What are the types of cleaning?

Marie Kondo, in her bestseller, which has become the new holy book from the category of "Housekeeping", wrote that cleaning should be done once and for all. And then just maintain the condition of the home, if not to the ideal, then to the optimal form. Cleaning, it turns out, has many of its secrets, subtleties and life hacks, which it is never too late to use on our own experience.

No, this is not a rhetorical question. You can suffer for many years over the weekly cleaning ritual (quite painful for many) without understanding its laws and logic. It is worth learning from the maids who quickly put things in order in the rooms, or simply from the savvy housewives, in whose house there is no mess. Even with small children, regular guests and sudden illnesses, when it is not up to cleaning.

Large cleaning allows you to cope with many tasks.

• Every thing has its place. It sounds simple, but the value of this advice is higher than it might seem at first glance. If every thing is in its place, there will be no chaos in cleaning. Dirty dishes (if you need to run right now) can "hide" in the dishwasher, toys are not stored chaotically, but in special boxes, containers, boxes, etc. Everything starts with this principle in cleaning a living space.
• Get rid of unnecessary things. This precedes cleaning the floors and removing dust from horizontal surfaces. And you need to do it more boldly. If the item is not used for a year, the probability that it will be useful is less than 5%.
• Remove visual noise. It is not only annoying, it does not allow you to concentrate neither on rest, nor at work, nor at school. It spoils the overall picture, does not allow the interior to remain harmonious, and can also cause a seeming mess even in a tolerable looking room.
• Clean up. Much more understandable - the house should not be a repository for dust, dirt and other unattractive phenomena. There is nothing better than a cleanly washed, shining floor (and even parquet, board or linoleum is a matter of the third importance), there is nothing more pleasing to the eye than washed windows, cleanliness of vertical surfaces in the kitchen, etc.

There are three main types of cleaning that everyone has had to deal with.

This concept will include a set of actions that housewives do not always refer to as cleaning as such. For example, wipe the floor in the hallway after you came home from the street and stomped. Is it cleaning? Definitely.

What else applies to daily cleaning:

• washing dishes is something you can't get away from, and a dishwasher, of course, seriously simplifies the situation;
• cleaning the kitchen after cooking and eating - sometimes you have to wash the floors after serious culinary experiences;
• wiping the sink in the bathroom;
• taking out the trash;
• cleaning the cat litter box, etc.

All this is often done automatically, the owners try not to leave the trash can full every day, to leave the clean kitchen without a pile of dishes and crumbs on the table. There is more than one way to simplify this cleaning by making it an enjoyable ritual.

The weekly cleaning, which is worth mentioning first, is not a general cleaning. What is usually done on Saturday or Sunday is often done by the hands of all adults (and not very adults) household members, which is the most correct decision.

The weekly cleaning includes:

• placing objects in their places, if necessary;
• dry cleaning of dust from shelves, window sills and other surfaces;
• wet cleaning of surfaces;
• using a vacuum cleaner for floors, carpets, upholstered furniture;
• washing floors;
• washing mirrors and plumbing;
• care for indoor plants.

This is just the main thing, there may be nuances in each apartment. Someone on weekends washes the stove, oven, and also properly tidies up the refrigerator. Someone is used to cleaning everything once a week, washing it, arranging a big wash, and then leaving for a walk, leaving the house to air out.

A step-by-step general cleaning plan can come in handy.

1. Decluttering. They start with it, removing everything that is unlikely to come in handy and will be used. And this is done in every room. Something can be given through special sites, something can be sent to the trash bin.
2. Washing of curtains, curtains, rugs and bedspreads, cushion covers and other home textiles. Even if they are not particularly dirty, they can be freshened up. Wash or clean at an acceptable temperature and conditions.
3. Moving furniture aside, removing dust behind it. So that it does not accumulate there in catastrophic quantities, this must be done at least once every 1.5-2 months. This also includes wiping and even washing radiators, in which a lot of dust can accumulate imperceptibly.
4. Washing windows. It is not necessary to do this every month, especially if the washing conditions are dangerous, but if this does not cause difficulties, then such an item can be included in every general cleaning.
5. Washing kitchen appliancesif necessary.

