Spring is here. As usual, it’s that time of the year to tidy up the home. If you’ve gone long periods without conducting any major cleaning, you might not know where to start. This is where a spring cleaning checklist comes in.
From your windows to the attic, every part of your home needs some TLC after the winter. Indeed, spring cleaning is no small feat. This means you’ll have to break spring cleaning down into manageable chunks. For us, we’ve found that it’s vital to separate cleaning based on where you’re doing it — the interior and exterior.
Join us as we get into the finer details of spring cleaning for 2022 and how you can get your home spick-and-span inside and out.
The Exterior Parts of Your Home
You’ll want to kick off your spring cleaning with the part of your home your neighbors can see — the exterior. Why? This is because it usually takes less time to clean the exterior of the home than the interior. There’s nothing better than starting with the easy stuff, right?
When it comes to cleaning the exterior, here are some of the services and tasks you’ll want to have dialed in:
Consider Pressure Washing Services for Your House
For about 200 days in a year, your home’s outside appearance accumulates a lot of dirt from the elements — whether you see it or not. While this accumulation won’t always be an eyesore, be aware that it can add up. As well, undesirable growth like mold and algae can wear on your walls and fences, especially if they’re made of wood.
Indeed, you can attempt to clean the walls and areas on the outside of your home. Nonetheless, water from a hose won’t do much to get rid of undesirable growth and resilient stains or debris. This is why you would be better off hiring a pressure washing service for your home’s exterior.
Clean Your Windows or Hire Window Cleaning Services
For the protection and curb appeal they give your home, your windows need attention too. Cleaning a window isn’t always challenging. In fact, you can do this yourself with the right tools like a step ladder.
The problem is that things can get very dangerous if you attempt to clean windows from the outside. For example, it’s no small feat to clean the top windows if you have a three-story house. While you may be able to scrub and soap it from the inside, cleaning from the outside guarantees that your windows return to their pristine condition — but you don’t have to risk your safety.
For the windows you can easily access, go ahead and start cleaning them with soap, glass cleaner, and your best sponges. For the ones you need to climb to reach, though, window cleaning services are the way to go.
Mind the Gutters
Over time, the gutters can clog. This can be bad for the structure of your home as it can lead to leaks that can worsen over time. More importantly, given where your gutters are located, they’re bound to cause damage to your roof if they overflow or clog with leaves and debris.
When it comes to gutter care, the main order of business is declogging and cleaning. Cleaning begins with manually removing leaves and other debris that may have accumulated after months of neglect. From here, you may now clean or flush your gutters, ensuring that they drain perfectly once again.
Renew Your Driveway and Other Paved Areas With Pressure Washing Services
The driveway and paved surfaces like your concrete patio and sidewalk have two things in common.
First, they’re high-traffic areas, bearing the brunt of many footsteps and dirty shoes. Second, because of the high traffic experienced by these areas, these surfaces accumulate dirt and grime — and the concrete doesn’t make spring cleaning easier.
Scrubbing away at these areas might seem cheap and easy, but this can take forever. Dirt that accumulates on concrete can stay there for a long time, regardless of how much soap you use.
Pressure washing services have the equipment necessary to wash away resilient dirt buildup on almost any surface. Pressure washing makes use of high-pressure water jets to strip away stubborn dirt and discolorations, restoring the pristine appearance of your paved areas.
In short, when you’re in doubt about the condition of your driveway and paved areas, call a pressure washing service. You’ll be glad you did!
Tidying Up Inside Your Home
Just like the exterior, your home’s interior will require some cleaning from time to time. What better time to do it than in spring?
For any spring cleaning checklist, the following areas of the interior need to be present. Prioritize the following areas, and your spring cleaning will be a breeze.
Start With Your Kitchen
The kitchen is one of the dirtiest parts of the home because this is where all of your food preparation occurs. As a result, this part of your home is susceptible to grease stains, dirty sinks, and water stains behind the sink, fridge, or dishwasher.
It’s not a wise idea to neglect your kitchen — no matter how well you think it will hold up. For the sake of maintenance and saving money for any necessary repairs later, cleaning your kitchen needs to be part of your spring cleaning checklist.
Clean the Living Room
Cleaning your living room has to be a priority — especially if you live with your family and if you’ve got pets. Since your living room is a high-traffic area, expect the floors to require cleaning. Besides the floors, don’t forget to clean spill stains.
Urine stains can also be a pain to clean. By the time you notice them, they can be so consolidated that soap, water, and even lime won’t suffice. It’s bad enough to have to clean them from your floors; it’s even worse if you’ve got to remove them from the furniture.
Besides hiring residential cleaning services, having a pee stain remover on hand is always a great idea.
Make Your Bathroom Squeaky Clean Again
One of the dirtiest parts of the home is the bathroom. In the interest of your family’s health and safety, you’ll need to clean this part of your home — sometimes more often than other areas.
When cleaning the bathroom, you need to include critical areas like the shower and toilet. As well, unclogging the sink is a must and could require a plumber or residential cleaning service.
A clean shower will prevent the drainage from clogging and showing up as a leak in the basement. This brings us to the next part of the house that needs attention after winter.
Don’t Neglect the Basement
A clean basement isn’t just aesthetically pleasing. At the end of the day, the basement is still a part of the home that gives space. Left unclean, the basement will be nothing more than a room full of clutter. Cleaned, it’s an additional space for storage or lounging out. Hence, this is a part of the home that needs to be on the spring cleaning checklist.
Besides ensuring its cleanliness, spring cleaning the basement is also an opportunity to check for leaks and water damage. This is critical to preventing further damage to this part of your home. It becomes even more important when you consider that the basement has most of the home’s weight-bearing pillars.
Tidy Up the Attic
The attic is often the storage area of a house. As a result, it’s also the victim of much neglect as cobwebs can collect on boxes and other stored knick-knacks.
Fortunately, cleaning the attic isn’t all that challenging. It comes right down to organization. Cleaning up the attic is a simple matter of rearranging your items, cleaning the corners, and putting them back.
Of course, if you want things to be easier, hire a residential cleaning service for the task.
Cleaning the Bedrooms — It’s Not Just a Task for Kids
The bedroom is where you sleep for eight hours. It’s also where you sit back and reflect on the day as soon as you wake up. When you do the math, the time you spend in your bedroom is a third of your waking day. A room that determines how your day starts and ends deserves to be clean and orderly.
It’s That Time of the Year — Again.
Spring cleaning is an absolute must for any homeowner. Inside and out, a clean home is one that you’d like to stay in and come back to.
Be that as it may, we understand that spring cleaning isn’t the most fun way to kick off the season when the snow melts and flowers bloom. Luckily, we’re here to help.
For pressure washing services and window cleaning services that add the vibrance of spring back to your home, give us a call.
