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Where To Start Cleaning When Your House Is A Disaster

by: Go-2-Girls | July 29, 2022

Discover the best ways to start cleaning your messy home and ensure you manage the issue effectively.

It can be difficult to know where to start if you have a messy house filled with dirty dishes, dirty laundry, and garbage in multiple rooms. Particularly if you hate cleaning. You might find that your disgusting house is entirely overwhelming. God bless the mess that doesn’t work when it’s causing your mental health and well-being havoc. So, let’s explore how to tackle this the right way.

Get The Right Items To Clean Your Messy House

If you want a clean house, you must ensure that you have the correct items and cleaning supplies. For instance, if dirty laundry is the problem, you should get a laundry basket. A basket will help keep your laundry room tidy. You might also want a spray bottle to quickly clean different surfaces, such as the kitchen counters. Using a high-quality cloth, you will be able to quickly wipe away any spills that are making a space like this feel messy.

Use Simple Strategies

You should also make sure to use simple strategies if your house is messy. If you want to clean your home, you should clean it from top to bottom. For instance, clean areas like shelves and counters first before vacuuming up the mess that falls on the floor. You should do this to clean up the whole house.

Identify The Causes Of Your Messy Home

There are lots of reasons why a home might end up a mess. For instance, you could have a family member that isn’t pulling their weight. If you have a messy husband or a child that leaves clutter everywhere, you’re in the same boat as other moms.

One of the best ways to deal with this is by setting up a cleaning schedule. If you do this, you’ll quickly find disgusting mess is easier to manage, particularly if you have young kids. They can Be included in the schedule too.

Alternatively, it could be as simple as people walking around bare feet. If you have hardwood floors in the master bedroom or other home areas, bare feet will leave marks and make your home look messy.

Start With One Room

One of the best options is to start with one room instead of trying to clean the entire house in one go. A very messy house can take multiple days to clean. So, you might want to begin by getting a trash bag and removing the rubbish from one area. Little steps like this can help you build a spotless house. Remember, the idea is to take baby steps and focus on specific tasks before moving on to the next room.

Try Speed Cleaning

Through speed cleaning, you can ensure that it doesn’t take long to clean a messy house. This can start with removing most of the clutter in your room. This is often easier to cope with than deep cleaning a trashed house. Once your home is clutter free, it will be far easier to clean it and achieve a tidy home.

Find Cleaning Motivation

There are lots of benefits to keeping your home clean. For instance, it can improve your mental health and ensure you don’t have to worry about guests coming around. A clean home can also improve your quality of life because you are less likely to get ill. You will also feel accomplished if you have a home that you can be proud of in your life. Mental roadblocks are one of the most significant issues that stop people from having a clean and tidy home. Sometimes you need to start by finding the motivation to clean before you tackle the whole process. This can start with taking a deep breath before focusing on a task in your house to get the ball rolling.

Helpful Alternatives

There are various alternatives to explore in life if your house is messy. For instance, you can use paper plates. This is a great way to clean up the kitchen mess in your home that may be causing you to feel shame. You won’t have to worry about ensuring you have clean dishes because paper plates can go straight into the bed. It’s a great shortcut if you have kids and will make a big difference in your kitchen.

Manage Clutter

You should aim to ensure you keep your home clutter-free. There are lots of ways to deal with clutter. For instance, you can set up a designated junk drawer that everyone in your house can use for extra stuff they find lying around. One of the best tips is to get a garbage bag and collect all of your paper clutter. Only what you need should be kept by the time you finish.

Get Help

We hope this helps you understand some of the critical steps you can take if you are completely overwhelmed due to your messy house. Remember, you can use a professional service if you need extra help dealing with your extra stuff and keeping your home clean. This can help you get on top of your messy home or ensure you have the additional support you need when dealing with a busy schedule. It can also give you the rest you need instead of focusing on an endless list of house chores.

The Best Way to Clean Baseboards

by: Go-2-Girls | April 19, 2022

A clean house is a happy house. But as any homeowner knows, we don’t always treat all areas of our homes with the same level of care. Your kitchen countertops may receive a daily wipe down, but you’re probably cleaning your baseboards on a slightly less than regular basis. The result? Dirty baseboards that undermine the quality of your home.

The good news is that this isn’t something that you need to just accept. Far from it! Clean baseboards are very much within reach once you know how. Armed with a microfiber cloth and dryer sheet, you can have clean baseboards in no time at all.

And if you make this part of your regular cleaning routine, you’ll ensure that your baseboards are cleaner than ever before.

Ready to learn how to clean baseboards? Let’s take a look.

