Spring has sprung, and it’s time to banish any pesky remnants of winter blues. Dive straight into a deep spring clean of your home, including all the nitty-gritty spots and every nook and cranny. But where to start and what to do? Let us show (and motivate) you!
Giving your home a thorough clean and spruce up is a surefire way to rejuvenate your space and hit the refresh button for the season ahead. And of course, such springtime cleanliness leads to much, much smugness.
How is a spring clean different from a regular clean?
The short answer: a spring clean is going the extra mile. And then some. For many of us, we have different ‘cleaning tiers’.
- There’s the day-to-day cleaning (ie. a quick tidy up, vacuuming, doing the dishes)
- Weekly or fortnightly cleaning tasks (mopping floors, washing bed linen and towels)
- Then there’s the top-tier cleaning and organisational tasks you put off doing because they can be a lot. These are the tasks reserved for a spring clean!
NOW is the time to seize the day and knock those cleaning tasks off the list! It might take a day or a week, but you’ll feel better knowing they’re done and lurking dust bunnies are banished. Promise.
Don’t put it off another day, let’s spring clean! via GIPHY
8 jobs to get your spring clean started this October
1. Declutter: if you don’t use it, ditch it!
The first job when launching into a spring clean is to declutter your surfaces. It’s time to be ruthless; there’s no point keeping things you don’t use or are constantly in your way.
Tackle one room at a time and use your best Marie Kondo reasoning to bid farewell to mounting piles of paperwork, read magazines, random samples and outgrown clothes. If it is an item that no longer serves a purpose or has a home, it’s time to move on. Painful as it is, decluttering clears your space to make your actual cleaning an easier task and makes way for new energy into your life.
2. Sort and clean the playroom from top to bottom
Sorting and cleaning the kids’ playroom is a brilliantly sneaky way to clear the room of old toys and make room for an inevitable influx of new toys received at Christmas.
Broken toys can go straight into the bin, while outgrown toys can be recycled, donated to charity or even sold on Facebook Marketplace. Remember, even if inside, toys can get incredibly dirty through play. Give soft toys a clean to freshen them up, either by tossing them in the washing machine on a gentle cycle or a careful surface clean with a laundry detergent. And while you’re waiting for them to dry, wipe over toy boxes with disinfectant to keep germs at bay.
TIP: This is a spring cleaning job best done alone, or you risk dealing with resistance from kids who suddenly want to keep all the toys they never play with. Cleaning a toy room with kids in tow is like mopping with a leaking bucket…
3. Purge and preen the pantry
You might be amazed (or even horrified?) by the amount of food hiding in the pantry that you forgot was even there. Take everything out, and wipe over jars, cans, and clogged sauce bottles. Naturally, any food items on the wrong side of their best-before date should be discarded.
Not only can lost food be a pantry issue, but insects like moths and ants also love a pantry. Wipe down the pantry shelves with a kitchen surface spray to cut through grease and grime easily and wipe dry. All that’s left to do is put everything back!
TIP: This is a really good time to note down a pantry inventory so you’re not buying chickpeas on repeat ever again. Just make a list as you return items to the shelves!
4. Spring clean the beds!
Who doesn’t love getting into the freshest bed possible? Use an advanced formulation washing detergent such as Biozet Attack to give electric blankets a thorough wash before packing them away (check the tag to see if they can be washed first!) and to blot away any mattress stains.
Give mattress protectors, quilts, pillows and blankets a deep clean with a long and thorough wash cycle to eliminate dirt, bacteria and help rid them of a winter’s worth of dead skin particles (eww!).
TIP: Head to your local laundromat to make this task easier. Commercial machines are MUCH bigger to handle heavy loads, and you can use it as an excuse to sneak an hour or so to read a book while you wait.
5. Wash walls, skirting boards and doors
Between kids and pets, walls become a MAGNET for dirty marks and handprints. So much so that you could be excused for thinking people might make their way around the house by touch and feel with their eyes closed.
Clear out any spider webs and use a sponge dunked in a sugar soap and water solution to wash down walls and doors (or use a clean foam head mop for speedier wall surface cleaning). Don’t forget to clean door frames and skirting boards too, they’re real dust traps. Prepare to squat up and down a lot; this is a task you’ll feel in your legs the next day!
6. Spritz the windows clean
Windows are said to be the eyes of your home, but if they’re covered in a layer of dirt, no one will be seeing much at all!
Arm yourself with a quality squeegee tool and a bucket filled with warm water, a few drops of dishwashing detergent, and a splash of vinegar, and you’ll be all set for crystal clear window and sliding door glass. Don’t forget the window and sliding door tracks either, as well as spraying window screens with the hose to remove the dirt.
7. Clean soft furnishings
We’ve spent months inside, lounging on the couch and keeping warm all winter, so as part of your spring cleaning, you should definitely give all of your decorative cushions and their covers, throw rugs and couch slipcovers a wash.
Window coverings such as blinds, curtains and sheers collect dust and absorb household odours, so they should also be cleaned for an instant refresh and smell as fresh as a daisy. If they can be washed at home by hand, Biozet Attack is the detergent you need for a deep clean. Damp and musty-smelling fabrics don’t stand a chance!
8. Rid ceiling fans and pendant lights of dust bunnies
They might not look it from underneath, but the amount of dust ceiling fans collect is all kinds of awful. Grab a chair or step ladder and slip a pillowcase over each fan blade. Then gently wipe from the centre to the end of each blade to catch the dust in the pillowcase. Then, to finish, simply wipe over them with a damp cloth.
Brace yourself for cleaning your kitchen pendant lights! They often look not that dirty from underneath, but the tops can be a greasy, dusty mess. Use a damp sponge with dishwashing detergent in hot water to cut through the grease and clean them, buffing dry with a clean tea towel.
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