{"id":112,"date":"2026-05-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/first-cleaning-prep\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T09:00:00","slug":"first-cleaning-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/first-cleaning-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting your house ready for a first cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Someone apologizes to our teams for the state of their kitchen about once a day. Please don\u2019t clean before we come. That is our job, and you are paying us for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do put away<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>Clutter on counters and tables. We wipe around it, but we can\u2019t clean under it.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Clothes on the floor and the beds, so we can vacuum and make them.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Anything fragile or valuable you\u2019d rather we left alone.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Cash and jewelry. We have never had a problem, and we want to keep it that way.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Do leave out<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>A clean set of sheets on every bed you want changed.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A note on any room to skip or any surface that needs a gentle product.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Your own vacuum if you have strong feelings about ours.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Pets<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friendly pets can stay out. Nervous ones are happier in a closed room, which we skip or clean last with the door open a crack. Mention it in the booking notes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Access<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you won\u2019t be home, set up the lockbox or door code the day before and test it. A locked door costs us an hour and you a $75 lockout fee, and nobody enjoys that phone call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to put away before your first house cleaning, what to leave out for the team, and the one thing you can skip: cleaning before the cleaners arrive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/sundell-cleaning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}