If there are very dusty rafters, ceilings, or heavy cobwebs in your home, you should make an initial trip around the room with a long vacuum wand or broom to speed up the job. It’s surprisingly easy to crash into things while you’re doing that, so be
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When you are in spring cleaning mode, you know you’ll have to tackle the chore of dusting and lots of vacuuming. This is going to need to be done before you can begin weekly maintenance cleaning. Our general rule is to vacuum almost everything first if there
A couple of times a year, your bathroom will need a deep cleaning, which involves a different kind of cleaning than in a maintenance cleaning. So, when the entire bathroom needs cleaning from top to bottom, start by washing the ceiling and then the walls. Don’t worry
Ever since we told people in Speed Cleaning that our teams can clean a typical house in 42 minutes, we’ve received letters from readers about how to prepare a house before Speed Cleaning it. For example: “We’ve moved into a country home that I don’t think has been cleaned
Yes, I know, it’s still only January, but here in Texas it’s practically spring already! Many of us, burdened with the time pressures of working, commuting, and trying to hold a household together, barely seem to have time to butter the toast in the morning, let alone
