If your career keeps you crazy busy, there’s a good chance you can fall behind on your condo cleaning. This can add to your stress, thus making it difficult to relax at home.
Whether you work from home or head to the office every day, here we share 10 tips from our Toronto condo cleaning pros to help you achieve a clean and organized condo even with a hectic work schedule.
1. Clean as you go
This is always our number one condo cleaning in Toronto tip. It’s not only the logical approach, but also the simplest one. Although it can be hard to avoid the temptation to skip washing your daily dishes or simply dropping your clothes on the floor because you just want to crawl into bed, cleaning as you go keeps a semblance of order that decreases stress and greatly reduces cleaning time.
2. Clean in spurts
When you clean as you go, it’s a lot easier to find time to clean in spurts. For example, if you don’t have dirty clothes all over the floor, you can literally vacuum in minutes.
If your dishes are clean, you can wipe down your counters because they’re free of dirty dish clutter. If you tidy up after yourself, most of your surfaces will be clutter-free, so you can spend a few minutes dusting. So much easier, right?
3. Clean while you do other stuff
While you can’t always multitask to help keep up with cleaning, there are a few things you can do, like:
- Dusting and tidying the living room while you binge-watch your favourite TV shows.
- Vacuuming your condo while listening to a podcast.
- Folding laundry while listening to music or watching your shows.
4. Use wipes
As your Toronto condo cleaning experts, when it comes to keeping your home clean and organized, we can’t sing the praises for wipes enough! Putting a container of multi-purpose wipes in all your bathrooms, as well as by your kitchen sink, makes it easy to wipe up messes the moment they occur.
You can also keep on top of your bathroom-cleaning tasks by wiping your counters, sinks, and faucets after getting ready for work and bed. You’ll avoid things like makeup spill stains, blobs of hardened toothpaste, and general splatter so everything shines.
5. Declutter and organize everything
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, even in the cleaning world. Setting aside some time to declutter and organize your condo will free up storage space so you can keep things neat.
First, get rid of anything you no longer use or wear. Next, invest in organizational space-savers like shoe trees, shelves, hooks, and baskets. Last, assign a storage place for the stuff you use daily. Then, when you use something, be sure to put it back. You’ll be amazed how much cleaner your condo feels when everything is in the right place!
6. Create a weekly cleaning schedule
Assigning a different cleaning duty to a special day of the week allows you to tackle cleaning chores in smaller bites. You might have a laundry day, a vacuuming day, a dusting day, or do it by room, with a kitchen day, bathroom day, etc. By taking care of those duties or areas at the same time each week, you keep on top of the mess.
7. Enlist help
If you don’t live alone, enlist help from your partner, roommate, or kids. There’s no reason one person should carry the load of cleaning, especially when that person is someone as busy as you.
You all contribute to the mess, so you should all be part of the solution to keep your home clean. Set up some basic rules about cleaning and hold each other accountable for sticking to them.
For kids, be sure to only assign age-appropriate tasks, even if that just means putting away their toys until they’re old enough to do more. Teaching kids the importance of cleaning together as a family and pitching in is an important lesson that creates a sense of responsibility and community. Even the adults could take a lesson or two in community cleaning every now and then!
8. Use the right cleaning products and tools
This is a big one when it comes to how professional condo cleaning services in Toronto work. We use the right cleaning products and tools to make quick work of the tasks at hand, including:
- A multi-surface cleaner
- Sponges
- Microfibre cloths
- A vacuum cleaner (with proper attachments)
- Mop or (preferably) a wet mop such as Swiffer
- Material-appropriate cleaners for things like hardwood floors or stone countertops
- Glass cleaner
- Microfibre duster
9. Work from the top down
A common rookie mistake is cleaning in the wrong order. Yes, there’s actually a special order to clean to make things easier. Working from the top down ensures you’re constantly cleaning anything that falls from above.
For example, if you vacuum the floors first and then either dust or wipe crumbs from the counters, you’re going to re-dirty the floors. If you dust the ceiling fans and walls first, anything that falls on the furniture below is then wiped, and anything that lands on the floor is then cleaned as the final steps.
10. Choose professional condo cleaning services in Toronto
We know, this sounds expensive! However, professional cleaning services don’t have to be expensive. Working with condo cleaning services in Toronto like Maid4Condos provides choices suited to your lifestyle and budget.
Whether you hire us on autopilot to arrive weekly, biweekly, or monthly, or give us a call when things are getting out of hand, having someone else deal with all or some of the cleaning provides relief from an already hectic schedule. You’ll be far happier spending your time doing more important things or simply resting after a long day or week at work.
For more information about our Toronto condo cleaning services, reach out to Maid4Condos here. You can also call us at 647-822-0601 or contact us online.
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