Five Efficient House Cleaning Tips for Chicago

Who doesn’t want to come home in a clean and tidy house? After a very tiring day from work, school or other errands it is so relaxing to go home in a clean house. While sitting in your sofa, seeing that your surroundings is clean and everything is in place you will get this feeling of satisfaction and relaxation and it lessen your stress.

Cleaning your house is one of many ways to release your stress but sometimes cleaning itself will make you feel anxious. Most especially if you have kids at home. Cleaning those small toys and cars will shortened your patience. And you will start to feel stress and sometimes you will ask yourself, “Until when is this mess?” I understand the frustration but as a mother it is your responsibility to clean the house with the help of your kids and support of your husband.

 To make your life easy in cleaning your house, here are Five Efficient House Cleaning Tips for Chicago. It will help you to save time in cleaning your house.

1.       Clean the whole house

People nowadays because of their busy schedule from work, they tend to clean the house partially. They will start to clean the living area first, then next day, kitchen and then so on and so forth. And this process will make you feel lazy and eats up a lot of time. Clean the whole house in one day, then you can relax on the following days. You will have more time to relax and have quality time with your family.

 Also in cleaning the whole house in one day it will prevent you from feeling like you’re in an endless cycle and starting the whole cycle again. It will make you feel more tired because of non-stop cleaning schedule.

2.       Disinfect all the areas

It is important to clean all the surfaces and countertops in your house. Not only wiping it but disinfecting it as well. One of the most important parts that you need to disinfect are your door knobs, light switches, remotes and telephones. Those are the area that we always using without washing or disinfecting our hands and those area are being the carriers of bacteria or germs.

 Passing of germs might cause some illness in your family especially if one of the family member have cough and colds. After that person sneezed and holds your door knobs, it will transfer the germs and pass it to the next person who will hold that door knob. There are a lot of spray disinfectant that you buy from grocery stores and it come with different scent like lavender, ocean mist, strawberry, orange and apple.

3.       Sweep, Vacuum, and then Mop.

This is one of the basic steps in cleaning your house that you can do every day and it will help you maintain the cleanliness in your home. There are steps that you need to consider every area of the house before you start sweeping, mopping and vacuuming the floors. One of the most important steps in all areas is, start cleaning all the surfaces and countertops before cleaning the floors. In that way, all the left over dirt will fall down in your floor area.

 Bedrooms

·       Wipe down all your side tables

·       Change your linens and pillow case

·       Dust your lamp shade and window blinds.

After doing these steps, you can now start cleaning the floors in your bedroom including the carpet. Start vacuuming the carpet and then sweep the other areas inside your bedroom. Start on the hard to reach area like, under the bed and tables. Once you’re done sweeping and vacuuming, that is the right time to mop the flooring.

Kitchen

·       Clean the outer cover of your appliances

·       Wipe down all your tables, countertops and cabinets

·       Clean your stove

·       Disinfect inside and around sink

Kitchen is one of the most difficult area to clean since this the most abused part of the house. But this is the area that needs to be clean all the time since this is where we prepare our food and everything. Always make sure that you use the proper cleaning products in cleaning your sink and countertops.

Bathrooms

·       Rinse your sink

·       Wipe down the vanity countertop

·       Clean cabinet doors

·       Remove everything from the tub/shower like empty bottled shampoo and body wash

·       Scrub toilet bowl

·       Scrub the floor

After doing these steps, you can now start vacuuming the floor area. Just make sure that it is dry and there is no left over water on the flooring. And then, you can now mop the bathroom floors and use a mop that, that is not so wet to avoid leaving unwanted marks on the flooring.

4.       Wash your Windows

Sometimes we take for granted our windows because we really don’t understand the importance of it until something happened. Windows is one your protection during typhoon, snow or rainy season. This is one of the important part of the house that needs to maintain the cleanliness to prolong its life. Because dirty windows can be break easily if a strong winds impacts it.

Some tips that you can use to clean your windows is use a streak-free glass cleaner spray, but don’t use too much. Use a new squeegee or change the rubber of your squeegee to make sure that it will stick on your windows while wiping it. Lastly, always make sure that you have two towels, one dry and one wet.

Always Green Cleaning Services Chicago is one of the best cleaning company when it comes to cleaning windows. They provide quality service in cleaning your windows and you will get the streak-free windows result.

5.       Make Cleaning Time, Fun Time

It is very rare to see a family that everyone have their task in house cleaning most especially if kids are all boys. But you can do something that will make them help you to clean the house. Make cleaning time, fun time meaning, create an activity that will require them to help you in cleaning the house or give them a reward after helping you. You are hitting two birds in one stone, you already clean the house and you were able to have quality time with your family.