Whether you're cleaning up after a holiday or looking to transform the look and feel of your home quickly, Zerorez has expert-level cleaning tips that will help you develop a cleaning routine that will take your home to new heights in no time!
Say goodbye to time-consuming chores and hello to fast and easy ways to keep your home in tip-top shape!
Preparation is Key
1. Gather Essential Cleaning Tools
A quick and easy cleaning routine begins with having the proper tools on hand! Collect all the necessary cleaning supplies and put them in an easy-to-reach place, such as a portable cleaning caddy. This will help you avoid wasting time searching for everything you may need.
If you haven't already, it is usually a good idea to invest in varying-sized cleaning brushes to help reach small nooks and crannies. You want to find soft bristled brushes to avoid damaging any fragile surfaces.
Using paper towels, microfiber cloths, and clean rags helps you leave streaks behind and allows you to get your home deeply clean!
We recommend gathering the following cleaning supplies:
Clean rags, paper towels, microfiber cloths
Any all-purpose cleaner (make your own by mixing 1/4 c white vinegar with a dash of lemon or essential oil and 4 c water to create your own gentle, non-toxic cleaner)
Vacuum
Spray bottles
Soft-bristled brushes
2. Declutter Your Space
Once you have gathered the necessary cleaning tools, it's time to get started on decluttering.
There are many obvious benefits to decluttering your home, such as reducing stress and anxiety, but ultimately, it makes the biggest difference in the appearance of a clean house.
To make the process quick and easy, simply go room by room with a laundry basket, putting all the dirty laundry in the house fast. From there, clear off your counters and start loading things onto your cleaning caddy if they need to go into a different room to get put away. Putting things back where they belong is key to a cleaner home in no time at all!
Cleaning Strategies for the Entire House
3. Clean from Top to Bottom
This is the ultimate cleaning rule of thumb! If you remember, always work from top to bottom when cleaning. If you start by vacuuming and then clean the fan blades, you likely end up getting dust all over your freshly cleaned floors.
When you begin with the deeper cleaning tasks, look up! What is above you that could use some work? Are there cobwebs in the corners? Dust on the light bulbs?
Working from the top down in each room helps you avoid wasting time and eliminates redundant work. Once you have started working your way down, move from left to right to make sure you cover the entire room.
4. Use the Right Cleaning Products
Did you know that store-bought cleaning products are full of harsh chemicals? These chemicals can often leave a residue behind that ultimately attracts more dirt, dust, and grime to your surfaces. Making your own natural cleaning products is a cheap, easy, and healthier way of getting your home clean!
You can invest in non-toxic, chemical-free cleaners, or you can find ways to create your own. A great base to begin with is a 4:1 ratio of water and white vinegar. From there, you can add a little baking soda, lemon, or essential oils! This can help your home smell fresh by using fake fragrances.
An all-purpose cleaner is usually great for most surfaces, but we still recommend using toilet cleaner for the toilet bowl to keep things efficient and easy for yourself.
Deep Cleaning Tips
5. Focus on High-Traffic Areas
It's the places that you spend the most time in that experience the most wear. High-traffic areas like the kitchen, bathroom, and living room see lots of foot traffic and activity each day. Focusing on cleaning these areas helps make your cleaning routine more efficient, giving you the best results in a short amount of time.
Use your vacuum cleaner attachments to clean those hard-to-reach places like your kitchen cabinets and drawers, and then do a quick once-over on the floors.
If you have tile or wood floors, clean them with a damp cloth and your all-purpose cleaner using your foot on a rag to get them clean in no time.
6. Clean Hard-to-Reach Areas
What your vacuum cleaner attachments can't get, lint rollers can! Use a lint roller to clean lamp shades and upholstery to clear away any stray pet hair or crumbs that have found their way around your home.
Our ultimate cleaning hack is to use a rubber band to attach a rag or microfiber cloth to both sides of tongs and use that to wipe down your blinds. This is one of the fastest ways to get the job done!
Once you've got your lampshades, curtains, and couches looking refreshed, your home will feel so much more comfortable and put together.
Speed Cleaning Techniques
7. Use a 'One-Touch' Rule
Set it, and forget it! We like to use what we call a one-touch rule to clean. This means cleaning an area once and thoroughly and then moving on. There's no need to circle back or over-worry about the state of a room.
This can also translate to objects in your home. That means if you pick something up, you have to put it back where it belongs. Think of it as a game; if you touch an object more than once, you lose cleaning points!
8. Clean in Sections
Cleaning in sections makes your process more efficient, and it makes cleaning feel easier. If you have the time, divide your tasks into daily and weekly cleaning routines. You can even add monthly tasks to help make the workload feel more manageable.
Daily tasks might be an end-of-the-day quick pickup, folding laundry, and cleaning the kitchen counters. Weekly tasks would be cleaning the toilet, vacuuming, and dusting. Monthly tasks can be more of the deep cleaning tasks like cleaning your oven, cleaning out your cupboards, and forming donation piles of clothes or unused toys and household items.
Use a timer to challenge yourself to clean as much as you can in a certain amount of time. You can allot 20-30 minutes per room to keep yourself on track!
Final Touches
9. Take a Final Walk-Through
Checking out your space once you're done not only allows you to see anything you might have missed but it also gives you the satisfaction of observing and enjoying a clean house. Make sure everything is clean and tidy, and check for dirty dishes or laundry that needs to be done.
Once everything looks spick and span, you can give yourself a big pat on the back!
10. Call in Zerorez
For the ultimate quick cleaning hack, call in the experts at Zerorez. Your home looks and feels its cleanest when your floors are brighter and cleaner. From carpet cleaning to tile and grout cleaning, the experts at Zerorez can help take your home to cleaner heights in just a few hours!
Get in touch with our cleaning experts to achieve the ultimate clean home so you can relax and tackle the small stuff!