How to clean your home to perfection - the Myhome way!

Nowadays we're all so busy it's easy to neglect the housework. A quick hoover, brief dust, but are you really removing the dirt or just moving it around?

To help make sure you do a through job every week, we're going to share our cleaning expertise in a 20-point plan. Myhome have conducted extensive research and in conjunction with Unilever have developed one of the most effective and efficient ways of cleaning a home.

1. Tidy everywhere. Put clean dishes away. Load or unload dishwasher.


2. Dust everywhere starting at the top of the house and at the top of each room, starting with cobwebs in corners and moving down.


3. Wipe and polish surfaces. This includes sills, skirting, tops of doors and mouldings, then smaller furniture like side tables, fireplaces and units.


4. Wipe light fixings, switches, tops of mirrors, pictures etc


5. Clean leather furniture and wood with specialist treatments.


6. Empty all bins and take outside. Clean kitchen bin and other if dirty.


7. Polish mirrors with glass cleaner and all brass


8. Take cushions and rugs outside to bang free of dust.


9. Pull out beds - vacuum and clean behind


10. Change bedding and replace with new sheets


11. Bleach kitchen sink, wipe surfaces and cupboard doors.


12. Clean stove top & extractor and wipe backsplash


13. Clean inside of microwave and oven


14. Scrub bath, shower basin & sinks (don't forget plug hairs!)


15. Polish taps and other fittings


16. Clean sink pedestals and outside of toilet


17. Disinfect toilet and leave for 30 mins. Then brush to clean.


18. Wipe front door inside and out


19. Vacuum all carpets and sweep all laminate/wood floors


20. Wash/mop floors with relevant cleaner. Pay particular attention around toilets and washbasins.

Other things to remember

Use different cloths for different rooms (Myhome cleaners have colour-coded baskets for area in the home). This ensures germs aren't spread from the kitchen to the bedroom for example.

Make sure you have the right products. Cream cleaners are too abrasive for some surfaces and anti-bacterial products should be used in the kitchen and bathroom. Myhome recommend having specialist products for certain things like stainless steel, glass and wood.

There are still one-off jobs that will need doing every so often; these include oven cleaning, fridge cleaning, carpet cleaning, windows, and cupboards.

Probably what you would call a Spring Clean - but these actually need doing more than once a year (sorry!). So schedule these in, perhaps doing one a week on rotation.

If all this sounds too hard, and you've got better things to do with your time, then call Myhome Australia now on 1300 33 HOME (4663) to discover how you can have your home beautifully cleaned. Ask about our regular cleaning service and our amazing "one off" spring-cleaning service. Alternatively, click here to request a quote