With your busy life, you may not have time to clean your house yourself, at least not all the time. How do you keep it clean and ensure it is cleaned the way you want it to be? You can hire professionals for that, but you have to be careful about who you hire and their cleaning methods.
The following is a guide for how to ensure your home is cleaned properly and in an ecofriendly way when you aren’t the one cleaning.
Discuss Cleaning Options with the Company
Before picking a professional cleaning service, you will want to talk to the ones you are considering. Ask them about their green cleaning options and what methods they will use to clean your home. Just because a company says they are offering green cleaning solutions, that doesn’t mean they have the same idea about green cleaning as you do.
Ask them about their satisfaction guarantee, their standards for cleanliness and environmental responsibility, and the safety of their cleaning methods for the environment, your pets, your children, and people with health sensitivities. When you use professional green cleaning solutions for your home, you want to ensure you are getting something safe, effective, and affordable. It is unwise to simply assume that the company will clean the way you want them to and to assume that they will do an excellent job. Ask probing questions to determine if they might be right for you.
It may help to write down your questions beforehand so that you don’t forget them and so that you ensure you ask the right questions. Do some shopping around and see if you can find the right cleaning company for your needs.
Make Things Easy on the Cleaners
If you are having someone come and clean your home for you, they will likely charge you an hourly rate. How do you make it easy for them to clean quickly? You want them to finish as fast as possible with as few obstacles to deal with.
Here are some tips to help speed up the cleaning process and to make things as easy and convenient for the cleaners as possible. First of all, ensure that items in the home are cleaned up. You don’t have to clean your entire home before the cleaners come, but if you pick up toys, laundry items, and anything else that might get in their way, you can make the work easier on them. The cleaners will put away anything they see that is out of place, but they may not know where everything goes, and tidying up loose items can slow them down and keep them from getting immediately to the sweeping, scrubbing, vacuuming, and sanitizing.
You should also keep kids and pets out of their way. If you will be at home while they clean, ensure that pets are tied up or otherwise secured. Small children can be kept close to you as the cleaners are working so that they are not interfering with the work.
You don’t need to move furniture or any other heavy objects, if it is not convenient to do so, but be aware that basic cleaning services may not include cleaning under or behind furniture or appliances. Make sure you are very clear about what will be cleaned and what won’t be with the service you have requested.
Stay Home or Not?
Should you be at home while the cleaners are working or not? That may depend on how comfortable you feel with them. Many moms will prefer to be at home for at least the first cleaning. After that, they may feel more at ease with the cleaning service and be okay with letting them clean while they go out.
If you are going to stay at home, you will want to keep yourself and your family out of the way of the cleaners. You can do this easily if they are only cleaning a couple of rooms. Just hang out in a room they are not cleaning. If they are cleaning the whole house, then you can ask them to start in the room you want to spend your time hanging out in, like the living room. Once that room is cleaned, then you can move there and wait until they are finished.
If the cleaning team is doing an ecofriendly cleaning service for you, then it should be safe to stay in your home while they clean. You may need to open windows or doors for ventilation, but generally, the cleaning solutions they use should be safe for humans to be around.
The advantage to staying at home while they clean is that you can answer any questions that they might have and give them some direction as needed. In most cases, though, there will be no need for you to interfere with or direct the professional house cleaners as they work.
If you go out while they clean, then the cleaners can work unimpeded, or without interruption or hindrance, and they should be able to finish the work faster.
Ensure Ecofriendly Methods
You can do your part to keep house cleaning as eco-friendly as possible. Even when you are cleaning for yourself, you can make sure you use biodegradable products and cleaners that are not harmful for the environment. You can prevent unnecessary waste by purchasing products that are designed to last for a long time. This safeguards precious resources and cuts down on manufacturing processes.
When you have eco-friendly professionals working in your home, you can get some tips from them. Once they are done cleaning, you can ask them about how they cleaned and what they would recommend you do when you are cleaning, in order to protect the environment and do your part to conserve resources.
With these tips top eco-friendly cleaning, you can contribute to protecting the environment and still have a very clean and welcoming home.
