spring-cleaning

General cleaning is a rather hard work, but it is absolutely necessary to maintain order in the house, maintain one's health, and prevent the reproduction of insects and pathogens. When your house shines with cleanliness and smells of freshness, it’s much nicer in it than dusty and dirty, but nobody wants to spend a lot of time on cleaning. Therefore, we offer you a simple solution for the organization of general cleaning in the apartment, which you can use to efficiently cope with the task with minimal effort.

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How to start cleaning the apartment?

The first thing to start with the general cleaning is to tune in to it, and then it will be more fun. To do this, turn on good music, open the windows, put on comfortable clothes and do not forget to turn off the Internet and TV so as not to distract.

Important! Cleaning the apartment will be much faster and better, if you adhere to a certain algorithm of actions, having previously sketched it on paper. In the course of execution, you will delete those points that you have already dealt with - this will provide additional moral satisfaction.

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General cleaning of the room

The algorithm for cleaning a house can be something like this:

1. Remove the cobwebs from the ceiling and wipe it off the top of the cabinet and cornice.
2. Remove all objects from the shelves and wipe off dust with a rag.
3. Remove curtains and tulle, send them to the wash.
4. Wash the windows.
5. Wipe or wash the chandelier and fixtures.
6. Remove clothes from the chairs: dirty - put in the laundry basket, and clean - hang in the closet. Look for socks under the bed.
7. Audit in closets, discard unnecessary clothes.
8. Vacuum upholstered furniture, wipe dust off tables.
9. Polished furniture, polish with a specialized tool.
10. Wash the mirrors. Make sure there are no divorces.
11. Wash floors thoroughly with detergent.

Important! If you organize yourself correctly and prepare in advance all the necessary cleaning products, such cleaning will take no more than 2 hours.

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General cleaning in the bathroom and toilet

The bathroom requires a thorough approach to cleaning, since it is here that harmful bacteria and sediments accumulate most. The general cleaning of the apartment cannot be completed until you have finished cleaning the toilet and the bathroom sink. So that this procedure does not take you all day, follow this sequence:

1. Clean the bathtub, toilet bowl and sink with special tools. Pour them with disinfectant chemicals first and leave for a while. While you wash all the other surfaces of the product, they act, break down the plaque, kill the germs - all you have to do is to walk with the brush on the surface and rinse it several times with water. With this approach, cleaning the house does not take you much time.
2. Wash walls, shelves and all horizontal surfaces well. It is advisable not just with water, but with a soapy solution or a special mixture with Mr. Propper concentrate. In this case, the general cleaning of the apartment will be carried out really correctly.
3. Wash the washing machine - ideally, run it in any mode with citric acid. What is better to do first - to wash all collected things or to clean the unit - determine for yourself, based on the amount of dirty clothes.
4. Polish the mirrors. You can quickly do this with a special microfiber cloth and ammonia or a spray such as “Mr. Muscle”, “Cif”.
5. Wash the floor. Be sure to use disinfectants. Perfect for this purpose, “Mr. Proper,” which does not need to be washed off.

Important! Before you begin the general cleaning in the bathroom, put all the shampoos, creams, deodorants, washcloths and other accessories that are in the bathroom in a box and take it out, and after cleaning, put everything in its place.

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How to start cleaning in the kitchen?

Putting order in the kitchen will take you a lot of time, so be patient and bring the job you started to the end. If you take short breaks, make sure that they do not last long.

First of all, deciding where to start the general cleaning in the kitchen is to defrost the refrigerator and wash it thoroughly. Next, proceed in this order:

• Wash the kitchen appliances to a shine: microwave, stove, oven, extractor fan.
• Remove from the shelves everything that is standing, lay it out and look through it well. Throw away all unnecessary! On seasonings, look at the expiration date and get rid of chipped dishes.
• Wipe the pencil cases, cabinets and shelves with a damp cloth.
• Clean the sink, wash under it.
• Wash the floor, including the baseboard.
• Replace curtains with clean ones.

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General cleaning in the hallway

Performing a general cleaning in the apartment, get to the hallway last of all:

• Wipe the dust and remove the cobwebs from the ceiling and walls.
• Pull things out of the closet, sort through the unnecessary, throw them away, and carefully hang the rest or fold the rest.
• Wash the front door on both sides.
• Clean mats and walkways with a special tool. If the season is winter, knock them out in the snow.
• Polish the mirrors, wipe the switches.
• Thoroughly clean the floors and baseboards.
• Lay out clean walkways and rugs.

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What are the mistakes during the general cleaning?

During the general cleaning, there are a number of incorrect actions that delay this process. The most common ones are:

1. Inconsistency in action. You should not start many actions at the same time, otherwise you will be working for several hours, and the result will not be visible. Proceed clockwise from the front door.
2. Doing the cleaning yourself. Involve family members in this process and give them clear tasks: to make a bed, vacuum the room, take out the garbage, freeze the refrigerator, this will make things more fun and faster, and at the end of the cleaning you will not feel like a squeezed lemon.
3. Do not ignore friends' advice or other recommendations indicated in the cleaning sources.
4. Seasonal cleaning. No need to delay cleaning in the fall or spring, but clean up the house as it gets dirty. Properly organized cleaning can generally save you from the general.
5. Do not consider spring cleaning as a punishment. It is inevitable, so turn on the fun music and get down to business.
6. Untrained equipment and detergents for cleaning up. Properly selected cleaning and washing agents will speed up the whole process and make it much more effective.

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Pluses of general cleaning:

A quicker start to restore order in the house will help awareness of its positive aspects.

• Remove dust, thereby taking care of your health, as it is the causative agent of allergic reactions and many other diseases.
• By disinfection you kill microorganisms and insects dangerous to the body.
• Extend the life of your furniture by removing dirt from it on time.
• It is much nicer to stay in a well-kept and tidy house than in a dirty one.
• After a thorough cleaning, you will get rid of many unnecessary things for you.

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Cleaning with Flyledi

In order that you do not often have to do spring cleaning and spend a lot of time on it, use the Fly Lady system:

• Clean up after yourself. Put things in their place if there is currently no need for it.
• Do not tackle several things at once. Choose one thing and complete it.
• Do not get a lot of things at once.
• Do not accumulate many things for washing, try to wash them as they become dirty.
• Do not accumulate dirty dishes in the sink, wash them as they become dirty.
• Wipe the dust - do not wait for its large accumulation.
• Take out the trash every morning.
• Throw away unnecessary things immediately, do not wait for the clutter of your home.

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We hope that our article was useful to you, because now you know how the general cleaning is carried out and where to start it. Follow our recommendations and your house will certainly shine again!