Clean tools really are the key to a clean home, and if you don’t clean your tools regularly, you could be making your home dirtier, not cleaner! To help you clean your home more effectively and hygienically, here are some simple tips for keeping your tools clean:
Cleaning can be a real chore, but a necessity unless we want to live among filth and grime. However, just because it’s a necessity, doesn’t mean that it should take up much of our time, in fact, most of us want it done and ‘dusted’ as quickly as possible.
Keeping a clean and healthy home is necessary if we’re to keep ourselves clean and healthy, too, but with harsh chemicals often used, could we be doing more harm than good to ourselves and the environment?
Keeping a clean and healthy home is necessary if we’re to keep ourselves clean and healthy, too, but with harsh chemicals often used, could we be doing more harm than good to ourselves and the environment?
In many households, dishwashers are used virtually every day, and sometimes multiple times a day. While they’re a remarkable invention that have undoubtedly made our lives easier, it’s important not to take them for granted. Dishwashers need to be able to clean the dishes properly, and so you must ensure that the machine itself is also kept clean and maintained well.
Sometimes, even the tamest of parties can create the biggest of messes, and whatever your reason for hosting a party at your home, these tips can help you clean the place up in next to no time:
Pets are cherished by many, and while we may be happy to share our hearts and homes with them, we may not be quite so thrilled about the mess they can make, and the smells they can leave behind!
Even if you’re not particularly aware that your home is cluttered – or are aware and simply don’t care – it will inevitably be having an effect on your state of mind, and could mean that you’re living in an unclean home, too.
Keeping your kitchen clean can be a real bore, and difficult to stay on top of if you live in a multiple occupancy household, or are a messy cook! With these kitchen cleaning hacks however; you can make light work of your kitchen cleaning duties:
Unexpected guests can send you into a panic; you haven’t had time to clean all week and the house is a mess! However, unexpected guests usually give at least a couple of hours’ notice, and fortunately, that’s all the time you need to carry out a last-minute messy home makeover, and here’s how:
There’s nothing more attractive in a home than a beautiful, clean tiled floor, but when dirty, stained grouting becomes a problem, it can quickly spoil the look of it.
Wet weather can wreak havoc on our nice, clean homes, and soon have us tearing our hair out as fresh muddy pawprints and dirt find their way inside – and in next to no time, throughout the entire house.
While there’s no accounting for some people who choose to rock up on your doorstep without so much as a prior phone call, and little you can do to make your house presentable having had absolutely no notice of their impending arrival, other types of last-minute guests can easily be catered for when it comes to welcoming them into a clean home.
While chemical cleaning products are effective at killing germs and viruses on most surfaces in the home, they can be damaging both to the environment, and our health. So, what can you use to get your home clean that doesn’t involve chemicals?
Fortunately, getting your grubby oven spotlessly clean doesn’t have to involve the use of harsh chemicals that are both bad for our health, and that of the environment, and are inexpensive, too.
While spring cleaning is an important task that many of us strive to undertake each year, fall cleaning is equally important. Once the weather starts cooling down and we move our social gatherings and family get togethers inside of the home, we want to make sure that we’re all clean and tidy. The holidays will soon be here, and nothing can dampen our festive spirits more than a dusty, dirty home.
Are you planning a bathroom renovation or remodel and want the space to be as easy to clean as possible? Well, with the following tips, you could achieve exactly that:
If cleaning your kitchen is a mammoth task that you’d rather not face each day, week or month, then try hiring a professional cleaning company to come in and take care of it for you. If you prefer to clean your kitchen yourself, the following six tips are a great place to start:
For many, cleaning services are viewed as anything but essential; something only the very wealthy, famous or lazy would spend their money on. But the reality is really quite different.
Dirty floors in a home can quickly become an eyesore, not to mention the fact that they can play host to harmful germs and bacteria. However, they can also be a bit of a chore to clean, and many of us put off doing it because of the effort it requires.
Of course, spring cleaning doesn’t have to happen only in the springtime, and if you’re a senior person looking to tackle some long overdue cleaning tasks in your home, no matter what the season, here are some handy tips:
Depending on how many people are using your kitchen, and how messy they are, kitchen cleaning can be an arduous task. But, with a little planning and use of the following tips, it doesn’t have to be quite such a chore:
Even if your home doesn’t have multiple occupants, it will still need to be cleaned regularly to keep it sanitary and hygienic, and the longer you leave your bathroom uncleaned, the bigger the task will be.
