What should be on your schedule? Follow our detailed plan for creating a thorough rota that includes everything.
Daily, weekly, monthly
Divide your jobs into daily, weekly and more long-term.
Daily jobs include washing dishes, wiping down kitchen surfaces, making beds, wiping down your shower and cleaning around the toilet bowl
To minimise chemical use, daily jobs such as wiping down the shower can mean using a squidgee to remove excess water and your toilet brush to keep the toilet bowl clean.
Weekly cleaning jobs
Twice-weekly to weekly jobs include:
- the laundry (though this will depend on the size of your household)
- changing your bed linen
- cleaning the microwave
- vacuuming carpet and washing floors
- cleaning the bathroom (bath and/or shower, toilet, mirrors etc.)
Monthly jobs are:
- washing the windows
- vacuuming under the furniture
- washing the doormats
- cleaning the dishwasher
Less frequent
Less frequent jobs are cleaning the fridge and the oven. Again this will depend on the size of your household. In the summer months, you may need to clean the fridge out more often and in winter, the oven might require more attention.
Professional carpet cleaning services can breathe fresh life into old carpets. They’ll be springier and bouncier, and free of excess pet hair. Do this every few months and you’ll extend the life of your carpet.
Jobs for everyone
If you draw up a rota, assign people to tasks. Cleaning is the job of everyone in the household. Young children can tidy up their toys. Teenagers can strip the beds or be put in charge of the laundry overall.
From person to person, cleanliness standards differ, but we think it’s better for everyone to do the task assigned to them. If however that person cleans the oven doesn’t meet another’s standards, in the long term this matters less than the job being done in the first place…
Here at Budget Maids we provide cleaning services in Potomac, a maid service in Arlington or house cleaning in Columbia and surrounds, and more. Why not give us a call today and we’ll put in a place a professional cleaning schedule that ensures your home is spick and span all year round?
