Easy Tips to Make House Cleaning in New Zealand Very Simple and Fast

Our house is truly a place where our heart is. It is a place where we all wish to be happy and enjoy with our family. It makes us forget the hardships and stress of life. Our memories of good and bad are attached to it and such a place should be kept clean, hygienic and tidy all the time.  A clean house makes us feel good and positive.

All our efforts to keep the house clean not only make us happy but also fetch the appreciation of the family members. The following house cleaning tips are easy and simple to follow:

Cleaning the mirrors: One need not to buy glass cleaners and paper towels to clean the mirrors, instead you can keep them shine as new with the help of some vinegar and old newspapers.
Wash the Dinner Plates on time: If the dinner plates are kept unclean for a long time then it is a very tough work to wash them. You can rinse the plates immediately after dinner and make your family members also do the same so that washing them become less time consuming and easy. Even though it is a small and simple habit, it can save you lot of troubles. 

Oven cleaning made easy: You may be using your oven regularly, but when you get a gap, just spray some oven cleaner quickly and keep it without using for a day. The next day, before switching on the oven, give a smart wipe and then all the baked stuff remaining inside will come off easily.

Microwave oven cleaning tips:  Here is a smart way to clean the microwave oven. Just fill a cup of water and keep it in high heat for few minutes. The steam from the cup of water will loosen the dried-on gunk. Then you can wipe it easily.

   

How to get rid of the bad odour in your fridge: Follow these steps and the fridge cleaning work will become easier. First of all remove any junk food. Wipe the shelves from top to bottom. After wiping it off, clean the inside of the fridge with a solution of baking soda and water. This mixture is a great cleaner and it will completely remove the bad odour in your fridge. After wiping out the crisper, line them with paper towels which will facilitate for next cleaning.

Bathroom cleaning: While cleaning the bathroom, use lemon oil to shine the tiles. It also prevents mildew and moulds. Formation of rings can be prevented by using a false teeth bubbling tablet. The build up of hard water in the shower head can be prevented using vinegar. Alcohol can be used to shine bathroom faucets.

Toilet Hygiene: It is one of the most hated things to clean the toilet but can be done easily and quickly if we follow these simple steps. Pour some cleaner in the bowl and let it soak. Then wipe down the seat and the outside bowl with spray cleaner or antibacterial cleaner. Then scrub the bowl with toilet cleaning brush and finally wipe down every thing with a dry cloth to let it shine.

Easy way to clean the bath tubs: Use a cleanser that will bubble or foam and allow the tub or shower gets soaked. Take a scrubber which is convenient to handle and clean the tub. Deep cleaning of bath tubs can be made easier if the tub is sprayed and showered after each use.  

These easy steps are sure to keep your house neat, clean and beautiful. And occasionally take the services of a professional cleaning company to make things easy for you. Select Home Cleaning is a dependable, well established and award winning home cleaning service in New Zealand. They are affordable home cleaners doing their excellent house cleaning services in Auckland, Wellington, Hamilton, Tauranga and Christchurch. They have a team of expert home cleaners with sophisticated equipment to perform the cleaning task in a professional manner.  

Cleaning Tips for Your Apartment Balcony and More

Cleaning your apartment balcony is surely not as hard as you think. Many of us live in high-rise apartments and these balconies give us the freedom to step out and get a breath of fresh air whenever we want. Balconies do have lot of advantages; however, since they are exposed to the elements outside, it is often tough for you to maintain a clean balcony with no dirt. Climatic influences make our apartment balconies prone to grime and dust.  

 Balconies are often a haven for birds that fly in and make their nests. You often find bits of grass and twigs lying here and there when these birds decide to make your balcony their home.  They also add to your woes by leaving their droppings around the place and this doubles your troubles.

