Autumn Cleaning – How to Prepare Your Bournemouth Home for the Winter

Autumn is the perfect time to give your home a thorough cleaning. The temperatures in Bournemouth are still high but not uncomfortable, and you don’t have to turn on the heating yet. There are more cloudy days, which makes it perfect for window cleaning. Overall Autumn is the season when you can properly prepare your home for the upcoming winter months.

Clean and Ready for the Winter

In the cold months, you will have less daylight, the temperatures will be lower and you will feel less energetic. This is why before the first snowflakes touch the ground you need to do a couple of things in order to maintain your home clean and tidy.

• You need to clean your windows. Make sure to carefully clean the locking mechanisms, the blinds and the window frame. It is important to let everything dry completely before sealing it for the winter. If you leave water between your windows and the frame, you may have to deal with a very mouldy problem.
• Use the pleasant autumn weather to clean and wash all of your carpets. Again the best way to dry them is under direct sunlight. So after you vacuum the carpet, wash it with soap and water and leave it on a hanger in your yard for a day.
• If your house has a front porch, this is the time to clean it.
• Don’t forget your garden. Remove all the foliage, clean your flower beds and prepare your garden for the winter.

Cleaning and Decluttering Your Bournemouth Home

Use the big autumn clean as a way to declutter your house from everything you don’t need. Clean all of your wardrobes and cupboards. Gather everything you don’t want and consider donating it. A lot of people in need suffer, particularly in the cold months. This is your chance to do something good. Go through your old winter clothes and chose the pieces you no longer need. Search your pantries for canned goods that you are not going to use and place them in a box. Donate everything to your local shelter or crisis centre.

Deep Cleaning the Furniture

During the winter months, people become more demotivated and on general lazier. Let’s be honest you won’t have the desire and energy to move your furniture around and clean every centimetre of the living room. That is fine, just do one good deep-cleaning in autumn and it will last you until spring. Here is how to properly deep-clean your furniture:

• Put on a rubber glove and wipe all the upholstery, cleaning it from pet hairs and fibres;
• Launder the pillows and the pillowcases. If this is impossible place them in a big trash bag and vacuum them. This way the airflow will be more concentrated and you will be able to remove the dust embedded in them.
• Clean the spaces under the sofa cushions;
• Move the heavy furniture and clean the floors underneath them;

Cleaning the Softgoods and Bedding

Bournemouth is famous for its warm autumn, and this is the perfect time to wash all of your softgoods and bedding. Blankets, sheets, bed covers, everything needs to be launder and left to dry under the sun. This cleaning technic is applicable to your curtains as well. The local cleaning professionals advice to always dry your curtains, rugs and bedding under direct sunlight to avoid the development of mould.

Cleaning Chores You Mustn’t Forget About

While deep-cleaning the home there are always some small tasks that you can forget. The best way to clean properly your Bournemouth home is to make a checklist. Don’t forget to include the following tasks:

• Clean the fridge and defrost the freezer, if it needs;
• Clean the chimney and the air vents in the home;
• Clean all heaters and make sure they all work properly;
• Remove all cobwebs using a long duster or a broom;
• Clean the drains;
• Dust the places that are hard to reach like on top of wardrobes or high shelves;
• Clean and wash the doormat;