General Home Cleaning

This is great general housekeeping advice that friends pass along to one another. Just general, good-to-know stuff about keeping house.

Something that a lot of people struggle with when it comes to cleaning is how to properly clean a shower and bathtub. Seriously, we get asked this a lot. And while we do have an older video on how to clean a bathtub, we've taken some of your feedback...
The other day I was standing in my kitchen after we had eaten dinner (I get to rest while my husband cleans up), and I was just marveling at how messy the kitchen got.  I had vacuumed the floors that morning and we started with a clean kitchen, yet...
We, here at Clean My Space, have made quite a few videos about cleaning your bedroom. But one topic we haven't covered yet is decluttering—which is a very important aspect of making your bedroom the most peaceful and inviting space possible. So this week, we're talking about 5 handy ways you can cut...
There are some things I'm going to keep to myself, but one thing I'm willing to go entirely public with is my pure disdain for vacuuming. It's just too much.  It drives me crazy.  It makes me mad!  But this post isn't an opportunity for me to vent, it's actually...
Dishwashers are NOT self-cleaning, at all.  In fact, they are little storage containers for your dirty little secrets.  Further, you can't get a good clean load through when your dishwasher is dirty.  They are known to harbour fungus, along with old food and proliferate bad odours throughout your clean...
  Back in the day, I found keeping house to be very overwhelming. Now that I've learned some tips and tricks I find it more manageable (but hardly something I enjoy). No matter how you feel about keeping your house clean, it needs to get done. One of my secrets to keeping...
It's crucial to check your cosmetics and toiletries for signs of degradation. While nothing too harmful can come from using expired products, some may lose efficacy, some may cause minor irritations and some will become downright unappealing and not look, smell or act as initially intended. For that reason, taking...
Some consider the kitchen to be the heart of the home - the perfect place where families get together and share memories that will last a lifetime.. my neighbour considers the kitchen the perfect place to cook macaroni and cheese, in his underwear, at 11:30 on a Saturday night..and...
I love antiquing. I've searched high and low and have taken home everything from gorgeous jewelry to old magazines, mirrors and frames and even larger furniture pieces. Our latest acquisition is a gorgeous kitchen hutch that we found in a barn (well, it was an antiques barn), somewhere in rural...
We get ready in the bathroom each morning, brush up and wash up, do our little routines, and then repeat that all over again the next day. We want to walk out feeling fresh and clean, not grimy and gross, so if your bathroom doesn’t make you smile, let’s...
Making lasting change is all about forming good habits. The philosopher George Santayana said, "Repetition is the only form of permanence that nature can achieve." And it's repetition that will turn a new behavior into a habit, and give your home a (somewhat) permanently better state! The best thing about a habit...
Toasters, the unwanted wedding gift, the college dorm necessity, and the perpetuator of our addiction to carbs. Anyway, that aside,we get asked all kinds of toaster cleaning questions.  And, I can’t blame you, because the toaster is this compartmentalized gadget that gets placed neatly in a corner and all the...
Want to know the secret to cleaning a kitchen? Me too. What I've learned over the years is that cleaning a kitchen thoroughly can be done really well in a decent amount of time with a good method and the right products and tools.  Recently, we've been doing these 'Clean...
In my over ten years of experience in running a cleaning business, I know exactly what buyers, agents, and tenants are looking for in a potential new home and also what they don't want to see when they actually move into it. So, I am going to cover off...
I take some time each week to review all the comments on our website, YouTube channel, and Facebook page. I do this for a few reasons; first off, I like to know what people are talking about in our community and how we can improve ourselves in terms of...
This is a great question that came off our Facebook page: Hello 'Clean My Space' Team, I was wondering if you have any tips or tricks to quickly clean the leaves of an artificial tree. I have attached a photo of my tree, so you can see the type of...