Cleaning immediately
Acting earlier, rather than later, prevents small, easy-to-clean-up messes from becoming large, difficult messes at the sight of a stain or a spill. Let's claim that your stovetop has a couple of spatters of grease on it after cooking dinner. It's barely visible, you should leave it. But if every time you use it, you take a minute to clean the stove with a sponge or cloth, the job will only take seconds, the stove will be returned to pristine condition, and you will stop what might potentially become a multilayered accumulation that needs hours of remedial attention. You clean up messes instantly in the immediate cleaning mode. Otherwise, messes accumulate, stains and grime set in, and the family discovers that it is appropriate to have a dirty home.
Only a few examples:
1. Toweling off after each use of the shower stall.
2. Getting family members at the door to remove their shoes.
3. Clean dishes directly after they've been used.
Cleaning for Repairs.
Tasks falling under this category are conducted occasionally, but not necessarily always. It is possible to put this sort of cleaning on a timetable. You might decide to clean the shower once a week, for instance (maybe even set the day), and wash the curtains twice a year.
Maintenance cleaning, like always cleaning the kitchen immediately after dinner is finished, can be arranged in a written schedule or turned into simple routines.
Only a few examples:
1. The shower stall is sprayed once a week with a soap scum remover.
2. All the dirt that family members track within every week is vacuumed.
3. Make sure every night before bedtime all plates, glasses, and cooking equipment are washed up.
Cleaning Remedial
This group's activities are characterized by cleaning after long periods of neglect, such as addressing the refrigerator after a year of drip and spill development accumulated on the bottom shelf. Remedial cleaning often requires what you do on the carpet after a tragedy, major or minor, such as a flood or a pet accident.
The fact that most remedial cleaning is preventable is necessary to remember. By taking urgent action or following maintenance routines, you will stop it. The great danger is that abusive cleaning can quickly become remedial cleaning. That occurs when the dirt is not moved by a mild cleaner, so stronger and more abrasive cleaners and instruments are called into operation. Cleaning abusively also causes more harm than the original dirt did.
Only a few examples:
1. Wasting hours scrubbing away soap scum and mildew for a year's worth.
2.Vacuuming if the neighbors make jokes about dust bunnies in your herd.
3.Wasting your Sunday scrubbing the week's dishes and pots of hardened food so you have plenty to cook with.