House cleaning in Lone Tree, CO

Cleaning a home in Lone Tree

Lone Tree sits on high open ground at the south end of the metro, where the plains start folding up toward the foothills. Sandstone bluffs and dry grassland run right up against the neighborhoods, and scrub oak covers the ridges. Yards here lean on crushed rock and decomposed granite instead of lawn. The ground rarely holds water, so what comes off it travels as grit rather than mud, and it comes in on every trip through the door.

Most of that grit never makes it past the first room, which is where the work starts: mats lifted and shaken outside, the floor inside the door vacuumed before a mop touches it, and small stones picked out of the door track by hand. Rock landscaping keeps a fine dust on patio glass and window ledges, and it comes back after every windy afternoon.