Balcony Cleaning- Not a mammoth task

As mentioned above, cleaning your balcony is not a daunting task if you are informed and aware of the right cleaning procedures. The following are some easy tips from Select Home Cleaning professionals for maintaining the space free from dirt, dust and grime- 

• When you have decided to clean the balcony, the first thing you should do is remove all plants and furniture such as sitting chairs, benchtop etc. from it.
• For sweeping the balcony, it is wise to use brooms that have stiff hair. While doing so, be careful and do not be irresponsible enough to sweep the debris off the balcony. It will fall on the neighbour’s balcony underneath. Use a good quality dust pan to pick up the swept dust before disposing it wisely.
• Remember to clean the balcony walls and any glass doors before cleaning the balcony floors.  
• For glass doors in the balcony, use a sponge. While wiping the door, minimize the possibility of streaking with the “S” hand movement. It cleans the door from top to bottom.  If there are many stains, you can add some dishwashing solution to the sponge and get rid of the stains. Likewise remove the soap and water with a damp cloth and later dry it.
• The grills of your balcony also need attention. With time, the grills collect lot of dust and get stained. Stubborn stains have to be removed with a hard brush and concentrated solution. This will help you keep the grime at bay.
• The balcony wall is another area that needs more attention. You can clean the walls with an all-purpose cleaning solution and a stiff brush. The strokes you use should be downward. In case, the walls are too dirty, you can opt for professional home cleaning services to come over and do the job for you. 

 Choose Select Home Cleaning Services for a nice looking balcony

Cleaning your balcony requires much time and patience. As you may not have enough time to clean the balcony yourself, it’s often neglected. It is here you should opt for a trusted house cleaning service like Select Home Cleaning to take up the onus of not only balcony cleaning but the entire cleaning needs of your home. Call them today on 0800 000 907 if you do not have the time or inclination to clean your balcony or any part of the home yourself. 

Select Home Cleaning professionals, servicing Wellington, Tauranga, Christchurch, Hamilton and Auckland, are quite affordable and skilled in every aspect of home cleaning!

The Importance of Regular Floor Cleaning and Maintenance

It is important for you to keep hard floor surfaces spick and span. If your floor is not well maintained, it can wear and tear fast. There are specialized floor cleaners that provide regular and daily floor cleaning services for your residential and commercial premises in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington & Christchurch. With professional cleaning, the floor does not become slippery and its durability gets enhanced. Select Home Cleaners, servicing those areas are licensed and maintain high polishing and cleaning standards for the safety of people.

Why Should You Choose Professional Floor Cleaners?

Not all flooring surfaces are alike. If you are not careful and use the wrong cleaning agents and chemicals, you will cause permanent damage to your floor. It is always wise to call in professional experts for your need. They know which floor surfaces need what cleaning materials and follow standard procedures for your costly wooden or stone floors. 

Comprehensive Floor Care Services at Affordable Rates
Effective Customer Services

• Polishing for vinyl floors

• Cleaning for vinyl floors

• Scrubbing for vinyl floors

• Tile cleaning and polishing

• Cleaning and polishing for marble floors

• Cleaning and polishing for textured and glazed tiles

• Cleaning for wooden floors

• Polishing wooden floors

• Cleaning and polishing of cork tiles

• Cleaning of laminated floors

• Polishing of laminated floors

• Treatment of marmoreal floors

• Polishing of linoleum floor

• Cleaning of linoleum floors

Regular and daily floor care services are not expensive. Select Home Cleaning in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington & Christchurch provides customers with affordable packages. These packages are beneficial to people who do not have the time and ability to clean and take care of floors themselves. Moreover, for stubborn marks and stains, it is important for you to hire professional floor cleaners.  

When you contact a floor cleaner in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington or Christchurch, you can check on the comprehensive floor care services available to you. This helps you to choose from the list of services offered. You can pick the ones that meet your requirements and save money if you do not require all of the floor care services mentioned in the list.

Select Home Cleaning Company is known for its professional customer support as well. It is important for you to ensure floors are cleaned and maintained regularly. This enhances the shine and sheen of the floor. If you are a responsible home owner, you should take proper care of the floors in your home. Like everything else, floors also wear and tear without regular maintenance, no matter how good the quality of the material will be. The interval needed between two floor cleaning and polishing sessions will be intimated to you by the cleaning professionals.

