Perfect Clean Home

Dust seems to be everywhere, especially when you hate to dust. It accumulates in a home at an amazing pace.

Obviously, dusting has to be done. Here's how to keep dusting time down to the bare minimum.

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First, always remember to dust top-down. You should always start with cobwebs on the ceiling, then move to fixtures, then high shelves, then tables and furniture, then finally chairs.

The next thing to do in your battle against dust is to break out the vacuum. The floor is your next surface. It seems weird to think of dusting a floor, but when you vacuum that's pretty much what you are doing. When you dust surfaces, all of the dust you remove that doesn't cling to your duster or cloth ends up on the floor. If you vacuum after you dust, you'll keep the dust from resettling on the surfaces in your home.

Another important thing to remember is that dry dust cloths don't do a very good job. In general, they just move the dust around, rather than removing any of it. You should be using a wet dust cloth, not a dry one, so that dust will cling.

When you wet your cloth, wring it back out. The goal is that it will be wet and dust will cling to it. You don't want it sopping wet and making the dust into mud! If the cloth gets too dirty, you may need to change it out or clean it before continuing.

The best idea is to try to cut down the amount of dust that is going to accumulate in your house in the first place. A good air filter will really help cut down on the dust you'll see in your home, as will not smoking in your home. And remember to air out the home every so often. Open your windows and let air flow through, this really helps.

If you are still finding yourself spending a lot of time dusting, or looking at everything you have to dust and giving up, ask yourself if you have a clutter or knickknack issue. If you can't stay on top of your dusting because of too many knickknacks, get rid of some of them. Knickknacks have become clutter when they are hard to maintain and just collecting dust.

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If you are getting ready to sell your home and you want to make it look great and improve the value of your home at the same time, you should look into grout cleaning. Often, grout cleaning is something that is overlooked when people are getting ready to sell their homes, but the payoff is great it they take the time to have grout cleaning done. Tile can look very good or very bad depending on the grout that is between the tiles, so in order to make your tile look great you will want to have grout cleaning performed in your home.

Better Looks:

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One reason that grout cleaning can help you add value to your home is because of the way it looks. When people are looking at your home and they see tile that has grout that is moldy or that looks very dirty, they will probably think that the tile is quite old, even if it is not. On the other hand, grout that is clean and looking great can make the tile look newer and make people think that it is worth more. If you want the grout in your home to look its best, you need to have grout cleaning done to make it look great to those who will be viewing your home.

Bad Grout Cleaning Can Cost You:

If you want to add value to your home, you will want to make sure that your grout cleaning is done by a professional in grout cleaning that knows what he or she is doing. You may be tempted to use some do-it-yourself methods on your grout or to use some method of grout cleaning that you heard about on TV. It is important to note that if you mess up when you are grout cleaning, it will probably cost you money. Doing grout cleaning by yourself can lead to ruining the grout or making it look even worse. If you ruin the grout, you may have to have it fixed, which can cost you a great deal of money. If you want to cash in on the benefits of grout cleaning, you should let a professional do the job.

Cleanliness Lets People Know You Care:

Another reason that grout cleaning can add value to your home is that when people see that you care about keeping things clean, they know that you have cared for the home and are more willing to pay more money for it. If a home looks like no one has cared about keeping it clean, even a home of great value can go for a much cheaper price. A home that is kept clean and looks like it has been cared for can get a great deal more money on the market, and grout cleaning is a great way to make your home look clean and cared for. Even if your home is clean, grout that is dirty can make the rest of your home look dirty as well. Grout cleaning is a simple way to help your whole home look clean and cared

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If even the thought of cleaning your home is so overwhelming that you put off household cleaning at all. This tutorial is for you.

Is your house in such a mess that you don't invite anyone to come to your house because there is no place to sit and the floor is full of clutter so there is no clear path.

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Let's see where should we start? Well, where do your guests first enter your home? What is the first area they see? Probably the living room, so lets start there. First you will need to gather trash bags, storage bins, and a strong need to get this household clean and neat.

Are you still with me? How do we tackle this living room, I see no empty corner anywhere, no sitting surface is empty, and no horizontal tops are clear of clutter. What do you think we should do first?

Yes, you are right. Lets start with trash bag in hand and throw away all the trash. Yes, I see that wrapper sitting on the floor, and that empty chip bag. Be ruthless, pick up every thing that is obviously trash,. Oh yes, take that what do you call it for the thingy that you don't have anymore. Out with it.

Now line up your storage containers or bags or whatever you are using: Mark one for each room of the house, mark one for donations, and possibly one for yard sale. Yes, you may have one container for things that you must keep but don't know what to do with it, one container that's it. You are now ready. Any item that does not belong in the living room goes into one of the bags or containers-yes everything. Remember we already started a trash bag. Starting from the exterior door to interior door leading to the hall or next room. Make fast decisions, the more you think about each item the harder it is to rid yourself of it.

All right we have spent 15 minutes picking things up and what a difference it has made. Now take each container to the proper room, the trash bag goes to the dumpster, the donation bag can go out to shed or car port for now. The room is navigational now, meaning you can actually walk through the room. Great, get out the vacuum and the accessories and start with the top of room and dust the ceiling coming down the walls and dust the tops of the furniture and all the upholstered furniture also. Thirty minutes and you have one room clean and comfortable. The deep cleaning needs to wait a while. The household needed surfaced cleaning before we spend a lot of time in any one room.

Before we go to the next room. Sit down in your favorite chair, and look around you. Looks great doesn't it, feels great too. This is your reward and incentive to move to the next room.

Next lets tackle the bathroom, we will follow the same procedure: trash out first, items that belong in other rooms go there, anything that is not being used is out. Dirty towels and laundry don't belong in the bathroom, unless this is your central dirty laundry collection point, and even then all laundry is in a hamper, not the floor or door knobs, or over the tub. It is looking good, Use your all-purpose cleaning spray and spray down the tub, toilet, and sink, spray the toilet cleaner under the rim, shut the lid. Now get your vacuum and starting at the ceiling work down. Sweep or vacuum the floor being sure to pick up throw rugs first. By now your cleaner has had time to work, wipe out the tub, sink, and outside of the toilet. No real scrubbing needed because your cleaner had time to soften up all the gunk. All that is left is use the toilet brush to swish out the toilet and flush. Use a window cleaner or better use a soft rag with some rubbing alcohol on it and clean the mirror. Two rooms down.

Next the kitchen, collect all dirty dishes and put them in the dishwasher if you have one, if not fill a dish pan with hot soapy water and put the dishes in. Now we will do the same thing as we have done with the other rooms, throw away, put away, give away, or place in the one container to go through later. so far we have about one hour invested and well on the way of having 3 clean rooms. We will continue to work through the house this way until each room is comfortable.

In the bedrooms again we will gather all the trash and pick up any items that do not belong in the bedroom. Next make the bed, pick up any dirty laundry and hang up any clothes that needs hanging in the closet or folded and placed in the drawers. Vacuum and/or sweep the floors.

Maintaining the house is no longer an overwhelming task, true it is not thoroughly and properly cleaned. We have made a great start and now need to schedule your deep cleaning, and make a daily household schedule to keep up what you accomplished today. Once the house is presentable it is so much easier to keep it that way. Clean as you go, and your home will not get out of control and household cleaning is then a manageable skill.

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