How To Clean And Maintain A Bathroom

Are you struggling to clean and maintain a bathroom and you want to know how to make it work for you?

But it’s important to note that your bathroom doesn’t have to be Instagram-perfect to be clean and presentable. I want a towel you can use to dry my hands and not have fake plants tucked in them.

Deep cleaning bathrooms is important, but again, you don’t have to go mad, but there is nothing wrong with being proud of your bathroom and keeping it to a clean standard.

A lot of people do struggle with the in-between maintenance of the bathroom, keeping it looking presentable so that if any visitors turned up they aren’t rushing around trying to clean the bathroom.

So, I want to help you learn how to start with a clean bathroom and maintain it during the week so it’s presentable at any given time.

How Do You Clean And Maintain A Bathroom

The secret here is to start with a clean bathroom, you can’t maintain something if it was in a state, to begin with.

Once you have a clean slate then it’s going to be easier to keep the bathroom maintained in a good state.

It’s not going to do it by itself, you have to do this step first, it’s the most important step of keeping a maintained clean bathroom.

So, let’s get that bathroom cleaned.

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Bathroom Cleaning, The Basics

You are going to need to set aside some time to get the bathroom cleaned to a good standard.

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This will allow you to tackle the maintenance part easily and it won’t be too difficult to continue.

You will need these supplies:

• Cleaning cloths, I love to use ecloths around my home
• A multi-purpose cleaner that you can use to clean the bathroom with
• A mop to clean the floor, unless you have carpet, in this case, you will need a vacuum
• Glass cleaning cloths to clean any mirrors and to polish up surfaces
• Grout brush to make cleaning the grout in your bathroom easier
• Tea tree oil solution if you have any mold you wish to tackle
• A toilet brush, one that is silicon and does not have bristles

You can have more items that you can use but sometimes these aren’t necessary.

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Cleaning The Bathroom

I’m not going to go into every aspect of cleaning the bathroom here, check out How To Deep Clean The Bathroom, for a more detailed explanation of bathroom deep cleaning.

But the idea is to get your bathroom as clean as you can so that you are starting with a fresh and clean bathroom.

The secret to maintaining a clean bathroom is to tackle areas each day, the highly used areas, and at least one of the other cleaning tasks so that your bathroom looks good.

If you struggle to remember what you need to do try putting fun cleaning stickers in your planner to remind you.

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Bathroom Cleaning Maintenance

This is where the system that you implement comes into play, if you want your bathroom to look clean all the time you have to take the time daily to reset it and upkeep the cleaning.

The advantage of cleaning with this method is simple, you don’t spend hours cleaning bathrooms, 10 – 15 minutes per day is all you need.

You are re-setting the bathroom to how you want it to look, this can mean wiping over the sink and toilet daily and tackling one or two other small cleaning projects in the bathroom and that’s it until the next day.

Maintenance Cleaning Is Easier

Often I see people spending hours cleaning and whilst this is good, it’s just not me.

Ten to twenty minutes max is all I can manage, I want things done and I don’t have time to dedicate hours to a particular cleaning task.