Pro Cleaning Services LLC — Salina Cleaning Blog

Most cleaning schedules fail because they were written for somebody with more time than you have. This one assumes you work, and it is built around fifteen minutes a day rather than a lost Saturday. The reason a house gets away from people is almost never laziness. It is that cleaning gets saved up until it is a whole-day job, and a whole day is hard to find, so it gets pushed again — and every week it gets pushed, it gets bigger. The way out is to move the work from one big block to small regular ones. It is less total time, not more, because nothing ever gets bad enough to be difficult. Daily — about fifteen minutes These are the things that make a house feel out of control if you skip them, and they are all quick when done every day. Kitchen down before bed. Dishes away, counters wiped, sink empty. A clean kitchen in the morning changes how the whole day starts, and a sink of dishes overnight is how a kitchen smells by Thursday. One pass on the main bathroom. Wipe ...

Kansas weather is hard on a house. Wind carries dust in, winters seal everything up, and spring puts pollen on every surface twice. A seasonal reset twice a year keeps a home ahead of it — here is what belongs on each list, and what does not. Regular cleaning handles the things that get dirty every week. Seasonal cleaning handles the things that only get dirty a couple of times a year but get properly dirty when they do — and the things a Kansas season does to a house whether anyone is paying attention or not. Two lists is enough. Spring and fall. Spring: undo the winter A house that has been shut up since November is holding four months of dust, dry air and whatever the furnace has been circulating. Spring cleaning is mostly about airing it out and getting to what settled. Air and dust, in that order Open windows on the first properly dry day. Then work top down: light fixtures and ceiling fans first — fan blades collect a felt of dust over winter and the first warm d...