Cleaner shares ‘best’ way to clean your house in to get it done faster

If you’re struggling with the motivation to clean your house, former cleaner Ann Russell has shared her top tips on how to breakdown the daunting task of cleaning in order to get it done more efficiently.

Not matter how big your home is, the thought of cleaning your whole space at once can seem daunting. However, studies have showen that that living in cluttered spaces often impact your mental well-being, including stress and your concentration. Meanwhile, living in a tidy environmen embraces calmness, reduces stress while also enhancing mental clarity.

Sharing insights from her experience as a professional cleaner, Ann Russell has shared her go-to advice for starting a deep clean of your entire home.

“Right, there’s a method that you go around doing cleaning, generally. And there’s a method that I would do when I’m cleaning a house,” she said in her video.

While the most common method among cleaners is to go top to bottom due to dirt’s tendency to fall down, Ann is recommending a different approch where you prioritise your differen rooms, typicfally starting with the kitchen and bathrooms.

Ann then went on to explain the order of cleaning she does things in that she urges others to follow as it’ll leave you with more energy to do more areas of your house at once.

Throw away all rubbish

“Now if I’m cleaning a whole house, say my own house, […] you always start by getting rid of the rubbish,” she said.

However, it’s also important to look realistically at how much of your home you’ll be able to clean at once. Even if your goal is to clean the whole house in one day, Ann still recommends to go room by room instead of doing the whole house at the same time.

Tidy up

“Once you’ve done that, you tidy,” she explained, recommending walking around the room with a damp cloth and a bowl of soapy water to tidy up and wipe down everything.

“Items that have found their way from other rooms, return them to their original location, or simply pile them at the bottom of the stairs to be taken upstairs,” she said. “Put everything away that belongs in the room.”

“Do it with a vacuum in your hand and a cloth, because obviously you don’t want to put, for example, you don’t want to pick up a pile of books from your coffee table and put them on the shelf when the shelf is dusty,” she said. “So you just wipe it, put the books back, job’s a good ‘un.”

Cleaning

She went on to say you should continue to tidy up the room until it looks the way it should before you start the cleaning process, which should be started with a damp cloth.

“Start at the top with your damp cloth,” Ann instructed. “You dust, you work your way down with your damp cloth. Keep dipping into the bowl [with soapy water], rinse the dirt off, ring the cloth out nearly dry, wipe, get your fingerprints off the paintwork as you go.”

She went on to say that you should also make sure to clean your windows and use a squeegee to wipe off any excess water without making the window streaky, before wiping down the windowsill as well.

“Work top to bottom because gravity exists and it just makes your life easier,” she said. “The very last thing you do is the floor. Vacuum it, take your damp cloth around the edge. If it’s a carpet, take your cloth down between the skirting board.

“If it’s a hard floor, then you vacuum to get the dust up and then you mop yourself out so that you don’t walk on your damp floor.”

She then urged you to continue to do same procedure should be repeated in all other rooms that are in need of a clean. She urged people to start with the most frequented rooms, like the kitchen and bathrooms, and progressing room by room if you’re sprucing up the entire house. This approach allows you to shut the doors of each room once they’ve been cleaned.