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What is The Benefit of Home Cleaning Services?

Cleaning is an inevitable part of life. There’s always going to be a mess. Whether it’s dust on your picture frames or spilled red juice on your cream colored carpet, maintaining a clean home can be challenging. It can often feel like you’re running in place with the constant wiping, sweeping, and washing.

Or, maybe you’re a business owner who struggles to find employees that clean the office. Perhaps they don’t want to clean the bathrooms, and you end up doing it yourself. Having to clean your business at the end of the day can be exhausting.

When you hire a cleaning service, you regain the time and energy you spent by letting them do the grunt work for you. You can go back to spending your weekends doing what you love with who you love. You can get home from work and relax. You can go home at the closing time instead of cleaning your business.

Keep reading to see just a few benefits home cleaning services have to offer.

Taking Back Your Time

It’s no secret that cleaning consumes a lot of time for the average person. The time that often our families and ourselves need more. How many times have you found yourself vacuuming the floor instead of playing dress up with your kids? I bet all too often you wish you could sit back and relax to watch television but the dust on the screen is too distracting. Daily cleaning is a must, but how many hours do you have to spend washing dishes and mopping floors before something else can capture your attention?

If you hire a cleaning service, you don’t have to spend any hours cleaning. Unless, of course, you want to, but who wants to do that besides us? And, to be fair, we do get paid to do it for you. So, who wants to do that for free? Not very many people we know. Let us do it for you so that you can spend time with the ones who matter the most.

Your house will be here for many decades, but your children will grow and so will you. Take advantage of your time with them and leave the cleaning to us.

Deeper Clean

How often do you deep clean your house? I’m talking about scrubbing the baseboards and washing your blinds clean. Probably not too frequently. When you hire a cleaning service, they will get every nook and cranny of your house every time they come. Say goodbye to the cobweb in the corner of the living room that’s been there for months and the dirt under your area rug. We are cleaning professionals, and we have a keen eye for all things dirty. You won’t find scum in your bathtub or built up dust behind your curtains after we leave.

Maintaining Cleanliness Without Presence

Wondering when you’ll even have time for someone to come clean your home? One of the advantages of hiring a cleaning service is that you don’t have to be there. As long as you give us permission and access, we can clean your house while you work, go on vacation, run errands, or whatever else you might need to do. When you get home, the trash will be taken out, dishes finished, floors mopped, toilets cleaned, and whatever else you needed doing. Coming home to a sparkling house that you didn’t have to put any effort into is a feeling like no other.

Enjoying Your Home

Continually cleaning your house can rob you of the enjoyment of being there. A house is not a home until you make it one. Relentless sweeping and scrubbing don’t do the trick. It’s the laughter of tickling your kids and rolling around the floor with them before dinner. It’s the slow dancing in the kitchen with your partner after everyone’s gone to bed. It’s when you get up in the middle of the night to sneak a piece of that chocolate cake that you swore you weren’t going to eat. It’s the little things in life that make your house your home. Don’t miss those precious moments because you have too much to clean. Let a cleaning service like TLC Cleaning tackle the job.

Stress Less

It can be challenging to keep up with the everyday demands of life. Cleaning is just another thing to add to your to-do list. Between work, soccer practice, and after-school rehearsals, cleaning is hard to squeeze in. Don’t stress. Call a cleaning company to clean up while you’re gone doing all of those things. Then that’s one less thing you have to do at the end of the day. After dinner, leave the dishes and cozy up to that movie you’ve been dying to watch but never have the time to, and we’ll take care of the mess the next day.

A Clean You Can Count On

We don’t just clean your house; we make sure it’s cleaned right and to your satisfaction. We’ll be there when we say we will and won’t overlook any small details. We’ll make it shine where you didn’t think it was possible. Like, behind your washing machine or in your oven. Your bathroom shower tiles will be so shiny that they’ll look like a mirror. Maybe that’s an exaggeration, but they really will leave you with a clean you can count on being done correctly. If you’re not completely satisfied with the services, please let us know so we understand where we can make improvements.

When you hire a cleaning service, you get so much more than a clean house. You get time back to spend with your loved ones. You get the peace of mind knowing that you can relax in your home. You get comfort in knowing that cleaning doesn’t have to consume a good portion of your everyday activities. Life is short, so don’t waste it with a mop in your hand. Instead, call a cleaning service. If you live in Fargo, North Dakota, call TLC Cleaning for all your dirty jobs.

A Weekly Cleaning Schedule That’s Quick and Easy

A weekly cleaning schedule is the best investment of time you can make to manage all your overwhelming tasks and chores. If you can organize the cleaning process, the messes will feel more manageable.

Ready to get started? Here are some helpful tips for creating a cleaning schedule. Get ready for increased productivity and a clean home!

