How Often Should You Really Clean Your Home? A Room-by-Room Breakdown

Clean Smarter, Not Harder 🧼

Let’s face it—cleaning your entire home from top to bottom every single day isn’t realistic for most people. But letting dust, germs, and clutter pile up? That’s a recipe for stress, allergies, and even illness.

At Glanz Cleaning Solutions LLC, we help Phoenix homeowners strike the right balance. Below is our room-by-room breakdown of how often you really should be cleaning—and what tasks to focus on each time.

🛋️ Living Room / Common Areas

• Daily: Tidy up surfaces, fold blankets, and put away clutter.
• Weekly: Dust furniture, vacuum carpets or mop hard floors, disinfect remote controls and high-touch surfaces.
• Monthly: Wash throw pillows, clean behind furniture, dust ceiling fans and baseboards.

🛏️ Bedrooms

• Daily: Make the bed, organize laundry or clothing.
• Weekly: Change sheets, dust surf, vacuum or mop floors.
• Monthly: Wipe down walls and baseboards, vacuum under the bed, clean windows.

🍽️ Kitchen

• Daily: Wipe countertops, clean dishes, sanitize sink and faucet.
• Weekly: Clean the microwave, mop the floor, disinfect fridge handles and cabinet pulls.
• Monthly: Deep clean the refrigerator and oven, organize pantry, wipe cabinet interiors.

🚿 Bathrooms

• **Daily: Wipe down sink, faucet, and countertop.
• Weekly: Scrub toilet, tub, and shower, clean mirrors, mop floors, empty trash.
• Monthly: Clean grout, polish fixtures, wash shower curtain/liner.

🧺 Laundry Room

• Weekly: Wipe machines, sweep floor, clean lint trap.
• Monthly: Run a washer cleaning cycle, check dryer vent for lint buildup.

🧹 Bonus Areas (Hallways, Entryways, Closets)

• Weekly: Sweep or vacuum floors, spot clean scuff marks.
• Monthly: Dust corners, wipe walls and light switches.

✅ Final Tips:

• Use a rotating cleaning schedule to break tasks into manageable chunks.
• Prioritize high-touch and high-traffic areas during cold/flu seasons.
• Schedule a deep cleaning every 2–3 months for areas that tend to get neglected.
• Don’t have time? Let Glanz Cleaning Solutions LLC handle it with customized weekly, biweekly, or monthly plans tailored to your lifestyle.

📞 Call or book online today to keep your home in its best shape—without doing all the work yourself.