Super Spick and Span: How to Clean Your House Best 

Learn some great house cleaning tips:

In this age of the Internet, quick chats, and speedy visits, can we also have the self-cleaning house popular science fiction once dreamed up?

Sadly, no – or at least, not yet. But while we're waiting for the self-sweeping floor and self-dusting furniture, it's time we get down to work with sensibly cleaning your house – and making sure that it's spick and span in the shortest length of time possible.

Here are a few useful house cleaning tips to live by while you're ready to do some cleaning:

• Go from Top to Bottom – If you’re sure that you want to clean your house on your own, go from the attic to the cellar. This way, you won’t leave muddy footsteps or paint trails as you go along.

• Have a First Aid Kit Ready – You’ll be sneezing and coughing as you send up clouds of dust. If you’re allergic to bugs and fur, then you’re in for some big time hives. Pack up a first aid kit before you start your cleaning, and carry it with you every step of the way. For extra protection firsthand, take at least 500 milligrams of vitamin C or a vitamin packed with B-complex to boost your immune system.

In your first aid kit, pack antihistamines, bandages (to take care of those nasty cuts, just in case you have to handle broken glass or porcelain), and iodine solution.

• Use brushes – Your house will contain dusty corners and hard to reach, mildew-rich areas. Use a toothbrush or a paintbrush to get the grime out, especially from bathroom tiles or furniture.

• Be merciless – Take out as much of the dirt as you can, and as much of your trash as your sentimentality will allow. You may have pictures that haven’t seen daylight for centuries, but could be valuable to photograph collectors. Have them framed or re-colored, if you like; or have them auctioned online. You may also have knickknacks or figurines that you might want to give away as gifts. You may have stamp collections you may either want to revive, or pass on to the nearest philatelic relative.

Whatever the case, clean your house out. Make it ready for future collections, knickknacks, and memories.

• Take your time – But don’t take too much, of course. Don’t rush through the cleaning, and think the throwing away through. Do you really want to do away with those pictures? Are you sure you want to keep that vase? Are you sure you dusted the upstairs bedroom well? Did you clean out every corner of your cobwebbed chandelier?

• Be careful! – Whether you’re cleaning on your own or with a friend, handle all things with care, and don’t rush through your cleaning. Your house, and your life, will be in greater danger if you speed through your dusting and wiping. You want to end up with shiny tables and chairs, not broken vases and picture frames.

• Cotton or nylon? – All surfaces need a good wiping down, but what fabric to use? Cotton-based fabrics are best for wiping surfaces which need to be cleaned with damp cloth, since cotton will absorb water better. For wood surfaces that should not be wet or damp, use a dry nylon cloth, but apply varnish or wood shine if you see it fit.

House cleaning can be an arduous, back-breaking task. But if you do it well and carefully, you’ll have a shiny house in no time – and you’ll be sitting back and relaxing, just enjoying the clean view! Hope those house cleaning tips were of some use to you.