A total home deep clean takes the average homeowner a couple days to get through. After all, you’re going to pop your gloves on, get your cleaning cart ready to go, and attack every single room in your home with a scrubbing brush. Not even the dining table will be spared here!
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But to make sure your deep clean efforts are as efficient as they should be, we’ve compiled a small list of tasks you’ll need to remember to include. Writing a to-do list before conducting a total home deep clean is essential, and we highly recommend popping the items below on it as well.
Cleaning Behind Everything
No deep clean will ever be complete without pulling out the furniture, appliances, and doing your best to get behind the plumbing fixtures. It can get pretty dusty and grimey behind the toilet bowl!
Focus your efforts on these areas before you get to work on anywhere else; they’ll be the dirtiest, take up most of your time, and you won’t want to pull all that dirt out into a clean room you’ve just spent an hour on.
Getting Rid of Pests
How long has it been since you’ve done a pest inspection? Total home deep cleans are the best time to perform one, as you’ll be going over every room in your house with a fine tooth comb anyway.
Be on the lookout for droppings, dead bugs/old wings and carcasses, weird noises you can’t explain, and signs of damage to your walls and floors.
Isolated, these things may be one off issues you can just clear up. But if more than one appear together, be sure to call a pest control company to come out and investigate. Let them know the signs you’ve found and in what rooms, and then let them get to work doing this half of the deep clean for you.
Scrubbing Floors and Walls
And finally, make sure you don’t forget to scrub both the walls and the floors of your home during a deep clean. It might seem obvious to do this, but very often this task gets left off the list. After all, we don’t tend to think of the walls as being places that grime collects.
Unless there’s a noticeable darker patch you’d like to attack with some sugar soap, you’ll probably put your cleaning materials away without giving them a wipe down! The floor is more likely to get brushed and mopped, but be sure to incorporate the walls into this task as well.
You should be able to use a similar mop on the wall as well – just be sure to go over it again with a dry attachment to prevent water from collecting.
Cleaning your home from top to bottom is a lengthy job, so let’s make sure you only need to do it once per year! Don’t forget to include the tasks above on your cleaning to-do list; they’re essential, even if they take effort!
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