Back to Basics

A clean home is essential to good health and comfortable living. No matter what time of year it is, it's always a great idea to get your dusters, vacuum and mop bucket out. However, it seems people are ever increasingly looking for shortcuts instead of tackling the problem at its roots.

Segment your Cleaning Jobs

Cleaning can be a time consuming task, but once you start segregating the big job into smaller ones, it can be a lot quicker and perhaps even enjoyable.

If you’re not a big fan of cleaning, why not put some fun into it? Get the family involved and start a little competition between one another, crank up the music or incorporate it into a fitness regime. Now that you’re in the mood, let’s get cleaning. If you want to thoroughly clean the home, it might be best to aim for a couple of rooms a day, but if you want to get the house back into shape, you’ll be surprised just how quickly you can do it.

Step 1 – De-clutter

This is probably one of the reasons why you haven’t begun cleaning. It can be discouraging when you see a mountain of papers and children’s toys strewn across the floor. However, when placing a refuse sack and large box in the middle of the room you will easily be able to differentiate between what’s rubbish and what’s not.

While you’re de-cluttering you will also be completing step two, tidying up.

Step 2 – Tidying Up

Begin to organise what you’re keeping, putting loose papers and important documents in folders, collecting books and placing them on shelves and so on. Put as much as you can away and in the rooms where they belong and finish by shaking the rugs and making beds.

Once you’ve finished tidying up have a cup of tea and marvel at your work. It looks better already, now we need to combat the dust!

Step 3 – Top to bottom

Clean room to room starting from the top and working your way down. Here are a few guides on the best cleaning practices for each room.