Where to start cleaning your apartment: step-by-step instructions

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At the moment, there are a large number of companies on the cleaning market that provide housekeepers who help with cleaning the house. But the decision has been made to clean up on our own and cope on our own, then let’s look at the lifehacks and make lists with tips.

Chemical pollution

The most dangerous is chemical pollution. It is formed as a result of the use of environmentally harmful materials during the construction of a building. Harmful products include aerosols, disinfectants, and household chemicals, which are usually stored in the kitchen or bathroom. When working with these substances, methane, carbon monoxide, sulfur, and nitrogen enter the air. All these gases have the ability to displace oxygen, reducing its concentration in the apartment.

Apartment run down by dirt

Important! The smoke released during smoking is also a type of chemical pollution. The soot remains on all surfaces: furniture, walls, carpets. Getting rid of the persistent tobacco smell is very difficult.

Anthropotoxins pose an equally serious threat to health.

These substances accumulate indoors during human activity. Their sources are sweat, feces, urine.

How to get rid of junk

When deciding how to maintain order and cleanliness in the apartment, an important thing is to get rid of everything unnecessary. Someone easily and even with pleasure gets rid of such objects or things. But if this task is difficult, you need to find your own decluttering method.

Unclutter your closet to make your apartment cleaner.

So it is possible:

• do this daily and little by little;
• decide on a global decluttering operation, that is, get rid of unnecessary things at once in one fell swoop.

Each piece of advice has both pros and cons. Therefore, you need to look at what is most suitable. It’s better to start the analysis with clear and simple categories of things:

• dishes;
• cosmetics;
• clothes.

Come up with your own cleaning plan.

Because if you start with old photos or letters, you can get stuck in it for a long time, if not forever.

Decluttering is carried out every one and a half to two months. Otherwise, cleaning becomes a Sisyphean task: if the drawers and shelves are overflowing, and the house is “overpopulated” with things, a mess will arise within a few hours.

Algorithm for cleaning very dirty apartments

Physical pollution
During any cleaning, a certain procedure must be followed, it does not matter whether the house was started a year ago, a month or a week, then the efficiency of work will increase several times.

Any cleaning should begin in the farthest corner of the room, and move in a circle clockwise or counterclockwise.

Cleaning starts from the bedroom; there must be a plan of action, identifying the dirtiest places:

1. First, the bed linen is sent to the washing machine.
2. Next, dust is wiped off on shelves, cabinets and other interior items.
3. After this, it’s the turn of upholstered furniture. Dust is removed from it using a vacuum cleaner.
4. The next step is to remove dust from the carpets and thoroughly wash the floor.

After the bedroom, the plan is to clean the nursery:

1. All toys are collected in special containers.
2. Everything unnecessary that is not related to the child is removed from the room.
3. Next, the same principles are followed as when cleaning the bedroom.
4. When wiping off dust, pencils and books are placed in their places.
5. After wet cleaning, the room must be ventilated.

The kitchen is cleaned after the nursery:

• Here, cleaning begins with the ventilation grilles. Heavily soiled grates can be wiped off with dishwashing detergent.
• Next, the cornices and all available lamps are washed.
• After this comes the turn of radiators, window sills, and cabinet fronts.
• Next in line are the hood, stove, countertop, sink and faucet.
• After this, the refrigerator is washed, starting from the facade and then inside.
• The last interior items to be wiped are chair legs, doors, and last but not least the floor.

Dirty kitchen
Bathroom and toilet are cleaned in front of the hallway:

• The bathtub and toilet are wiped with special products in advance.
• Cleaning begins directly from the ventilation grille and the wall adjacent to the bathtub.
• Next, the heated towel rail, shower holder and hooks are washed.
• Next, shelves, mirrors, and cabinet doors are washed.
• The washing machine cleans well.
• Almost at the final stage, the sink and toilet are washed.
• The last to be washed is the floor and doors.

The hallway is the last to be cleaned:

• Shoe stands, mirrors, and cabinets are wiped down.
• Next comes the front door
• At the final stage, the floor is washed and the trash is taken out.

Of course, you can contact a new company and have a cleaner called in, but it’s better to clean your home yourself; no company can clean up the mess better than the owner.

Sanitary standards for cleaning

The Sanitary Inspectorate has developed a number of documents that define the procedure for general and simple cleaning of premises of various purposes. The list of approved detergents and methods of their use are also discussed here. Requirements for the quality of cleaning of residential premises and medical institutions are different.

Interesting! Cleaning requirements depend on the hazard class of the premises. The most stringent requirements apply to tuberculosis hospitals and dispensaries.

