My new house is big how do i find time to clean it?

Answer 1

Clean a couple of rooms a day.

Answer 2

1. Make sure your house is organized and decluttered to function well. This means that everyday products can be used without a lot of hassle and mess.

2. One way to organize items, on surfaces especially but also in cabinets, is to put them inside containers to make them portable. Then users can take the whole caddy to an area that is logical for its use, put things back, etc. easily. And also when you want to clean or rearrange contents there, you just pick up the container, wipe around it, under it, and put it back down.

3. You should zone off your house so that you work at deep cleaning one area at a time...zones should be based on similar types of cleaning, or closeness to each other in the floor plan.

a. deep cleaning means doing non-everyday tasks. Moving furniture, decluttering the area, straightening cabinets, dusting bookshelves, cleaning fireplaces, vacuuming walls, scrubbing wallpaper, etc.

b. a sample for a 6 month period meaning that your house is cleaned top to bottom twice a year:

Jan week bedrooms and bathrooms
Feb kitchen
Mar family living spaces (den, formal living and dining, study, hobby room)
April garage and utility room
May patio, porch, foyer, coat closets
June basement, attic
July-Dec repeat.

Your schedule may be different.

Go through each major project with a plan of what is wrong, and how to fix that situation. Spend about half your cleaning time each day on zone cleaning, and half on the rest of the house maintaining your work.

Make a habit each day of cleaning up behind yourself. Clean up spills and big messes as they happen. Put a garbage container in each room, and laundry hampers where they are needed, and keep a catch all container in family room where clutter collects...so that it can be kept there, and taken around to where it belongs. While you are cleaning, when you get to the room, fill the container, carry them with you while you clean, dump them together as you go, and as you make your way around, put things back after the room is finished.

Think forward as much as possible. Clean everything with one product then put it away and get out another. Or clean everything within reach and then move to another place. Have stuff running that does itself, like laundry and dishwasher, so it is working while you do.

Answer 3

Buy a cart on wheels with 5 large drawers. Label each drawer for 5 rooms that get the messiest. (cart can be found at Walmart, Lowes, Ikea) As you move from room to room put all the things that belong in another room in the drawer labeled. Example: The kids rooms may need individual labels. Pick up Jack and Jills stuff and put them in their drawer. Make them empty their drawer each day after school. If they are just toddlers then drag the cart from room to room dropping off their things as you pick up your slippers you left in there during the night when the baby was crying. Now since you have the room put in two shelves above your washer and dryer. Throw all your socks in a bin labeled for each family member on the bottom shelf. Fold clothes and place them on top shelf. Now when you are watching a t.v. show with the family give everyone their sock bin and make them fold their own socks and put them away. This has worked great for us. If you don't have time to empty the cart then shove it in the laundry room until you get home and can tackle it. While still in the bathroom after a shower, shoot some shower spray in the tub and let it set for a second while you curl your hair, as long as the fumes are not bad. Then scrub it up before you leave the room. Put cleaner in your toilet overnight and let it work for you. I also straighten up my bathroom each morning while setting on the pot. Sorry but we do what we can. keep cleaning supplies for each room available, out of reach from children, in each room. I've always kept child safe window cleaner in each bedroom along with papertowels. Laundry baskets in each room. Keep a vacuum on each floor if possible.
Hope some of this stuff helps. Congratulations.

Answer 4

Instead of trying to clean it all in one day, do like I do. In my office I have a spreadsheet where I have listed certain things to do on certain days. For instance on Mondays I vacuum, clean the kitchen and pick up the house. If you do this, it insures that you won't spend more than an hour everyday straightening up and you won't have to be constantly cleaning.

Answer 5

Congradulations on your new home. To begin with don't attempt to clean it in one day or weekend. Instead take it one room at a time or a day. My recommendation become a fly baby. Sounds strange but the system really works. Been doing it for two months now and my hectic work schedule and tending to my home is now easy and not stressful. Actually makes sense and its easy.

Answer 6

I am in the cleaning business and here is our secret!
Try this cleaning cloth. You have to buy in packages of 5 but they are only like $3 bucks a piece. I have ordered them and use them on everything, especially cleaning windows and clean mirrors. They are made out of tiny fibers. They are guaranteed not to scratch and all you do is rinse the cloth under water, wring it out and wipe ANY surface with no streaks or scratch. Use em over and over. I have not thrown one away yet!
I am sold on this ...I encourage you to try it out….hope this helps…Steve

Answer 7

I am having the same situation in our new house, and what I decided to do is make a schedule for myself. I do dishes and things like that everyday but do the floors one day laundry one day bathrooms another...etc It is less overwhelming and the house looks great.

Answer 8

You should buy one of those automatic solar powered cleaning machines. It goes up and down stairs. It detects dirt and goes to it to clean up! You can set the cleaning time for however much cleaning time you need wasted.

Answer 9

Do a little every day and it won't seem like such an overwhelming job on cleaning day.

Answer 10

well go to this site , google, Get Organized Now & you´ll see just how easy it is to get your house in tip top shape , you´ll be surprised just how much you can do in 15 min´s,