What is the quickest way to clean up the whole house?
Shut your eyes. Imagine the house is clean. Don’t open your eyes again until someone has cleaned up for you. No, seriously, I don’t want to spend five hours on a weekend cleaning. How can I make it more time efficient? The art of effective house cleaning is all about routines, good tools and simple techniques. Gabrielle Simpson, the founder of Clean Queens, a domestic, commercial and forensic cleaning service, says a two-bedroom unit that’s cleaned weekly should take no more than two hours. A family home with three bedrooms and two bathrooms should take no more than three hours. “Bathrooms take the longest to clean, followed by the kitchen,” she says, explaining people who have dogs, cats or kids will have to spend longer cleaning. “Pet hair and greasy fingerprints slow you down. And teenagers who leave clothes and underwear all over their bedroom are the worst.” Clean Queens relies on simple cleaning tools 99-cent scourers to clean oven racks and sinks, static dusters rather than feat
