Housing cleaning is an integral part of our life. Usually it takes a lot of effort, energy and time. People who love cleanliness and comfort are well aware that there is no escape from a routine ritual. We althier citizens can afford to use the services of housekeepers and cleaning companies. But most often, average citizens, especially women, have to put things in order and comfort in their apartments.
And if cleaning is unavoidable, then you should try to optimize this unpleasant process by thinking through a detailed cleaning plan for the apartment for a week.
Principles of conducting
First of all, it should be understood that even having and following a weekly apartment cleaning plan, the need to perform daily household chores will not disappear. Routine daily affairs will not go anywhere. If you stop washing dishes and making your bed every day, then even the most ideal cleaning plan will not have any effect. You will also have to conduct a general general periodically. These two rules of daily and globality inapproach to cleaning still needs to be observed.
Also, to achieve greater effect, reduce time and effort, and simplify work, you should adhere to the principles of putting things in order:
- No junk! Get rid of old, dilapidated things, do not clutter up the shelves with unnecessary items, do not turn the apartment into a warehouse.
- No superfluous, unused things - unnecessary, but in good condition, things are better to give away or sell. Keep only what you need at home. Storing things creates additional cleaning problems.
- No extra cleaning products - don't buy a lot of products and accessories for washing and cleaning. For the most part, this is just a marketing ploy, it is quite possible to get by with the usual means.
- We are looking for helpers - involving grown-up children and a husband in cleaning will speed up the process. Households should know that cleaning is not only a mother's task, but also a family, household one.
- Minimalism - the less things around, the less time it will take to clean. This is especially true for busy, working people.
Thinking through the details of the plan and where to start cleaning the apartment, it is always worth remembering these principles. Things in the apartment require attention and care. It is much easier to dust a dresser with one or two figurines on it than ten. Cluttered cabinets, shelves, sofas greatly complicate the cleaning process. It is better to equip the interior, using a minimum of details, thereby facilitating your work.
Do it daily
Apartment cleaning plan for eachday must include:
- Cleaning the kitchen. A mandatory ritual should be washing dishes, wiping surfaces after cooking and eating. You should return all items of dishes and kitchen utensils to their places, take out the trash and check for expired food in the refrigerator.
- Cleaning the rooms. Make beds, put scattered objects and things in their places, dust surfaces, ventilate the room.
- Washing. If the family is large, then it is advisable not to collect mountains of linen. This will create additional difficulties for the hostess when a lot of clothes need to be sorted and ironed at the same time.
- Care of the floor. Every day in the cooking area and in the hallway or in the corridor, food debris, debris and sand should be swept. In the presence of small children, mopping the floor may be required daily, or alternating wet cleaning every other day with a vacuum cleaner.
- Keeping plumbing, wash basins clean. The well-known flylady system encourages housewives to first start routine chores from cleansing to shine the sink. In any case, plumbing should be free of dirt, sand, streaks and food debris.
These rituals will be enough to maintain visual purity and order.
Polluted areas
Also, the apartment cleaning plan for the day should include complex and so-called red zones. These are the places where dirt and germs accumulate the fastest and proliferate.
Toilet lid – the presence of germs on the lid is not so much due to the fact that this is a place ofnatural needs, as much as the fact that the lid is often raised and lowered. At the same time, germs and dirt from the hands remain on it.
Doorknobs - all family members and people coming into the house more than once a day take hold of the doorknobs, so the number of germs on them is very significant.
Laptop or computer keyboard, remote control buttons - dirt from fingers is not particularly visible, but if you moisten an ordinary cotton swab with alcohol and wipe the buttons, you can be very surprised how black it will turn.
Sponges - change at least once a week, because after washing dishes in a humid environment, microbes multiply very quickly.
Sink in the kitchen - food residues, grease and dirt after washing dishes settle on the bottom and walls of the sink and create a whole breeding ground for germs and bacteria.
Freezer - it turns out that microbes from frozen meat and fish actively populate the freezer, and not all of them die from low temperatures. Thoroughly wash and disinfect the chamber inside each time you defrost the refrigerator.
Cutting boards - preferably plastic or glass. If there is a dishwasher, wash them in it, and if not, rinse thoroughly after each use.
Curtains and showerheads: Wet and muddy bathing environments are ideal breeding grounds for bacteria.
Cutlery Drawer - Cutlery appears to be clean in the drawer, but often it is still damp and the water creates an environment for the development of pathogenic bacteria.
Such places should be thoroughly cleaned and disinfected regularly. Plandaily cleaning of the apartment can be supplemented depending on the characteristics of family life, the number of members, lifestyle.
