Cleaning Tips and Tricks to Get Your Home Ready for Spring

With spring in the air, it is time to take care of your home and make it look as nice as possible. Many homeowners like to take time in the spring to do a good cleaning and decluttering all over after a long and hard winter. As you look around your home, you may be at a loss for where to even begin.

There are a lot of different ways that you can begin your spring cleaning. And getting started with one area at a time can make it a little easier. When you are ready to begin your adventure with spring cleaning, some of the different tips you should follow include:

1. Make Out a Schedule

It is a good idea to take a look around your home and decide what needs the most work first. Where are some areas that tend to get missed with routine cleaning? You should start in these areas.

Creating a schedule and deciding what you will get done in each room will make a difference. Stay focused on an individual task until it is completely done. Go room by room until you are all done with the whole house.

2. Take the Time to Declutter

Decluttering not only helps your home look better, but it is a great way to help reduce your levels of stress. It is a big signal to the brain that work isn’t done, and that can make you feel stressed out.

One of the first things that you should consider doing when you are ready to spring clean is to declutter. As you go through each room, look at each item and decide what you can keep and what you should throw away.

Hopefully, you will see lots of trash bags full of items you no longer need to go to the trash or make it to a donation center. This alone will clean up the home quite a bit and can make each room look bigger and brighter.

3. Use the Right Vacuum

There are many vacuums on the market, but the best one is a high-quality HEPA vacuum. These vacuums can really get the dirt and grime while helping to catch any airborne particles around the home. They will also trap things around the home like allergens, pet dander, and other things that make the home dirty.

If you are in the market for a new vacuum, then find one that is HEPA. With your current vacuum, consider getting a few attachments so you can clean off hard-to-reach areas in the home at the same time.

4. Work from the Top to the Bottom

When you are ready to clean your home, always start with the ceiling (or the highest part) and work your way down. This will help force debris to go down and prevent any re-cleaning around the home.

If you start on the bottom, you may get it all clean. Then as you get to the top, the dust and debris will fall right down on all the parts you have already cleaned. Dust your furniture and everything that is up high before dusting and vacuuming down low.

5. Think About the Air in Your Home

You should consider replacing your HVAC and furnace filters a few times a year. A good way to remember to do this is during the spring and the fall. A standard filter is probably already in your home, but if you really want to keep the air clean throughout the house, consider purchasing a filter with a high MERV rating.

The higher the MERV rating, the better the filter is at catching small particles and keeping the air clean. Replacing the filter during the spring will help to keep the air clean and prevent dirt and dust from the heating system from getting into your home.

6. Use Green Products

When you get started with spring cleaning, a good option is to think about the different ways that you can clean while also being green. This will keep your home healthy and clean all at the same time.

For example, a steam cleaner is a great product to provide green spring cleaning. You can use the steam cleaner to help with many parts of the home including bathrooms, kitchen appliances, tile, and hard floors, and even some outdoor areas. Since they only use water vapor, they are considered green.

That is just one example of what you can do to stay green. Using lemon juice to clean things off or choosing products that are listed as green can make a difference. Something as simple as opening up the windows to freshen out a room can be green. 

7. Hiring a Cleaning Service to Deep Clean Carpets and Windows

While a lot of the tips on our list will be easy to do on your own, consider hiring a professional cleaning service to handle some of those bigger jobs and give you a deeper clean while taking a few tasks off the list.

Your carpets can be full of dirt and grime from the winter and all those snowy boots coming inside. A simple vacuum is not enough to get all of this cleaned up on its own. A professional cleaning service can get deep down into the carpets, removing dirt and grime that may have been stuck there for years.

Windows are also especially hard to get clean. It seems like the smudges and grime just never clean off. With the help of a professional cleaning service, those windows will finally look clean without having to do all the work on your own.

Keeping Your Home Clean

Spring cleaning is the perfect time to go around your home and get everything cleaned up and looking fresh and new. Whether that includes deep cleaning everything, decluttering, or even doing some repairs, the tips above will help you make your home look as good as new in no time.