Spring cleaning services

It is that time of year again! As the winter nights begin to fade to warmer, longer spring days, many of us often choose this time for a big clean-up around the home. A big clean can be the perfect way to start spring off on the right note.

If you’re considering sorting out that dreaded wardrobe or finally organising your array of DVDs and games. Or, if you’re even planning on spring cleaning your entire home, we’re sure you’d like a few tips and tricks from professional cleaners to help make the process easier. Well, that’s what we’ve got for you below. If you’re planning a spring clean this year, these cleaning tips will help you make the most of your time. We also have the ultimate cleaning tip for spring cleaning at the end of this article which you shouldn’t miss out on!

Spring cleaning tips from professional cleaners

Create a cleaning plan

With a big job like spring cleaning, it is nearly impossible to complete it in a day or even a weekend. So, create a cleaning plan. Note down all of the cleaning processes that you need to do for every room. And then create a plan to tackle each room individually. So, for example, one day, you may focus on the kitchen and the master bedroom. The next day, you may focus on a kid’s bedroom and the bathroom, for example.

Having a cleaning plan in place ensures every member of the house knows what has been cleaned, what needs to be cleaned, and what cleaning processes need to take place in each room.

Start from the top

One of the best tips that pretty much every professional cleaner follows, and it is one that is instilled into every cleaning at Cleaning Express, is working from top to bottom. Let’s take a bookcase as an example. When dusting a bookcase, you should start from the top shelf and work towards the bottom. This ensures that any dust that falls during the cleaning process falls onto an area that is yet to be cleaned. This saves the need to go back over areas you’ve already cleaned.

Treat your entire home like that bookcase. If you are going to wipe your walls down, start here and allow all of the dust to fall on the carpets that haven’t been vacuumed yet. Vacuuming and mopping should always take place last, as this ensures you pick up all the dust and dirt that has fallen during the cleaning process.

Soaking times

Soaking times can be your best friend during a spring clean. Rather than waiting for things to soak, make the most out of the time. For example, if you need to soak the taps in the bathroom to remove the limescale, do this before any other cleaning task. While the taps are soaking, you can move on to another area of the bathroom. As the taps soak, you are cleaning everything else. When the taps are ready to be cleaned, it is the last step of the cleaning process.

Using soaking time to clean others areas in the same room or elsewhere in the house can save you a massive amount of waiting time and should be included in your cleaning plan from the beginning.

Make time for your walls and windows

The walls and windows of your home can hold quite an impressive amount of dust. This is particularly true if you have textured wallpaper, but all walls should be wiped down in every room during a spring clean. For most, a wipe or two with a microfibre cloth is all that’s needed. However, you may require some sugar soap if you notice some areas of staining.

Be ruthless

When you are organising or decluttering during a spring clean, it is often very difficult to get rid of things. A good rule to follow when decluttering if someone in the house is opposed to your throwing something away or donating it is to keep it for a set amount of time.

For example, when decluttering a wardrobe, if you find a pair of shoes someone hasn’t worn for several years, and you’d like to donate them but they say that they will wear them again. Leave them in a box under the bed or in the wardrobe and state that if they aren’t worn in three months, it is time to get rid of them. This can really help declutter a home when people are avoiding getting rid of things they probably won’t use in the future.

Don’t be afraid

With a proper cleaning plan in place, there’s no need to be afraid of the cleaning challenges that you are facing. While the massive amount of work that needs to be done seems scary, the individual cleaning tasks are really easy.

If you feel a bit overwhelmed, start with a simple cleaning task in the easiest room to complete. And if you still feel overwhelmed, stop and take a break. However, once one cleaning task is complete, you’ll likely put your mind at ease and realise that breaking down a spring clean into manageable individual cleaning tasks makes it a lot less stressful.

Get someone else to do the cleaning

Our final cleaning tip is a bit of shameless self-promotion as we are an award-winning cleaning company in London. If a spring clean does sound completely overwhelming to you and you simply do not have the time to do all of the cleaning involved, choose Cleaning Express to do it for you. An expert team of spring cleaners can come to your home and clean every room for you. You can learn more about our spring cleaning services under the deep cleaning section of our website.

Spring cleaning is a fantastic way of bringing your home back to life, decluttering it and ensuring it looks beautiful again. However, it is one of the biggest cleaning challenges most of us will face. So, get in touch with Cleaning Express to find out more about how we can help with your spring cleaning.