Back to Basics

One of the toughest odours to eliminate is the smell of smoke. If you Are a smoker who likes a cigarette or two in the house, the smoke could be having a damaging effect on your furniture.

Cleaning can be a time consuming task, but once you start segregating the big job into smaller ones, it can be a lot quicker and perhaps even enjoyable.

If you’re not a big fan of cleaning, why not put some fun into it? Get the family involved and start a little competition between you, crank up the music or incorporate cleaning into a fitness regime. Now you’re in the mood, let’s get cleaning.

If you want to thoroughly clean the home, it might be best to aim for a couple of rooms a day, but if you want to get the house back into shape, you’ll be surprised just how quickly you can do it.

This is probably one of the reasons why you haven’t begun cleaning – it can be discouraging when you see a mountain of papers and children’s toys strewn across the floor. However, when placing a REFUSE SACK and large box in the middle of the room you will easily be able to differentiate between what’s rubbish and what’s not.

While de-cluttering you will also be completing step two: tidying up.

Begin by organising what you want to keep, putting loose papers and important documents in folders, collecting books and placing them on shelves and so on. Put as much as you can away, into the rooms in which they belong, and finish by shaking the rugs and making beds.

Once you’ve finished tidying up have a cup of tea and marvel at your work – it looks better already. Now we need to combat the dust!

• Now you are left with a keyboard minus the keys, and it is likely to be very dirty! Use your first wet cloth to remove all the debris and bits of dirt.
• Shake this into the bin and wash immediately.
• Pour some BACTERICIDAL CLEANER onto your second cloth and wipe the keyboard all over, including between the key positions.
• Use cotton buds to clean inside the key recesses. Rinse the cloth and wipe down the keyboard to remove any traces of the cleaner.

Clean from room to room, starting from the top floors and working your way down. Here are a few guides on the best cleaning practices for each room:

• KITCHEN – the supplies you may need: DISINFECTANT, MULTIPURPOSE SPRAY, KITCHEN CLEANERS, DEGREASERS and an OVEN CLEANER.
• LIVING ROOM – the supplies you may need: FURNITURE POLISH, BACTERIAL DISINFECTANT AND DETERGENT PRODUCTS, VACUUM, CARPET CLEANING PRODUCTS and GLASS CLEANER.
• BATHROOM – make it shine like new; the supplies you may need: TOILET CLEANERS/DESCALERS, WASHROOM CLEANERS AND SANITISERS, MOPPING SUPPLIES.
• BEDROOM – the supplies you may need: MULTIPURPOSE SPRAY, FURNITURE POLISH, VACUUM, CARPET CLEANING PRODUCTS, AIR FRESHENER.