House Cleaning Checklist

Every household needs to follow an orderly routine to ensure that everything is in order, from what's on the menu, which family members are going, and also cleaning the house.

There are chores to be cleaned that must be carried out regularly, every week and monthly, in order to ensure a clean and healthy way of life.

Here is our weekly house checklist of cleaning for each room and across the home. Add your comments if there are other items you'd like to add to the list since we are constantly checking and updating our checklists.



Monthly House Cleaning Checklist

Bathrooms:

• Clean interiors of the medicine cabinet

Bedrooms:

• Launder duvets, mattress pads, and Shams
• Flip mattresses

Closets:

• Organize shelves
• Dusting storage bins and shelves
• Clean floors, baseboards, and vacuum floor

Kitchen:

• Clean refrigerator
• Throw away food items in the freezer that is past their prime
• Organize your pantry and cabinets

Living Room:

• Vacuum fireplace screen

Utility Spaces:

• Vacuum floors
• Clean the outside and inside of recycling bins and trash

Throughout the House:

• Dusting ceiling fans and portables
• Cleanse drains using vinegar as well as boiling water and baking soda
• Window treatments and windowsills that are vacuumed
• Cleanse the exterior and interior doors and the trim
• Clean or change the filters of cooling and heating systems.
• Clean or replace the filters on heating and cooling.
• Clean light fixtures

"Buyer Beware" - Not all house cleaning products will save you money.

Although it's true that hiring a third party to take care of your chores of cleaning can help you save time and money. However, you must be certain that the company you choose to help will save you money and won't be able to charge you more. What exactly does this mean?

In today's digital media, anyone can publish a message stating that they're a housekeeper and then start accepting clients. The person who posts this could be a great clean-up professional with good ethics, who does not possess insurance or a license or might be a shrewd entrepreneur seeking easy accessibility to you as well as your personal belongings. They may be a cautious and reliable cleaners, or they may be negligent and reckless.

If you've hired a cleaning service that isn't licensed, not trained, and does not have insurance coverage, all accidents that result in injuries to a worker, broken items, or lost items are your obligation. The cleaner is responsible for medical attention and repair or replacement of items by making a claim under the homeowners' policy which will cover your entire deductible.

In the event of an accident, an insured and licensed cleaning service will take on all liability and will pay for any damage that is resulted by their employees. They'll also pay workers' compensation for any injuries the employees may sustain while working.

Employing a reliable, licensed, and insured home cleaning service with excellent reviews which conducts background checks and gives training for all their cleaners might cost a bit more when compared with using some random from Facebook, but over the long term, it's a cost-effective option. The training, dependable technicians, and clean background checks will give you peace of assurance. A bonded and insured company working in your home when you're away could save you thousands.