Local teams · 850+ five-star reviews
From Ocean Park bungalows to North of Montana estates, Wilshire-Montana condos to Sunset Park family homes — Art's Cleaning brings the same 4.9-rated standard that earned us 850+ five-star reviews to every Santa Monica block.
Call or text (323) 370-0898 · We reply as soon as possible during business hours
Why Art's in Santa Monica
Alley access, gate codes, and the parking reality behind Wilshire-Montana buildings take a visit or two to learn. Your building's access, quirks and preferences stay on file, so nobody relearns them and the clean starts the minute the crew arrives.
Salt aerosol pits chrome and clouds glass within blocks of Santa Monica Beach, and it does not respond to household spray. Our cleaners are background- and reference-checked, and trained to treat coastal mineral film without stripping the finish underneath.
Nothing rides on memory. The checklist covers the same rooms in a Pico District one-bedroom as it does in a North of Montana five-bedroom — window tracks, switch plates, fan blades, the sill edges where marine damp settles overnight.
About Santa Monica
Santa Monica is its own city, not a Los Angeles neighborhood, and residents feel the difference in everything from the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified schools to the Big Blue Bus routes that thread Pico and Montana. The draw is obvious enough: the beach at the end of the street, Palisades Park along the bluff, and Downtown Santa Monica dense enough that plenty of households genuinely do not need a second car. What that buys is a life lived close to the water — and a home that shows it.
The housing runs older and tighter than most of the Westside. Ocean Park is full of 1920s through 1940s bungalows and duplexes that still carry their original wood windows and single-pane glass. North of Montana holds the city's large lots and traditional two-story homes; Sunset Park and Franklin lean postwar, with detached garages off the alley. Wilshire-Montana, Mid-City, and the Pico District are dominated by rent-controlled apartment buildings, many of them low-rise walk-ups where long tenancies are the norm rather than the exception. Downtown Santa Monica and the blocks near Bergamot add newer condos and converted lofts to the mix.
Two coastal conditions do most of the damage here, and they work in opposite directions. The marine layer rolls in nearly every night and burns off late, so glass, tile, and windowsills stay damp into mid-morning; that standing moisture is what turns dust into a grey film and grows mildew in the returns of Ocean Park's old wood sashes. Then there is the sand. It arrives on shoes, towels, and dog paws from Santa Monica Beach and Ocean Park, and because it is silica it behaves like abrasive on hardwood and grout rather than settling like ordinary house dust. Salt aerosol finishes the job on chrome, hinges, and shower glass.
Art's Cleaning has worked Southern California homes since 2021, and our Santa Monica crews plan around all of it — alley entries and permit-parking blocks included, so the visit starts on time instead of circling. We match products to what is actually in front of us: pH-neutral on old hardwood, descaling on coastal glass, HEPA extraction for grit before it gets ground in. Most households here start with deep cleaning and settle into house cleaning or recurring service.
ZIP codes
90401, 90402, 90403, 90404, 90405
Property types
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Real project photos
A company-wide sample from completed projects across the homes we serve.
Local expertise
Coastal cities each break differently. Here is what actually wears on a Santa Monica home — and our answer.
Fog sits over the city most mornings and clears late, so interior glass, tile, and sills in Ocean Park and Sunset Park hold moisture past noon. Wet dust bonds instead of wiping away, and window returns start to spot. We dry-pass surfaces before wet work and finish sills last so nothing seals damp in.
Sand from Santa Monica Beach and the Main Street end of Ocean Park is silica, not dust. Left on hardwood or in grout lines it grinds with every footstep. Our crews vacuum edges and thresholds with HEPA equipment before any mop touches the floor, so grit leaves the house instead of being pushed around it.
Airborne salt reaches every block west of Lincoln and leaves a haze on shower glass, faucets, hinges, and slider tracks that ordinary spray only smears. Ocean Avenue and Wilshire-Montana units facing the water get it worst. We use a descaling pass followed by a dry buff so the film lifts rather than redistributes.
