How to Clean Whole House

Need to clean your entire house and don't know where to start? We've got you covered with the best, top, and newest projects on cleaning your house. Check out our slideshows and let your voice be heard on our discussion board. Watch a video or two while you're at it. We'll make sure you get your house in tip top shape in no time!

The Best Ways to Clean Your Entire Home With Vinegar

Clean Your House in One Hour

Plan your cleaning attack: The key to cleaning your house is to work logically. Work from room-to-room and top to down (e.g., clean countertops before the carpet).
Six-minute bedroom blitz: Start with the bedroom. Replace bed linen and wipe surfaces. Bedrooms are often uncluttered, so this should take around six minutes.
Seven-minute bathroom sparkle: Spray the sink and bath/shower and allow it to sit while you work on the toilet. Rinse the tub and sink, leaving the floor for later.
Clean a living room in 7 minutes: Living rooms can be cleaned in minutes. Start in one corner and dust surfaces from left-to-right. Vacuum chairs and floors to finish.
Re-using saves time and effort: Clean dishes and wipe the hob with warm soapy water. Rinse and reuse the sponge for the countertops. Mop the floor and reuse in the bathroom.

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Top House Cleaning Projects

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How to Clean Walls Without Ruining Your Paint

Does dusting your furniture ever make you wonder how much of that same grime has settled on your walls? It should! Walls and baseboards collect dust, handprints, splatters, and germs and need to be cleaned even if they don’t always show it.

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Avoid Bacteria Growth With These Easy Steps for Cleaning a Humidifier

Humidifiers are commonly used in winter months to add moisture to the air. They can be a great way to stay healthy in cold, dry winter months. However, they can also make you very sick if you don’t clean them regularly. The combination of sitting water and the intricate crevices in a humidifier can cause bacteria to grow very quickly.

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How to Clean Silver and Bring Back the Shine

From family heirlooms to the perfect yard sale silver serving piece, the brilliant shine of silver eventually fades and starts to tarnish. That foggy black tarnish is called silver sulfide and rather than cover the surface of the silver, it is the surface of the silver as it ages.

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4 Surprising Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide

Hydrogen Peroxide has many uses. It's a great cleaner, it's a good beauty product, and it also helps in gardening. I'm serious! It's like a miracle potion. Here are some things I use it for in my house that you might be surprised by.

Shawna Bailey

How to Clean Silver, Easily!

My tarnished silver was getting me down, but there was no way I was doing all that polishing! Instead, I decided to try this baking soda silver cleaning trick I've been seeing all over the internet. I'm sure you've seen it too, but there are several versions of it, and I wanted to know which version was the one that actually worked - and why. So, after doing some research, I chose to use baking soda, aluminum foil, and a pot of boiling water. Here's how...

Shawna Bailey

The Fastest Way to Clean Glass Dishes

Cooking in glass/pyrex dishes are great, except when it comes to cleaning them. I always find that my chicken is nicely cooked, but the sauce is burnt to the pan. With a little tinfoil, you can scrub off that stuck-on grime really quickly.

Shawna Bailey

The Natural Cleaner Your Nasty Toilet Needs

I'm a huge fan of eco cleaning products. With two little kids running around, I'm always looking for any natural cleaning product that cuts down on harmful toxins in my house and makes cleaning easier. And few cleaning products are as packed with toxins as toilet cleaners. Instead, I went to my pantry to grab supplies for this baking soda and vinegar cleaner. The result? My toilet has never sparkled like this! Start by gathering vinegar and baking soda from your pantry. You can also pick up some essential oil to add a fresh touch. Then, head on over to that dingy, dirty toilet...

Shawna Bailey

Best Way to Clean Dusty Blinds

Blinds are really annoying to clean, so when I found this clever trick on the internet using salad tongs, I thought I would give it a try! I can’t tell you how great it was for getting the dust off the blinds -- with so little effort.Isn't that like magic?!

Shawna Bailey

Get Your Carpet Smelling Fresh With This Eco Carpet Freshener

I’m all about green cleaning ideas and homemade cleaning products. So when I found this recipe for a carpet freshener I thought, "let’s give it a try." We just got a second dog ( a cute puppy that has stolen our heats), and all our carpets could use a little freshening up. I was a little skeptical about this at first, but two days after I used it, a neighbor stopped by and took a deep breath and then asked me what yummy thing I was baking. She was so surprised when I told her it was my new carpet freshener. It definitely covered up the pet smells. Here’s the recipe:

Shawna Bailey

Dawn Dish Soap Hacks

Dawn is great for cleaning dishes - did you know it's great for other things too? I have used it to clean my carpet, as a laundry spot cleaner, and here are a few more ways I wanted to share with you... You can see more of my crazy creations here

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How to Clean Walls Without Ruining Your Paint

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Avoid Bacteria Growth With These Easy Steps for Cleaning a Humidifier

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How to Clean Silver and Bring Back the Shine

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4 Surprising Uses for Hydrogen Peroxide

Shawna Bailey

How to Clean Silver, Easily!

Shawna Bailey

The Fastest Way to Clean Glass Dishes

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The Natural Cleaner Your Nasty Toilet Needs

Shawna Bailey

Best Way to Clean Dusty Blinds

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Get Your Carpet Smelling Fresh With This Eco Carpet Freshener

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Dawn Dish Soap Hacks

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House Cleaning Videos

Here you'll find videos to help you clean your house and get it sparkling in no time!

