somerville along its northern edge, and Medford one town beyond. The service is built around consistency -- a written 42-point checklist so the work does not drift from visit to visit, a schedule you choose, and a free re-clean within 24 hours if a job is not right. The cleaners who work these squares are already here; your recurring slot is part of a local route, not the far end of somebody's drive.
How Our Pricing Works
Every home is different. So is every quote.
Fixed upfront pricing — no surprises.
What shapes your price
- Home size (bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage)
- Service type (house cleaning, deep, move-out, Airbnb turnover, commercial)
- Condition and special requests (pets, post-construction, etc.)
- Frequency (weekly, biweekly, monthly, one-time)
- Where you are in Greater Boston
How you get a number
- Request a free quote online, by call, or by text. We respond within 30 minutes during business hours.
- We confirm the details that matter — no guessing, no hidden fees after the clean.
- Recurring clients get discounted rates vs. one-time visits.
Track everything in your portal
- Create an account when you request your quote.
- Approve the quote, schedule the clean, pay, and message us — all in one place.
House Cleaning - Cambridge, MA
Get a free, no-obligation quote in minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
More about House Cleaning & Maid Service in Cambridge, MA
Neighborhoods, local conditions, and how we work here.
We bring everything: supplies, equipment, and eco-friendly products that are safe around children and pets. You provide access and nothing else -- and in a city where most people are out at work or in a lab by eight, "access instructions in the morning and a finished home in the evening" is exactly how most of our customers run it.
What makes cleaning here different from cleaning a suburb is the building, not the weather. This is a renter's city: roughly two-thirds of occupied units are rented, the median age is thirty-one, and most of what we clean is a unit rather than a house -- a floor of a wood-frame triple-decker, a condo off Inman Square, a two-bedroom near Porter with the stairs that come standard in Victorian stock. Old buildings hold dirt at their edges: casings, sills, baseboards, door frames, stair treads and handrails, and the seams in a hundred-year-old floor. Those are line items on the checklist rather than upgrades, and they are the difference between a home that looks clean at six and one that still looks clean on Sunday.
Maid Service in Cambridge, Somerville and Medford
Some people call it house cleaning and plenty of our customers call it maid service. Same job: a professional on a set schedule, a written checklist, a home left ready to live in. Nobody local distinguishes the two phrasings, and neither do we.
What separates a real maid service from a one-off clean is the relationship. Your cleaner learns which stair the cat sleeps on, which bathroom takes the beating, which window shows every streak in the late-afternoon light, and which buzzer actually works. After a few visits nobody is following a generic script -- they are cleaning your place the way you would if you had the time.
Weekly, Biweekly, and Monthly Plans
Most households here land on biweekly -- it keeps a place genuinely clean without paying for visits you do not need. Weekly earns its keep with pets, roommates, or a household where three people share one bathroom; monthly suits smaller or tidier units that mainly want the heavy work handled. Schedules in this city also move with the academic year, tightening around term starts and the September turnover and loosening over the summer, and you are never locked to the plan you started with.
- Weekly -- shared apartments, pets, and homes where one bathroom does all the work
- Biweekly -- the most common plan, and the best balance of clean and cost
- Monthly -- smaller units and tidy households
- One-time -- before guests arrive, after a project, or to try us out
Built for Apartments, Condos and Triple-Deckers
Suburban cleaning companies price by square footage because their work is open floor. Ours is not. A floor of a triple-decker has more edge per square foot than a suburban house has in total: casings and sills on every window, baseboards around every small room, a stairwell that is part of your unit, and a kitchen where every surface is within arm's reach of another one. Condo conversions add their own quirk -- shared entries, service doors, and a building that has opinions about when a vacuum can run.
So we scope the unit rather than the address, and we ask about access up front: buzzer or lockbox, front door or service entrance, stairs or elevator, and where a car can actually sit while we work. That is not small talk. In this city it is half the schedule.
The straight limit: we clean interior glass thoroughly and vacuum carpets, but we are not a carpet-extraction, air-duct, gutter or exterior window company. If that is what your place actually needs, we say so rather than take your money for a partial answer.
- Interior glass, mirrors and window frames
- Window and door casings, sills and thresholds
- Baseboards, door frames and painted trim
- Stair treads, risers and handrails
- Kitchen and bathroom grout attention on every visit
- Entry mats and the first few feet of hard floor
Ideal For
- Apartments and condos around Harvard, Central, Porter, Kendall and Inman
- Floors of wood-frame triple-deckers in Somerville and Cambridge
- Victorian houses with three levels of stairs in Medford and North Cambridge
- Households where everyone is out by eight and back after six
- Roommate and graduate-student apartments that want a neutral standard
- Anyone who would rather have their Saturday back
How It Works
Request a Quote
Tell us the unit, the square you are near, the frequency you want, and anything unusual about the building.
We Confirm Availability
We check the route across the three cities and your dates, and reply within one business day.
First Clean
Your cleaner walks the place first so the checklist matches your home, not a generic one.
42-Point Clean, Every Visit
The written checklist runs the same way each time, whoever is working.
Guaranteed
If something is not right, tell us and we reclean it free within 24 hours.