How to Deep Clean a Bedroom in Regina Before Winter

Bedrooms are the last room most of us get to and the first one that shows it. They're also where you spend roughly a third of your life, which makes them the best possible place to put a few hours of effort before the windows close for the season. Do it once properly in October and the room stays manageable until spring.

Clear the Floor First

You can't deep clean around obstacles, and trying to is why bedroom cleaning usually stalls halfway through.

Take twenty minutes and move everything off the floor: laundry into the hamper, shoes to the entry, books back to a shelf, that pile of things on the chair to wherever it actually belongs. Pull the bed away from the wall if you can. Slide out the under-bed bins. The goal is a room you can walk a vacuum through without lifting it.

Strip and Wash the Bed

This is the part with the biggest payoff.

• Everything off, including the mattress protector and the pillow covers.
• Wash sheets and pillowcases in the hottest water the care label allows.
• Wash or air out the duvet and pillows following their labels. Many pillows are machine washable; some aren't.
• Vacuum the mattress on both sides while it's bare, paying attention to the seams and the edge piping.
• Flip or rotate the mattress if the manufacturer recommends it. Note the date somewhere so you know when you last did it.
• Vacuum the bed frame and slats, which collect a surprising amount of dust underneath.

Let the mattress sit uncovered for an hour or two while you clean the rest of the room before you make it up again.

Work Top to Bottom

Gravity does the sorting for you, so always start high.

1. Ceiling corners and light fixtures. Cobwebs, then the fixture itself once it's cool.
2. The top of the door frame, the closet frame and any tall furniture. These almost never get wiped and hold a thick layer.
3. Ceiling fan blades, one at a time with a damp cloth so the dust lands on the cloth rather than the bed.
4. Shelves, dressers and nightstands. Take everything off rather than wiping around it.
5. Picture frames, mirrors, headboard and TV screen.
6. Blinds and curtain rods. Blinds are the single biggest dust collector in a prairie bedroom.
7. Baseboards, outlet covers and heat registers.
8. Floors last — vacuum slowly, then a barely damp mop on hard surfaces.

Use a damp microfibre cloth throughout. A dry duster mostly relocates dust to the floor, which is fine if you're vacuuming after, and useless if you aren't.

Don't Skip the Closet

A closet is a small room with no airflow, and in a Regina winter it's often the driest, dustiest corner of the house.

• Pull everything out and vacuum the floor and the corners
• Wipe the shelving and the rod
• Vacuum or wipe the top shelf, where dust settles undisturbed for years
• Swap summer clothes to the back or into storage and bring winter layers forward
• Check for anything damp before you put it away — a damp jacket in a closed closet causes problems

While you're in there, look at the shoes. Boot season is coming and last winter's salt residue is still on them.

Windows, Vents and Dry Prairie Air

The furnace is about to run for six months, and what's in the room now is what it will circulate.

Vents and returns. Vacuum the register covers and make sure a bed skirt, rug or dresser isn't sitting on top of one. Blocked returns make the system work harder and move dust unevenly between rooms.

Window tracks. Vacuum the track, then wipe it with a damp cloth. Regina homes collect a remarkable amount of grit in there over a windy summer, and any of it that's still there in November will freeze into the seal.

Condensation. Once the cold arrives, check the bottom of the window glass every so often. Wiping it up takes a second; letting it sit on a wood sill all winter doesn't end well.

Humidity. Prairie winters are very dry indoors. If you run a humidifier in the bedroom, clean it on the schedule the manufacturer gives — a neglected one is worse than none.

Keeping It That Way

The deep clean is the reset. What holds it is small and weekly.

• Wash sheets weekly
• Make the bed daily, which makes the whole room read as clean
• Keep one surface — the nightstand or the dresser top — permanently clear
• Vacuum once a week, including under the bed
• Put clothes away at night rather than onto the chair

Once a month, add the baseboards, the door frame and the blinds.

Where a Professional Clean Fits

Bedrooms are usually what gets sacrificed when time is short, so they're often the rooms where a recurring clean makes the most visible difference. If it's been 30 days or more since your last thorough clean, a deep clean is the right starting point, then standard cleans from there. Every 2 weeks saves 10%; every 4 weeks saves 5%. Wet-wipe blinds ($55) is a worthwhile add-on heading into the heating season.

Pricing is flat-rate rather than hourly, from $120 + GST for a 1 bed / 1 bath, plus $30 per additional bathroom. Get your price in about 30 seconds.

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