Step-by-Step Instructions on How to Clean a Bathroom

Bathrooms are supposed to be the cleanest room in the house but, it’s the most deplorable one to clean. Unfortunately, it’s a dirty job but someone has to do it. Gather your cleaning supplies together and get to work. When it is time for the general house cleaning, it is a good idea to gather your cleaning supplies in a bin that you can carry around from place to place. But, bathrooms can use as many different products as the whole house uses if not more. You should have another bin that holds just the bathroom cleaning supplies which includes soup scum and mildew remover, bathroom surface cleaner, window washing fluid, toilet bowl cleaner, dust rags, paper towels, sponges, scrub brush, and floor cleaner.

The first step to cleaning a bathroom is to remove any dirty clothes or dirty towels and make sure that everything is in its place. Remove any rugs to wash as well. I find that the hardest part of cleaning the bathroom is cleaning the shower. It is the most likely place to get a build up of soap scum and mildew if it’s not cleaned on a regular basis. So, since cleaning the shower is going to exhaust most of my energy, I like to start there. If the soap scum in the shower is really bad, you can allow the cleaner to soak for a short while before you start scrubbing it. Don’t forget about cleaning the shower curtain or the shower door plus the track. There are a lot of products that are made to clean a shower. The choice of which products to use is up to you. Rinse the shower really well with water after you have cleaned it. It just gets rid of any other loose dirt and chemicals.

After the shower is cleaned, the next step in cleaning a bathroom is cleaning the mirrors. In our house, we love to write messages to each other in the mirror after a hot shower has made it all foggy. But the down side is that it leaves streaks on the mirror. Use your rags to dust any shelves, moldings, door frames and baseboards.

Next, clean the sink including the facets. Any product meant to clean bathroom or kitchen surfaces is fine for cleaning the sink. This also includes any counter tops or the pedestal of a pedestal sink. After you have cleaned the sink it is time to concur the dirtiest job in the bathroom; the toilet. There are several different areas of the toilet and they all need to be cleaned. The inside of the toilet can be cleaned with a regular toilet brush and a little bit of toilet bowl cleaner or a disposable toilet bowl cleaner. The rim of the bowl and the under part of the lid and the seat also needs to be wiped clean. The back of the toilet can be cleaned with a good surface cleaner. An area of the toilet that some people overlook is the pedestal especially towards the back near the floor. You can use a surface cleaner for this also.

The last thing to do in the bathroom is to mop the floor and to empty the garbage. I like to use paper towels to clean the bathroom. Even though it is more eco-friendly to use sponges or rags but, I feel like there are so many germs floating around the bathroom that I’d rather just use something to clean them that I can just throw in the garbage. Of course I throw all of the dirty paper towels in the bathroom garbage so the end of cleaning the bathroom for me is emptying the garbage.