Yes to both. Making beds is standard scope — our published Standard visit includes, in so many words, “Beds made with existing linens” — and sheets get changed when you leave a fresh set out. At JAS the change is published too: the “Bed linen change” add-on, $18 per bed, on the add-on menu of every residential clean.
Those two halves — what’s already in, and what gets added — are the whole answer. The rest of this article is the practical part: how many beds a visit covers, where to leave the fresh set, and the point at which linen service stops being a courtesy and becomes a line on the quote.
Bed-making is on the checklist, not a favor
A residential clean is the maintenance routine: kitchen and bath reset, floors mopped and vacuumed, surfaces dusted, linens straightened, trash out — 28 items verified by photo, on a 2–3 hour visit with a 2-person team, starting at $189. Inside that list, the bed gets made with whatever is on it. We publish the full 28-item list for exactly this reason: what happens to your bed shouldn’t depend on which crew shows up.
The same published tier draws its boundary in the not-included column: “Laundry, organization, patios, garages & specialty work”. Notice where the line falls — the bed sits on one side and the washing machine on the other. Making a bed is hand-work and minutes; laundry is a machine with its own clock, which is why laundry gets its own article.
How many beds are included?
All of them — the count is already inside your price. The published rate table is sized by bedroom and bathroom count: a studio from $189, a 2-bed / 2-bath at $243, a 3/2 at $265, a 4+/3 at $319+. Every bed inside those bedrooms is part of the routine — the guest bed nobody slept in, the kids’ bunks, the daybed that stayed open. Making them takes minutes, which is why nobody meters it.
What does get metered is the change. Stripping a used set and dressing the bed in a fresh one is real time per bed — fitted-sheet corners, pillowcases, the duvet-cover wrestle — which is why the published add-on is priced per bed, not per home: “Bed linen change”, $18 per bed, with the published description “Remove used linens and make each bed with fresh linens provided.” You pick the two beds that were slept in and skip the three that weren’t.
The etiquette: where to leave the set
The whole system runs on one simple convention, and it works in any home:
- One complete set per bed, folded at the foot of the bed you want changed — fitted, flat, and pillowcases, plus the duvet cover if it’s due. Not in the hall closet, not in the dryer: on the bed.
- If your linens live in a closet, say so in the booking notes — “fresh sets on the top shelf of the hall closet, change the two back bedrooms” settles in one line what is otherwise a guessing game.
- The used set ends up where your laundry lives. If you also want it washed, dried and folded the same day, that’s the other published add-on — laundry wash, dry & fold at $30 per on-site load, working machines required.
“A folded set at the foot of the bed is an instruction any crew can read. A bare mattress with the linens put away is a guess.”
In the homes we clean weekly or biweekly, that convention becomes routine without anyone announcing it: on cleaning day, two folded sets appear on two beds, and the visit runs like it always does — except the beds end the day in that morning’s sheets.
Questions about your place specifically? No need to finish the article — call, text, WhatsApp, or email us and we’ll take it from here.
When linen service becomes an add-on
Across the trade, plenty of cleaners will swap sheets if the set is out — as a courtesy, when time allows. The trouble with courtesies is that they carry no price and no record: done one visit, skipped the next, and nobody can hold anyone to anything because nothing was agreed. We prefer the named version: the change is a published line you choose at booking, it shows on your quote, and it gets verified like the rest of the visit. If something matters enough to expect, it matters enough to be written down.
And in Miami the sheet clock runs faster than almost anywhere — heat and humidity shorten the interval between changes, which we cover separately in how often to wash sheets and towels. If your rhythm is weekly, the arithmetic is simple: changing the main beds adds $18 per bed to a visit that’s already coming — instead of becoming the chore that always waits for Sunday night.
FAQ
Do the cleaners bring their own sheets?
No — the fresh linens are yours. The published add-on wording is “make each bed with fresh linens provided,” and provided means by you, waiting at the bed. JAS does not publish a linen rental for homes; that is a vacation-rental arrangement, not a residential one.
Should I strip the beds before the crew arrives?
You can, but you don’t have to — removing the used set is inside the published change. If you do strip a bed, leave its fresh set out: a stripped bed with no linens in sight can only be left bare, because the standard inclusion is beds made with existing linens, and a bare mattress has none.
Do the used sheets get washed?
Not by the linen change — that add-on is about the bed. Washing is the separate published laundry add-on: wash, dry and fold at $30 per on-site load, working machines required. Book both if you want the used set clean and folded by the time the crew leaves.