Unloading ourselves
A typical apartment cleaning plan once a week includes mopping and vacuuming floors throughout the apartment, dusting surfaces and household appliances. Many housewives on the same day are engaged in washing and subsequent ironing and sorting of linen. All these actions in one day lead to the accumulation of fatigue, to the creation of a nervous atmosphere in the family when trying to attract household members and, ultimately, to the fatigue of the hostess.
It makes more sense to distribute things for the week evenly across zones and do everything gradually. This will increase productivity and cleaning efficiency, but it will not require you to spend all day devoting yourself to household chores.
In parts
Many are lost, thinking through the tasks for the week, they cannot decide how and where to start cleaning the apartment. The zoning plan allows cleaning in several stages. To keep the apartment in order, this is a great option, you will never be dirty.
If you get used to it, you will spend no more than half an hour a day on each zone, but again, it all depends on your goals. So, you can brush off the dust and wipe the floor on the balcony in 20 minutes, and sorting the contents of the closet and cleaning it is an additional half an hour.
- Monday: corridor, hallway. First, we remove unnecessary items that interfere with cleaning, clutter upspace and create a sense of chaos. Get rid of old checks and receipts, boxes. We hide things and shoes out of season in closets, leaving only what is necessary for a specific period of the year. We wash the floor, dust the doors, furniture, lamps, clean the mirror.
- Tuesday: kitchen. We remove from the kitchen table and countertops items that are not related to cooking. It can be toys, newspapers, medicines and more. We wipe the dust on the windowsills, the table, the work surface, the lamp. We clean the refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher from dirt inside and out. My trash can. We clean the sink. My stove. Finally, vacuum and mop the floor.
- Wednesday: bathroom and toilet. Cleaning the bathroom can be combined with laundry. I wash the bathtub and washbasin. We wipe the tiles. We look through cosmetics and body care products for need, leaving only used ones. We change towels for fresh ones. At the end of my floor. In the toilet, we clean the toilet bowl, wipe the tiles, wash the floor, take out the garbage.
- Thursday: rooms. We put things in their places, remove unnecessary, get rid of garbage. We wipe dust on chests of drawers, cabinets, cabinets, doors and window sills. In the nursery we put in order toys, books. Vacuum and mop floors.
- Friday: pantry, balcony. We are engaged in the far corners of the apartment. If they are properly maintained and do not contain mountains of rubbish, cleaning is quick. Just dust, vacuum and mop the floor.
- Saturday: add coziness. On this day, you can do more pleasant things that often do not reach your hands. Replace curtain or tablecloth withmore beautiful, hang a picture or photo on the wall, or do something else that will help decorate the apartment and add coziness.
- Sunday: plans and rest. After a week-long marathon, you can relax and take care of yourself or spend time with your family. You can take 10-15 minutes and think over the details of cleaning for the coming week, make shopping lists.
This weekly apartment cleaning plan is not a rigid schedule that must be strictly followed. In some families, it will be enough to wash the floor once a week, somewhere in a day or two, and if there are small children, wet cleaning may be required every day.
By assignments
When cleaning tasks, the scope of activity changes every day. This approach to the apartment cleaning plan allows you to change the occupation every day, and the cleaning process becomes less monotonous.
- Day one: taking care of household appliances. We wipe all surfaces of household appliances in the kitchen and in the bathroom. In the kitchen there are stains from traces of hands, when cooking from food on the facades, microwave, oven, refrigerator. To keep your kitchen looking tidy, you should wipe these marks with alcohol wipes.
- Day two: laundry. We wash, iron and lay out the linen in places.
- Day three: wet cleaning. We vacuum, dust and mop the floor. Watering indoor plants, wiping window sills.
- Day four: taking care of plumbing and bathroom. We clean sinks, bathtubs, toilets
- Day five: clean up the kitchen. Cuisine - most popularplace in the apartment and at the same time the most polluted. This area requires increased attention and it would be useful to additionally clean places of special pollution once a week.
- Day six: Focus on storage and organization. We improve storage systems, get rid of unnecessary things, remove things out of season. The order will greatly facilitate cleaning.
For people who spend a lot of time at work
There are no particularly fundamental differences in tasks when cleaning by people employed at work. You have to perform the same manipulations to maintain order, do them after a hard day or devote a weekend. To facilitate cleaning for working people, rules such as:
- Separation, delegation of authority - involving a husband and grown-up children in the cleaning process will relieve a tired mother.
- Optimization and time tracking - it is better to think in advance what exactly and for how long you want to do after work, while not being distracted by listening to music, watching news and TV shows.
- Using Outside Help – It makes sense to use housekeepers or cleaning firms if you know that you will earn more than you pay for the services in the same time.
- Minimalism in the rooms - restraint in details and objects will facilitate cleaning and help you cope with routine matters faster.
A weekly apartment cleaning plan for working people might look something like this:
- First day - laundry.
