.I need some tips for cleaning my apartment,thoroughly??

Question

I broke my foot july 12th and my 18 y/o son has been a big help with a lot of stuff but now my foot is feeling good enough to do the much needed cleaning.i'm talking heavy duty cleaning 3 B.R.'s 2 BATHS.i probably have about 8 loads clothes to wash,too.my son will help with that.hints,tips,where to start?this place is a disaster & we have way too many clothes,give me some kind of system on getting rid of stuff,too.thanks a bunch.

the carpet is terrible anyway,just old.landlord won't replace but i wanna clean it.can i do all of this in one day??

Answer 1

Depending on the size of your rooms, your pace and how many hours "one day" is to you, there is nothing you cannot accomplish. Start at one end of the house, if two floors- top and back, and work your way down and forward. Use three different colored trash bags for easy identification and use one color for trash, one for donations and one for stuff that needs to be kept but cleaned. Begin by quickly purging through the stuff cluttering the room and don't linger over which bag to place it in- go with your first gut instinct! You tend to get rid of more when you are focused on purging. Once you pick up, use a cleaner like "Simple Green HD" availbable at Home Depot, et al and spray from walls on down and in, wiping everything in the room- furniture, contents, etc. until you finish with the floors. Do this for each room, working in the order above. Take the "keeper" bags, remove each item, clean and put away. At the end of the day, or first thing the next, take donations to the nearest location- Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc. Do not relook through them! Try doing one load of laundry per day, or doing it in bulk. Best of luck and feel free to write back for more detailed questions!

Answer 2

You can´t do everything in one day , but you can do lot´s in breaks of 15 min´s. I can suggest this. Pick one room to do, set the clock to go off in 15 min´s time and see how much you can get done. Never waste time taking thing´s back to their rightful places until you have finished . When the clock goes off , sit down and have a rest. If you think you would rather carry on in that one room . Then do the same again 15 min´s more. To get your washing done , Put your washing machine on last thing at night before going to bed , like this they will be ready to hang first thing in the morning . To clean the bathroom tiles . Leave the hot water run , so you build up the condensation. Then wipe your tiles with a linen cloth , leave the bathroom window open and the tiles will dry quick and you will be left with nice shiny tiles. 15 min´s here and there will help you get the house back to normal. If you lay on your bed for 1/2 hr this will relax you and you will be ready to start again . Trying to do to much will never get thing´s the way you want them . I think it´s nice that your son is helping you . he must love his mum. You try with 15 min´s it works for me . Hope it works for you. And the Golden rule . No matter how little housework you do , Always reward yourself when you finish for the day. PS the carpet , it would be better to have it steam cleaned

Answer 3

a million. Take each little thing out of the room and stale the partitions so which you have a thoroughly empty room. (Sweep, airborne dirt and dust, or vacuum in case you are able to desire to). 2. Re-paint the interior the closet a exciting coloration. in case you like paintings, use stencils, draw, or paint on the closet partitions. 3. placed your outfits lower back in the closet and dangle them by coloration (pink, orange, yellow, etc) 4. next, placed your mattress the place you prefer it and make the mattress. by using fact the mattress is like 80% of the room, having an incredible, neat mattress will make the placement seem remarkable already. 5. Oh, I forgot...have a number of your popular song taking part in! This continually makes cleansing greater exciting! 6. placed your enormous furnishings lower back on your room the place you're able to like it. 7. start to place the little issues lower back on your room. in case you detect something you have not utilized in a three hundred and sixty 5 days, throw it out or supply it away - you will not leave out it and that is purely cluttering up your area. 8. sparkling for 10 minutes, then do something else for a pair minutes. Then sparkling lower back. Then do something else lower back. this could shop the activity from becomming too uninteresting or overwhelming. 9. Take beforehand and after photographs to submit on your website (facebook or Myspace or regardless of) have exciting!!

Answer 4

i would call merry maids and get some help for this big project. then you can maintain it.

if you have to do it all , then i would do one room each day and two loads of wash.

in so far as system to downsize your clothes. look at the item , ask does it fit , do i like it , have i worn it in 12 months. if you answer NO to any of these questions you need to get rid of it . make two piles , toss and keep. toss the NO item in the toss pile and proceed to next item.

if hanging, you don't need to use pile / just move item to diff place in close you designate as a toss pole space. lol.

good luck.

Answer 5

Laundry first, dusting 2nd, vacumm floors with baking soda spread about, mop kitchen, clean windows, clean fridge, stove, cabinets.

Take laundry to laundromat, get a big machine stuff what you can into it. Goes quicker than repeating loads in 1 small wash/dryer.

Answer 6

You can't do it all in one day but the world won't end. Just concentrate on one room at a time, do the most needed laundry first and keep on until you finish. It will be done before you know it.

Answer 7

Put on load of washing, clean 1 bathroom, deal with 1st load of washing, put on 2nd load of washing, clean living room, washing, bathroom, washing, etc until you are done. One room and load of washing at a time. If you focus on one thing at a time you will acheive more. Hope this helps and glad you're up and about.

Answer 8

not in one day: one thing at a time.

Answer 9

you must cleaned by your way