Weekly Checklist for House Cleaning

It is important to keep a checklist of chores that need to be completed on a regular basis.  Certain parts of your home will need to be cleaned weekly and others will need to be cleaned monthly or yearly.
We live fast-paced lives and sometimes neglect, forget or simply are not aware that there are things that need to be cleaned on a weekly basis.  To help you gain further knowledge of weekly cleaning chores, I have compiled a list with some tips to help you on your way with weekly cleaning.

Cleaning Furniture:
Upholstered furniture can be cleaned without taking it out of the room. To do this, take a damp cloth (old sheet) to cover furniture and dislodge fine dust with a special stick.
To clear lacquered and polished furniture, boil a glass of beer with a piece of wax.  Apply a little warm mass to the furniture and let it dry, and then rub with a woolen cloth. You can use vegetable oil as well.
Water rings on the varnished surface are to be sprinkled with flour, and then take a pad soaked in the plant or engine oil, and rub until it disappears.

Mahogany furniture is wiped with the damp cloth, and then with a dry linen cloth.

Cleaning windows and doors. Doors and window frames should be washed with water and ammonia (1 tablespoon liquid ammonia per 1 liter of water). Doors, frames and colored paint, should be washed with warm strained tea infuse (2 teaspoons of dry tea per 1 liter of hot water). Stains on the glass from the dried white can be erased with the help of a safety razor blade; the leftovers of fresh paint are removed with turpentine. Rags for washing windows should be linen or you can simply use newspaper, which will not streak.

Cleaning mirrors. Mirrors are to be cleaned with a cotton pad moistened with denatured alcohol, and then dried with soft paper or newspaper. Heavily contaminated mirrors can be washed with the following composition: 2 cups hot water, 50 g of vinegar and 50 g of chalk, mix well and let settle.  Once the liquid is settled, wipe a mirror with it, and then wipe it clean with a soft cloth or newspaper

Cleaning floors. It is not recommend to frequently wash parquet floors. With careful handling, parquet may be cleaned no more than twice a year. To make parquet floors shine, use 1 part wax to 1 part turpentine. Stains from a parquet floor can be removed with emery paper, and wiped with the old turpentine.  If the stain remains, sprinkle it with talc, cover with blotting paper and iron it. Ink stains from linoleum can be removed with emery paper or pumice as well.

Caring for carpets: 
Twice a year, you can clean the carpet with a hair brush, moistened with water and ammonia (2 tablespoons of alcohol per 1 liter of water). After cleaning the carpet in this manner, it should be dried with a clean cloth.

Removing stains from carpet:
Beer, wine, or liquor can be removed from the carpet with the help of warm water mixed with powdered laundry detergent. Coffee and cocoa can be washed off with cold water and glycerol (1 tablespoon per 1 liter of water). Red wine and fruit juice stains can be removed with the help of cold water and a small amount of ammonia. Do not forget: once the stain is removed, the entire carpet must be wiped with cloth brushes, moistened with a detergent solution, then simply dried with a sponge.

If you care for these items weekly and get stains right away before they sink in, cleaning your house will become a much simpler task.  They key to speedy house cleaning is to stay on top of daily and weekly chores so that they don?t accumulate.