Perfectly decorated apartment

Psychological techniques

If you can't bring yourself to start cleaning, try:

• turn on your favorite music;
• if you like to read, download an audiobook. Turn it on while cleaning and enjoy an interesting story;
• ask your household for help by distributing minor responsibilities among them;
• light scented candles;
• Promise to treat yourself to some treat or item when you finish cleaning.

Safe products and tools

There are many types of equipment and devices for cleaning premises on the market. Separate equipment must be allocated for cleaning sanitary facilities.

A typical cleaning kit includes: mops, rags, buckets, brooms, brushes, scrapers. When choosing a device, it is necessary to determine its purpose. Storage areas for technical room inventory should be separated from the storage area for regular inventory.

On a note! All cleaning equipment has special requirements. All of them must be safe for health and easy to clean from dirt and render harmless. Most often, plastic is used in the production of equipment; it should not contain dangerous impurities.

Safe chemistry

The main requirement for household chemicals is that they should not be toxic. But even with safe chemicals it is necessary to work with gloves. It is necessary to avoid products containing sodium hypochlorite, anionic surfactants (A-surfactants), chlorine, phosphates, petrochemical products, nitrobenzene, formaldehydes.

Each product is intended for a specific type of cleaning, so you must strictly follow the instructions provided. When working with chemicals, do not approach open flame sources. Also, you should not use products whose expiration date has long expired. Chemicals must be stored closed. Household chemicals should not be stored with food.

Lifehacks for carrying out major cleaning

Lifehacks are the valuable experience of different people, allowing you to efficiently clean any, even very dirty, room.

Cleanliness and order are the key to health

Most often they concern the replacement of expensive cleaning products with cheaper ones without loss of quality. Here are some of the popular lifehacks:

• Before leaving for work, the toilet and sink can be treated with the necessary products. In the evening, all you have to do is treat the surface with a brush, and the cleaning time will be sharply reduced.
• Grease stains will easily come off under the influence of alcohol or soap solution, which can compete with any expensive product.
• Stains from the sofa can be easily removed with a brush and a small amount of alcohol. You can get rid of an unpleasant odor using baking soda.
• You can remove limescale from a shower or faucet using vinegar. To do this, pour it into a simple bag and place a shower head there. After one hour, there will be no traces of the raid left.
• A toothbrush can be used to clean hard-to-reach areas. It is convenient for cleaning grooves in plumbing fixtures. Especially if you apply soapy water to it.
• Baby oil can be used to clean chrome surfaces. Clean the surface with a regular cloth.
• An ordinary grapefruit will help in cleaning the bathtub from limescale. To do this, it must be divided into two parts. Sprinkle salt on one and wipe the surface of the bath.
• Many stubborn stains can be easily removed with regular soap. To do this, apply a thick layer of soap to the stain, and then wash the item as usual.
• A greasy stain can be easily removed using regular student chalk. Chalk easily absorbs any fat.
• Grease stains from plastic handles can be easily removed using a regular eraser.
• The microwave easily gives sponges and plastic cutting boards a fresh look. Under the influence of radiation, microbes die and the unpleasant odor disappears. To do this, just keep them in the microwave chamber for just one minute.
• You can clean a dirty blender with a few drops of liquid soap. To do this, it is enough to drop just one drop into a working device. After this, the device must be rinsed thoroughly with water.
• You can remove animal hair from the carpet using a wet sheet. It is enough to spread it over the surface of the carpet. The hairs will stick to the wet fabric and remain there.
• To remove wool, you can use special rubber rollers. If you rub a fur-covered surface with a roller or rubber brush, all the hairs will stick to the surface. In this case, the statistical properties of rubber are used.
• You can place small containers for garbage in each room. In this case, you won’t have to run to the trash can every time to throw away the candy paper.
• Recommendation: it is more convenient to store dust rags in the room where you are going to use them. In this case, it will always be at hand.

We can conclude: cleaning neglected apartments is not as scary as it seems at first glance; if the cleaning of the apartment was properly organized and organization tips were used, then cleaning the apartment will become a simple and even pleasant pastime.

How to keep your home tidy and clean

In order not to spend the whole day cleaning a neglected room, you should do some of the work gradually. Keeping your home constantly clean is not difficult at all.

It is enough to follow these rules:

1. Do not throw dirty things anywhere, but immediately put them in the wash. Throw away old and unnecessary ones without doubting or revising them.
2. Do not collect mountains of dirty dishes. Wash it without waiting until it fills the sink and countertop.
3. Large dirt, especially from shoes after bad weather, should be collected before it spreads throughout the house.

Important! It is necessary to promptly replenish the supply of special equipment, rags, napkins and other cleaning equipment, and, if possible, improve it. Then all subsequent procedures for putting things in order will become simpler, easier and even more interesting.