A Guide to the Traditional Spring Clean in the UK

If you are not a native UK person, you may not know of our traditional spring clean, when all the family chip in a give the interior a thorough clean, although, to be fair, many cultures adopt a home cleaning day. The best time to carry out a home deep clean is in the spring, which gets the house ready for the coming summer, when you can throw open your windows and let some fresh air permeate through the home.

Here are a few tips to help get you prepared for the annual spring clean.

• Cleaning Equipment – Of course, it is vital that you have all the tools, utensils and cleaning solutions to deep clean the interior. Black bin bags are a must, as they can be used for so many things and with a mop, several brooms, both soft and hard, clean cotton rags, a dustpan and a long feather duster for the ceilings. A pack of rubber gloves will arm the entire family, and with each person having a set of tasks, the work is soon done.
• Carpet Cleaning – This is the perfect time to have your carpets deep cleaned and you can find professional carpet cleaning with a Google search and book them in for the day and time that you will finish the clean and the carpets would be the final thing.
• Hire a Skip – If you live in a two-storey family home, then you will need to hire a small skip, as the amount of stuff you will encounter will be considerable, once the attic and spare room have been checked. Having the skip onsite is ideal and when you have finished, simply give them a call and they will remove your waste and recycle most of it.

• Start Upstairs – Working with gravity is the best way to tackle an interior spring clean and working room by room and finally, the upstairs landing and down the stairs. Three people can make short work of a room and with one person constantly taking rubbish out to the skip, the job will soon be done. Here are some paint colours that you could consider is a repaint is on the cards.
• Ventilation – Once a room has been cleaned, along with the carpet, you should open a few windows and let the air circulate and that is the time to put out some air-freshener. Of course, it is ideal if you can pick a dry weekend, perhaps Easter is the best time to do a spring clean, indeed, in some parts of the UK, this is a tradition that’s been around for centuries.
• Replacing Fixtures and Fittings – This would be a great time to replace those old bedroom curtains with vertical blinds, in fact, anything that has seen better days can be replaced and if possible, have the upholstery cleaned by a professional.

If you can persuade the whole family to pitch in, cleaning your home can be done in a weekend and with a carpet deep clean, your home is ready for the great British summer.