The 1920s and 1930s bungalows and duplexes across Ocean Park and the Pico District still run single-pane sashes in wood frames, where paint is thin and sills are porous. Aggressive product strips them. We clean tracks by hand with pH-neutral solution and dry immediately, protecting the wood while clearing the grit inside the channel.
Neighborhoods
ZIP codes served: 90401, 90402, 90403, 90404, 90405
90405
PopularBeach-adjacent grid of 1920s bungalows, duplexes, and walk-streets near Main Street
90405
PopularQuiet postwar family blocks in the city's southeast corner, alley garages throughout
90402
PopularThe city's largest lots and traditional two-story homes above Montana Avenue
90403
Dense rent-controlled apartment blocks between two of the city's main corridors
90404
Central Santa Monica mixing apartments, courtyard buildings, and small-lot homes
90404
Working corridor of older duplexes, courtyard apartments, and long-tenured households
90401
Condos, lofts, and newer buildings steps from Third Street Promenade
90403
Boutique corridor with condos and remodeled homes on the blocks behind it
90401
Bluff-front buildings facing Palisades Park with full-time salt exposure
90405
Ocean Park's commercial spine, ringed by rentals and short-term stays
90404
Arts-district edge of the city with converted lofts and newer multifamily
90403
Established family pocket of traditional homes off Montana's eastern blocks
Around town
Every kind of home
Customer reviews
★★★★★
“5 star job every time”
Cal Mack
★★★★★
“Guys were awesome and they did a great job! I would highly recommend them!!”
Brian Jaffe
★★★★★
“Great”
John Ismagulov
★★★★★
“Thorough, professional and timely. Having a checklist in advance was the best. Highly recommend!!”
Melinda Masson
Cleaning services
Every service below opens a locally written page for this city.
For property managers
Managing Santa Monica units? We handle rent-controlled turnovers, recurring resident cleans, and lease-transition work from Ocean Park duplexes to Downtown condo towers — alley and loading logistics planned in advance, photo verification on request, and same-day scheduling when a tenant walks early.
24hr
Turnaround for urgent requests
50
Point checklist every visit
100%
Satisfaction promise
ASAP
Response during business hours
Local cleaning guides
Good to know
Published ranges run $200–$550+ for most services and $120–$300+ for maid service. Where you land depends on square footage, bathroom count, and condition — a Wilshire-Montana one-bedroom sits at the low end, a North of Montana five-bedroom at the high end. Send us the details and you will have a written estimate back as soon as possible during business hours.
All five ZIP codes — 90401, 90402, 90403, 90404, and 90405. That covers Ocean Park, Sunset Park, North of Montana, Wilshire-Montana, Mid-City, the Pico District, Downtown Santa Monica, Montana Avenue, Ocean Avenue, Main Street, Bergamot, and Franklin. If your building has alley-only access or sits on a permit block, tell us when you book and we will plan for it.
Yes — crews arrive with everything, including eco-friendly products chosen for what Santa Monica homes are actually built from. Ocean Park and Pico District bungalows have original hardwood and painted wood sashes that harsh degreasers will dull, so we run pH-neutral solutions there and save the descalers for glass and chrome. Have a product you prefer? We will use it.
We plan for it. Much of Sunset Park and Ocean Park is served by rear alleys, and several Mid-City and Wilshire-Montana blocks are preferential-permit only. Tell us the situation when you book — a guest pass, a garage code, a loading spot — and the crew arrives with a plan instead of losing twenty minutes circling the block.
We prioritize familiar team members for recurring visits. Scheduling may occasionally require a substitute, who receives your saved service notes before arrival.
Book online in about a minute, request a quote, or call and text (323) 370-0898 — we reply as soon as possible during business hours. Same-day availability is real, weekends included when the schedule allows. Every visit carries our 100% satisfaction promise, which includes a free re-clean if something was missed.
Nearby service areas
Ready when you are
Santa Monica households from Ocean Park to North of Montana already have us on the calendar.