Clean Isn’t Perfect

Sometimes, you need to take a step back and accept that clean is clean enough. Not every item on your to-do list should be done so thoroughly that you can’t manage to get the other ones done the day you had them planned.

You can choose to set a time limit if that will help. Try setting a kitchen timer for 10-15 minutes for each chore. Set the timer and start and remain in one room until you finish that specific task. Remember that some of these will be weekly chores, so don’t think if you missed the deep-down dirt that it won’t get done. It will.

What About Supplies?

The most strategic thing you can do is keep house cleaning tools you need in the room that calls for them. Obviously, if you have small children, you want to keep cleaning supplies locked up and away from small hands.

However, having all that you need within reach will enhance how much you can get done in the time you have allotted. It’s so easy to get distracted by going into another room for a supply item and have a squirrel moment and start another cleaning project. Avoid this as much as possible.

Plan Your Cleaning Moves

Even though we suggest staying in one room, there are cleaning tasks that usually cross boundaries on your weekly cleaning schedule, such as vacuuming. With these types of tasks, you may want to put them on specific days. I don’t believe there are too many people that like to haul a vacuum around every day for each individual room.

How Do I Stay on Cleaning Task Each Day?

A cleaning checklist on a clipboard. A cleaning checklist can be a useful tool when you develop your weekly cleaning schedule.

How can you hold yourself accountable? Print out your chore list and laminate it. (You can find a self-laminating packet at your local Walmart for just a few bucks.) Trust us when we say you want to laminate it because you can mark off what has been done.

Now for our thrifty and high-tech-loving house cleaners, we suggest some cleaning schedule apps. One of my favorites because it a broad app is TODO found in the Google Play store. This app is amazing for overhauling and organizing your whole life––not just your cleaning schedule.

What Does a Successful Weekly Cleaning Schedule Look Like?

Below is a sample of my cleaning schedule broken down from daily tasks to each day of the week for the larger tasks.

Daily tasks should consist of wiping down the counters, doing the dishes, a load of laundry, and making the beds. Remember: if it looks dirty you should probably just add it to your quick clean list for the day and get it done and over with.

Mop It Monday

Mondays should include the floors. Everyone knows that the weekends are dangerous to your floors. From company and kids to food spills and muddy paws, the weekend has terrorized your floors.

If you can’t do all of them, you should consider looking at your high traffic areas such as foyers and living rooms. Don’t forget to tackle that kitchen and dining area as well as the high trafficked bathroom floor. If there are areas you can’t get to, don’t worry: you can make it up later on a day that doesn’t have a lot of tasks at hand.

Toilet Tuesday

Tuesdays should be the day your grab the gloves and toilet bowl cleaner. Tuesdays can be a drag, because who really likes cleaning toilets anyways? But if done early enough in the week, there is nothing to ruin your weekend with later.

You will want to focus on disinfecting and scrubbing all bathroom-related surfaces. From scrubbing showers and tubs to shaking bath mats outside, you can also use this day to check up on any toiletries that are low to put on the list for your shopping day.

Wipe It Down Wednesday

If it has a surface, wipe and dust. Here is where you can get a lot of the grime and dirt off those microwave or stove surfaces. Start from the top and go to the floor, especially if you’re dusting. This will help to gather all the stuff that comes off the high ledges of the home. You also want to consider non-permanent items such as toys and telephones to wipe down and disinfect.

Throw Out Thursday

Thursday can be far the greatest day of all. This is the day your declutter everything! You want to throw out old newspapers and any leftover food that has gone past its expiration date. (And don’t worry––we all have that unintended science project in the back of the fridge.)

You may also want to consider Thursday donation day as well. If it’s in the right condition, donate it. Throw out the old clothes with holes or donate those that are still usable but don’t fit.

Fold It Friday

is the day to tackle the laundry chair. You know the one I am talking about: the chair where the clean clothes migrate. Friday is a great day to sit and watch a show while folding everybody’s clothes. This is also the best day to maintain clean bedding. Once a month, clean the bed skirt.

Slow It Down Saturday

So now everyone is home and you want to relax. Slow down and enjoy it! Just have everyone help pitch in today for about 20 mins to straighten up things and voila––you are done for the weekend.

Sleeping On Sunday

Family Time Watching TV. Rest time should bea part of your weekly cleaning schedule.

Sunday is a day of rest and so should the cleaning tasks! Enjoy the day and go have some fun with the family.

Instead of Developing a Weekly Cleaning Schedule, You Can Give us a Call

You could always just contact us at TLC Cleaning for recurring cleaning services and have us do these daily cleaning tasks for you so that everyday can feel like “Sleeping On Sunday”.