How to Keep Your House Clean Longer After a Professional Cleaning

It’s said that having a clean home can have a tremendous impact on your overall health and wellness by reducing stress, preventing the spread of harmful bacteria and viruses, and just making you feel happier. If you’ve ever done a thorough “spring cleaning” or had a local cleaning service come in and do a deep cleaning on your home, then you probably understand the benefits first-hand.

Unfortunately, for many people, these benefits are usually short-lived. That’s because many hours of house cleaning can easily be undone in about 20 minutes at the hands (or paws) of a dirty pet or messy toddler. Fortunately, there is a way to prolong your domestic cleanliness long after the house cleaner has left – but, this technique may surprise you. The best way to enjoy a spotless home, days or even weeks after your deep cleaning day is to first make a huge mess.

Why Making a Mess is Key to Keeping Your Home Clean

Many people try to tidy up their space before the professional house cleaners arrive, hoping that it will allow them to do an even better job of cleaning. And, while there is some truth to this, at Clean Bees, we believe the key to a better clean is to go ahead and do the things that will make an even bigger mess. It might sound crazy, but here’s the logic behind it.

Many of the things you do every day in your home contribute to the overall “mess”. For instance, do you like to cook a big Sunday dinner or do you spend most of a day doing meal prep for the week? When you do a lot of cooking and prepping, you usually end up getting drips, spills, and crumbs all over the floor and countertops. Don’t wait until your house has been cleaned to engage in these tasks – if you can, try to do them before the house cleaner arrives so you don’t undo all of the cleaning they have just done.

Doing a bunch of cooking before your house cleaner arrives is just one example of how you can get the “dirty jobs” out of the way so you can keep a clean home longer. Other examples might include anything that involves pet grooming or simple tidying tasks that often result in things being spilled or dropped on the floor.

Things To Do Before the House Cleaner Arrives

To get the most out of your deep cleaning service and help your home stay cleaner, longer, consider doing some of these household tasks before the housekeeper arrives:

Brush and bathe your pets
Trim the kids’ hair
Water your plants and throw the dead leaves on the floor
Cook, bake, or do any big meal prep
Fill soap bottles, pet food containers, or anything else that might drip or spill

The last thing you want to do is to have a wet dog running around the house or food drips all over the floor the day after you have it cleaned. By doing any messy tasks beforehand, you’ll be able to enjoy a spotless abode for at least a week or more.

More Tips For Keeping a Consistently Clean House

Keeping your home tidy right after the housekeeper has left is one thing, but maintaining a relatively clean home every day is another. Just about everyone knows someone whose house always looks immaculate. You should know that a clean house doesn’t just happen – it takes a consistent routine and a lot of hard work. But, that hard work doesn’t have to seem so overwhelming when you break it up into more manageable pieces. Here are a few more tips on how to keep your home consistently clean.

Get Rid of the Clutter

The more “‘stuff” you have, the more you’ll have to clean. Decluttering and getting rid of things you don’t need or use is the first step toward making it easier to keep a clean home. Effectively decluttering your home isn’t something you can do in a day, however. It can take weeks or even months to go through each item and make a conscious decision of whether to keep, throw away, or donate them.

It’s easy to become overwhelmed when you look at everything you have around you. To avoid getting frustrated and to stay motivated on the task at hand, consider setting aside just 5 minutes a day or maybe an hour or two on the weekend to tackle a closet or that random drawer that’s turned into a catch-all for things you don’t have a home for.

Establish a Routine

Beyond having a plan of action for reducing clutter, start working on establishing an overall cleaning routine. All it takes is 30 minutes to an hour to keep up with daily dirt so you aren’t left with a colossal cleaning list at the end of the week. If you have time for nothing else, try to do these simple chores each day:

Make the bed
Go through all of the mail
Wash and put away the dishes
Do one load of laundry (and put it away)
Wipe down countertops

Enlist Help

If you’re like most people, there are plenty of other things you’d rather be doing than cleaning the house. And, if you find yourself constantly stressed about mess or having to spend an entire day cleaning, why not enlist some help? Hiring a professional cleaning service can be well worth the money when you consider the additional time and peace of mind you’ll be able to enjoy not having to always worry about cleaning.

Looking for a cleaning service in Fort Collins? Contact Clean Bees for weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, or one-time deep cleaning services.

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