When it comes to cleaning your house, I bet you always felt that there was something you could do better, or you might have had a great house cleaner do it for you.
The following practical tips from a professional house cleaner can make cleaning simple and stress-free. With a tested approach, house cleaning becomes easier.
1. Clean Everything From Top to Down
This simple technique will save you so much of your cleaning time.
By everything, we mean your refrigerator, oven, rooms, tables, and everything else. It’s a straightforward but often ignored concept. Due to nature’s force of gravity, some dirt tends to fall to the bottom whenever you clean above. So, when you clean the bottom and then go to the top, you will only make the bottom portion dirty again, so you must go back and clean it for the second time.
To avoid this overlapping process, always start cleaning from the top, whether you are cleaning an entire room or just specific furniture or appliances.
2. Have a Consistent Cleaning Move
When cleaning with water, disinfectant, or any other cleaning liquid, follow the same movement everywhere from start to finish. For example, if you start cleaning by following a left-to-right movement, you cannot change it to a circular movement while cleaning the same surface. This could leave trace marks of cleaning and make the whole surface look unattractive.
Generally, cleaning in circles is not recommended as it keeps the dirt from the previously cleaned area circulating and making a whole mess. It is best to clean in the form of left to right or right to left and sweep the dirt from the ends down.
You should avoid taking your hands off the surface and just keep repeating the same movement until the whole surface is covered. So, even better is a continuous left-to-right and right-to-left movement as you gradually move your hands down after each swipe. This very effective movement will remove all the dirt quickly without leaving any cleaning marks.
3. Clean Your Cleaning Equipment Well
After cleaning your house, don’t take that rest yet! Make sure to clean all of your cleaning items like the mop, cleaning cloths, scrubs, brushes, and so on.
If you are careless in keeping these clean, the next time you clean your home with the same stuff, it will be a significant problem.
4. Become Friends with Baking Soda
Baking soda is your best friend for cleaning a lot of things. At times like moving into your new house or after returning from a long vacation, there can be some troublesome stains in the kitchen or bathroom that wouldn’t budge when you use your regular cleaning liquid.
During such times, you can whip up a paste with baking soda, lemon vinegar, or hot water, apply it to the area, scrub it off easily, and restore the surface to its original condition.
Not only can baking soda help remove the most cumbersome stains, but you can also use a bit of baking soda powder to spray on the carpet and mattresses and freshen them up easily.
5. Let the Cleaning Products Soak in Before You Wipe
This is an easy, no-fuss step that is going to make a world of difference to your cleaning. Sometimes, we tend to be a little anxious to get the cleaning done quickly and, therefore, clean the surface immediately after pouring the cleaning liquid. This is only going to make your job tough.
The cleaning liquids or any other DIY stuff that you are trying will work best if you let it sit for at least 2 to 3 minutes before you go in and clean. Of course, this tip can be the wrong advice depending on the cleaning product - always follow the instructions.
Spray the liquid on the surface, wait for the specified time, and then do your normal cleaning movement, and you can see how easily all the dirt comes off. Many cleaning liquids come with disinfecting substances, which can work to their maximum when it’s left to sit for 5 minutes.
6. Use a Completely Dry Cloth to finish off
After you are done cleaning everything and the place looks absolutely shiny, don’t leave it at that. Use a clean and dry cloth to wipe off the excess liquid from the surface.
If you let the surfaces air dry, it could lead to visible cleaning traces that would be unattractive to look at. Using a dry cloth will ensure that there are no water droplets to leave such marks.
When you are doing an intensive cleaning, don’t use the same dry cloth to clean the entire house. When the cloth has become a bit wet and dirty, dispose it and use a new clean, and dry cloth.
7. Polish Shiny Surfaces With a Microfiber Cloth
When you are done cleaning delicate surfaces like kitchen counters, bathroom counters, mirrors, and glass surfaces, you can use a microfiber cloth as the last wipe. You should use this microfiber cloth after cleaning the surface with the dry cloth.
The microfiber will catch minute particles on the surface that were not removed and smudges caused by the previous cleaning. When such small particles are gone, your glass surfaces will look shiny and absolutely spotless.
8. Wash your Bedding Every Week
The dust that falls from curtains, sofa cushions, bedding, and so on contributes a lot to dust in any room. When you put all your hard work into cleaning all the other stuff in the room but miss out on washing or dusting these, the dust will settle back again in a jiffy.
So be sure to make it a habit to wash the bedding every week.
Dust can also be kicked up from carpets, so if you have carpets, vacuum them at least once a week. You can even use the new robot vacuums that move around independently and vacuum the room. With such robot vacuums, you can increase the frequency of carpet cleaning with no effort from you.
9. Clean Under Things Too
Do you know the one thing that most people forget or miss out on cleaning? It’s under furniture, appliances, etc. When you look at the item from the top or a standing position, everything seems tidy, right? Well, now bend a little and examine how the condition is under the item.
For example, after cleaning your fridge inside and out, crouch down and look under the refrigerator, and you will be horrified by the mess. This mess keeps accumulating, blowing off, and spreading to other parts of the room, making the area dirty often. Therefore, as a rule of thumb, when you clean any item, have a glance under it, too.
10. Clean the Air Inside Your House
When dusting, some particles of dust tend to deposit on other surfaces and, sometimes, even on the stuff you have just cleaned. To avoid this issue, you can clean the air inside the house by changing the setting on the thermostat to switch on the fan. The fan will filter out the air inside the house, and along with it goes all the dust in the air.
This step can be used as the last step of your dusting process and before you start your wet cleaning. Staying in a congested space is exasperating.
11. Use Your Existing Household Stash
If you find it hard to find high-quality cleaning products or don't want to head to the shops, you can do a lot of cleaning with the items in your kitchen, like baking soda, vinegar, alcohol, toothpaste, etc. These are excellent cleaning items, and you can save a lot by using a combination of these items to keep your home sparkling clean.
Even if you are using a cleaning liquid for general cleaning, kitchen items can come in handy when you have some tough cleaning to do, like inside the oven, below the furniture, and in the corners of the bathrooms. From cleaning the grouts on the walls to disinfecting the moulds, your kitchen items can help you save a lot of money.
If you want to spend less time cleaning, the best way is to clean regularly and use our straightforward hacks to shorten your cleaning time even more.
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