Spring Deep Cleaning Guide for Ankeny Homeowners: Room-by-Room Checklist

Unlock Spring Joy with a Deep House Clean

Look, nothing helps spark joy in your home quite like having a great smelling, freshly-cleaned home.

We would love to help you with a spring cleaning - so we wanted to remind you that if you're looking for a good house cleaner in Ankeny Iowa, Rodan Cleaning is eager to serve.

12 Spring Cleaning Musts:

Alright, when it comes to spring cleaning, we wanted to share what we found are the best areas to clean.

#1 - Place to Clean for Spring: Under the Fridge

You gotta pull out your fridge, and cleanup all the dropped food, dust bunnies, spilled drinks and dust that builds up under your fridge.

Remember to clean around the fridge first, then carefully pull out the fridge.

Sweep up the big and ugly, then vacuum and finally give it a real scrub with soap and water.

#2 - Place to Clean for Spring Cleaning - Inside the Freezer & Fridge

Spring is the perfect time to remove items from your fridge and freezer, defrost the freezers, and deep clean them baby!

Seriously, your food won't smell as bad, you'll be refreshed each time you open them, and you won't be as nasty.

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#3 - Place to Clean for Spring Cleaning - Under and Inside the Couches

Clean and vacuum your carpet as usual, but then be sure to pull out each couch, chair and piece of furniture.

Vacuum under your furniture baby! 

Not only that, but we recommend removing the cushions, or reaching under, and really cleaning out everything between cushions etc.

If you have kids, you're probably going to find more toys, crackers, candy and junk than you could have imagined.

Pull out the furniture, and clean under it - then clean out the cushions.

Take a look at this oddly satisfying couch deep clean:

#4 - Place to Clean for Spring Cleaning - Baseboards, Trim & Window Sills

Trim dust and dirty baseboards make your home look trashy.

You probably don't even see the spills, dirt and dust on your surfaces and baseboards.

Spring cleaning is the perfect time to do your baseboards and dust your trim, doors ledges etc.

Clean Your Window Sills!

Windows get SUPER Gross over time, and it's really easy to forget.

Here's a great video giving tips on cleaning your window sills

You should dust off above your doors, on your trim, your ledges and counters etc.

If it's flat, you should dust it.

Then, you should address your baseboards and give them a great clean.

Watch this short about cleaning your baseboards and you'll really make some progress.

He has three tips:

3 Ways to Make Baseboard Cleaning Easier

1. Use dilluted degreasers - get the grime done
2. Use a Swiffer Mop to avoid bending over
3. Use Magic Erasers

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#5 - Place to Clean for Spring Cleaning - Garage Floors

The snow, sand and silt from the winter easily gets dragged in from the garage into your home.

Even if you have a mudroom or a good transition space between the garage and your home, you should really take some time to spring clean your garage.

We recommend using a leaf blower or your shop vac to get the sand and dust out - be careful not to blow out trash that shouldn't go outside.

Use your shop-vac and get the dust, dirt and build up off the garage.

Then, wash your concrete garage floor.

Here's a quick short about 3 tips to clean out your garage...

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#6 - Spring Clean Your Windows!

You might be seeing the outdoors in standard definition because your windows are really dirty.

Taking off your screens and then washing your windows is a fantastic spring cleaning activity.

Looking out your windows and seeing HIGH definition, streak-free windows is a really amazing feeling.

You might not know how much your windows are dulling your perspective from inside your house.

How to Clean Your Window Screens:

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#7 - Shampoo Your Carpets

You don't need to buy and store your own carpet cleaner, you could easily rent one from Home Depot, Ace Hardware or all sorts of place.

Vacuum your carpets, do a deep clean, and then rent a Rug Doctor or some other carpet shampoo unit.

Then, deep clean your carpets!

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