Island Bargains | Spring-cleaning Tips

When you live on an island that requires having cleaning products shipped from an online store, it is a good idea to shop early for your essential spring-cleaning supplies.

Tip 1: Create a List of What Is Required For the Job

Walk through a business or home to determine what requires cleaning, and write down this information. After understanding what you must spring-clean, you will understand what you must buy, including:

• Furniture polish
• Window cleaner
• Laundry detergent
• Carpet shampoo
• Bathroom sanitizers

Think about how much of each product is required to clean surfaces or wash draperies. Make sure to consider the types of tools needed for spring-cleaning such as sponge mops, window squeegees or soft cloths.

Tip 2: Prepare for Spring-cleaning

Make sure to choose a day when you are full of energy to complete your spring-cleaning chores. A warm day when it isn’t raining makes it easy to take trash outside a business or home, and you can also perform outdoor chores such as scrubbing windows or sweeping a front porch. Prepare ahead of time by having food available for meals and snacks so that you don’t need to leave in the middle of the job. Wear old clothing, tie your hair back and carry your cleaning supplies with you in a plastic container.

Tip 3: Throw Away Clutter While You Spring-clean

Have a lot of trash bags ready to get rid of clutter while you are cleaning. If you are cleaning a bathroom’s medicine cabinet, throw away expired items immediately rather than waiting until another day. You should sort through a stack of papers to shred the unneeded documents instead of moving the items while polishing a desk. Place unwanted garments and shoes in a bag to take to a charity shop before washing the walls in a bedroom’s closets. As you clean a refrigerator in a kitchen, toss the old food and beverages into the trash.

Tip 4: Clean From the Top to the Bottom of a Room

Experts recommend cleaning a room from the top to the bottom because dust trickles down to the floor. Climb on a ladder to reach light fixtures to clean the items with a soft cloth or dusting wand. Begin your kitchen cleaning by starting with the top shelves of the cabinets rather than the one underneath the sink. Wash ceilings first with a sponge mop before progressing to the top portion of the walls. The last items that you should spring-clean are the baseboards, floors and wall-to-wall carpets.

Tip 5: Remember to Spring-clean Special Surfaces

There are special surfaces in your home or business that are seldom cleaned, but it will make a room look spotless when you take care of the little details such as removing stains from the grout on a kitchen countertop’s tile or polishing the doorknobs. Make sure to scrub the windowsills around the windows, and you can also remove the window screens to wash the items with a garden hose. 

Tip 6: Shop, Ship and Save

Remember for all of your  household needs go online to Island Bargains to save time and money on all of your shopping and shippng needs!