Speed up your house cleaning, leaving your home spotless in no time
Cleaning doesn’t have to be a time-consuming ordeal. With these 30 cleaning hacks, that will speed up your house cleaning, leaving your home spotless in no time. By decluttering, using the right cleaning hack, and following a strategic cleaning order, you’ll have more free time to enjoy your clean and fresh living space. Happy cleaning!
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Scrub less by using steel wool on shower glass doors
If you hate those tough limescale and mineral and hard water stains. Just use #0000 steel wool in a circular motion, you can get those stains and buildup off super easy. No cleaner is necessary, but you can use your favorite don’t use a cleaner like the pink stuff or scrub Daddy paste. It can scratch the glass.
Use a pipe cleaner for hard-to-reach areas
There are plenty of areas in our home that are hard to reach places. Grab a pipe cleaner and your favorite disinfectant, all-purpose spray, and use the bristles of the pipe cleaner to reach into those tough spots. Just toss it after you are done.
If you use white ones, you can see all the nastiness to double check you got it cleaned the first time.
Prevent nasty shower buildup and mold
Grab a dish soap wand and fill it half and half with vinegar and dawn dish soap. Use it after you shower to quickly clean the shower, tubs, and walls. Rinse and see it shine.
Replace your toilet seat screws with plastic ones
If you have rust stains coming from the toilet seat and hate cleaning the nastiness that goes from the metal and body fluid together.
Unscrew your toilet seat and head to home depot, and grab plastic screws to replace them. You will find less build-up and faster cleaning time with just warm water and no more rust stains.
Replace your toilet seat with a snap-close one
Those toilet seats have a death trap for bacteria and germs to hide right in between the seat hinges and the top. Also, where the screws connect, you can try to get into it with water, but it doesn’t always clean it well.
Instead, swap out your old toilet seats for easy plastic snap ones.
When it’s time to clean the toilet, just snap off the lid and soak it inside the bathtub with disinfectant while you wipe the connection points clean.
Replace your plastic shower curtain with a cloth one
Plastic shower curtains tend to grow mold and are hard to clean. Replace with a cloth shower curtain one you can just toss into the wash and use a bleach cleaner or alternative for whites. And for colored ones, a great stain removal.
Clean your shower head with no scrubbing
Grab a large freezer ziplock bag and pour vinegar inside the bag to cover the entire shower head. Secure it over the shower head with a clip or duct tape.
Let the vinegar sit while you do other cleaning tasks, and just rinse after.
Remove tough limescale with lemons
If your shower head has touch limescale buildup but is scratch-prone to harsh cleaners or sponges. Slice a lemon in half rub all over the limescale and rinse clean.
Use Citric Acid to remove hard water stains
Do you hate those rings that form around your sink faucets? Me too. Grab a bottle of citric acid and pour it all over the hard water stain. Watch as it bubbles in seconds, the hard water minerals away. Use an old toothbrush or a cheap one from the dollar tree to scrub away those minerals and hard-to-reach areas.
Get rid of teapot stains easily
Pesky water stains inside your teapot or coffee pot require no scrubbing at all. Just boil some vinegar inside with water and watch the stains lift away.
Buy a disinfecting gun
No time to wipe all the areas down but have sick people walking around the house. But this disinfecting gun and put my favorite disinfecting spray inside. No wiping is required, and it dissolves into a saline mist.
Don’t wear your shoes inside
The amount of germs and dirt that gets tracked inside from the bottom of your shoes is a lot. From dirt on carpets and floors. Create a no-shoe rule if you need help on how to create this rule inside your home and get your guests on board when they come. Read more on how to ask people to take off their shoes without being rude.
Use a microfiber mop for more than mopping
I love my microfiber mop, and the fact that it has changeable mop heads is the best part. But multiple mop heads to clean all different areas of your home. Use it dry to dust the tall and tricky areas of your home.
- Main floor mopping
- Bathroom mopping
- Dusting ceiling
- Wall/baseboard cleaning
Wipe your fridge and make it smell amazing
Get an empty spray bottle and add water, white vinegar, and a few drops of vanilla to create a DIY fridge spray and wipe it down. It will get rid of all the icky stuff and smell amazing.
If you don’t want to use vinegar, then I recommend getting the cleaning kit from Force of Nature.
Remove lint from your lamp shades fast
Grab your lint roller and roll it up and down to remove lint from your shades in a flash. My favorite one is my washable lint roller. It’s reusable and cleans superfast. Here is a top-rated one on Amazon I like, too.
Repel grease from the tops of your cabinets
The very tops of the cabinets are so hard to clean. I have tried many times and it is truly a task. One of the ways to keep it clean and fast is by lining the tops of the cabinets with paper towels or putting down shelf liners, which is easier to wipe away grease and dust.
Easy remove stickers and fast
My kids love to put stickers on their stuff. I made a rule that the only place they can place stickers inside the house though is on the back of their bedroom doors.
