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How do you clean your house? (Yes, this is stupid)
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 10:55 pm
by _Jersey Girl
While in the process of cleaning house today, I was stupidly wondering how other people go about this.
Do you clean one room at a time?
Divide it up by processes in each room, like dusting all the furniture first?
Do you clean the room from the top down like professionals do?
What product do you use on your ceramic shower tile?
What product do you use on your fiberglass tub?
What product do you use on your leather furniture? Do you have some sort of treatment for it?
What product do you use to clean your laminate and hardwood floors?
Thanks!
Jersey Girl
Re: How do you clean your house? (Yes, this is stupid)
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:25 pm
by _JonasS
Jersey Girl wrote:While in the process of cleaning house today, I was stupidly wondering how other people go about this.
Do you clean one room at a time?
Yes.
Divide it up by processes in each room, like dusting all the furniture first?
Sometimes, we each take a room and clean it, and we clean our own rooms.
Do you clean the room from the top down like professionals do?
If I clean the whole hous alone, yes. My mum always told us to clean from the top down.
What product do you use on your ceramic shower tile?
Flash I think, I've been here a while.
What product do you use on your fiberglass tub?
It is ceramic, Flash. ohh teh lemony stuff.
What product do you use on your leather furniture? Do you have some sort of treatment for it?
I would have to ask my mum about that, I don't do that.
What product do you use to clean your laminate and hardwood floors?
Depends, sometimes my mum has the wood cleaner stuff that smells nice, and sometimes, Zoflora mixed with water.
To clean wooden surfaces and the fireplace we use furnature polish. My mum was very specific on that one... Oh... "Mr Sheen", that was the name.
Here, I have cleaners who clean for me, they clean the kitchen area then each room in order heading out of the door, I don't know what products they use, but they do use a henry hoover. LOL
Thanks!
Jersey Girl
Re: How do you clean your house? (Yes, this is stupid)
Posted: Sat May 17, 2008 11:59 pm
by _marg
Jersey Girl wrote:While in the process of cleaning house today, I was stupidly wondering how other people go about this.
Do you clean one room at a time?
Divide it up by processes in each room, like dusting all the furniture first?
Do you clean the room from the top down like professionals do?
What product do you use on your ceramic shower tile?
What product do you use on your fiberglass tub?
What product do you use on your leather furniture? Do you have some sort of treatment for it?
What product do you use to clean your laminate and hardwood floors?
Thanks!
Jersey Girl
I have a guy from the philippines who takes care of and lives in a friend's home, who comes once a week to help me out for 4 hrs. It gives him extra tax free cash $60 for him. The rest of the time it's upkeep and my husband is tidy and does lots of the cooking and cleaning of dishes.
Wood floors we use a spray bottle filled with water and some Murphy's wood cleaner added with a flat large floor mop. That get's done once a week in the kitchen & entrance area.
Leather furniture I don't bother cleaning, though I have stuff for it but it doesn't seem to show dirt. Only treated once and I believe we've had for about 10 years.
Fiberglass tub something like liquid Fantastic, nothing which will scratch.
Shower doors ..Vim in paste form, I keep vim with sponge, one side of it is rough in shower all the time (it's a large double shower so there is room)as well as bleach spray. Occasionally spray after a shower to get rid of any developing mold. Once a week I might clean the glass if it seems it needs it..again after a shower. I buy a spray especially made for spraying doors after showers, I can't remember the name atm and it does work, helps keep them clean.
I don't clean from top down..generally whatever needs doing. Once a week though the basics are covered, everywhere is pretty much done and the house is 4,100 sq. ft. But it gets done because of the help I get.
One tool I have found helpful is an electric steam cleaner, it's one which rolls along the floor. It's good for crevice type cleaning, window sills, any grout areas and does windows and shiny services well, like granite counter tops, which one might usually need windex for. It's especially good for blasting dirt out of crevices.
Generally for much of the stuff it's a clean as we use or mess basis.
Re: How do you clean your house? (Yes, this is stupid)
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:32 am
by _skippy the dead
Jersey Girl wrote:While in the process of cleaning house today, I was stupidly wondering how other people go about this.
Do you clean one room at a time?
It depends on what kind of cleaning I'm doing. Sometimes individual, self-contained rooms just need to be cleaned on their own (powder room, kitchen)
Divide it up by processes in each room, like dusting all the furniture first?
If I'm doing a general cleaning, I'll probably do a majority of the dusting at once
Do you clean the room from the top down like professionals do?
Here's how lame I am - I'm not even sure what that means. Usually I pick stuff up off of surfaces (tables, couches, floor), dust then vacuum. Is that top down?
What product do you use on your ceramic shower tile?
Hmm. Scrubbing Bubbles, usually. Some Tilex if it's needed.
What product do you use on your fiberglass tub?
Scrubbing Bubbles, usually. Sometimes Soft Scrub if needed.
