When you own a home, spring cleaning is the time for throwing away the heavy, cosy detritus of winter and freshening up your interior design for the sunny months ahead. When you’re in a flatshare, spring cleaning is the time for making sure you’re on track for keeping your deposit and hoovering up the pine needles left over from your tiny winter Christmas tree.
Here are five great tips to help make this year’s spring cleaning as painless as possible.
5. You get what you pay for
It can be tempting to go to the nearest pound shop and splash out on own-brand cleaning tat: ‘Easy’ bleach, ‘Ms. Shine’ surface polish, ‘Swoosh’ anti-bac wipes. You are only fooling yourself here guys: they smell terrible and they don’t last as long as the real deal.
4. Now is the time
There are some things you should do pretty often, but that you actually always leave to the week before your moving-out inspection, just so you keep as much of your deposit as possible. Why not do some of that stuff now instead? It has the added bonus of meaning you get to enjoy living in a cleaner home! Cleaning the oven, weeding the garden, chucking your shower curtain in the washing machine… it’s boring stuff, but if you wait a full 12 months, the damage might be irreparable and take a chunk out of your deposit.
3. Coordinate with your flatmates
You know what’s really hard? Cleaning the bathroom when it’s covered with a million bottles of product. Arranging a time good for everyone in your house-share will make things a lot easier as everyone can prepare the house for that deep, deep clean you know it so desperately needs.
2. Get divvy with it
It’s hard working out a fair way to divide all the boring jobs among your housemates. Why not all take your own room and then take one ‘public’ area each? This way you all have the same amount of communal work but also take responsibility for that pigsty of a bedroom that only you are to blame for!
1. Tidy-up with these spring cleaning tips
If everything’s clean but you’ve still got clothes covering your floor and books covering your tables, try these 5 space-saving tips for your flatshare. Try them out and your flat will be less cluttered than the mind of a Buddhist monk.
