The arrival of autumn represents for many housewives the signal that a proper home cleaning, a general cleaning of the house, must begin. Autumn cleaning does not only mean apartment cleaning in the strict sense of the word, with washing windows, curtains , and carpets. It is also the moment when we adapt to the cold weather, when we start the changes in the house adapted to the low temperature, we take out the duvets and thick blankets, and we exchange thin clothes for thick ones.
If your free time does not allow you to thoroughly clean your home, our recommendation is to use cleaning services. A cleaning company will take care of all the household chores in a very short time, will make your home clean and adapted to the new season. Cleaning the house means extra comfort and energy for every family, making our lives more beautiful. Cleaning in this season should bring as much freshness as possible and reduce the monotonous atmosphere specific to autumn.
Tips for a 10-star home cleaning experience
If you have decided to clean your home on your own or want to know what you should ask a company you call for apartment cleaning services, here are the steps to take.
Some of the recommendations will also be useful for preparing your home for more efficient cleaning by housekeepers, and for your fall cleaning to be a great success.
- Throw away everything that is no longer good. Get rid of all the unnecessary items you have collected over the year, and get rid of everything that is broken. Throw away everything that is only good to make it easier to keep things tidy.
- Remove all clothes and items that are useful during the summer. Summer clothes should be sorted, those that are still useful put away, and the rest put in boxes and donated or thrown away. Of the decorative elements that brought summer into the house and items that are useful during the heat wave, such as the fan, get rid of them or store them for next year. Try to put everything in its place, to see more clearly what you need and what you don’t.
- Sort your clothes and shoes for the cold season. Wash your summer clothes, put them on hangers in your closet or in boxes for the next season. Clean your shoes and sandals and put them in special boxes. You can donate clothes and shoes that you know you won’t wear next year, so as not to clutter your closet.
- Prepare your fall wardrobe and closet for thick clothes. We know that parting with thin clothes is difficult, but autumn comes with low temperatures, and it’s time to store everything that will no longer be useful to you next season. Get rid of moths in your wardrobe or closet if you have found their nests. Take all the clothes out of the closet to air out, clean the inside with a damp cloth, and sprinkle with scented mothballs or lavender. Put the clothes back in their place, trying not to clutter them too much. Decide which of your clothing pieces will remain close to you, which you can store, and which you can donate to others who need them most.
- Clean out your dressing room or closet thoroughly. Clean out the dust that accumulated throughout the previous season, check the condition of last year’s thick clothes, especially those made of leather or wool, and tidy up all seasonal clothes that are on the surface.
- Remove thick blankets and duvets, air them out, or send them to the dry cleaners if necessary.
- Clean out your pantry. Clean out the shelves and rearrange your food and canned goods. Since it’s autumn, you have the opportunity to replace them with fresh ones so that you don’t run out of jams and pickles during the cold season. It’s time to store the jars you don’t use away from home, but if you don’t have this possibility, you can transform them into various decorative objects.
Home cleaning, prepare the house for autumn
No room in the house will be left uncleaned. The bathroom, kitchen, and bedroom need to be sanitized, because they are the spaces on which your own health depends. Here are some other aspects you should pay attention to on your home cleaning day :
- Prepare the bathroom and kitchen. Although they are the most sanitized rooms, now is the time to give them an extra cleaning by removing old products. In the bathroom, pay attention to cosmetics, and throw away expired ones. Cleaning the kitchen is not exactly easy, especially if we are talking about a large and well-equipped kitchen.
- Pay special attention to household appliances. The refrigerator, stove, dishwasher, washing machine, microwave, coffee maker, or toaster accumulate dust and grease over time. The hood also needs to be cleaned very carefully. Special degreasing solutions should be used, but don’t forget to use rubber gloves because most of these solutions attack the skin. Don’t forget about tiles and stoneware, and insist on areas where grease drips or splatters.
- Dust hidden areas, vacuum wall,s and hard-to-reach corners. This is the time when it is recommended to move furniture and vacuum everywhere. Dust usually collects behind furniture, above wardrobes and bookcases, on all textile upholstery, and behind household appliances. Don’t forget lamps and chandeliers. In addition to the vacuum cleaner, use cotton cloths, soft-bristle brushes, and solutions for polishing wood or surfaces made of prefabricated materials.
- Clean mattresses and sofas. The mattress you sleep on every night accumulates a lot of bacteria, mites, dust, sweat, and dead skin cells throughout the summer. The best solution is to use active foam mattress cleaning services because we are talking about a deep cleaning, which is impossible in the usual way. The steam equipment used by specialists acts through the injection extraction method, removing stains, dust, mites, and mold.
- Clean your carpets and rugs. Since dust, dust mites, or food debris have accumulated in their fibers, creating a favorable environment for the growth of microbes and bacteria, vacuum the carpet on both sides and refresh the colors using a solution of vinegar and water. For an even more rigorous cleaning, call a home carpet cleaning company.
- Wash the windows. After removing dust and dirt, restore the shine to the windows by cleaning them with rubbing alcohol or a cleaning solution from the store. Also clean the frames and door frames, and very importantly, vacuum and clean the mosquito nets, which have surely become clogged with dust over the summer.
- Wash your curtains and drapes. Curtains in front of windows that have been open all summer are definitely filled with dust. For curtains, perhaps a professional dry cleaner would do a better job.
- Clean electronic devices from dust. Use a vacuum cleaner to remove dust from the radiator area and a soft cloth with an electronic surface cleaner for the rest of the device. Under no circumstances should you use acetone, alcohol or alcohol-based products. Television and monitor screens are cleaned with special solutions or with a cloth dampened in water with a drop of vinegar. The device must be turned off, i.e. disconnected from the power supply, during cleaning.
Before you start your fall cleaning, evaluate the time required for this task, your health status and analyze whether it is not in your best interest to call on a home cleaning company. Fall cleaning means physical effort and time consumed.