What product do you use on your leather furniture? Do you have some sort of treatment for it?
I've got tons of leather furniture. I use the leather cleaning wipes, followed by a buffing with a soft cloth (I'll admit - old garments work really well for this). No treatment aside from that. I've had my sectional for nearly 10 years, and it still looks good using this regimen.
What product do you use to clean your laminate and hardwood floors?
I've got neither - all hard floors are limestone, marble or ceramic tile.
Now here's a follow up question - does anybody have a good product for cleaning a marble shower? It's a pain in the arse to get soap scum off of it, and you can't use the usual things that clean soap scum (they typically dissolve minerals, which tends to dissolve the marble).
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 2:41 am
by _Jersey Girl
Hi skippy,
From the top down, I mean starting with possible cobwebs at the ceiling, going to curtain rods/blinds, windowsills, furniture surfaces until you get to the floor.
For example, let's say that you dusted your end tables and then dusted a ceiling fan. The dust from the ceiling fan would make the end table surface dusty again.
I want to know what type of "leather wipes" you use and where do you get them? Do you know the brand name?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:00 am
by _Jersey Girl
I'll answer my own questions now...
Do you clean one room at a time?
Depends on time constraints and what mood I'm in.
Divide it up by processes in each room, like dusting all the furniture first?
I try to do this, but I always seem to end up getting distracted by something and stay in one room. I might start in the bedroom, open the closet door and go "OMG! What a mess!" and start tearing through the closet. :-)
Do you clean the room from the top down like professionals do?
When I have time, yes.
What product do you use on your ceramic shower tile?
Cheap shampoo such as "Suave" when I have it. Bleach/water spray in between.
What product do you use on your fiberglass tub?
Suave shampoo and bleach water spray.
What product do you use on your leather furniture? Do you have some sort of treatment for it?
Microfiber cloth and Murphy's Oil Soap/water mixed in a spray bottle. The furniture is medium brown and shows dust so I do this every week. I use the same thing on all the wood furniture as well including the great room tables that are a combination of wood and stone.
What product do you use to clean your laminate and hardwood floors?
A big flat microfiber "mop" like marg described and the Murphy's Oil Soap/Water Spray bottle that I use on the leather.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 3:03 am
by _Jersey Girl
marg wrote:One tool I have found helpful is an electric steam cleaner, it's one which rolls along the floor. It's good for crevice type cleaning, window sills, any grout areas and does windows and shiny services well, like granite counter tops, which one might usually need windex for. It's especially good for blasting dirt out of crevices.
Can you google me up a photo of this steam cleaner? If it blasts the stuff out, does it fly into the air or what? I have ceramic tile kitchen countertops....would it work on the grout for those?
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 4:02 am
by _skippy the dead
Jersey Girl wrote:Hi skippy,
From the top down, I mean starting with possible cobwebs at the ceiling, going to curtain rods/blinds, windowsills, furniture surfaces until you get to the floor.
For example, let's say that you dusted your end tables and then dusted a ceiling fan. The dust from the ceiling fan would make the end table surface dusty again.
I want to know what type of "leather wipes" you use and where do you get them? Do you know the brand name?
Hehe. You're assuming I remember to dust my ceiling fan. Guess I should do that tomorrow! But yeah, I guess I try to start cleaning the surfaces that might blurp onto other surfaces (i.e., dusting before vacuuming, wiping down the kitchen table before sweeping, etc.).
Right now I've got Weiman Leather Wipes. I think I got them at Bed Bath and Beyond, but I believe OSH has something similar. You just rub up the leather furniture with the wipe then buff with a soft cloth. I'll sometimes skip the buff step if I'm in a hurry, and it does okay that way too. Only my Italian leather in the living room really requires the buffing.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 4:07 am
by _Jersey Girl
Thanks, skippy! I'll check on those wipes. I rarely do the ceiling fans! I just used that to illustrate the top/down thing.
Posted: Sun May 18, 2008 8:49 am
by _marg
Jersey Girl wrote:marg wrote:One tool I have found helpful is an electric steam cleaner, it's one which rolls along the floor. It's good for crevice type cleaning, window sills, any grout areas and does windows and shiny services well, like granite counter tops, which one might usually need windex for. It's especially good for blasting dirt out of crevices.
Can you google me up a photo of this steam cleaner? If it blasts the stuff out, does it fly into the air or what? I have ceramic tile kitchen countertops....would it work on the grout for those?
This is the unit but apparently it's not made anymore.
http://www.amazon.com/Eureka-370A-Enviro-Steamer-Upright-Multi-Steamer/dp/B00005QX43 On that page though it looks like there are at least 2 other ones which are very similar. McCulloch and I believe Wagner.
It's perfect for cleaning grout..assuming these other units operate similarly with similar attachments. There are hand held models I've seen, my dad has one, and it's okay but not quite as good.