House Cleaning Tips

10 House Cleaning Tips

House cleaning can get old. We spend all day it seems cleaning, just to start all over again tomorrow.

Well, I don't know what I can do to make you like house cleaning, (did you ever consider hiring a maid service? I can recommend a good one!) but I can give you some tips to help make this tiresome chore not only easier, but teach you ways to make all your hard work and labor more efficient.

This should help free up some of your time to do some of the more pleasant things on your list.

If that list of yours is just too darn long, you can always give Mrs. Clean a call. We will gladly come in and take some of the mess off your hands.

Household Cleaning Tips and Hints from Professional House Cleaners

Make a house cleaning checklist; schedule when you will clean and then stick to it. The mess will only get worse the longer you put it off.. There is no rule that says the entire home needs to be cleaned each time. If you can't bear to do it all at once, set a schedule and clean the living room on Wednesday, bathrooms on Tuesdays. and deep clean the kitchen every Friday. You can also only do one floor at a time.

When you evaluate your home, identify the trouble spots and purchase any cleaning supplies you need to clean then up. Is the tub just covered in soap scum? Make sure you have the right products you need to take care of the job. Just using a product like soft scrub of plain elbow grease will not do a very good job cleaning this up, so you will get discouraged.

Get help. If there are others living and breathing in the house with you, who are most certainly contributing to the mess, get them to help. My favorite is to assign tasks to each child for a week at time, and then rotate tasks. Or one does the kitchen and then the other does the laundry, every other day. Don't forget to throw in deep cleaning items, like cleaning the pantry, or under the sinks, or doing a really good job dusting all the surfaces such as picture frames and walls. The kids in my home like to dust, so hopefully this one won't be to hard to get volunteers for.

Gather all your cleaning supplies and place them in a bucket or tote. Don't waste your time running from room to room with special cleaners or tools. It will end up taking twice as long. Professional cleaners carry all their tools in one bucket.

Cleaning Supplies

The bucket contains;

• Glass cleaner
• Disinfectant
• Detergent/Degreaser
• Soap scum remover
• Comet
• Soft scrub
• Furniture polish
• Hand scrubbers
• Sponges
• Toothbrush for scrubbing small spots
• Green scrubby

Use the right cleaning product for the surface to clean. If you look in our bucket above we don't carry a lot of fancy cleaning products. We use the right product for the job, and most every surface in the home can be cleaned with just those items listed above

Get good quality heavy duty cleaning products that are effective on cleaning the job. This also does not mean that you have to spend a lot of money either, some of the best cleaning products are very inexpensive. We use a solution of vinegar and water to damp mop linoleum, wood and vinyl floors. It works really well and is most likely the lest expensive product for cleaning available (Other than plain water of course!).

Dump your junk. You really must get clutter free. This is a hard one. I like stuff too, and since I was raised in a family of pack rats, this doesn't come naturally to me either. The room will feel kind of bare at first, but trust me, you'll get used to it, (you'll actually come to prefer it) and it makes clean up a breeze.

I've seen houses that were so cluttered, nothing we did made it really look clean. There were too many piles of stuff. So dump the old magazines, and remove as much clutter as possible. Knickknacks are pretty but they really just help allow dust to easily sneak up on you.