Cleaning You Can Do With a Busy Schedule and When to Hire a Cleaner

With work, family life, and catching up with friends, it can seem there is no room in your schedule to clean your home. However, by implementing a few simple tips and strategies into your schedule you can easily keep your house tidy and then hire a cleaner to tackle the jobs you can’t get to every week.

Do Your Essential Cleaning Tasks First

Determine which cleaning tasks are non-negotiable and prioritise doing those before anything else. Then, if you run out of time, you can relax knowing you completed the essential tasks. Even professional cleaners use a checklist when cleaning a client’s home to ensure they get the important tasks done within the required time.

While it would be useful to hire a cleaner to tidy your home every day, that is not always a practical solution. However, you can easily make simple habits part of your daily routine. Tasks such as making the bed as soon as you get up, putting things away as soon as you finish using them, and washing the breakfast dishes before leaving for work, can save you time and stress at the end of the day. You can get home from work knowing you’ll only have a small number of dinner dishes to wash rather than two meals’ worth. If you have a dishwasher, consider emptying it before you start your day, so it is ready to load after dinner.

Tidy as You Go

While it would be useful to hire a cleaner to tidy your home every day, that is not always a practical solution. However, you can easily make simple habits part of your daily routine. Tasks such as making the bed as soon as you get up, putting things away as soon as you finish using them, and washing the breakfast dishes before leaving for work, can save you time and stress at the end of the day. You can get home from work knowing you’ll only have a small number of dinner dishes to wash rather than two meals’ worth. If you have a dishwasher, consider emptying it before you start your day, so it is ready to load after dinner. While it would be useful to hire a cleaner to tidy your home every day, that is not always a practical solution. However, you can easily make simple habits part of your daily routine. Tasks such as making the bed as soon as you get up, putting things away as soon as you finish using them, and washing the breakfast dishes before leaving for work, can save you time and stress at the end of the day. You can get home from work knowing you’ll only have a small number of dinner dishes to wash rather than two meals’ worth. If you have a dishwasher, consider emptying it before you start your day, so it is ready to load after dinner.

Set Daily Tasks

Rather than spending half your weekend trying to get through your cleaning list, opt to do one task per day during the week. You can ease your cleaning load by assigning one weekly chore to a specific day, for example, you can clean the bathroom on Monday and vacuum on Tuesday.

Clean Frequently

You may not think you have time to clean frequently, and you might be correct if you’re trying to do big jobs such as changing the sheets on your bed. However, small cleaning jobs similar to wiping down a bench with a disinfectant wipe or dusting the TV cabinet can take less than one minute to complete. Keep cleaning wipes or a duster within easy reach of these surfaces and then when you have a spare five minutes, or you’re walking past, you can give it a quick clean.

Multitask

Multitasking and micro-cleaning are easy ways to get tasks done when you have some spare time. If you find yourself waiting five more minutes for dinner to finish cooking, unload the dishwasher. Have washing to fold at the end of the day? Put on your favourite TV show and fold clothes while you watch. You’ll often hear of professional cleaners multitasking, such as putting in a load of washing and then completing another task while waiting for the spin cycle to finish.

Hire a Cleaner

We know for some people there is not always enough time in the week to even get through a basic cleaning routine. In that case, professional cleaners are the perfect solution. Our highly trained and experienced cleaners will efficiently complete any task you require so you can make your house a home.