The most effective way to keep your home clean and tidy for longer, is to quickly clean rooms according to a schedule. For example, Mondays might be the day you clean the bathroom, while Wednesdays is kitchen cleaning day, and you’ll soon find that if you stick to a routine and don’t neglect it, each space in your home will stay cleaner, for longer.
Spring has well and truly sprung and it’s time to dig out the dusters and unveil the vacuum cleaner! Don an old set of clothes, gather together your cleaning materials and get ready to clean with these top tips for spring cleaning:
Keeping your bathroom clean doesn’t have to cost the Earth – in more ways than one – and with these budget busting tips for cleaning your bathroom using natural products, you can help save money, and the planet.
For those of you with busy schedules (and let’s face it, that’s most of us these days!), cleaning your bathroom every day simply isn’t realistic, and for some, even getting it done once a week can be a struggle. While some may hire a professional cleaner to help them keep their bathroom clean, others may prefer to do it themselves. For those individuals, the following guidance may prove helpful in determining whether you’re cleaning your bathroom often enough:
Does cleaning your oven fill you with a deep sense of dread? Do you know how grubby your oven is inside but haven’t had the courage to tackle it yet? No matter what state your oven is in, cleaning it doesn’t have to be a chore that you keep putting off. With the following simple cleaning tips, you can get your oven positively sparkling again, and all with the minimum of fuss:
Now’s there no doubt that cleaning should be a regular occurrence, and there are many items and areas in the home that should be cleaned every day. However, knowing what you should be cleaning, and being organized enough to make sure it happens when it should, are two very different things!
Clean floors are the sign of a clean home, and you can bet your bottom dollar that if your floors aren’t spotless, it will be the first thing visitors notice!
Bathrooms are used frequently, and let’s face it, a lot of grime passes through them every day! Keeping them hygienically clean is important, especially if we want to keep them as rooms that we can safely use and not risk picking up bacteria from, and not feel embarrassed about when guests ask to use it!
With a little bit of organization, and just a pinch more dedication, you can get your home spotless, and keep it that way! Sound too good to be true? It doesn’t have to be.
Life can be tough for teenagers, even if as adults, we know deep down that life is only going to get tougher! With raging hormones and stress surrounding school or college, teenagers often struggle to find the energy, let alone the will to keep their rooms clean, and often require a lot of motivation from their parents or caregivers.
Scrubbing toilets and grappling with pesky mildew stains is hardly anyone’s idea of fun, but thankfully there are certain tips you can follow for making cleaning your bathroom, less of a chore; here are 8 of the best:
Moms these days are ‘jacks of all trades’, and are often expected to work, maintain a household and keep a clean home, all at the same time! While many moms revel in their responsibilities, others want to fulfil their multiple roles, but simply can’t find the time to fit them all in, and this can be frustrating and stressful. One simple way of staying on top of everything as a busy mom, is to follow these quick and easy cleaning tips:
Welcoming a new baby into the home is a wonderful occasion for the whole family, but it’s important not to neglect cleanliness, and to remember that tiny tots have extremely delicate bodies and weak immune systems.
Getting your bathroom clean doesn’t have to mean spending hours scrubbing and bleaching, and with these handy tips, you can get the job done in a lot less time:
We often jokingly refer to professional cleaners as being ‘fairies’, as if in some way they secretly enter our homes while we’re sleeping and make all our cleaning catastrophes and dirt disasters look as if they never happened. This is not the reality, of course, but since they so often help us with tasks we are not keen to carry out ourselves, and do such a great job of it, we are inclined to view them as mythical creatures!
While we all do our best to keep our homes clean, all too often we focus only on the bigger cleaning tasks and tend to forget about the other, smaller but no less important cleaning tasks. To make sure your home is thoroughly clean, try to focus on the following 13 things along with your other, regular tasks:
The current global pandemic has taught us all a lot about germs and how they can so easily be spread from person to person, or by touching contaminated objects, and many people now want to know how they can ensure that their homes remain hygienically clean. With the Covid-19 virus able to survive on some surfaces for several hours or even days, keeping a clean home has never been more important.
