Cleaning services can help you keep your home spotlessly clean and tidy, but to achieve this consistently, it’s usually necessary to do a few little things between their visits.
From creating a daily routine and delegating chores, to maximizing storage, here are 8 ways to maintain your home’s cleanliness between visits from a cleaning service:
- Set up a daily cleaning routine
It needn’t involve many cleaning chores, but setting up a routine in which you clean a little on the days between scheduled visits from a cleaning service, can help you maintain cleanliness and a sense of order. Small acts such as making your bed every day, tidying up common areas and wiping high-touch surfaces, can make a big difference, but doing them regularly is key.
- Declutter before a cleaning service visit, and between
It doesn’t take long for clutter to accumulate and make your home look a mess, even if it’s clean. Take a few minutes every day to pick up items and return them to their rightful spaces, or discard or donate them as appropriate.
- Invest in good quality cleaning services
Scheduling a cleaning service every day is one way to avoid having to buy your own cleaning supplies, but for most people, this isn’t affordable or practical. However, not much cleaning should be required if you schedule a weekly cleaning service, and a few basic supplies such as a multi-purpose cleaner, some microfiber cloths, and a vacuum cleaner (ideally with a HEPA filter) can help you keep your home spick and span between their visits.
- Don’t neglect high-touch areas
Although it can be tempting to leave everything to your cleaning service, sanitizing high-touch areas and surfaces between their visits is necessary if you want to keep your home germ-free and safe at all times.
- Assign chores to others
If you’re not the only person living in your home, then it’s perfectly reasonable to expect those whom you share your home with, to help out with the cleaning from time to time, even kids. Delegate age/health-appropriate chores to others in your household, and your home could be spotless, every day of the week.
- Set up a laundry routine
Letting laundry pile up is a surefire way to make your home look a mess, and your family members won’t thank you for it when they start running out of clean clothes! To avoid a pile of laundry accumulating, try to establish an organized routine for keeping on top of it, whether that be washing clothes one day and towels the next, or whatever.
- Make use of storage solutions
Fight clutter with storage solutions. Keeping crates, baskets and attractive boxes at strategic positions around your home, helps make it convenient to store items that would otherwise be sitting around gathering dust and making the place look untidy. And, the easier you make it for your cleaning service to do their work, the quicker they can be finished.
- Talk to your cleaning service
If you want a satisfactory experience when your cleaning service visits, be sure to communicate your needs to them, as well as making it clear what you don’t want cleaned, or areas of your home that may be off limits.
When you follow the advice given above, you’ll find that scheduling regular visits from a cleaning service helps keep your home in a healthy, comfortable and sweet-smelling state!
