Which Room Should You Clean First?
When you’re trying to get into a regular home cleaning routine, knowing when and where to start is a crucial first step. In our tips below, you’ll learn which room you should clean first and other cleaning tips straight from our professionals.
Clean House Checklist Tip #1: Start With The Furthest Room From the Front Door
To clean like a professional maid, start your cleaning process upstairs or in the room that is furthest away from your front door. This ensures that you’re not having to redo your hard work as you move back and forth between rooms.
However, if you’re not planning on immediately exiting from your front door, you may consider working toward wherever you keep your cleaning supplies. For example, if you keep your cleaning supplies in your laundry room, make that the last area you clean. This way your floors have time to dry before you walk around and leave footprints.
Clean House Checklist Tip #2: Clean From the Top, Down
In a similar vein, to avoid having to redo work, start cleaning at the top of each room and work your way down to the floors. For example, a common cleaning workflow in the kitchen is to start by dusting the cabinets, then move onto appliances and countertops, and then end by cleaning the floors.
If you work in the opposite direction, you’ll be knocking down dust and debris from your cabinets and countertops onto clean floors and you will have to clean your floors again. With some easy planning, there is no need to have to redo your work multiple times!
Clean House Checklist Tip #3: Keep Your Cleaning Supplies Separate
A common mistake cleaning newbies make is not keeping their cleaning supplies separate. Of course, you can use the same vacuum throughout your house and a multipurpose cleaner in both your kitchen and your bathroom. However, you will want to keep your sponges and microfiber cloths separate to prevent cross-contamination.
Designate different colored microfiber rags for each room of your house. For example, use red rags in your kitchen and orange rags in your bathroom.
The same rules apply to your sponges, but it’s even easier to designate a sponge to a room because different colored sponges serve different purposes. The commonly found yellow and green sponge is perfect for scrubbing soap scum from your bathrooms with its abrasive nature. On the other hand, blue sponges work well on kitchen counters and sinks.
Clean House Checklist Tip #4: Keep Your Tools Clean
You can’t effectively clean your home if your cleaning tools are dirty! Make sure you’re washing your microfiber rags, disinfecting your sponges, and cleaning your mop after you clean - every time.
Not only can keeping dirty and damp rags, sponges, and mops around attract odor, bacteria, and mold, but they will also prevent you from getting your cleanest home in the future. Additionally, maintaining your cleaning supplies will also allow you to take advantage of their full, intended lifespan.
Clean House Checklist Tip #5: You Don’t Have to Do It All
Our final cleaning tip is really a reminder - you don’t have to do it all. If you’re struggling to find the time or motivation to regularly clean your home, it’s okay to outsource it to a professional team.
Not only will professional maids be able to clean your home more effectively than you could, in a shorter period of time, but outsourcing your cleaning leaves you free to spend your time on other household chores, with your family, or on yourself.
When hiring a professional maid service, like the team at Cleandae, you can rest assured that your home will be effectively cleaned, according to our professional cleaning checklist. Contact us today to get scheduled!
