5 cleaning tips to make your home sparkling and shiny

The weekly deep clean can be frustrating work. After a long week at work, or looking after the kids, all you want to do is relax and put your feet up. Luckily, there are some effective habits you can employ to keep the dirt and dust away for longer! We’ve put together our top 5 cleaning tips to ensure that your home always stays sparkling and shiny! 

1. Create a cleaning checklist

Before you attempt to tackle the mountains of dirty clothes and stubborn stains, it’s important to be well-organised and create a plan of action! Divide the house up into sections and begin cleaning one room at a time. Write down the most urgent tasks for each room, which ones take the longest to finish, and begin with those. 

Having a cleaning checklist you can refer back to each week will greatly reduce the amount of time it takes you to clean the entire house. Each task can be marked off as it’s completed, and some may naturally become a daily habit for you.

Marking this on your checklist means you won’t be spending hours each week cleaning unnecessary items! 

Other deep cleaning chores may only need to be done once a month, such as oven cleaning.

Related reading: Is it worth getting the oven professionally cleaned?

2. Clean each room from top to bottom

It’s not just about what you clean, but also how you clean it! This cleaning tip helps you tackle each room strategically. This ensures your home stays cleaner for longer, and you’re not continuously going back over what you’ve already cleaned. 

Dust and other microscopic bacteria naturally fall downwards and settle on the lowest surface. As a result, you should always begin your cleaning at the highest level of each room. For example, dusting light fixtures or wiping on top of wardrobes or cupboards, and then working your way down to mopping and vacuuming optimises the cleanliness of the room and keeps your home as shiny as possible!

3. Use a range of high quality cleaning products

Let’s face it, you won’t get an awful lot clean with just warm water and a damp cloth! You need to invest in some good quality cleaning products and supplies to ensure your home sparkles and shines. 

Some essential supplies to always keep in the cupboard include: 

• All-purpose cleaner for tackling grime and stains on surfaces anywhere in the house 
• Microfiber cloths for polishing and cleaning windows or wiping clean any glass surfaces
• Feather duster for removing dust from hard-to-reach places
• Dish soap to ensure crockery, pots, and pans are always clean
• Baking soda and white vinegar are excellent natural cleaners and are very effective in dissolving tough food stains in the oven or the microwave. 
  
  There are thousands of cleaning products and supplies available for a variety of cleaning tasks. As long as you have the essentials to hand at all times, you can be sure your home will always be kept clean!

4. Sweep, mop, and vacuum regularly 

It’s not a pretty sight cleaning up big piles of food crumbs and dust from the carpet or hardwood floor at the end of the week. What’s more, old food and dirt from outdoor footwear can harbour bacteria and germs. It’s important to keep up with the floor cleaning regularly to ensure your home is hygienic and clean at all times. 

Create a space in your home where you can store your vacuum, mop, and broom, so they can be used quickly and efficiently.

Using them when needed throughout the week, to clean small amounts of debris, saves a lot of time when you eventually get round to the deep cleaning.

5. Get the family involved

Cleaning doesn’t have to be a single person task! This cleaning tip is one of our favourites because it gets the rest of the family to chip in and lend a hand.

Using your trusty cleaning checklist and newly discovered strategy, assign tasks to your partner and kids. This more than doubles the speed at which the cleaning jobs get done and helps reinforce a culture of hygiene and cleanliness throughout your home. To make things even more fun, you could even set challenges and award prizes to whoever does the best job!

Choose a Wecasa professional cleaning service instead

If you still find yourself too busy to get the deep cleaning done around the home, then it might be time to call in the professionals. At Wecasa we offer a wide range of cleaning services to ensure your entire home is always sparkling and shiny!

Our highly skilled professional cleaners are trained to carry out services such as deep cleaning, end-of-tenancy cleaning, housekeeping services, window cleaning, and more. No matter how big or small your cleaning needs are, we’ve got you covered! 

Our highly competitive rates begin at just £15.90 per hour, and you can even book cleaning for the same day!

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