Is your house a mess with dirty dishes, overflowing laundry, and worn clothes cluttering up your living space? If you hire a Sterling house cleaning service in the Virginia and DC area, you probably think the cleaning person’s first visit will remedy it all. However, an intricate cleaning before your first professional house cleaning is not only helpful to your hired help but necessary for long-term results.
We at Maid to Please want to guide you through the steps of decluttering your home and preparing for your regular cleaning schedule. That way, you and your house cleaner have no confusion about your cleaning plans.
1. Put Items With a Spot in Their Rightful Place
Do you have clothes scattered across your bedroom floor? Maybe some dirty clothes you threw on the floor after a long day’s work sit mixed with clean ones you never bothered to place back in your closet after your try-on session each morning. Maybe you left some out intentionally for repairs and others for donation.
Whatever the case, it’s hard to start the sorting process with your hefty comforter lying over them. That’s why you should start by placing items in their rightful spot.
Getting your pillows and comforter off the floor by making your bed, putting clean laundry away, and dumping dirty clothes in the hamper will dramatically enhance your space and give you more room to sift through items with a different fate.
Similarly, wash your dishes and clear the countertop in your kitchen, pick soggy towels up off the floor in your bathroom, and get all your books off your living room coffee table and back on your shelves. Once done, you’ll have a clear view of what doesn’t yet have a home and what no longer should be in each room before any Sterling house cleaning service.
2. Figure Out What Stays
Once you have your regular daily items back in place, go through the subcategories of each room (such as the dresser or closet in your bedroom or medicine cabinet in your bathroom). Going through one section of each room at a time rather than the entire room all at once will prevent further cluttering and confusion. Divide everything into five piles: storage, mend, trash, donate, and recycle.
Here, we’ll discuss what you may want to keep.
Let’s say you’re going through your living room bookcase and come across a collection of snow globes, one from each trip you’ve ever taken. Even if you want a more minimalistic feel or think it’s time to show off something new on the shelves, it doesn’t mean you need to part with your sentimental knick-knacks. Instead, place them into boxes for safekeeping in your attic, basement, or storage unit.
Other items may require temporary removal from a permanent spot for repairs before you begin your Sterling house cleaning service. That may include a pair of jeans hanging off the foot of your bed in need of altering or your favorite sneakers yearning for hand washing and new laces.
Although you don’t have to take care of these lengthier tasks during your initial decluttering, place them in a box for repairs you’ll administer later. Then, you may return your jeans and shoes to your dresser drawer and foyer, respectively.
3. Parting With Each Item Correctly
As you sift through your items, you’ll also find things you won’t believe you’ve held onto for this long. Your first instinct would probably be to do the simple thing of tossing out everything you no longer need. However, if your old, worn, or outdated clothes are in good condition and your electronic devices are salvageable, consider donating them so that they have a second lease on life.
Then again, if gaping holes and large tears make your aged shirts look more like rags than clothes, repurpose them as such for car washing or upcoming paint jobs. Otherwise, place them in the recycle bin, and a sorting center will reuse the material in other products. Also, recycle old plastic makeup containers, water bottles, tissue boxes, and other recoverable material and trash any remaining items.
Sterling residents uncover more garbage in their bedrooms, kitchen, bathrooms, and in-home offices or workspaces. That’s because residents go through products frequently in these spaces. They have expired makeup, perfume, and hair care products in their bedrooms, stale prescriptions and empty product containers in the bathroom cabinets, food packaging, and old spice containers in their kitchen pantry.
It may also surprise you to find things that don’t even belong to you in the first place. If you uncover a jacket a friend loaned you a while back or borrowed accessories, you may need a separate box for return items. That way, you won’t accidentally give away or repack a friend’s or loved one’s belongings.
Are You Ready for a Sterling House Cleaning Service?
Relieving your home of excess products by donating, recycling, or throwing them out will keep you from cluttering the space you need and your house cleaner from constantly repacking the things you don’t. However, the next step includes understanding what house cleaning services you require and what maid services will accommodate those cleaning plans.
At Maid to Please, our high-class maid services consist of a basic cleaning we do during each cleaning schedule and more personalized and in-depth cleanings as you deem fit. Once we complete these deeper cleanings, we maintain these sparkling results with our Maintenance Rotation System, where we conduct touchup detailed cleanings once every few visits.
While we do a general dusting, vacuuming, and mopping in each room every time we enter your home, we intricately scrub bathroom tiles, clean appliances inside and out, and spot clean for fingerprints, mold, and grime on all major surfaces during room concentrations.
Our attention to detail and dedication to maintaining your healthy home sets us apart from our competitors. So after your decluttering project, call Maid to Please, the number one Sterling house cleaning service in the Virginia, Maryland, and DC areas, at 855-800-6243 for a quote today!ay!
