How to Clean Anything In Your Home

With all the gadgets, chemicals, and doo-dads on television and in the cleaning aisle at the store, cleaning can get overwhelming. But if you really want to learn how to clean anything, here are some basic tools you should have. When you think about it, we’ve got it easy. Our great-grandmothers kept cleaner houses than we do, and they did without all those “modern conveniences!”

Chemicals - If you keep some of the more basic liquids and chemicals around in your home, you’ll be able to clean nearly anything. First, ammonia. Do you want clean clarity? Ammonia is a good choice to use for cleaning solutions. If you want to mop floors, wipe stainless steel, and sine up glass and windows, ammonia is wonderful mixed in wonder.

Lemon juice is another acidic liquid that you should have on hand for bringing back the shine in dull objects. Bleach is a necessity as well, for removing stains from white items, and for killing mold and mildew.

However, always remember that ammonia and bleach are mortal enemies! The combination of the two creates fumes that are deadly! Never try it! To tackle the really challenging cleaning jobs, use cream of tartar and salt. You probably already have them stocked in your spice cabinet. You’ll be ready to learn how to clean anything when you have all those essentials on hand.

Large tools - A good broom and dust pan, a dust mop or Swiffer, and probably a vacuum. Depending on the kind of flooring you have, all three of these tools are considered necessities for many households.

You may prefer the mop and bucket like many other people if you have linoleum or tiled flooring. A long-handled duster will get into ceiling corners and remove dust from the blades of ceiling fans.

Small tools - The staples of cleaning tools include wiping tools such as rags, microfiber clothes, and sponges. Great rags can be made from old cloth diapers, and men’s undershirts. You should frequently replace your sponges, since they can retain germs. As for microfiber clothes, they come in two varieties.

The first one is used for general household dusting and cleaning. It’s nubby or napped in texture. The second kind is meant just for delicate surfaces such as electronic screens. This cloth is very smooth. And if you don’t want to dry out the skin on your hands or handle nasty things directly when you’re learning how to clean anything, you may want to consider rubber gloves as one of your cleaning necessities!

Visit How to Clean to learn How to Clean Leather to How to Clean Marble and anything else in your home.

- Christine Julianne