Nobody enjoys cleaning their bathroom, but as it’s one of the most frequently used rooms in the home, it’s an unfortunate necessity. The following seven tips, however, will help you clean your bathroom quickly and effectively and help keep hygiene levels up:
To all the parents of teenagers out there; we feel your pain! However, getting your teenager to clean their room doesn’t have to be a constant battle, and with the help of the following tips, you can soon be on the way to achieving a non-hazardous bedroom for your teen that is relatively tidy (emphasis on relatively!):
Sometimes, cleaning can become a bit overwhelming, and without any organisation and pre-planning, it can be a struggle to keep on top of everything. However, by giving certain cleaning tasks a schedule, it can be easier to organize your cleaning and keep your home spick and span all of the time.
Arguments in the average household often center around cleaning: who hasn’t taken out the trash, which child hasn’t cleaned their room or whose turn is it to do the dishes, and it can cause a lot of stress! However, there are ways to stress less about cleaning, and to not have your entire household argue about it hour after hour, day after day.
Cleaning your home can be an unforgiving task, and one that you probably don’t relish, however, there are a few simple steps you can follow to get the job done quickly and efficiently:
Pets make a home complete, but the smell they leave behind is not quite as welcome! Fortunately, by following these 9 tips, you can keep your home clean, even with pets:
There’s nothing new about making resolutions as the next year approaches, and there’s nothing new about not being able to stick to them, either! With all the best intentions in the world, millions of resolutions get made and broken every year, and if you’ve decided to make 2022 the year that your home gets properly cleaned, and stays that way, you can break that trend by following these tips to make your new year cleaning resolutions, stick:
Kitchens can be such hectic places, full of various bits of machinery and equipment, and often seeing a lot of footfall throughout the day and can prove tricky to keep clean. However, with a little guidance and a plan to stick to, there’s no reason why your kitchen can’t be clean and tidy every day of the week:
Housework is a necessity, but something that often gets diverted to the bottom of our ever-growing to-do lists. Keeping a clean home is time consuming, and many modern but houseproud Americans, simply can’t find the time to squeeze it into their busy schedules. However, by tackling one room at a time and spending no longer than an hour doing it, it’s possible to get your entire home clean every week, and keep it that way for longer.
The period after the holidays can be a depressing time for many, and not least because of all the decorations that have to be taken down, the tree that has to be gotten rid of or dismantled, and the cleaning of the entire home that needs to be done after visitors and excited kids have taken their toll!
Hate cleaning? Join the club! However, unless you’re fortunate enough (and wise enough!) to already be using the services of a professional cleaning company (or have a really busy household and need help in between their visits), you’ll need to do some cleaning to prevent your home from becoming a health hazard, and with these 7 simple tips, you could get the job done in half the time:
There is nothing wrong with having a busy lifestyle, and often this is a result of someone juggling many aspects of their life, such as a full-time job, childcare and hobbies and pastimes. However, such a lifestyle is not conducive to a clean and tidy home, and many folks can become upset and frustrated when cleaning tasks take up too much time.
Since a washing machine is there to wash our dirty laundry, it can be easy to forget – or not even realise – that the machine itself should be cleaned, too. However, despite the fact that we use detergents to keep our clothes clean, these can in fact build up over time inside the machine, causing a combination of soap residue and minerals to clog it up and prevent it from washing as efficiently as it should.
No matter how much you try to keep your home clean and tidy, there will be times when you’re too tired, too busy or simply too under motivated to keep on top of things, and things can quickly escalate until your home is looking cluttered and dirty. So, if your home has gotten into a bad state and you need to give it a deeper clean, here are a few simple tips:
Cats are wonderful creatures, and many of us love them and have them as pets, however, they can make your home smelly and cause issues with their pet dander. Just because you love your pet cats, doesn’t mean that you have to let them inadvertently spoil your home, so follow the below tips for keeping a clean home that is welcoming to both your pets, and visitors:
You may think you do a good job of keeping your home hygienically clean, but could there be any areas that don’t get the attention they deserve? Or any spots you simply forget to clean during your usual routine?