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Wednesday, 19 April 2017 00:20

Spring Cleaning Before You Move, Norfolk Movers

It is has become a common trend for most families to schedule moving from their old homes to their new residence during spring. For home owners, spring cleaning comes as an opportunity to make their houses free in readiness for new occupancy. To make the homes be more habitable, it is important for the house owners to make sure that cleaning is properly done before new occupant arrive. To better manage the moving process, home owners or tenants need to treat this as a whole project that need maximum attention including assigning monetary resources to make it a success.

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Before doing spring cleaning, you need to plan on how you intend to carry out the whole exercise. A key aspect of the whole exercise is to decide who will be responsible for doing the cleaning exercise. Among the options available for this are; hiring Norfolk Va. professional movers or doing the cleaning work on your own or as family. If you choose to seek the services of a Norfolk Virginia moving company, you need to do a thorough background check about the moving company before contracting them. Some of the issues you need to look at may include; their previous work, customer review and most importantly, the cost of doing the cleaning. However, if you choose the family cleaning option, you need to evaluate if you have all the required expertise and resources to do it.

Planning ahead should be your top secret in spring cleaning. Cleaning involves some complex activities that can be better handled by professionals. However, for those doing the cleaning themselves, they need to create a checklist of their cleaning activities. This will help you avoid the risk of becoming exhausted by the cleaning workload.

Spring cleaning exercise involves a number of activities that are important to the success of the whole project. Some of these activities involve removing untidy stuff while organizing your belonging. A number of people have a tendency of developing emotional attachment to their old stuff. It is advisable to for one to be realistic about the stuff they intend to keep. To avoid keeping stuff that you may never use after moving out, just classify them accordingly. For those items that are broken and cannot be repaired or are obsolete, you have to discard them. However, if there are those that can still be used by someone who’s not yourself, you need to pack them and give them out as donations. The other category is that of less useful belonging may not be in immediate need. For this category, one requires to look for a relatively affordable storage space where to store these goods for some time until the time you may need them. Lastly, for the belonging that you don’t want to donate, store and can still be used by others, you can sell them in your local secondhand shops.

When employing the services of family members, it’s important to share the workload among family members before the cleaning day. This is important as it will minimize chances of flopping of the whole cleaning project. One main thing that people should evaluate when moving out is the cost of moving out with their old items versus the cost of selling this these stuff and acquiring new ones on arrival.

When doing spring cleaning, you need to concentrate on areas that are likely to make your spring cleaning project success. Some of the areas to target include those that you hardly touch on your normal daily cleaning. They include walls, windows and ceiling. Ensure your windows become spotless after cleaning. The other important area to visit while cleaning is the book shelves. Here, ensure the books and shelves are dusted. If the house happens to have decorations, ensure they become are clean. Flooring materials like carpets and mats should also be included in the cleaning. To reduce this workload, it’s still okay to take your carpets and mats for machine washing. The same should happen to curtains.

Kitchen is the other important area that needs to be worked on. During cleaning, one should ensure that all electrical appliances in the kitchen are cleaned thoroughly and in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations. Let experts do this job, where possible. Broken appliances should be fixed before moving out.

The other area that cannot be ignored is your wardrobe section. All the winter clothes need to be organized properly and be stored well in the closet to provide for some space for spring as well as winter clothes. Your bedroom also needs to form a better part of your spring cleaning. You need to remove your duvets, mattress covers and do thorough vacuum cleaning of your mattress. 

 

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