Here are our top suggestions for cleaning your entire house in less than an hour, whether you're expecting guests or are just sick of spending your entire weekend cleaning.
Do not misunderstand us; cleaning the house is labor-intensive. However, if you work diligently and without any interruptions, you may quickly get your entire house spotless.
Since it takes less time to clean a neat home than a disorganized one, your cleaning routine will take longer if your house is still overrun with laundry, toys, and the leftovers from your weekend entertaining. Try to take small steps during the week to keep things under check, and your hour of power will be exactly that.
How to Have Your House Clean in an Hour
Increase the volume
To keep you motivated and uninhibited, turn up the volume of your favorite energetic music. Make sure you're dressed comfortably so you can reach, bend, and stretch. Consider it an exercise!
Decide not to pause
The secret to success is this. Set aside an hour, and commit to a quiet assault on your living areas. Put your phone away. Leave the kids at home, lock the front door, and set a timer. DO NOT CEASE.
Seize your cleaning supplies
If your home has more than two storeys, start there and work your way down. Work your way forward from the back of the house if it is only one floor without turning around.
You're Cleaning Supplies:
- Garbage bags (folded used grocery bags are perfect)
- A little handle-equipped basket (serves as toolkit storage when not in use)
- Microfiber towels (for dusting)
- A number of fresh rags (rotate and wash after each use)
- Cleaning solution (to make your own natural solution)
- Vacuum that is cordless (charge and store near the toolkit)
Alternative Cleaning Method:
White vinegar, water, and 10 drops of each rosemary and lavender essential oil are combined in a small spray container.
1. Kitchen: approximately 12 minutes
- Clean off the counters, fill the dishwasher as full as you can, then turn it on. As you go, bring any items for handwashing to the sink along with the hot water and dishwashing detergent.
- Use a natural spray to clean benchtops from top to bottom, lifting and wiping items as you go for a flawless result (the less on your benchtops, the better). As you wander about the kitchen, wipe clean the surfaces of the appliances and the cabinets.
- Run a laundry tub full with water and floor cleaning.
- Starting in one corner, sweep the floor outward.
- Working in the same direction, return with a mop and bucket to give the floor a quick and thorough mop.
2. Living Room: approximately 15 minutes
Utilize a plan and carry your cleaning supplies with you wherever you go.
- Clear the area of clutter by placing items in a basket and leaving them at the door to be distributed later to their proper locations.
- Use a dry microfiber cloth or a moist lint-free cloth to dust everything in the room starting at one corner and moving in a circular motion. Work quickly from top to bottom on all surfaces, including window sills, skirting boards, and window frames. Directly onto the floor, dust.
- After dusting, vacuum the entire room, being sure to get under and around furniture and open cabinet doors.
3. Bedrooms: approximately 10 minutes per bedroom
Work your way around the rooms using the same method you used in the living room, bringing your cleaning supplies with you.
- Clear the area of clutter, strip the bedding, and arrange it outside the door next to a waste basket for subsequent disposal in the wash and trash.
- Dusk everything as you would the living room.
- Make your bed.
- As for the living room, vacuum.
4. Bathroom: approximately 10 minutes
Work your way up from the bottom using your cleaning equipment.
- Spray your chosen cleaner in the shower recess and let it work its magic while you focus on other places.
- Flip the toilet lid open, quickly clean the bowl with the toilet brush and toilet cleaner, and then let it alone while you go somewhere else.
- Use a hand-held or upright vacuum cleaner to sweep or vacuum the floor.
- Apply your all-purpose cleaner sparingly to the sink, tabletop, and surfaces, wiping out toothbrush holders and vanity accessories as well. For difficult locations, such as those near faucets and drainholes, use an old cleaning toothbrush.
- Tidy mirror.
- Bathe should be scrubbed clean with a mild cleaner.
- Clean the toilet thoroughly, flush, and wipe the floor around it, the pedestal, the cistern, and the seat.
- Fill a bucket with hot water and floor cleanser.
- Go back to the shower and clean the fixtures, walls, and floor. For a dripless finish, thoroughly rinse everything and squeegee it.
- Clean flooring.
5. Hallway
Work your way up from the bottom by bringing your cleaning supplies with you.
- Clean skirting boards, architraves, and picture frames.
- Dust or wipe decorative items and surfaces.
- Collect trash and bed linen from other rooms' doors along the house's wall and take them to the laundry room and the garbage can.
- Organize baskets of stuff from various rooms.
- Go back to the hallway and vacuum.
- As you put everything back where they go, pause to admire how neat and orderly the rooms are.