Clean The Surrounding Areas First

Cleaning baseboards as part of your broader cleaning routine? Then be sure to clean the surrounding areas first before cleaning baseboards. If you don’t, then you may find that you have to clean them again later on.

That’s because the dust and loose dirt you clean from other parts of the room may very well find themselves attached to your baseboards. And that won’t result in clean baseboards!

Use Your Tools

If you’ve got a vacuum, then use it! A vacuum is a go-to tool for a deep cleaning because it can reach those hard-to-reach areas. The vacuum attachment will come in especially handy, most notably the brush attachment. If you don’t have a bristle attachment, then you can do most of the work to get clean baseboards with the vacuum, then use an old toothbrush to deep clean the baseboard.

You should always keep your old toothbrushes for cleaning with hot water. They’re so valuable on this front that they really should be marketed as an overall cleaning product, not just for teeth.

Wet and Wipe

Is there anything that a spray bottle of soapy water can’t do? Well, maybe, but when it comes to a go-t0 cleaning solution, we don’t think that there’s much better than dish soap and a wipe or sponge. If you can grab some soapy water and a wipe, you can say goodbye to dirty baseboards. You don’t need to overthink this. Dish soap will do the job just fine, as will a magic eraser wipe or basic sponge. A microfiber cloth is also recommended.

What’s a magic eraser wipe, we hear you ask? It’s one of those wipes that your teacher used to wipe their calculations off the board at school. They’re available everywhere so you should have no trouble finding them.

Specialized Products

Baseboards can get pretty dirty, especially in the corners. Indeed, if furniture has been sitting there, then the corners might look a little worse for wear. To get the wood back to looking its best, you might need to draw upon some specialized products. There are many soapy cleaners that you buy that’ll do a great job, but there are some household items you can use, too.

For instance, you could use vinegar, which really should be thought of as an all-purpose cleaning. For this, you make a cleaning solution of two tablespoons of white vinegar mixed with half a gallon of warm water. This will help to clean many areas of your home, including your baseboards. Simply spray it onto the board and then wipe it with a microfiber cloth. You should see that stains are wiped clean!

Keeping the Baseboards Clean

You’ve put away your bucket, brush, and vinegar, and your baseboard is looking wonderfully clean. Now, how can you ensure that the paint stays sparkling without having to clean or paint every few months?

There’s one simple solution: once the area is dry from the dish soap and warm water, run a dryer sheet over the wood. They help repel dirt and dust and ensure that any hair that falls onto the wood just falls away.

It sounds like magic, and to be honest, it’s so effective that we can’t reasonably say that it’s not magic.

Hire a Professional

If you find that cleaning your baseboards is too difficult, either because you lack the mobility to bend down or you simply don’t have the time, then fear not because there is another method for getting clean baseboards. You can hire a professional cleaner to do the job for you.

Here at Go 2 Girls, we have extensive experience in turning dirty baseboards into clean baseboards. Use our service on a regular basis, and you’ll have confidence that grime and dirty edges will be a thing of the past.

Our method is simple: armed with a microfiber cloth, cleaning solution, and extensive knowledge, we know how to deep clean and get baseboards sparkling. Are we the best way to clean baseboards? We think so!

The Ultimate Living Room Cleaning Checklist

by: Go-2-Girls | December 20, 2021

In the US we spend almost 6 hours a week cleaning. No room is more in need of a deep clean than our living rooms, the seat of the family home. From dusting to pillow fluffing, keeping this central part of our home clean and tidy is essential for our wellbeing and productivity. Luckily Go 2 Girls are on hand with our best living room cleaning checklist.

#1 Clear Out The Clutter

The first step to your living room cleaning checklist is to neaten up and prepare the available space for cleaning. Open the curtains, throw out the rubbish and tidy away any toys, books and general living-items that are sitting on surfaces that need cleaning. Set yourself a 30-minute window to limit this to a general clean-up before you begin your general or deep clean.

#2 Get Dusting

Start dusting with the wall corners and ceilings, making sure there’s no pesky spiderwebs or dust build-up. Don’t forget the ceiling fan! Clear the tops of pictures, radiators and windowsills first, before moving onto hard surfaces like tables and bookcases. Dust outwards-in – from walls into the nooks and crannies of your TV-stand. Open up forgotten drawers and dust in them too.

#3 Sanitize Electronics & Light Switches

Sanitize all your frequent-touch areas like light switches, remote controls, and hand-held consoles. If you have a table in your living room, don’t forget to sanitize and spray this and any other common-use areas too. If you have any drawers with forgotten electronics in them like DVDs or books, wipe these down. Think of anything that’s frequently used like toys, coasters or mats and clean these down at the same time.

