How To become a speed cleaner in 13 simple steps

How to speed clean a room

1. Start at the door.

   Begin at the door and work your way around the room in a clockwise direction until you reach the door again. When you’ve finished, move on to the next room. Cleaning in a clockwise way ensures that you do not keep going over the same area and cuts down on the number of steps you use to clean the room. A vast amount of time is wasted when you clean by going over the same areas, losing equipment, walking to and from the rubbish bin, starting another job before you’ve finished the first one, and missing areas, so you need to retrace your steps. Once you’ve learned how to do speed cleaning, you’ll soon notice how much more you can get done.
   

2. Always work top to bottom.

   Always work from top to bottom of the room, so you are not knocking dirt into areas you have already cleaned. cleaning in a methodical way also prevents you from cleaning the same area twice.

3. Use a small stiff brush.

   Use a small stiff brush like this one to clean in between furniture where the vacuum can’t reach. Cleaning between furniture this way will speed up your cleaning time and reduce the amount of heavy lifting you need to do.

4. Vacuum bathrooms before cleaning.

   Eliminate as much dust and hair as possible before getting everything wet by using a vacuum beforehand! Eradicating dust and hairballs makes it quicker and easier to clean the bathroom. once hair and dust get wet it sticks to every surface, it gets spread about with by the cloth and takes twice as long to clean.

5. Remember to give disinfectants and sanitizers about 10-20 minutes of dwell time.

   Disinfectants and sanitizers need about 10-20 minutes of dwell time to enable them to kill all the germs, check the manufacturer’s guidelines for the exact amount of dwell time required.

6. Don’t oversoak the area with cleaning products.

   you only need a small amount of cleaning product to get the surface clean. if you oversoak the surfaces it takes too much time to clean up.
   Most areas, if they are cleaned regularly only need a small amount of cleaner to freshen up.

7. Don’t use a cream cleaner on hard to rinse areas.

   cream cleaners are notoriously hard to rinse away so do not use on any area where water can not run freely. Save it for the inside of sinks, toilet bowls, baths, and showers or you will waste lots of time trying to remove the residue.

8. Spot clean kitchen cupboard doors.

   Spot clean kitchen cupboard doors,  doors frames, and any areas that are prone to fingerprints. Spot cleaning rather than cleaning the whole surface saves a lot of cleaning time that could be spent cleaning other areas. if the whole area is dirty then of course it is important to clean it.

9. Spot clean mirrors

   Spot clean mirrors when you can, rather than cleaning the whole mirror. Cleaning mirrors and glass can take quite a while as you strive for a streak-free finish. you can cut down on cleaning time by only cleaning the dirty spots from the mirror.

10. Use glass cleaner and glass cloth

    Use glass cleaner and a glass cloth on chrome, tiles, and glass for a super shiny, streak-free finish. Learn how to clean windows without streaks in this post

11. Wear an apron

    Many of my clients have huge houses. I spent valuable cleaning time retracing my steps, looking for my tools, and going to my next job with half of my kit missing as I’d left it at the previous client’s house. I sometimes cleaned an area I’d already cleaned as I had no methodical way of working and seemed to be working on autopilot most of the time.
    ✔️ Wearing a speed cleaning apron will make a tremendous difference in how you clean your home because it allows you to carry all your tools around with you as you clean.
    ✔️ Wearing an apron stops you from having to retrace your steps to find things you’ve left in another room. It allows you to gather rubbish in your pockets to save time tracking back and forward to the bin.
    ✔️ Keeping your speed cleaner apron stocked with the correct cleaning tools needed in each room allows you to tackle any cleaning problem quickly and efficiently as you come across it rather than leaving the room to gather access to your tools.
    ✔️ If you ensure that you always keep all your tools in the same pocket each time you wear your apron, you will never waste time searching for stuff, and you will automatically grab what you need without even having to think about it.
    ✔️ Making sure you return all your tools to your apron after using them prevents you from constantly backtracking looking for lost equipment.
    ✔️ Keeping a pocket in your speed cleaning apron for all the rubbish you collect on the way saves many trips to the bin. I prefer to line my apron pocket with a plastic bag to hold all sorts of gunk I find under the kid’s beds.
    ✔️ If you can get used to putting things in the same place every time you use your apron, you’ll find that you’ll quickly reach for your tools automatically rather than search for lost items you have left in the last room you cleaned.
    ✔️ keeping a feather duster, and your cleaning fluid attached to your apron saves time and energy whilst cleaning.
    

12. Always carry the correct tools in your apron

    You should only keep the products you need to clean your current room in your apron. Read this post if you’d like to know which products I keep in my cleaning kit at work and home!
    
    Here are the house cleaning supplies I have in my speed cleaner apron when I am cleaning  a kitchen:
    ✔️ A razor for cooker tops, ovens, and stoves. For a quick clean-up, I use the blade to scrape up hard gunky stuff from cookers, ovens, paint from windows, and soap scum from tiles.
    ✔️ A  1.5″ scraper. Before mopping and wiping, I use this tool to remove any dried-on food from the floors or countertops. Some clients have underfloor heating in kitchens, and when the kids spill raisins or food on it, the food gets cooked onto the heated floor and gets squished until it’s rock hard. The scraper is invaluable for speeding up these jobs, making it a quick clean.
    ✔️ Color-coded cloths, including a glass cloth for windows and polishing chrome and high-quality microfiber cloths. To find out more about how I color code my cloths read this post.
    ✔️ A non-scratch scrubby for any stubborn areas. I use the non-scratch scrubber for jobs a cloth can’t handle. I use mine with cream cleaner on sinks and on cookers, fridges, fingerprints, and floors to cut down on the elbow grease and help make it easy to clean.
    ✔️ A stainless steel scrubber. I use a stainless steel scrubber for removing baked-on food from dishes. I also use mine on my sink, cooker, oven, and floor but be warned, it does leave scratches!!
    ✔️ A  pocket for collecting rubbish, lined with a small bag,  for cleaning in a hurry.
    ✔️ Feather duster for cleaning cobwebs, dusting above door jams, for cleaning baseboards, and blinds. I tuck this through the side loop of my apron on the right-hand side to grab it quickly.
    ✔️ I stock my apron with whichever cleaning products I need for the duration of time it takes to clean the room and always have a spray bottle of degreaser and disinfectant cleaner in my caddy to use in each room.
    

13. Restock your apron after every room

    After cleaning the first room you will need to empty your speed cleaner apron and restock it with products you need for the next room. 
    For example, if you were cleaning a bathroom,  you would replace the scraper and the razor for some toothbrushes and a grout brush like this one.  You would also need a bathroom sanitizer, a glass cleaner, and your bathroom cloths.