How to Keep Your Home Sparkling Clean Between Professional Cleanings

If you’ve ever looked around your home wondering how it got so messy despite regular professional cleanings, you’re not alone. In this blog, we will share our home cleaning tips on how to keep your home sparkling clean between professional cleanings with minimal effort.

Home cleaning tips #1: Improve your daily cleaning habits

We know. You’ve hired residential maid services, so you don’t have to clean. We understand, but there isn’t a way to completely avoid cleaning. So, how can you reduce the effort to make the most of your professional cleaners? Improve your daily cleaning habits. Here are a few simple suggestions:

• Keep cleaning wipes handy so you can wipe up messes as they occur, whether it’s that glob of toothpaste in the bathroom sink or a drip of coffee on your kitchen counter.
• Keep your laundry hamper in the area where you usually change your clothes so you can easily drop dirty clothes in the bin as opposed to on the floor or tossed over a chair.
• If you use something, put it away. If you don’t need something, throw it away.
• Have everyone in the household, whether it’s roommates, kids, or your partner, follow the same rules.

Home cleaning tips #2: Clean as you go

Building on tip #1, cleaning as you go makes home maintenance easier. For example, if you have breakfast before going to work or school, don’t leave your cereal bowl in the sink. Either place it in the dishwasher or rinse it out and put it on the dish rack to keep dirty dishes to a minimum.

If you toss something in the laundry hamper and notice it’s full, before making dinner or sitting down to stream your favourite show, put a load of laundry on to multitask. After you make dinner, quickly sweep the floor to reduce crumbs. It’s all about keeping on top of things to reduce mess and dirt.

Home cleaning tips #3: Declutter

Decluttering is a big job that is worth your time and effort. It reduces the amount of stuff in your home, freeing up storage and helping to keep things tidy. Decluttering is also very therapeutic, allowing you to purge your home of all the things you don’t need. 

It doesn’t have to be done all at once. You can either choose a weekend to do it all in one go, or do it room by room. Either way, the goal is to go through your closets, drawers, and cupboards and get rid of anything you don’t use or need. If it’s useless, toss it. If it’s still in good condition, consider giving it away or selling it. You can then organize your drawers, shelves, and closet space using items like baskets and hanging shoe racks.

Home cleaning tips #4: Tackle little tasks here and there

You can keep your home looking its best by tackling small tasks when you have a minute. For example, if you pop in some toast for breakfast, maybe your counters or sink could use a good wipe-down as you wait. If you’re watching TV, why not pick up after yourself, sort messy paperwork and newspapers, or dust? These little tasks keep your home tidier between cleanings with little effort.

Home cleaning tips #5: Complete the job

Laundry tends to be a culprit in the whole keeping-the-home-clean challenge. Many people tend to do the first two steps to get the clothes clean and dry, but don’t have the follow-through to fold and put the clothes away. By completing the job, you don’t allow your daily cleaning habits to get the better of you.

You have to admit it’s frustrating to open the dryer to find the last load staring at you. When jobs aren’t complete, it slows you down and adds one more thing to do at that moment. Why not fold your clothes once the load is dry while watching TV or listening to your favourite podcast? You enjoy some downtime, get the job done, and make the next load of laundry easier.

Home cleaning tips #6: Manage pet stains and hair

Love your pet, but hate their messes? Daily cleaning habits that tackle pet stains when they happen can go a long way in keeping your home clean and smelling fresh. Although stains often happen when you’re not home, if you clean them as soon as you see them, you can avoid smells setting in and often eliminate the stain while you’re at it.

An enzymatic cleaner helps fight pet stains and odours. For pet hair, a handy tip is to use a rubber glove to remove hair from soft surfaces, like the couch. You can also invest in an extendable rubber squeegee to remove pet hair not only from furnishings, but also from carpets, curtains, floors, and more.

Home cleaning tips #7: Increase residential maid services

This might sound like a self-plug, but it makes sense that if you find keeping your home clean between professional cleanings difficult, you might need to increase how frequently your cleaners come in.

Setting your cleaning schedule on autopilot is the best way to maintain a cleaner home. If you currently have recurring cleaners come in once a month, change it to twice a month. If they are coming biweekly, increase that to weekly.

Home cleaning tips #8: Use deep cleaning residential maid services

Another option is to consider adding a monthly deep cleaning service to your professional cleaning schedule. For example, our custom deep cleaning service removes dirt, dust, stains, and grime to create a spotless foundation that makes your in-between cleaning and weekly or bi-weekly professional cleanings easier.

Basic cleanings tackle the day-to-day messes, while deep cleaning addresses messier, dirtier scenarios that occur when a busier or more social lifestyle keeps interfering with your daily cleaning habits.

Contact Maid4Condos for Expert Scarborough House Cleaning

Using these tips can make a big difference in the level of cleanliness for your home. The better you become with your daily cleaning habits, the less effort it will take to maintain a sparkling clean home. It also helps to ensure your professional cleaning schedule suits your lifestyle.

Maid4Condos offers recurring residential cleaning schedules to help maintain a clean home. Click here for more information. You can also call us at 647-822-0601 or contact us online.