Cleaning in Sedona

Merry Maids of Cottonwood is the local branch of a national house-cleaning franchise, working up here as well as down the hill. A franchise means standard pricing, cover when your regular cleaner is ill, and insurance handled corporately, usually at a higher hourly rate than an independent.

Desert Haven Home Management handles cleaning in and around Sedona as part of managing properties, which is a different proposition: more likely to suit a second home, a rental, or a house that is empty for part of the year.

We Haul It.We Move It.We Clean It does what the name says: junk removal, moving and cleaning. That combination is the useful one for a clear-out, an end of tenancy, or a house being emptied after a death, where the cleaning is the last of three jobs rather than the only one.

Sedona’s particular version of this trade

A large share of the cleaning work here is holiday-let turnover, and it is a specialism rather than ordinary house cleaning. It means a fixed window between checkout and check-in, laundry, restocking consumables, and usually a photographic report for the owner. If that is what you need, say so on the first call: a company set up for weekly domestic work may not want it, and one set up for it will be faster and cheaper than you expect.

If you own a second home here that sits empty, ask about a check-in visit rather than only a clean. Scorpions, pack rats and a monsoon leak are all things better found by someone walking through monthly than by you in six months.

What to establish before the first visit

How the price is calculated, by the hour, the visit or the square foot, since the three are not comparable. Whether the first deep clean is charged differently from the regular visits, which is standard and still surprises people. Who supplies the products, and whether you can specify something different for allergies. Whether it is the same person each time, which matters once somebody has a key. And what the insurance covers if something is broken.