Speed cleaning tips: Make your house look clean fast
Between managing family and work commitments, cooking, laundry, and everything else mum life throws at you, cleaning is often the last thing you want to do. However, there are ways that you can clean fast to make cleaning less of a dreaded task.
This post discusses how to use some easy speed cleaning tips so you can clean fast, what speed cleaning is, and what the benefits are.
So let’s dive into the speed cleaning tips that you may like to try, to clean your home faster, so you can get back to doing the things you actually enjoy.
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What’s speed cleaning?
Speed cleaning is about keeping your home clean and tidy by focussing on essential tasks, in small amounts of time.
The benefits of speed cleaning
Some of the benefits of speed cleaning are:
- Saves time – by focussing only on essential tasks, you spend less time cleaning than you would if you did a spring clean, or deep clean
- Reduces stress – having a clean home reduces stress levels, and creates a sense of calm in your space
- Boosts feelings of productivity – speed cleaning is a great productivity tip for mums, because you can achieve a lot in a short amount of time
- Helps you to achieve a simplified home
Speed cleaning tips
Here are some speed cleaning tips that will allow you to start speed cleaning your home so it’s clean fast.
Store cleaning materials in one place
Having your cleaning materials in one place makes speed cleaning easier, because you don’t have to spend time finding what you need.
Here are some cleaning materials that make speed cleaning super easy:
- Multi-surface cleaner
- Glass cleaner
- Microfibre cloths
- Cleaning sponges
- Cleaning brushes
- Duster
- Pair of gloves
You may also like to buy a cleaning caddy to keep your cleaning materials together, which enables you to take everything you need from room to room.
I have a cleaning caddy for my bathroom cleaning supplies, which makes a chore I really dislike a little easier.
Prioritise high traffic areas
We all have areas in our home that get messy quicker than others.
My home’s high traffic area is the living room. It often fills up with toys, clothes, and crafts, and if I don’t do speed clean this room regularly, I get frustrated fast.
Before starting to speed clean, work out which rooms in your home are your high traffic ones, and prioritise your speed cleaning efforts on these rooms, before others.
Once you’ve identified your high traffic areas, write them down, and under each area make a cleaning checklist of the speed cleaning activities you can do in them.
For example:
- Throw away empty cartons
- Wipe down countertops
- Sweep or vacuum
- Load the dishwasher
- Empty the washing machine
Declutter first
Before doing a speed clean do a quick declutter in the room you’re about to speed clean.
I do this is by getting a laundry basket, and placing anything in it that doesn’t belong in the room I’m about to speed clean.
Sometimes decluttering is the only thing you’ll need to do to clean a room fast, as once everything is out of a room that doesn’t belong there, the room is instantly cleaner.
Set a timer
Setting a timer is a great way to clean fast, it means you won’t spend too much time cleaning a particular area.
Setting a timer for even 10 minutes is enough time to declutter a room, wipe down countertops, sweep floors, and even clean a bathroom.
Focus on your chosen area
It’s so easy to get distracted when cleaning fast, one example of this is that perhaps you want to speed clean your kitchen, but before you start you find some paperwork on the countertop that needs filing.
You file the paperwork, then next to the filing cabinet you see a toy, you put the toy away, then see laundry in the toy room that needs washing.
Before you know it time has escaped, and the kitchen that you intended to originally speed clean hasn’t been touched.
To avoid getting distracted, once you’ve chosen an area to speed clean, focus only on that area, and use the laundry basket tip above to remove anything from the area that you can deal with later.
Work from top to bottom
When speed cleaning work from top to bottom.
Working from top to bottom means that you’re not recleaning areas, so for example, if speed cleaning the kitchen, wipe the countertops before sweeping the floors, so any crumbs that fall on the floor will be swept up.
Delegate
Delegating tasks saves you time, stress, and resentment from feeling like you’re doing everything on your own.
Some ways that you can delegate speed cleaning tasks include:
- Assigning tasks to family members based upon what they like doing, or what they’re able to do
- Turning speed cleaning into a game, seeing who can speed clean the room the fastest
- Outsourcing cleaning tasks to others
Create daily habits
Creating daily habits for a clean home is a great way to maintain the speed cleaning efforts you’ve made.
Some daily habits you may like to try to maintain your speed cleaning efforts are:
- Cleaning dishes while dinner’s cooking
- Putting dishes into the dishwasher as soon as they’re used
- Putting groceries away as soon as you bring them home
- Filing paperwork as soon as it arrives
- Putting clothes away as soon as they’ve been washed
- Making your bed every morning
- Removing anything that doesn’t belong in a room before you leave it
- Using laundry hacks to make doing laundry easier and faster
Speed cleaning to make your home clean fast – a recap
Speed cleaning involves cleaning your home by focussing on essential tasks in a short amount of time.
Some speed cleaning tips that you can use to clean your home fast include:
- Making sure cleaning materials are in one place
- Prioritising high traffic areas of your home, and creating speed cleaning checklists for them
- Decluttering an area before speed cleaning it
- Setting a timer, even just 10 minutes speed cleaning can make a massive difference
- Focusing on the area you’ve decided to speed clean
- Speed cleaning from top to bottom, for example, wiping countertops before sweeping
- Delegating cleaning tasks so you’re not the only person cleaning your home
- Creating daily habits, like putting groceries away as soon as they enter your home, to lessen the amount of cleaning you do overtime
You don’t have to spend hours cleaning your home, speed cleaning your home allows you to clean smarter, not harder.
What speed cleaning tips work for you?
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