Periodic Maintenance Vs. Routine Cleaning

Time to simplify the chores in life!

You don’t necessarily need a degree in housekeeping to maintain a clean home. You also don't need to eat up large swaths of free time you have cleaning.

Let’s look deeper into the latter matter:

ROUTINE CLEANING

A clean home is a healthy home. Germs are everywhere, but some are known to be “badder” than others. Many can and do create and spread illness and cleaning and disinfecting is the best offense against them. Regular house cleaning also helps furnishings, carpets and other interiors last much longer. For example, more frequent vacuuming can extend the luster and life of carpets by preventing grime from being ground in, causing fiber-failure which results in tears in the carpet over time.

Benefits To a Clean Routine: * When routine cleaning is completed the task is never overwhelming. After a detailed initial deep clean, the subsequent cleans are easy and require much less elbow grease and product. * A clean home, obviously cared for, is more likely to sell quicker as well as at a better price when and if the time comes. You are investing and maintaining in order to avoid the stress of deep cleaning through the mire of a neglected home.

* A continuously clean home is its own special kind of award with the peace of mind and sensory pleasure it provides. * Engaging in regular cleaning can be thought of and taken on as a sort of therapy, an opportunity to let the mind wander and ponder the current status of life. Also, it is one of the best opportunities to truly experience the Be Here Now concept of living. * Even if you “hate cleaning,” the full scope of your ROI is uber obvious - a healthier life. * If you can’t keep up a regular cleaning routine, hiring a professional cleaning service can save you big money in the long run and offer you great comfort in the here and now. So what exactly are we cleaning up during routine upkeep and regular cleaning? • Dirt

• Dust

• Germs

• Mold

• Other foreign contaminants

• Fingerprints

• Grease stains/spots/spills

Stop sweeping it under the rug...

And what exactly do we do during Regular Maintenance? • Cleaning

• Disinfecting

• Sanitizing

• Deodorizing

• Decluttering (in small increments) To keep up with routine cleaning, you should complete or hire someone to complete a nice, rotating clean plan that incorporates the above tasks. This could include several Standard Clean Sessions per month as well as an occasional Deep Clean Session. The Gleam Team Cleaning Co suggests every third or fourth cleaning session be a Deep Clean. House cleaning is a dirty job, but someone’s gotta do it-in fact, anyone who happens to live in a space. Even if you hire a house cleaner, you’ll naturally wind up having to clean up some in between visits. As paradoxical as it sounds, everyday cleaning is the simplest way to minimize housework. When you save up ALL your house cleaning chores for the weekend or a day off, it really can seem like a mountain of work-because it IS.

The trick? Do a little cleaning every day! Formulate a rotation of small chores and choose one per day, devoting a short span to the one cleaning task. As the rotation rolls on, the home will continually have clean infused into its rooms with much more life energy in the people who dwell in them. The payoff? You never have to feel daunted by housekeeping and your home will be cleaner than ever. This means you’ll have more time to properly rest and relax in a healthy, livable, pleasing environment. Or, you could be like Joan Rivers- “I hate housework. You make the beds, you wash the dishes, and six months later you have to start all over again!” Joan’s routine was on slow-mo flow! One task a day in rotation would have given her a fantastic continual clean. Or The Gleam Team could have done it for her! The 5 Basic Cleaning Techniques Essential to Routine Cleaning: • Dusting

• Wiping up

• Sweeping

• Vacuuming

• Mopping Regular care and cleaning of your home and belongings can impede expensive fixes and help these last longer in their beauty and efficacy while maintaining their value. Yes, that’s a lot. To follow through on this concept, in addition to weekly or biweekly cleaning (regular maintenance), it is important to implement monthly, seasonal, and annual cleaning schedules, or…

Periodic Maintenance:

Periodically, we must go beyond the scope of our regular cleaning in order to retain like-new conditions on all the surfaces and furnishings throughout the house. • Ceilings cleaned

• Ventilation system vacuumed

• Windows washed (exterior specifically)

• Carpets shampooed

• Fans dusted

• Baseboards wiped

Time for some Deep Clean action!

Much like regular upkeep, these Periodic Maintenances-or what the lump-summers may label “Spring Cleaning”- will make your rooms more beautiful and functional, as well as making standard and even deep cleaning easier during the rest of the year. An example might be windows that are washed twice a year; on this schedule, they will never accumulate a stubborn layer of grime-over-time that will require hours of painstaking scrubbing. More importantly, this periodic maintenance will add years to the life of most everything in your home! Finally, keep in mind that the most important practice of all- PREVENTION- is about taking the steps to ensure your belongings don’t become overly dirty or damaged in the first place. A small amount of regular TLC brings about a large dividend of joy and ease.

Success is Ours!

***The principle of good housekeeping goes beyond tackling dust and dirt. For a home to be comfortable, safe, warm and inviting, all its various components- the ones you can see as well as the ones you can’t- must be in good working order. Spending time thinking about potential dangers in the home is never a pleasant or welcome occupation of time, but even a little preparation can go a long way toward maintaining the well-being of family and friends and eliminates the nagging worries of “what-if.” Besides elongating the very life of your house, good housekeeping is also about taking steps to shield the well-being of everyone who lives in it. This means guaranteeing both air and water are clean, putting practical systems in place to deal with potential natural disasters (for instance, preventing fires from occurring, or knowing what to do in the case one does occur), and keeping pests and intruders away -just to name a crucial few. In the end, creating a comfortable, safe home is as simple as taking a few proactive steps at a time.