Cleaning a home is about more than making it look neat. A cleaner home is actually a safer home.
Around 80 percent of people are exposed to dust mites in their homes leading to allergic reactions. Take a look at these deep cleaning ideas to help make your home spotless and allergen-free.
What is a Deep Clean?
Most people associate spring cleaning with deep cleaning. A deep cleaning happens when you clean, sanitize, and organize every corner of a room.
As pests of all sizes find food around your home, they’re more likely to bring diseases with them that might be harmful to humans. The goal of deep cleaning is to give your home the top to bottom refresh it deserves while getting rid of any potential health risks.
Use a Checklist
Deep cleaning can quickly get overwhelming without a plan. Use a cleaning checklist that goes room by room to help you get started.
Your goal in every room you enter is to sanitize every surface in the room and get rid of the trash, unused items while you organize. It’s a very complex goal that needs your undivided attention.
Guard against trying to deep clean one room over multiple days. Instead, set aside at least four hours to deep clean one room in your home to give the process your full attention.
Leave things like doing laundry and changing your bedsheets until last. Use this article for tips on cleaning specialty items like your bath pillow.
Deep Cleaning Ideas for the Kitchen
There are areas of your home you might have to skip during a deep cleaning to save time. The kitchen is not one of them.
Getting rid of toxins in your kitchen is one of the simplest ways to get rid of potential health risks. The best way to get started deep cleaning a kitchen is to think ‘top to bottom’ then ‘inside out.’ You might be wondering, why do I have cockroaches in the kitchen, when everything on the surface looks clean. This is when pest control services are required to perform a deep cleaning of the cooking place.
Begin at the highest cabinet or surface in your kitchen.
Remove everything from that cabinet or surface and disinfect the area with an all-purpose cleaner. Wipe the area with a microfiber cloth scrubbing all reachable corners.
While the surfaces dry, take an inventory of each item you removed from the cabinet. If you haven’t used it in a year and it isn’t a family heirloom, consider donating it.
When to Bring in the Pros
There are areas in your home that need deep cleaning that you can’t get to without professional help. The air ducts and gutters are two common places that need attention during a deep clean where you need professional help.
Consider also hiring a carpet cleaner to help remove dust mites and dirt that’s become embedded deep in the carpet fibers.
Lastly, you may come across critters during your clean and something like bat removal is best handled by a professional like Critter Control.
Start a Repair Budget
Cleaning ideas can quickly turn into repair ideas.
Getting into the corners of your home gives you insight into other areas that need professional help. For example, once you begin cleaning out closets and exposing surfaces around the home, you’ll be more likely to notice leaks or possible mold.
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