#4 Hoover Everything

Now you’ve made space with your initial declutter on step-one, move units like couches and chairs to hoover underneath and around them. Make sure that any hidden corners or exposed areas underneath bookcases and standing units. Once the floor and surrounding units are cleaned, you can also hoover soft furnishings like curtains, carpets and couches.

#5 Clean Your Windows

Once you’ve hoovered your curtains or drapes using the dust function on your hoover, you can clean the inner and outer surfaces of your windows. Tie your curtains or remove them if possible to avoid them being stained during cleaning. Spray glass cleaner on a microfiber cloth or use a squeegee to avoid smears.

#6 Polish & Shampoo

Now your living room should be cleaned top to bottom, it’s time to put a bit of sparkle and shine in your room. Polish your hard surfaces like marble tables or counter tops, shampoo your carpets and beat down (outside) or wash cushion covers and throw rugs. If you don’t have time to clean your soft furnishings, then do this on a separate occasion.

#7 Finishing Touches

Now your room is clean, it’s time to add the finishing touches. Spray your favorite air freshener in the room. Put back all the moved furniture that you’ve hoovered under and around. Straighten and fluff any throw rugs or pillows, put away the trash and most importantly, store your cleaning items.

Living Room Cleaning FAQs

In addition to our ultimate living room cleaning checklist, here are some solutions to our most commonly asked questions about cleaning the living room.

Why should I clean in this order?

Although dusting first might seem unimportant, if you hoover then dust, you are undermining all the work you did to get debris off your floors. Dusting first moves the debris onto the floor, ready for hoovering.

What if I have too many items to clean?

During step 1, you may find that you have too many items in your living room to clear clutter successfully in 30 minutes. If this is the case, we recommend allocating a separate time to create, keep, donate and recycle piles to make the space easier to clean in the future.

How long should I spend cleaning my living room?

We recommend spending between 1.5 – 2.5 hours cleaning your living room, depending on the size of your home. If you are deep cleaning you should add an extra hour for the clean.

What if I don’t have time to clean?

When cleaning your living room, if you don’t have several hours to spare, we recommend cleaning in 30 minute chunks of time throughout the week. If you’re still strapped for time, talk to us at Go 2 Girls for a quote for your living room clean today.

Are you looking for more advice about cleaning your home? Check out our blog for more cleaning resources or talk to us today. If you want to give your friends the gift of a clean home, why not give a gift card to show your friends how much you care.

Before and After: Thanksgiving Cleaning Checklist

by: Go-2-Girls | November 18, 2021

Thanksgiving is the time when some people are looking forward to a feast of eating and drinking with family and friends. However, this time of togetherness and gratitude can sometimes be quite challenging for the host and hostesses of this beloved season.

The challenges of preparing your home to welcome guests can be draining but there’s no need to fret. Plan and apply this checklist of “before and after” Thanksgiving dinner hacks.

BEFORE THANKSGIVING

WASH SILVERWARE, DISHES, TABLECLOTHS

Take out those Thanksgiving items and make an inventory. Wash and clean silverware, chinaware, tablecloths, and napkins. Don’t forget to wash those roasting pans, stockpots, and large cookware items especially if they were not in use for a long time.

EMPTY THE FRIDGE AND DISHWASHER

Remove from the fridge the old, expired food and containers that are sitting there for centuries. Your refrigerator needs a lot of space to deal with a lot of food. Clean the dishwasher and it must be ready for a great deal of work.

CLEAN THE STOVE AND OVEN

The stove and the oven are your best ally this Thanksgiving and the entire kitchen should be clean and ready for all the cooking and roasting.

CLEAN THE BATHROOM AND POWDER ROOM

Clean and organize your bath and powder rooms before the guests arrive. Scrub the floor, wipe down the mirrors, clean and sanitize the toilet bowl and the sink. Put on fresh hand towels, toilet paper, tissues, hand soap, and don’t forget to deodorize the bathroom.

VACUUM AND MOP DINING AND RECEIVING AREAS

Dust off any common area surfaces, then vacuum and mop the floors of the dining and receiving areas. Don’t forget the windows, they should be sparkling clean and have no trace of those Halloween cobwebs.

AFTER THANKSGIVING

TAKE-HOME FOOD

Some people would love to take home some of your delicious food especially the turkey home. Prepare tin foils, zip lock, and kitchen rolls in a “guest take home station”. That way, wrapping up food will be smooth and not messy.

FRIDGE SPACE

There should be some Thanksgiving leftovers and that’s when your fridge comes useful. Transfer leftover foods in a stackable container that is easy to see which is which when you want to eat it.

