Best Cleaning Tips From our Top Rated Cleaners
You can clean virtually any house in about four hours a week. One reason that cleaning other people’s houses is a lot easier than cleaning your own, is that you’re not involved in the mess. Nothing is personal and you don’t get distracted while you’re cleaning.
You can clean your own house just as efficiently if you don’t get distracted. Here are cleaning methods that you can adopt:
- Setting a Cleaning Schedule
- Cleaning Bathrooms
- Cleaning Ceilings and Walls
- Dusting
- Cleaning Floors
Learn How to Prioritize Your Cleaning Needs
Household chores like intensive kitchen cleaning and laundry are better left for another time as they can distract you from your mission. If you are efficient, you can run the dishwasher or washing machine while you focus on the tasks at hand.
It will make your job simpler if you have quick access to everything you need. It is a good idea to use a storage caddy or a bucket with a handle so you can carry your supplies from room to room.
In your cleaning caddy you should have:
- Sponge (with a scrubby side)
- Cotton rags (I like cloth diapers or old washcloths. Old t-shirts make good rags too. If you use old towels or clothing, cut them up so it’s easy to tell that they have been retired.)
- Microfiber cloths
- Paper towels
- Bathroom cleaner
- Glass cleaner
- Furniture polish
- Rubber gloves
- Floor cleaner and/or polish
How to Deep Clean Your House Fast
If the house has not been kept up, you will probably find a lot of dusty corners that haven’t been cleaned in a while the first time you clean.
Cleaning vs. Clearing Clutter
The first thing to understand is that there’s a difference between clearing clutter and cleaning. A lot of times when we’re cleaning our own houses, we do both at the same time, but this is not the most efficient way.
When a professional cleaner comes in, the house is generally expected to be “picked up.” If I would come into a house to clean it and there was stuff lying around, I would simply make piles for the homeowner to sort out later.
Cleaning to Remove Dust Mites
It’s important to clean more frequently throughout the year rather than just a little “spring cleaning. “Those untouched areas can harbor dust, mites and other irritants that should be removed regularly for health and wellness.
Dust mites can cause allergies and asthma. They like to live in fabrics and soft bedding, like mattresses, pillows, carpets, rugs and blankets. This is why weekly cleaning is important
Here are best cleaning tips and methods that you can adopt:
Step 1: Set a Cleaning Schedule or Cleaning Routine
The key to keeping your house clean is organization and consistency. If you stick to a cleaning schedule and do the entire house each week, you will probably find that it will take you less time to do your basic cleaning. Then you can catch up on those other tasks that you don’t need to do weekly.
You might want to keep a running list of those, so they don’t get overlooked. Some of these tasks might include cleaning:
- the inside of the refrigerator
- stove
- oven
- kitchen cabinets
- medicine cabinet
- light fixtures
- books on bookshelves
- behind and under heavy furniture
Step 2: Start Cleaning the Bathrooms
The first thing you do is to start on all of the bathrooms at once. Remove everything from the tubs and showers and spray them with the bathroom cleaner you prefer and leave them to soak. Do the same with the toilet bowls. Put the cleaning products in and give them an initial swish with the brush. This is a good time to take a trash bag with you and empty all of the waste baskets.
Step 3: Change Bedding
Gather the clean sheets and pillowcases you will need for all bedrooms. Go to each room, strip the sheets and remake the bed. Gather all the soiled sheets and take them to the laundry room.
It is important to make the beds before dusting the ceilings in the bedrooms. This avoids getting dust under the covers. If the ceiling is particularly dusty, you may want to cover the freshly made bed with a sheet while dusting the ceiling.
Step 4: Clean Ceilings and Walls From Top to Bottom
While your bathroom-cleaner products are working in the bathrooms, you start on cobwebs and dust on the ceilings, corners and door jams, and work methodically around each room. Work your way all the way down the walls to the baseboards.
Step 5: Finish Cleaning the Bathrooms
By the time you’ve removed all the webs and dust, you’re ready to finish the bathrooms. When you are through cleaning, put all the shampoos and things back in the shower and do the vanity and mirror, scrub the sink and polish all the fixtures.
Clean the Toilet Bowl
Now you are ready to finish cleaning the toilet bowls. Don’t forget the rubber gloves for that job. I use a small wastebasket with a bleach solution in it to disinfect the toilet bowl brush after use. Paper towels are good for wiping the outside of the toilet and the seat to avoid contaminating other cleaning cloths with bacteria.
Step 6: How to Dust Your House
Now that the hard part is done, you’re ready to start dusting.
- Furniture: Starting at the top and removing all small items from the shelves and table tops. Polish wood surfaces with whatever oil or wax you prefer.
- Lamps: If the lampshade is covered in fabric, remove it and set it aside to be vacuumed. Wipe off the lamp itself and lift it to dust underneath.
Step 7: Vacuum and Mop Floors
When all of the dusting is done, you’re ready to vacuum. Vacuum in this order:
- Lamp shades: Vacuum the lamp shades and put them back in place.
- Furniture: Upholstered furniture should be vacuumed each week as well.
- Floor corners: Use the corner tool first to get the edges and corners of the floor. Then move on to the rugs and carpets.
- Hard floors: Clean the hard floors. I use my canister vacuum cleaner for that job, but if you have an upright vacuum, you may want to sweep.
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You may also visit our recent blogs for more cleaning tips and ideas.
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