Sometimes general cleaning is stressful, especially if there is no time or physical strength for it. In this case, there are cleaning services that take care of all these points.At the same time, you can spy on their cleaning technology and wind up some moves and tricks on your mustache.

This cleaning is one of the most labor-intensive, because you have to deal with a large amount of work: dust, construction waste and other unpleasant moments.

The sequence of actions can be as follows:

• collection and removal of construction waste;
• cleaning the premises with an industrial vacuum cleaner;
• removal of traces of glue, varnish, paint, lime;
• processing floors with abrasive wheels or a single disc machine, if such a request exists;
• elimination of dirt accumulated on radiators, platbands and doors, window sills;
• wet cleaning - both the walls and the floor are washed;
• washing windows;
• bringing the furniture into proper condition, taking into account the application of means on it that prevent the collection of dust;
• dry cleaning of carpets;
• washing of plumbing fixtures and bathroom accessories.

Here is a whole list of homework, which is not necessary for everyone and not always, but when faced with it, the owners may have a lot of questions.

• Disinfection of the apartment. Sometimes a separate type of cleaning is devoted to her. In a hardware store, you can find suitable products that disinfect plumbing fixtures, toys, tiles, etc. Such cleaning may be necessary after a congress of tenants who rent an apartment, or after pests have appeared in the house. There is a need for similar actions in the event that a person with an infectious disease appears at home.
• Cleaning the TV, monitor. Dusting them off is easy, but sometimes it's not enough. But wiping screens with special moisturized wipes with an antistatic effect is already a more serious level of cleaning. At the same time, you will have to clean the remote control, a lot of dirt accumulates in the space between buttons, which is well removed with cotton swabs and toothpicks.
• Removing stains from surfaces. If it was not possible to do this promptly (which is most true), you can devote a separate cleaning to this. Freezer, laundry, citric acid, scotch tape, baking soda soap - there are many ways to deal with even almost hopeless dirt.

Also, non-standard cleaning will be everything that is used for the first time: new technologies, techniques, techniques. For example, you can try the six days method on yourself. There are many interpretations, names, there are several approaches to this method. Its essence is to distribute different cleaning activities for 6 days of the week. For example, on Monday to wash kitchen surfaces, tidy up the fridge, etc. On Tuesday, take care of the plants, on Wednesday - tidy up the bathroom, on Thursday - dust, on Friday - litter surfaces, and on Saturday - wash the floors.

There are tips to help you spend less time cleaning.

1. Storing things vertically, and not in stacks, means cleaning up in the closet and chest of drawers as little as possible. Because to get a blouse out of the pile, to look for it there, at the same time rummaging through other things, means already to break the order. And if everything is done in a hurry, there will be no time to put things back in a pile. This is how a mess breeds in the house. Upright storage aids visibility and allows you to reach the item you want without clutter.
2. You need to clean not by room, but by category of things. Even psychologically it will be easier to do it.First, sort out all the clothes, then go to books, then to the office, etc. So you can do the decluttering along the way.
3. Concealed storage eliminates visual noise. Something, of course, can remain in plain sight, but boxes with documents, with threads / needles, with various little things should be hidden.
4. The same Mari Kondo assures that every thing in the house should bring joy. Otherwise, it is no longer a thing, but ballast, which for some reason appears in everyday life, and, possibly, for many years. If friends once gave a vase, toy, magnet, plate, but these things are not used, but only stored, you need to say goodbye to them. Friends made me happy, emotions were presented, the thing served. Perhaps she will be useful to someone else, but she must leave this house.
5. To organize storage, you do not need to purchase containers, boxes, etc. More precisely, this is optional. You should take a closer look at what is already on the farm. You can use boxes from gifts, various packaging wisely and rationally. And buying new is often nothing more than another concession to the era of consumption, which, by the way, is leaving.