January 7, 2021 by Mulberry Maids
Nobody wants to think about cleaning after the holidays, especially a holiday where most people were homebound due to the current pandemic. This makes getting your Fort Collins home back in shape challenging, especially if you have a large family that can create a significant mess!
The best bet to ensure your home gets back into shape, is to book professional cleaning services in Fort Collins to give your home a solid deep cleaning for the new year. That being said, getting your home to a tidy and clean state does not require professional help – just some focus, hard work and consistency.
Read on to learn more about how to get your home sparkling again!
Cleaning up after house guests
Hosting guests is a fun and rewarding experience, but they can definitely leave a mess! If your guests left a huge mess, or you are pressed for time, check out everything you need to know about booking a home cleaning online for some extra help. Another great way to get your home looking good after guests is to enlist your family to help with cleaning.
Once guests have left your home, make sure to address the following areas:
- Clean out the refrigerator, including left overs that won’t be finished and other partially used seasonal food items that will sit and rot
- Give carpets a good vacuuming
- Mop all hard flooring, and pay attention to high use holiday areas, such as the kitchen floor
- Change out and wash all sheets, bath towels and kitchen towels
- Do a routine cleaning throughout the home, using disinfectant spray on high touch areas throughout the kitchen and bathrooms
Cleaning up a live Christmas tree
Real Christmas trees are amazing, but they can leave behind quite a mess! These trees can leave sap behind on carpets, floors, and clothing. In addition to sap, by the time the season is over, there will likely be large quantities of pine needles on the ground around the tree.
When the tree is ready to be removed from your home, you can drop it off at locations throughout Fort Collins to be recycled. If you are outside of this area, a quick Google search will bring up Christmas tree recycling locations near you.
Once the tree is out of the home, it is best to start cleaning up with a sweep or vacuuming of the area. If it is a hard surface, follow this up with a thorough mopping of the surface. Keep an eye out for any sap that has dripped onto the floor. Depending on the type of floor, a solvent such as rubbing alcohol can be used to help get the sap up off of the floor. Alcohol can be used on most carpets as well, by applying rubbing alcohol onto the carpet and dabbing the area with a cloth until the sap has been lifted off.
Storing and putting away holiday decorations
No holiday is complete without decorations, but putting them all away is never fun! Try to get your kids to help with this task by going around the home and collecting any holiday decorations.
This is a great time to organize your holiday decor if you have not already done so. Not only will this make next year easier, it will make storing everything that much simpler. Depending on how many decorations you have, you can use one or more rubber totes that can be stowed away, clutter free, until next year. It is best to label these, so it is easy to find what you are looking for next time around.
If you need multiple bins to store everything, take some time to load them up logically so it is not just a messy pile. Try to coil any string lights neatly, so they do not become a tangled mess, and be careful with anything fragile. For further organization, you can even label and store decorations by the location they get put up in the home.
Are you ready to book quality cleaning services in Fort Collins?
At Mulberry Maids, we only team up with experienced and trained professionals who receive consistently great feedback from our customers.
Customer satisfaction is always guaranteed, and we strive to go above and beyond in each cleaning. We are a very professional service oriented organization, ready to help with your cleaning needs.
Book a cleaning online today, then take the family on a fun Farm to Table Tour of Fort Collins and return to a pristinly cleaned home! Call us anytime – we are here to help!