When I am ready to take them off, or they want to change them, I grab a cotton ball with fractionated coconut oil. Rub the sticky residue away.
If you can’t get it to start to peel, just use a blow dryer to warm up the adhesive and begin to tug away, and use the coconut oil to remove any access.
I have found this to work best on my wood interior doors.
Prevent Spills and mess on your couches
We have a rule not eating in the living room and on couches, but maybe you allow this in your home. Help prevent stains and spills from getting on your couch. Spray down your cloth couches with a scotch guard to create a barrier.
Keep Backpacks cleaner longer
Do you kids throw their bags on the ground and have spilled water bottles and food all in the interior? Scotch guard to the rescue. Spray down the bookbag inside and out to keep dirt off longer and reduce soggy bookbags.
Keep shoes water and dirt-free
Why is it that kids can make brand-new shoes look ragged within a matter of days? One of the ways to reduce this is to repel some of the dirt and water. You can use scotch guard here too or use an actual shoe stain and water protector.
Just spray it all over the shoes and let it dry overnight
Keep cans of air in stock for easy cleaning
If you have never kept spray air cans also known as Compressed Gas Dusters in your cleaning arsenal, you might just wanna pick a few cans up.
Dust and dirt get everywhere, and a spray can of air can be the remedy you need to quickly get rid of it. Use it for those hard-to-reach places and for places that just have awkward access points.
Here are a few places:
- Computer keyboards
- Cellphone crevasses
- Back of fridge
- Inside dryer lint trap
- Light fixtures
- Behind electronics
- Behind appliances
Turn your central heating/cooling fan on while dusting
When you are getting ready to do a major dusting of the inside of your home, a trick that I like to do is turn the central fan on.
This creates a wind tunnel. When you are dusting, dust will fly around in the air. Instead of giving the dust the chance to resettle onto the surfaces, I use the power of the central intake systems to suck up dust flying around and change filters when I am done.
I found less dust when I checked in a few days.
Use your massage gun to loosen the dirt
I love watching car interior detailing because I find it satisfying. One trick I learned from a fellow cleaning content creator I love was the power of vibration to loosen up dirt.
He uses a vibrating gun to release dirt and dust from the fibers of the car floor, and I thought it was genius. So I had to try it out in other places.
One place was the couch. Those tiny grooves love to hide tons of crumbs. Then you just follow it along with your vacuum.
This can be done on carpets too.
Double your sheets
I hear from a lot of my audience that they don’t have enough time to get cleaning tasks done and struggle to keep up with the house.
Changing your bedsheets weekly is one of those tasks. Try putting two pairs of sheets on your bed at one time. Then weekly, grab the top dirt one and reveal a fresh sheet when need be.
This might seem weird to some people, but I have tried it a few different ways, especially for potty-training kids. I use sheet protector in between to keep the other sheet clean.
Those two AM I peed my bed calls can be exhausting and a quick pull-off is much easier than having to remake an entire bed in the middle of the night.
I would struggle to go back to sleep because I felt like I ran a marathon, making a bed straight out of a dead sleep. It might not be for everyone, but it helped me during those crazy nights.
Dust your knick-knacks and small decorations quickly
Knick knacks and small decor can gather dust but can be hard to clean. Using microfiber gloves has been a lifesaver in cleaning them faster. For those hard-to-reach places, remember the tips from above the pipe cleaner and spray can.
Use a multipurpose cleaner that also disinfects
I am a huge fan of reducing all the chemicals I need to clean my home. I have two top multipurpose cleaners that I use. CleanSmart spray and Force of Nature. Both products are non-toxic, clean, and disinfect all in one. I just let it sit and do the hard work for me. I can keep spray bottles all around the home and clean whenever I can in a jiffy.
Rubber gloves for pet hair
If you have a pet that sheds a lot of hair and it’s all over the couch. Put on a pair of rubber gloves and rub your hands across the sofa. You will start to create small balls of hair. Easy way to refresh the couch before guests come
Duct tape can clean, too
If you don’t have rubber gloves, you can also use duck tape rolled around your hands to remove pet hair from all kinds of surfaces.
Just be careful not to press too hard so it doesn’t stick and damage things.
Clean your microwave without having to scrub
Stuck on food and smells in the microwave, and you have guests coming over. Just cut up a lemon and squeeze out the lemon juice into a bowl of water.
Put the bowl into the microwave and set it for 5 minutes. This creates a steam-cleaning effect. Once done remove the bowl and take a microfiber cloth to wipe it clean.
Use peroxide to clean around the sink edges
Before we had our kitchen remodeled, I had an above sink that the edges were exposed on top of the counter. Water and gunk would hide in there.
Just pour some peroxide around the edges, watch the bubbles expose all the nasty stuff, and wipe away.
For the drop-down sinks, you can use this for those hidden corners that seem to gather icky stuff too. This is what I now have.
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