House Cleaning Checklist

The secret that successful maid services use for cleaning houses is that they work from a house cleaning checklist for every job. They also have a schedule for how often certain home maintenance jobs need to be completed to keep a home its cleanest. Now you can clean your home using this top-secret check-list. Using this list, you can keep your home looking like a professional maid service cleaned it, for less money and less of your time!

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Daily House Cleaning Checklist

  • Clear kitchen counters
  • Wipe stove-top
  • Sweep kitchen floor
  • Get/sort mail
  • Put homework or daily paperwork in their place
  • Clear bathroom counters
  • Hang up towels
  • Hang up/fold clothes or put in hamper
  • Put toys away
  • Fold clothes immediately after drying cycle ends to prevent wrinkling (and later ironing), put in appropriate rooms
  • Make beds

Weekly House Cleaning Checklist

  • Dust all furniture, bookshelves, vents and knick-knacks
  • Vaccuum
  • Clean all sinks, fixtures, shower/baths, toilets
  • Clean all mirrors
  • Clean the front of the fridge, microwave, dishwasher, oven
  • Clean the inside of the microwave
  • Clean the stove-top
  • Wipe down kitchen cabinet fronts
  • Throw away uneaten leftovers in the fridge
  • Damp-mop all flooring surfaces
  • Polish any metal surfaces
  • Sweep garage floor where you commonly walk
  • Change/wash sheets, wash duvet covers
  • Clean computer monitors and tv screens
  • Wipe down commonly used door knobs and phones

Monthly House Cleaning Checklist

  • Wash walls in high traffic areas
  • Wipe down doors around door knobs
  • Vacuum curtains, wipe down mini-blinds
  • Wash windows
  • Wipe wood trim
  • Polish wood furniture
  • Clean/condition leather furniture
  • Vacuum couches and chairs and underneath upholstered items
  • Clean the inside of the fridge
  • Clean inside of the oven
  • Wipe down/vacuum commonly used drawers
  • Wash mattress cover
  • Flip mattresses
  • Dust ceiling fans
  • Change air conditioner/furnace filter
  • Sweep garage
  • Wash comforters or bedspreads

Semi-Annual House Cleaning Checklist

  • Wash curtains and drapes, clean blinds
  • Dry clean down comforters
  • Vacuum under beds and behind dressers
  • Vacuum inside closets
  • Dust refrigerator coils, vacuum/wash space around fridge
  • Wipe out inside of cabinets and drawers
  • Pull out washing machine and wash walls and floor around washer/dryer
  • Vaccuum back of dryer, clean out dryer vent
  • Replace batteries in smoke detectors and carbon monoxide monitors
  • Clean garage, store seasonal items in bins on shelves
  • For 2-story houses, have carpeted stairs professionally cleaned and scotch-guarded

Annual House Cleaning Checklist

  • Have furnace/air conditioner cleaned
  • Clean carpets or rugs
  • Clean upholstered furniture
  • Go through toys and clothing - give away or sell unwanted items

Use Daylight Savings or Change of Seasons to Remember Items on your House Cleaning Checklists

Schedule tasks you perform twice or 4 times a year to dates already on your calendar. For example, change your smoke alarm batteries when you turn your clocks behind and ahead, or clean your ceiling fans on the first day of a new season. You get the idea!