The Children’s Room: Deep cleaning

Deep cleaning in the children’s rooms is something that a parent just has to face. Children are unable to complete all of the tasks their selves. When you help, you are showing them how to clean and how much time it really takes allowing them to learn more about how they need to keep their rooms clean daily and weekly so that all of you don’t have to face these deep cleaning days in their room while the sun is shining outside!

Cleaning paneling or wood in the children’s room with polish or oil adds moisture back to the wood that it could be lacking. Two or three times a year, at least, you will need to polish the wood and paneling in the room so it doesn’t dry out and start looking cracked. 

Drywall and plaster can be washed down with water and soap, bleach and soap or any other type of your favorite cleaners.  You are going to be washing dust from the ceilings and grime from the walls, nothing too difficult as you might have in the kitchen, but you will make it all shine by the time you are done!

You will need to wipe down and wipe off light fixtures, switches and outlets while you are cleaning. Windows can be cleaned with your favorite window cleaner such as Windex, vinegar, or even just soapy water to get all the marks off. 

Cleaning the blinds by soaking them in the tub, and washing the curtains or drapes will be needed as well.   You can save money if you wash your curtains or drapes in the washer on the gentle or delicate cycle. If your drapes do state dry cleaning only, you should take them to the dry cleaners for the best results.

Therefore, now you are left with the floor, the dressers, and the bed.

The mattress in a child’s room can sometimes be pee stained or not. Cleaning pee stains with hot soapy water, vinegar, and water, or bleach and water will help bring out that stain, and the odor.

When the mattress is dry, sweeping the entire mattress, and flipping it and doing the same thing on the other side keeps dander, pet hair, and dust to a minimum. This is only something that you only have to do about twice a year, but it is going to keep your home gleaming clean.

When you were organizing the room, you should have been able to get your child to go through all their clothes and pitch out what was too small for them and what they do not wear anymore. Now that you are cleaning out the dresser, polishing the dresser, and fixing anything (like handles, scratches or cracks) on the dresser, it is a good time to do more if you stopped earlier.

Taking out all the dresser drawers, you can tighten the handles, and fix anything that might need a touch of glue or stained. Polishing the top and the side of the dresser with a good deep cleaning oil would be best now. Have your child fold and put everything back in the drawers for a good fit and an organized dresser once again. Who knows, maybe you were able to get rid of a few more things by taking everything out of the dresser once again.

The flooring in the child’s room is going to be one of the last things that you do because now you are finished cleaning and cleaning out everything else in the room. If you were to do the flooring first, it is possible that you could have tracked more dirt in and dropped dust and dirt from items you were cleaning. 

You will really only need to scrub the carpet in the children’s rooms two or three times a year, as you would your own. A fresh clean carpet is easier to maintain in the end and will leave your home smelling great.