We keep Harrah homes clean

What Harrah houses need from a cleaner

Harrah sits on the east side of Oklahoma County, with Oklahoma City off to the west. It still feels like a small town. Many houses here sit on bigger lots than you find in the city. Some are out on acreage at the end of a gravel or dirt drive. Near the middle of town you find older homes and brick ranch houses. Newer subdivisions fill out the edges. Each kind gets dirty in its own way.

On a rural lot, the drive is the problem. Grit rides in on boots and paws, then gets ground into rugs and into the tracks of sliding doors. On hardwood and vinyl it acts like sandpaper. It leaves fine scratches you only notice when the sun comes in low. That is why we vacuum a floor before we mop it, because mopping over grit just pushes it around and leaves a gray film.

The older houses in town bring different chores. Vinyl and tile that has been down a long time goes dull, and a regular mop will not bring the shine back. We do floor cleaning and waxing, so a dull floor can get its shine back when you ask for it. Older bathrooms have grout that holds onto grime. We scrub it, and we clean the floor around the base of the toilet, the spot a rushed clean skips.

• Red dust wiped off window sills and blinds
• Ceiling fan blades and air vents dusted
• Floors vacuumed first, then mopped
• Bathroom floors cleaned behind the toilet
• Vinyl and tile floors waxed on request

Wind blows red dirt into Harrah homes

Central Oklahoma is windy, and the dirt around Harrah is the red dirt everybody here knows. On a dry day the wind picks it up off fields and bare yards and pushes it through every gap around a door or window. You see it first as a rusty film on sills and blinds. It also settles on ceiling fan blades and on top of the kitchen cabinets, where nobody looks until company is coming.

Rain turns that same dirt into mud, and the mud comes inside on shoes and on dogs. Red mud stains light carpet and grout when it dries in place. The sooner it gets cleaned up, the easier it comes out, and on a regular schedule it never gets time to set. One of our customers has us clean every other week and wrote: "Nice to come home from work to a clean house."

Summers here are hot, so the air conditioning runs for months and the air vents collect dust fast. In spring, pollen coats porches and window screens and drifts in whenever a door opens. Winter storms keep everyone inside, and the kitchen floor takes the traffic. The dirt in a Harrah house changes with the season, so a clean in July looks different from a clean in March.

We clean Harrah businesses too

We clean homes and businesses, and in Harrah that includes janitorial work for local shops and offices. That means the routine cleaning that keeps restrooms and floors decent for the people walking in. Floors take the worst of it in a public space. Red dirt from the parking lot gets carried across the entry every day, and on a rainy day it comes in as mud. A waxed hard floor holds up to that traffic better and cleans up easier.

Two of the services on our listing are easy to miss: laundry and light handyman work. They help when you are getting a house ready for family to visit, or getting a place ready to rent or sell. You can have one company handle the small fixes along with the cleaning instead of lining up two. Tell us what you need when you call, and we will tell you plainly whether it is something we do.

Some of the homes we clean belong to older folks who want a hand keeping up. When someone is home during the visit, the cleaning should work around them, and nobody should have to leave for the day. One customer hired us to clean their grandmother's home. Their review said: "They came quickly and cleaned thoroughly, all while my grandma sat comfortably on her couch."

Getting a price in Harrah

Call (405) 821-0861, or send us a message from this page with your address and what you want cleaned. Tell us how many rooms there are and whether you want one visit or a regular schedule. If you have pets or a long dirt drive, mention it, because both bring more dirt inside. You get a free quote before any work starts, so you know the price before anyone picks up a mop. We are open Monday through Saturday, ten in the morning to eight at night, and closed on Sunday.