How to Clean Your Bathroom in 15 Minutes

1. Remove the knick knacks and place them in the hallway.

2. Remove the throw rugs and shake them out. Put them in the laundry to be cleaned if needed.

3. Sweep or vacuum the floor.

4. Spray the counter top and let your cleaner do the work (use the homemade cleaner recipe from our web site. It really works.)

5. Spray the mirror and wipe it down.

6. Spray the toilet with cleaner inside and out. Let the cleaner sit.

7. Go back to the counter top. Scrub and wipe it down.

8. Spray the bath tub and shower down (you may not need to do this every week if your bath tub doesn't get that dirty).

9. Scrub the inside of the toilet with a brush. Flush the toilet to rinse the bowl. Wipe down the outside. Don't forget the place behind the seat and the outside of the toilet bowl and base.

10. Scrub the tub down and rinse. Hint: if you want to clean the shower curtain you can wash it by itself in the washing machine in cold water on the delicate cycle. Remove it promptly and hang it back up to drip dry. Never put it in the dryer.

11. If you have linoleum or tile, mop the floor. If the room is small, you can spray your cleaner directly onto the floor and wipe it up with a sponge or cleaning cloth. Let dry for ten to fifteen minutes.

12. Put back the rugs and knick knacks. Check your toilet paper supply. Put out fresh towels.

The whole process should take fifteen minutes, not counting the time to let the floor dry. It will take even less time if you don't have to clean the tub and shower. I only clean ours once a month because it doesn't get that dirty. There are two keys to all of this: 1) Let the cleaner sit long enough to loosen up the dirt and disinfect the surface. 2) Clean the bathroom every week. Pick a day that is your bathroom cleaning day and just do it. When you keep up on your cleaning it doesn't become such an insurmountable project.

Cleaning supplies.

1) Utility caddy to carry your supplies. The dollar store usually has these.

2) Rubber cleaning gloves.

3) Scrubber and sponge combination designed for cleaning the bathroom.

4) Window cleaner (or use the homemade version from our web site).

5) All-purpose cleaner (or use the homemade version from our web site).

6) An old toothbrush to get at those hard to reach areas.

7) One roll of paper towels.

8) Pumice stone for hard water build up in the toilet bowl.

9) Toilet brush (unless you keep one in each bathroom like I do).

That's it. Happy cleaning.

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RE: How to Clean Your Bathroom in 15 Minutes

To the original author: if my husband threatened to call the Health Dept. on me I would hand him the cleaning supplies and head for the Mall! Mine learned this lesson 20+ years ago; now he either keeps quiet or does the job himself!

Post By Teri (Guest Post)

RE: How to Clean Your Bathroom in 15 Minutes

1.) remove all brick a brac and trash
2.) sink, mirror, counter and splash wall behind sink
3.) Tub and shower sourond
4.) TOILET Is ALWAYS LAST!!! (do you want to be touching toilet with hands or gloves and towels and then the sink or tub? NOT ME! YUK!
5.) fLOOR
Always! Alway use a clean towel on each item! and don't forget to use an old tooth brush on those fausets, hinges on tolet seat and around the sink and drain!
Vinger/water in a spray bottle is a great cleaner for bathroom and polish that shower with pledge and say bye bye to those water stains!
AND YOUR DONE! :-) once the floor is dry you may place the cleaned out trash can and all your brick a brac back in place!

Post by Kimmd

RE: How to Clean Your Bathroom in 15 Minutes

You can reach the nether regions of a toilet bowl a little better if you pour enough extra water into the bowl for it to empty without a refill from a regular flush. It's also a great way to scrub your bowl with baking soda.

I personally start from the top of my bathroom and work down so I'm not having to re-clean something after sloshing about (I'm a messy cleaner). I'll get my tub and toilet soaking in their cleaners then start with my highest point, my mirrors, and work down through the sink and counter, to the toilet, then the tub, then my floor.

A toilet-cleaning tip from some 'speed cleaning' book I read last millenia: after cleaning the inside of the bowl, spray the rim and exterior of the bowl, then the bottom of the seat and back of the lid (it can be done in one or two squirts), then the top of the seat, the top of the lid, and then the tank. Wipe off in the reverse order so the rim and bowl exterior soak the longest--since they're typically the dirtiest.

Post by O-mama

RE: How to Clean Your Bathroom in 15 Minutes

They sell pumice stone with sticks attached in some catalogs and I'd imagine at the hard ware store. Regular pumice stones are sold in drug stores where foot supplies are kept. Take the pumice stone and rub it against the lime deposits. It helps break them up.
- Susan

Post by ThriftyFun

RE: How to Clean Your Bathroom in 15 Minutes

Martha,

Thanks for the 12 steps - I will try these tomorrow on my one much-used bathroom in our house! With only one bathroom I find it gets dirty soooo quickly!

One question, though - how do you use the pumice stone to clean hard water deposits from the toilet bowl?? We have well water which deposits lots of minerals on everything, and the toilet gets nasty looking at the very bottom. The brush won't touch this stuff. Any advice would be great!

Thanks!!!

Jenny in Sterling, Va.

Post by randysmom

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