House cleaning in Santa Ana, CA

Cleaning a home in Santa Ana

Santa Ana sits on the flat plain the river left behind, so the ground under it is sand and fine silt rather than clay. Rain arrives in a few winter storms and then everything is dry again until the next year. Most of the city is duplexes, apartments and houses packed onto small lots, with more concrete than grass out front and older wood-frame homes on the streets nearest downtown. The dust settles on all of it.

That sand is the whole job. It is abrasive, so it gets lifted off a wood or vinyl floor before anything wet touches it, or it grinds in under the mop. It builds up in window screens and door tracks where a cloth cannot reach and a brush can. Doormats get taken outside and beaten rather than vacuumed, and thresholds get gone over by hand.