Angela Pierce - House Cleaning Guide: House Cleaning Secrets and Tips

House Cleaning Guide:

House Cleaning Secrets and Tips

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Angela Pierce

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House Cleaning Guide: House Cleaning Secrets and Tips

By Angela Pierce

Copyright 2014 Angela Pierce

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First Published, 2014

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Housecleaning might be a very daunting task if you look at it in the whole entirety of it, especially if your house is quite big with many rooms to clean. Wouldnt it be better to leave it up to your housekeeper or someone else more capable of doing so? Yes, that would be possible but what if the task fell upon you to complete and theres no getting around it?

Then you better suit up, cleaning clothes I mean, and read up on these tips and tricks on proper housekeeping and how to effectively clean your house in a jiffy. There are several rooms in a house and these rooms need to be cleaned separately so here are the ways on how to clean them properly with the least amount of time needed and with all grounds covered.

Sectioning

The first thing you need to do is to divide the house per room and sometimes into sections for a better coverage and better time management. It would save you a lot of time if you lay out the rooms first then arrange them chronologically so you will know which one is first and where to go next. Let us explore these rooms and work on from there.

Your bedroom is one of the most sacred places in the house for you so cleaning it the right way is very essential because it will radiate good sleep and an even better morning when you wake up.

Tips on keeping your bedroom clean:

Prevention is better than cure so start arranging 4 or 5 item every time you sit on your dresser and do your makeup and hair. You can toss out 4 or 5 items that you have not used for the past year or even the past 6 months. It can be some of your cosmetics, empty perfume bottles you just never had the time to throw away, balled up tissues you used, etc.

Clean under your bed at least twice a week or whenever you vacuum so that dust mites or bed bugs wont develop and creep onto your sheets. Thats a scary thought!

Clean your sheets once every week. It is hygienic and refreshing to clean your sheets and pillowcases at least every week.

Clean your dresser, table-top, chair, or any other furniture in your room with disinfectant after vacuuming or sweeping the floor.

Dont stack too much books or reading material on your nightstand. Start restacking books youve already red into the bookshelves or put in boxes for recycling or donations.

If you cant thoroughly dust your room fixtures, use the upholstery attachment of your vacuum to clean window blinds and headboards. Another cool trick if your duster is not small enough to fit through the blinds for cleaning, use a sock to wipe them.

If youre always in a hurry and never find time to clean your sheets regularly because it takes time to take out the sheets and choose the best ones then putting them on the fixtures, it would be best that on the next time you clean your sheets, tuck in an extra one in there for the following week. That would save you tons of time the next time you need to change them.

When you have a television or a computer or laptop in the bedroom, use microfiber cloth material to clean the surfaces. It is a much efficient way to wipe off those smudges. And the next time youre on the phone and just lounging around, take out a tissue and wipe your mirrors.

For delicate furniture or room fixtures, use a blow dyer to dust them off gently.

Store Pledge mitts or microfiber cloths in your nightstand or drawers so you can quickly dust you headboards, dressers, etc.

The kitchen is one of the dirtiest places in the house and it is one of the rooms that need to always be clean because it is where you prepare your food, you cook your food here and you also eat them in the kitchen or the dining area. There are lots of spaces, cabinets, nooks and crannies in the kitchen that you need to clean and disinfect so you better start from top to bottom and everywhere in between.

For some tips on keeping your kitchen clean, read up on the following:

Open the refrigerator and inspect the items inside. While doing that, grab items that are already past the expiration date or is close to it that you will not use before it expires. Take out almost empty bottles that would not ma even one serving and toss it in the garbage. Check your fruits and vegetables if they are still fresh for eating and if not, chuck them in the trash.

Wipe down the outside of the refrigerator with a cloth that was dampened with water and soap. Clean as much as you can with the surface of the refrigerator then move it aside to vacuum underneath it. This will prevent the wires to be tangled with dust and cobwebs.

Sometimes you get packets of ketchup or take out items that you save for future use but never came, so time has come to throw them out. You dont need them rotting in your fridge and you probably have a whole bottle of ketchup so you will never use the packet ones anyway. Include the take out cups and boxes that youve stowed away in there but were never used for anything. They just take up space.

Whenever you see spills and food droppings on your refrigerator, wipe them off immediately and dont let them harden and get stuck there. It will be much harder to remove icy and hard messes.

Wipe finger markings off the kitchen cabinets and table as well as the refrigerator.

For your cabinets and cupboards, wipe them down with a microfiber cloth dampened of water and soap. Make sure to wipe to the direction of the grain. You might need to repeat this method a few times to remove all the dirt. Please do this with your stovetops and countertops as well.

Kitchens also have garbage cans that need to be cleaned always! So after you have disposed of the trash, disinfect your garbage cans with an all-purpose cleaner by wiping the inside and the outside of the can with a clean cloth. It would also be best of you hose it down with water and soap first before disinfecting.

For the sink, scrub it clean with an old toothbrush and an all-purpose cleaner.

For the floors, sweep the entire room with a soft broom, blow out dust using a blow dyer for the hard-to-reach corners and vacuum the remaining dust. If you have a tiled floor, wipe it with a floor mop dipped in water and detergent. Repeat the process until the entire room is cleaned.

This is also one room that needs to be disinfected at all times. This is used by everybody in the household making it one of the dirtiest parts of the house as well. It would be very hygienic and recommended to disinfect your bathroom everyday or at least the toilet.

Here are some more tips in keeping this haven clean and healthy for everybody:

After everyone has showered, brushed their teeth and have gotten ready for school or bed, wipe the mirrors and bathroom faucets with a dry terrycloth hand towel or any clean towel thats water absorbent. This will prevent mold build up and would make it easier to clean every day.