SLVERWARE AND CHINAWARE

Load the silverware, glasses, and chinaware into the dishwasher. Wash the dishes that the dishwasher can’t accommodate. Once fully cleaned, wipe and store them back to the China cabinet and drawers.

CLEAN THE KITCHEN AND COUNTERTOPS

Wipe down the stove, oven, sanitize countertops, scrub the sink, and backsplash.

VACUUM AND MOP DINING AND RECEIVING AREAS

Sweep the floors of the dining, kitchen, and living areas. Mop and then vacuum after.

BATHROOM AND POWDER ROOM

Mop the floor, scrub the toilet, sink, replace the towels, and disinfect the bathroom.

Thanksgiving is great and fun, but cleaning is not. If you don’t have enough time to do all the cleaning, your Go-2-Girls are here to help you have a spotless home for the holiday. We are just a phone call away. Call us now for a free quote!

Winter Ready Cleaning Tips

by: Go-2-Girls | November 12, 2021

Brrrrr. It’s cold and winter is just around the corner. This is the time of the year when people stay indoors to stay warm and comfy. Before you know it, there’s another holiday and family gathering.

Remember that winter cleaning is different from your regular cleaning routine because of snow and a few extras. Let’s start the clean-up of our homes for the coming winter.

CHECK YOUR FURNACE

Before doing that deep cleaning of your furnace, it’s smart to have it checked with a professional first. They can recommend how to clean and maintain your furnace. Regularly vacuum your vents, change, or clean the filters.

CLEAN YOUR STOVE

One of the most important things to do during winter is to clean the stove and have it checked by a professional.

CLEAN AND ORGANIZE YOUR PANTRY

It’s time to check that “best before” date and throw them away. You don’t want to stock up on expired and soon to be expired goodies. Wipe and clean the pantry before putting back all the items and food into the pantry.

WASH DOWN WINTER BEDDINGS

Check and sort out the winter beddings that you can still use. Some comforters and duvets may require dry cleaning. Put on those fresh beddings and get cozy in your bedroom.

SET UP ENTRY FOR SNOW BOOTS AND SHOES

Place a waterproof mat in the doorway and basket or a container to put on those snowy boots and shoes. You don’t want the salt and snow to damage your floors and ruin your carpets. You may want to place a bench or chair for comfortable shoe removal.

Kid’s Bedroom Cleaning Hacks

by: Go-2-Girls | November 11, 2021

If you have toddlers and kids at home, you can relate to how messy the room can be. Toys here and there, doodle stuff, cluttered clothes, messy bed, and all that’s in between. Cleaning a child’s bedroom is not that dreadful if you let your kids help clean their own rooms. Let them do light tasks that are fun and not like a chore to them.

Here are some tricks to make your kids clean their own room.

BEDROOM SLIPPERS

First and foremost, get your child another pair of slippers for the bedroom and another for the living area. Children play a lot indoors or outdoors. When they use the same slippers or shoes to the bedroom, the risk of bringing dirt and bacteria that may cause health issues.

MAKE YOUR BED

Teach your little ones to tidy up their blankets and pillows after waking up. They don’t need to have it super neat but the lesson of keeping their space clean is a thing you will thank yourself in the future.

CLOTHES IN HAMPER

Show your kids where to put the dirty clothes after changing to a fresh new one. This will ease off some of your house chores because dirty clothes are already in the hamper and ready to pick up for laundry.

PICK UP TOYS

Kids make a mess with their toys. Train them to pick up the toys after playing and put them back where they belong to. You can make this a fun thing by letting them count the toys and adding up how many they have put back in the box and giving them some treat after a good job.

GET RID OF MARKS ON WALLS AND FLOORS

Kids can or may not be able to do this job of getting rid of color marks on the wall, carpets, or floor. For pen marks on the wall, use a sponge and lightly scrub off with a mixture of water and baking soda. Gently scrape away crayon marks then dab with denatured alcohol.

DUST OFF AND WIPE DOWN SURFACES

Wipe, dust, and polish wooden furniture and organize everything. Don’t forget to wipe off the mirrors and windows.

EMPTY TRASH CAN

Again, teach your little ones to throw their trash in the wastebasket. This will certainly save you time when cleaning the room. Empty the trash every day so that it won’t litter in your child’s bedroom in case they play with it.

SWEEP AND VACUUM

Sweep the floor and regularly vacuum the carpet. Don’t forget to get all the corners, under the furniture, and under the bed.

If you don’t have time to clean your kid’s bedroom, your Go 2 Girls are here to help you have a spotless room for your children. We are just a dial away. Call us now for a free quote!

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