7 Tips To Tackle Common Household Cleaning Issues

Keeping your family safe and protected is a big priority for you and you understand that very well. This is why you are willing to go to any lengths to keep them away from any harm or health related problems. There are numerous common household cleaning issues that you have to deal with almost on a daily basis. These issues if left unheeded can cause diseases and infections. Hiring a maid service or inviting a professional house cleaning crew once in a month is not going to cut it. Given, a reputed house cleaning company can actually help you out in many aspects of your home specifically related to cleanliness and hygiene. The question is what lesson are you taking from them? This is what matters the most here. Following are some of the easiest and quickest things you can do to make sure that your home is clean at all times:

Cleaning Your Complicated Chandeliers

Begin by spreading a plastic canvas or covering on the floor right under your chandelier so that your flooring doesn’t get blotched with drips. Open your curtains and turn off the light. You can start by making a solution of baking soda, white vinegar and dish wash detergent of your choice till the chandelier cools off. Then spray this solution on the chandelier. Use enough quantity so that the liquid starts to run on its surface. You will notice that the spray rinses off the dust and as it penetrates deep into the grime, it is setting it loose from the surface and dissolving it away. Now take a clean white paper towel and wipe the rods and casings of the chandelier gently. Move around the light bulbs and take care of the hanging loops and rings. You can also use a clean white cotton cloth for the purpose.

Bathroom Cleaning 

Bathroom cleaning can be a real task but there are some really cool tips that make use of baking soda and other commonly found ingredients in your home to clean the trickiest of areas. Let’s start with.

Citrus Scrubber For Your Tub And Buckets 

Did you know that cleaning your tubs and buckets can be very easy even without the help of a certified maid service and similar professionals? You can easily make your own scrub too. Just start by mixing ¼ cup of any baking soda with lemon juice. You can also add 2 crushed vitamin C tablets for extra cleaning power. Blend this mix with ¼ cup castile soap. Now all you have to do is scrub this mixture with a coarse sponge onto the dirty surface or the flooring or tiles covered in grime and residue. Leave the surface like that for a few minutes, and rinse with warm water.

Soft Scrub 

Prepare a soft scrub for gentle surfaces. You can mix equal parts of a dish wash detergent with baking soda to make a paste. Use this paste to clean your stained sinks, murky tubs and counters. Rinse well with water and let them dry.

Shower Door Cleaner 

Many leading house cleaning company professionals can educate you on how to make your very own shower door cleaner. So make it a point to ask them for this tip because it is very handy. They will advise you to mix equal parts vinegar and a high quality all-purpose cleaner. Now stir the mix and transfer it into a spray bottle. Use the liquid mix generously on the affected area of the shower door and let it sit for about 2 hours. Now scrub the glass door with a scrubby sponge. Rinse well with water and let it dry or you can use newspaper or white paper towels to pat it dry. You can repeat the procedure if you feel the need and this time allow it to sit for half an hour before you scrub and rinse. Repeat it weekly.

Did you forget about your kitchen? I hope not because this is one of the most difficult and frustrating places to clean. You can’t go wrong with them at all. There is so much to do here including the areas affected by the smoke, steam and moisture and spills and what not! Following are a few tips that will surely help you out in your struggle against stains and bacteria in your kitchen

Cleaning Your Stove Vent Filters

Cleaning stove vent filters makes for a very cumbersome task and this is because cleaning them takes up a lot of your time. A very useful tip from the books of the leading professional house cleaning companies in the city would be to add 1 cup of baking soda into a large metal pot of boiling water (preferably nonstick). Now the next step necessitates you to be extremely careful. You have to pick the vents using tongs and then dip them into the water. You have to let them sit submerged in the water and you will see that in a few minutes the grease floats off. Now take them out and rinse in hot water. The next step is to get rid of the residue without clogging the kitchen drain. Make sure not to throw the greasy water in your kitchen sink right away. You need to let it cool, then skim off all the grease, and then get rid of the water. 

Cleaning Copperware Is A Lemony Affair

We are slowly waking up to the benefits of various metals in our lives. From picking silver and copper and then to dropping off aluminum completely, we have come a long way. Copper is one of the most incredible metals according to nutritionists and physicians as it adds necessary minerals to the food we store in it. But maintaining it can be difficult. It stains easy and gives off a dark greenish gray tint to almost everything you keep in these utensils. But there are ways to keep this metal absolutely shining. All you have to do is grab a few used lemon slices and dip them in salt or simply squeeze a bit of lemon juice in a container and with the help of a sponge, pick some of the juice and then dip that sponge into a little salt. Now scrub the copper surfaces with this until you see its original color returning. You will see results instantaneously. Follow these tips for a cleaner and fresher home every day!