General cleaning: how to quickly clean an apartment

Recommendation points

• Organization, planning of general cleaning
• Detergents, disinfectants
• Cleaning aids
• Home mechanisms
• conclusions

General cleaning, using wet and dry rags, soapy water, is unlikely to bring the desired result, taking away a lot of time and effort. The use of special tools and the simplest mechanical devices will help remove dirt and unpleasant odors, make cleaning faster and more productive.

After daily or weekly cleaning, there are always unfinished work, uncleaned areas of the apartment. It is impossible to do a comprehensive spring cleaning in one day, but preliminary planning will help to carry out the maximum amount of work with good quality.

Organization, planning of general cleaning

The frequency of general cleaning is individual for each family. Cleaning planning should be read in advance, 3-4 days in advance. This will help to inspect the apartment, determine the order of work. Some operations are included in the plan automatically (cleaning floors, windows, kitchen equipment, dust removal). Other types of cleaning are performed quite rarely (cleaning the tile seams in the bathroom, revising kitchen cabinets, washing baseboards with rearranging furniture), they can be divided into several general cleaning.

When planning it is necessary:

• write down the plan on paper (makes it possible to add forgotten points);
• determine the order of work (in decreasing order of importance);
• identify specific jobs for all family members;
• check the availability of detergents (brushes, napkins, rubber gloves), schedule them for certain types of work, purchase the necessary.

A written plan will help you carry out preliminary work. For example, before washing windows, you can remove the curtains and curtains in advance. This will allow you to wash and iron them in advance. It doesn’t take long to attach clean curtains to the eaves during cleaning.

There is a method of dividing an apartment into separate zones, comparable in area, volume of work. Using this technique, you can painlessly break the general cleaning into several feasible cleanings, completing it in one or two Saturdays. This makes it possible to do work that “hands do not reach”: wash the computer, put things in order in the kitchen drawers, behind the technological holes of the bath.

The housewife undertakes most of the work, but all family members must participate in the cleaning. Think about work for a man (knocking carpets, moving furniture), feasible tasks for children.

In cleaning, it is useful to alternate stages that require a significant effort (like cleaning floors), with quiet work (organizing things in boxes). This will help to distribute strength throughout the day, to avoid excessive fatigue. Don’t avoid jobs you hate. The biggest enemy of cleanliness is dirty objects hidden in distant boxes.

Detergents, disinfectants

Many housewives are moving away from all-purpose detergents, following the example of professional cleaning. Professionals use special products for various surfaces that clean them as efficiently as possible with minimal consumption.

So, for polishing furniture, cleaning parquet, wall surfaces, you need products with a strong antistatic effect that prevents the deposition of dust. You must be especially careful when choosing liquids to eliminate odors that can cause allergies. Experienced users buy packages of minimum volume for practical acquaintance.

For example, cleansing creams based on chalk milk do not contain chlorine, fragrances, phosphates, and are made from substances of mineral and vegetable origin. They do not leave streaks, scratches on enamel, glass of kitchen equipment.

When choosing detergents “word of mouth” is effective, recommendations of friends who are convinced of the benefits of using a new cleaner. Special means of imported production are quite expensive, but with economical, targeted use, a small package is enough for a year. It is unreasonable to buy concentrated formulations of large containers, because they are intended for professionals, and the savings will turn out to be imaginary.

Cleaning aids

Ordinary mops, rags, brooms, brushes are in every home. For many cleaning operations, traditional tools are sufficient. But even an ordinary mop can be improved. Convenient squeezing mops with a special absorbent sponge, two rollers. The device does not require wringing out the rag by hand, it can be used with chemicals.

In stepped, embossed surfaces of household equipment, cracks in parquet, skirting boards, accumulated dirt must be cleaned with a brush (metal scrapers are unsuitable, they scratch materials, destroy the adhesive layer).

Instead of buying a dozen brushes (oval, rectangular, U-shaped), many housewives prefer to buy a universal brush with removable attachments. Typically these brushes have a telescopic handle for easy access to the corners underneath furniture. When choosing a universal brush, pay attention to the reliability, the durability of the fastening mechanism is the weakest point of such structures.

Convenient napkins made of microfiber, spunlace, teflon, bamboo fiber. The cleaning surface of these wipes is composed of microfiber, similar to a soft abrasive. For some types of cleaning, separate tools are required. So, furniture polishing is facilitated by a special sponge, which is stored in a tube with polishing paste. After polishing, such a sponge does not dry out, it is used repeatedly.

Home mechanisms

It is hardly rational to purchase professional cleaning mechanisms for cleaning with occasional use. Also, automatic vacuum cleaners-robots will not help in general cleaning..

For large apartments with a variety of floor coverings, a washing vacuum cleaner will be an excellent assistant, for which wet cleaning of most types of carpets, linoleum, tiled, stone-lined floors and walls is available. The vacuum cleaner reservoir can be filled with detergents with disinfectants. It is not recommended to use the mechanism for cleaning parquet, natural jute, materials with foam bases..

An ordinary vacuum cleaner is sufficient for cleaning small apartments. After removing the dust, wash the floors, you can polish the furniture by hand. With a standard vacuum cleaner, you can clean carpets, carpets with a short pile, although most housewives prefer to knock out carpets with a long pile by hand.

conclusions

Having correctly planned the general cleaning, you will be able to carry out all the planned work in one day, without extreme exertion. Preliminary preparation will help to efficiently use working time, leaving only finishing operations. The quality of cleaning is ensured by the correct choice of detergents and devices. Rotation of work and the help of all family members will make the most difficult house cleaning easier.