How to clean the Bathroom (by ethamin)

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ethamin

That is just too good to waste in the daily pissed off thread.

wobbegong wrote:

Hi Wobbegong,
Same problem here. I could not have cleaned my bathroom in an organisted way if my life depended on it. I use this list, maybe it will help you too:

1. Remove the knick knacks and place them in the hallway.

2. Remove the throw rugs and shake them out. Put them in the laundry to be cleaned if needed.

3. Sweep or vacuum the floor.

4. Spray the counter top and let your cleaner do the work (use the homemade cleaner recipe from our web site. It really works.)

5. Spray the mirror and wipe it down.

6. Spray the toilet with cleaner inside and out. Let the cleaner sit.

7. Go back to the counter top. Scrub and wipe it down.

8. Spray the bath tub and shower down (you may not need to do this every week if your bath tub doesn't get that dirty).

9. Scrub the inside of the toilet with a brush. Flush the toilet to rinse the bowl. Wipe down the outside. Don't forget the place behind the seat and the outside of the toilet bowl and base.

10. Scrub the tub down and rinse. Hint: if you want to clean the shower curtain you can wash it by itself in the washing machine in cold water on the delicate cycle. Remove it promptly and hang it back up to drip dry. Never put it in the dryer.

11. If you have linoleum or tile, mop the floor. If the room is small, you can spray your cleaner directly onto the floor and wipe it up with a sponge or cleaning cloth. Let dry for ten to fifteen minutes.

12. Put back the rugs and knick knacks. Check your toilet paper supply. Put out fresh towels.

The whole process should take fifteen minutes, not counting the time to let the floor dry. It will take even less time if you don't have to clean the tub and shower. There are two keys to all of this: 1) Let the cleaner sit long enough to loosen up the dirt and disinfect the surface. 2) Clean the bathroom every week. Pick a day that is your bathroom cleaning day and just do it. When you keep up on your cleaning it doesn't become such an insurmountable project.

Cleaning supplies.

1- Utility caddy to carry your supplies.
2- Rubber cleaning gloves.
3- Scrubber and sponge combination designed for cleaning the bathroom.
4- Window cleaner.
5- All-purpose cleaner.
6- An old toothbrush to get at those hard to reach areas.
7- One roll of paper towels.
8- Pumice stone for hard water build up in the toilet bowl.
9- Toilet brush.

Hi ethamin

Do you have similar instructions for how to de-clutter, clean out the junk, reduce the size of the hoard, part with junk - even if it might be useful sometime....

I have a room dedicated to stuff. It needs more shelves. If it had more shelves I could organise it better. But in the meantime I really feel I need to get rid of lots of it.

I'm having trouble parting with old sailing magazines. They contain articles about my friends, some of them and they connect me to my personal history and my dead dad. Sigh. In fact - I've still got a sailing boat that hasn't been sailing for about 6 years, maybe longer. I don't have a trailer to get it to the beach, I'm scared that some idiot driver will hit a bit of it if I do, and I'm scared (this is so dumb) that I'll get eaten by a shark if I take it out on the water. No yachtie has been eaten by a shark, no matter how small the boat.

As I look around this room, I've still got the box for a keyboard I bought before christmas, I've got an ibm golf ball typewriter - I want it to go to a good home, I don't want to just chuck it out, I think it would make an excellent printer too but I haven't figured out how to hook it up to the computer. I've got two dead computers, two computers I'm supposed to set up for someone else, and one good computer I'm supposed to set up for me that I've had since Christmas. And there are stacks of boxes full of paper and stuff. Like old bills. And company reports - um. And just how many jars do I need to keep for stuff like jam anyway?

i dont clean i pay a cleaner...so much easier.
i get overwhelemed by the smells and what to do and how to do it and when to do it.
i get flustered and i end up taking a whole weekend to clean....its not worth it, i pay someone...shes on holidays now and hasnt cleaned for a while so the rats are back, but i watch tv with an air rifle..shes gunna freak when she comes back and finds the dead rats...sheeez.

I have trouble keeping the house tidy enough so that a cleaner has room to clean and if she moves my stuff I get upset.

My mum has a cleaner, her house is much tidier, they always move her stuff, and she's always pissed off with them.

My sister has a cleaner and all her stuff lives in cupboards with closed doors. So the cleaner has nothing to move. I think she's trained the cleaner to put the furniture back.

I have worked as a cleaner. I have only been asked to clean around clutter, but possibly for a little extra pay you could get someone to gather clutter into baskets or boxes, stack it, and then clean. To keep keepsakes from being thrown away, you could give him/her a list of what could be thrown out-like maybe candy wrappers, beer bottles, old newspapers. Or you could ask them just to box it all up. I wish I could afford to have someone come in and clean here sometimes. I got very tired of cleaning other people's poopy toilets.