- Second day - ironing and sorting.
- Third day - maintenance of plumbing, bathroomand a toilet.
- Fourth day - wet cleaning (floors, dust).
- Fifth day - keeping the kitchen clean.
- Sixth day - cleaning up unnecessary things, laying out in places and shelves.
Adjusting the apartment cleaning plan is inevitable with the busy schedule of all family members in working families.
30 Day Quest Marathon
A monthly cleaning plan covers more tasks than a week.
| Cleaning object | What we do |
| Doors | With my rubbing alcohol or wipes |
| Mirrors, paintings, photos | My special glass cleaner |
| Baby soft toys | Contain a large amount of dust, can provoke allergies, so wash |
| Refrigerator | Wipe shelves, remove crumbs, food leftovers |
| Washing machine | Clean the drum, clean clogged filters from threads and dirt |
| Dishwasher | Add s alt, clean filters from pieces of food |
| Computer, TV | Wipe the screens with napkins with alcohol, clean the keyboard from dirt and dust |
| Cutlery drawer | We wash the storage place for devicesand disinfect |
| Oven | We clean the inner surface, grilles and door from fat |
| Furniture | Clean and vacuum the furniture surface, remove stains and dirt |
| Cabinets | We put things in order inside, get rid of the unnecessary, remove things out of season |
| Exhaust hood | Degrease, clean and disinfect |
Fulfilling all the points of the apartment cleaning plan at least once a month will help maintain cleanliness and order in the apartment.
Clean up globally
A well-thought-out plan for general cleaning of the apartment will help you remember about the remote corners and keep them clean. Usually general cleaning is carried out every six months. As you wish, strength and time available, you can globally clean more often - once every couple of months, or less often - once a year.
During general cleaning, attention is paid to tasks that are not performed weekly and monthly (washing windows, washing curtains, bedspreads, cleaning carpets). Often the question arises, where to start the general cleaning of the apartment. An action plan will help answer this question.
| Windows, textiles | Remove and wash curtains and curtains, wash windows and window sills, wash bedspreads, blankets |
| Furniture | Carefully wipe the furniture from dust, polish if necessary,we move and wash the floor behind the furniture, in hard-to-reach places, wash the skirting boards |
| Global decluttering | Disposing of old items, broken appliances, baby items that are small or not in use |
| Cabinets, racks, walls, indoor plants | It is necessary to remove dust from books, dishes, flowers, ventilate cupboards and remove dust in them and above |
| Carpets, pillows, mattresses | Knock out carpets on the street, ventilate mattresses and pillows |
| Tile | Carefully wash the tiles in the bathroom, kitchen and toilet |
General cleaning by zones
The plan for the general cleaning of the apartment by zones involves a consistent thorough cleaning of each living space. The actions will be about the same, only they are carried out in turn in each room.
- Entrance area (entrance hall, corridor, vestibule if available). We throw away the unnecessary, dilapidated, spoiling the overall look. Remove shoes and out-of-season clothing. We clean carpets. We remove dust from the ceiling, the top of cabinets, from hard-to-reach corners. We ventilate the cabinets, rid them of dust. We rub mirrors, get rid of dust from lighting fixtures. Thoroughly clean floors and baseboards while moving furniture.
- Residential area (bedroom, living room, children's room). We change curtains, wash windows. Remove dust from ceilings and cabinets. We ventilate the contents of the cabinets, sort things, get rid of the unnecessary. Thoroughly wash interior doors, upholstered and cabinet furniture. We vacuum and wash niches in sofas, ottomans. We move furniture and get rid of dirt and dust. We air large bedding - pillows, mattresses. We get rid of accumulated dust TVs, computers, laptops. We wipe the lamps and chandeliers. We wash cornices, radiators, mirrors.
- Cooking and eating area. Thoroughly wash the kitchen set, countertop, apron. We take out all the contents of the lockers, get rid of old stocks, dishes of an unpresentable appearance. We wash the trash can, clean and disinfect the sink. We clean household appliances, stove, oven, extractor hood, refrigerator. Wash windows and change curtains. We brush off the dust from the ceiling and lamps. Moving the furniture, we rub the floor well.
- Storage areas (pantry, balcony). We get rid of old blanks, unnecessary things and trash. We wipe the dust on the racks, shelves. We get rid of dust on ceilings and in hard-to-reach places. Wash the windows on the balcony, hang clean curtains.
- Hygiene area (bathroom and toilet). We remove dust from the stream, rub the tiles, wash the sink, bath, toilet. We sort out stocks of personal care products and cleaning products. We throw away old towels, basins. If necessary, we change the bin in the toilet, the brush. Mopping and disinfecting floors.
The plan for the general cleaning of the apartment may differ for different hostesses, include other positions, but in general the tasks will be similar.
