Khadamat's 10 best cleaning tips for professional house cleaning

 

Khadamat, a professional cleaning services providing company shares some great cleaning tips to keep the houses clean and tidy.

1. Keep your cleaning tools where you intend to use. “Not just the cleaning products, which everyone has under every sink, but the rags too!” said Dougherty, author of "The Lost Art of Housecleaning." “Can’t do much with the product if you don't have the rags to finish the job!”

2. Simplify products. If you need a different product for every item in every room, it’s not efficient, said Dougherty, who only uses three products to remove dirt and grease from almost every surface.

3. Stock up on rubber gloves and microfiber cloths. “Rubber gloves help you move through your icky cleaning tasks uninhibited,” said McGee, author of "Get Your House Clean Now: The Home Cleaning Method Anyone Can Master." “Microfiber cloths work for majority of tasks from kitchen and bath to dusting.”

4. Turn on the music — loud! Even cleaning ladies want to have fun while they clean. “Put on something that makes you want to move, something that gets your pulse racing,” Dougherty said. “It needs to be loud enough to hear above the vacuum.”

5. Don’t put off cleaning showers and bathtubs. “Do this task at a minimum every other week to make it less painful,” McGee said. “Use a product you know will work best on your surfaces and a microfiber cloth. It covers more area, more efficiently, in less time.”

6. Only clean when it’s super light. “Open all the drapes, blinds and shades or turn on all the lights,” Dougherty said. “All cleaning should be finished by 3 p.m. because after that time, the light starts to fade and you don’t see the dirt with the same clarity as you did at 10 a.m.”

7. Don’t get bogged down with picking up clutter. “Until you can spend a day getting your clutter under control, work around it,” McGee said. “Pick up light piles of mail, magazines, etc., and wipe under and all around. Then move on. Plan a separate time to tackle your clutter and devise a practice of keeping it under control.”

8. Follow a cleaning “path.” In a cleaner's house, there's always a strategy. Dougherty, for example, cleans from top to bottom, back of a room to front, and in “slices,” moving in one direction around the room, finishing the floor last. “By starting high in a room, all the dirt will fall down onto those things you have not cleaned yet,” Dougherty said.

To determine your “slices,” she suggests walking around your room and visualizing areas no wider than your arms stretched out from your body or as defined by a piece of furniture or architectural detail. Then you clean everything in a slice completely and thoroughly, working top to bottom, before moving on to the next slice like professional home cleaners do.

“The simplicity of ‘the path’ is that once you finish a slice, you don’t have to think, you just keep moving forward,” Dougherty said. “What you have to do now and what you have to do next is defined.”

9. Start with the worst thing in the room. “If you clean the worst thing in the room first, then the rest of the room is a skate,” Dougherty said. “In the kitchen, this is the slice that has the range. In the bathroom, that is the shower. In other spaces, that is probably the ceiling fan or chandelier. You don’t want to tackle the range slice two to three hours into the kitchen. You’ll probably never finish and if you do the results will probably be iffy.”

10. Plan ahead to mitigate dust. “Keep windows closed during high dust or pollen times and put filters on air inputs in your home,” McGee said. “Keep clutter to a minimum as it seems to breed dust. If you have light-colored or non-shiny dark furniture, dust won’t collect any less. However, it will be less noticeable!”