Types of Floor Cleaning Services

At Select Home Cleaning, servicing Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Wellington and Christchurch, we have specialized floor cleaning technicians who can polish and clean almost every floor surface. They have the latest cleaning agents and equipment to effectively remove the dirt and debris on any floor. The following is a list of common floor cleaning services they generally provide in the region: 

Special floor cleaning and polishing services are also offered by professional floor cleaning service providers on request. In such cases, the prices will be higher than the regular services you select for your home or commercial establishment.

The Rise Of Household Help

Have you ever noticed that we seem to be getting more and more of our regular work around the house done by outside services? 

Did it ever occur to you that maybe this was nothing new?

It seems to me that 150 years ago it was common for people - especially the middle & upper classes - to have servants who did all the daily chores - like cleaning, cooking, washing, serving, driving, car cleaning etc. In fact I have been surprised when looking at our family who migrated to NZ, Australia & US in the mid to late 1800s at how many traveled with one or two servants.  And most of those families would not have been considered wealthy.

With the changes that went on around and after the first world war the use of servants dropped off for many and it became normal since then for most families (apart from the wealthy) to do most of those day to day chores themselves.  Maybe that was what drove the development of the automatic washing machine!

However, if you look at what has happened in most large cities over the last 30 years you will note the growth of businesses that are offering the services that were once provided by servants - home cleaning, lawn mowing, window cleaning, oven cleaning, car cleaning etc etc.

Have a look around the people you know and count how many are now using a service that would once have been provided by a servant -  I think you will be surprised by the number who are.  The shear growth in these businesses gives testament to the call for these services.

We may have all the "mod cons' but the one thing we are still short of is time. So rather than having a servant who "lives in" we have people coming in regularly to do the work.  We have a lawn mowing guy who mows the lawn every 2 - 3 weeks, we have a cleaner who cleans our house every 2 weeks, we take our cars to a car valet service every month for full detailing, we have the house washed once a year and so forth....

So maybe the day of the servant has not gone....just transformed.

Autume home cleaning

As we head into Autumn now is a good time to be looking at a few extra things you can do in your home to set the house up for winter.  We have had a great summer so why not take advantage of the good weather to get some of theses extra chores done?

Here are a few extra things to might want to think about (assuming that your home is being cleaned regularly):

• Move heavy furniture and clean under and behind (don't forget the cobwebs on the back of the chest of drawers!)
• Turn all the mattresses in the house - end to end and front to back. This will help to even out wear.
• Wash all the bed coverings - duvets, blankets, pillows etc
• Get the carpet cleaned while the weather is still fine and the carpet will dry quickly. You should think about doing this twice a year - it will help to make the carpet last longer.
• Clean all light fittings - if the coverings will come off take them down and wash them in warm soapy water.
• Clean out kitchen cupboards - move everything out and wash down the shelves.  If you have some sort of shelf protector replace the worn ones.
• Move the stove and fridge out and clean behind & under them.
• Clean out the lint etc from the dryer (if you use one)
• De-clutter - get rid of the "stuff" you are not using. Either put it in storage or get rid of it altogether.  You will be amazed at how much you can get rid of and how much easier the normal cleaning of your home will be.
• Clean out the pantry - through out all old food.

Okay - too much! Sure but remember - it's all about planning. Don't try to do it all at once. Work out a plan on what you will do over the next two or three weeks then break it down into daily tasks. I would suggest no more than 1 hour at a time.  You will be surprised how much you can get through in small spurts.

Have fun....

Of course the other option is to prepare a plan with your cleaner and get them to do it....maybe a whole lot less stress this way!

Welcome to the Select Home Cleaning blog.

SelectCleaning provides home cleaning in NZ & Australia. All of our cleaners own their own businesses and are security cleared and trained.

They bring everything with them that they need to complete your home cleaning.

The service is based on an 80 point checklist that ensures your regular cleaning needs are met. We can also tailor a specification to suit any particular needs you might have.

From time to time we will post hints about cleaning and also suggest ways you can get the best out of your cleaners.