9 Ways to Clean Your Toughest Household Messes.

Struggling to keep your home clean? Here are 9 ways to better clean you home, and fast!

Kara S.

9 Cleaning Hacks That Actually Work!

Hi everyone! Over the past year I've come across endless cleaning hacks and I decided to put them to the test. Today I've rounded up the 9 best cleaning hacks that actually work! I hope you find these helpful!

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Hometalkers' Favorite DIY House Cleaning Projects

Looking for the best projects on cleaning your house? You've come to the right place.

Clean Your Blinds With Tongs & Chopsticks!

I’m always looking for easy-to-make tools. It's so much better if I can use inexpensive household materials. So I decided to peruse the cabinets to get inspired for my next cleaning project: Blinds. Guess what I found? A pair of tongs and chopsticks! Let me show you how I turned these into a blind-cleaner contraption, perfect to reach to the hardest spots.

Elena K, Hometalk Team

Glitter Gem Stone Soap DIY

Making soap is way too much fun. The sky is the limit when it comes to colors, mixes and scents! Why not try your hand at this ombre gem stone effect? Gems and crystals are very trendy right now and it's time to add them to your bathroom sink. Pop-in some glitter and you just made handwashing a whole lot more interesting.

Julien K., Hometalk Team

Eco Wood Polish (Just 2 Ingredients!)

I'm always looking for great eco cleaning products that are cheap, easy to use, and non toxic, and this homemade cleaner is the best furniture polish I have ever used. It's made out of liquid (fractionated) coconut oil and lemon juice. Step 1: Gather Your Materials

Shawna Bailey

The Easiest Way to Clean a Burnt Pot or Pan

I hate doing the dishes...like, REALLY hate it. But there's one thing that makes doing the dishes truly unbearable and that's when food gets burnt to the bottom of a pan. Instead of fighting and scraping the pan til it's spotless, here's my favorite method to clean a burnt pot or pan. All it takes is a few cut up lemons and water. The acid in the lemon and the boiling water get off all the really tough gunk, plus the lemons get rid of any burnt smell and replace it with a sweet citrus scent.

Shawna Bailey

How To Clean Your Old Cookie Sheet

When I moved into my Jersey City apartment my Grandma gave me some of her cookie sheets as a gift. Two years and many batches of cookies later these sheets have seen better days! I decided I should share my trick to get them looking brand new! (almost) Here's how I cleaned the burnt food and residue off the pan.

Kara S.

9 Things You Can Wash in Your Dishwasher

Dishwashers aren't JUST for cleaning your lasagna off your dinner plate. I taking you inside my dishwasher to show you 9 things you can wash and sanitize in your dishwasher.

Kara S.

Clean Your Blinds With Tongs & Chopsticks!

Elena K, Hometalk Team

Glitter Gem Stone Soap DIY

Julien K., Hometalk Team

Eco Wood Polish (Just 2 Ingredients!)

Shawna Bailey

The Easiest Way to Clean a Burnt Pot or Pan

Shawna Bailey

How To Clean Your Old Cookie Sheet

Kara S.

9 Things You Can Wash in Your Dishwasher

Dishwashers aren't JUST for cleaning your lasagna off your dinner plate. I taking you inside my dishwasher to show you 9 things you can wash and sanitize in your dishwasher.

Kara S.

Popular House Cleaning Discussions

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New House Cleaning Projects

Peruse our collection of new house cleaning projects to whip your house into shape.

Mirror Cleaning for a Better Selfie

Okay, I've decide to go out of the box with this cleaning tip, and I hope you find the funny side of it. Mirrors deserve as much cleaning attention as any other place in your home. However, many household tend to neglect the glass services in their homes even though to clean a mirror you need no more than half an hour of your time. To have a streak-free mirror you need: 1. Microfibre cloth 2. Glass cleaner (either a commercial one or you can make your own by mixing vinegar and water into a spray bottle) 3. Cotton pad 4. Rubbing alcohol

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How to Clean Silver

You may remember that I found this silver platter at the thrift store for half price. Its no surprise that people were passing this up, I mean look how dirty and tarnished it is. Well, I am a thrifty chick and was drawn to the engraving and holly detail so I bought it hoping I could revive it.

Jennifer @ Decorated Chaos

How to Easily Remove Hard Water Deposits

I don't know how it happened or when it happened but one day when I looked down at my kitchen sink faucet there was grime and hard water deposits that had accumulated from the past 10 years! One day there was nothing and the next day bam it was there! It was disgusting and I wanted it gone ASAP so I broke out the big guns and with ease was able to remove 10 years of hard water deposits in 15 mintues! Check out the before and after pictures and find out what tools you need to remove hardwater deposits like this. http://decoratedchaos.blogspot.com/2013/04/reviving-old-kitchen-sink-faucet.html

Jennifer @ Decorated Chaos

Green Mirror Cleaner -- Using Old Newspapers!

I got this great trick from my dear friend Cori. It's her favorite green cleaning trick -- she actually describes it as "life changing". She uses newspaper and water to clean her mirrors and windows. The newspaper takes off all the smudges, dirt, makeup etc. and doesn't leave any streaks behind. Easy eco cleaning, for the win!! Step 1: Gather Your Materials

Shawna Bailey

Vacuum Cleaning Tips

Want to get through some of your cleanings faster? Your vacuum cleaner is for more than just the floor and it can help you get through a lot of your cleaning in no time. Plus, I'll share a couple of extra tips along the way. You can see more of my crazy creations here

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