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The Importance of a Weekly Household Cleaning Schedule

A weekly household cleaning schedule helps us stay focused on the task at hand and helps us clean efficiently – so our home remains a comfortable place to live and entertain. It seems strange to need to focus on a chore list because we live in such a highly technical age. Sometimes it seems as if al those “modern conveniences” and labor-saving” devices have increased the demands on us.

Our regular routines are more of a challenge than ever. There is a never-ending list of demands made upon us by family, work, friends, and our own desires. It’s easy to see how a weekly household cleaning schedule can be forgotten. How do we keep up with maintaining a clean, comfortable environment for our lives?

First, it is important to actually write out a weekly household cleaning schedule. Seeing something in print gives us a much better sense of just what needs to be done. Once you list your chores, you can prioritize them. You can decide if you want to devote an entire day each week to them. Or you may find that many of them can be scattered throughout the week, spending a little time during the weekday evenings, and freeing up a little more time on the weekends to relax.

Maintaining Clean Floors

Maintaining clean floors is an important part of the schedule. Throughout the house, you may need to care for a variety of types of flooring. Some are carpeted; some may be tile, marble, or linoleum; while others might be hardwood floors with area rugs lying on top. The different types demand a variety of tools and products to clean them. Carpets and rugs can be vacuumed. For wooden floors, you would use mops with hardwood floor cleaners. Hopefully you use an earth friendly floor cleaner.

Most of us feel a lot better about the whole house when all the floors are clean. It affects our mood to look down and see dirt, stains, and piles of objects that aren’t in their normal place. In terms of our weekly household cleaning schedule, floors should be a priority.

As with anything else, keeping up with problems as they happen, is important. For instance, if you spill something on your tile flooring, grab your earth friendly floor cleaner right away and clean it up. If your pets shed regularly on your carpet, vacuum every couple of days instead of waiting until your weekly household cleaning schedule tells you it’s time. As with most things, preventative maintenance and prompt action can be big time savers.

Wood floors are beautiful and always add a special something to the appearance of a room. As with carpeting, they are easy-care if you stay on top of the job. Usually, you can plan for this task when you handle the rest of your weekly household cleaning schedule; or maybe you’ve elected to do all of your floors on a certain day or night. Generally, using mops and hardwood floor cleaners will leave your home feeling fresh. (Stanley Amazo II Wet Mop COmplete).

Fortunately, technology has made our weekly household cleaning schedule easier. For instance, newer floor care products allow cleaning and polishing a floor in one step. In the past, we’d have to wash the floor, often on hands and knees, and then follow up with a wax or polish. It’s also great to know that research is creating more products that are earth friendly floor cleaners.

Kitchen and bathroom floors often take the brunt of the abuse in our homes. It’s usually better to work on them more often than our weekly household cleaning schedule dictates. When we cook, we often spill food and drink, as well as splash water around while we’re scrubbing vegetables or washing our hands. In the bathroom, hair spray and other products go with gravity and head for the floor. It is easy to touch up these rooms with a combined cleaner/ polisher. Many homes use hardwood flooring or look-alike tile, in which case mops with hardwood floor cleaners (Stanley Wood Floor Cleaner and Polish) are appropriate.

Regardless of the flooring combinations in your home, you want to save time and make all the chores as easy as possible (Stanley Degreaser Cleaner with Orange Oil). You already have plenty to do on your weekly household cleaning schedule, so prioritize to focus on the areas that most affect the look of your home.

Also, whenever possible, use earth friendly floor cleaners.

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