Timing

For dusting large rooms with lots of surfaces, try to spend no more than 10 minutes per room. For small rooms, try to spend no more than approx. 5 minutes per room.

Efficiency

When you are on a two person team and responsible for both dusting and vacuuming, it is most efficient to work through the house room-by-room (dusting and vacuuming each room fully before moving on to the next), starting with rooms that have hardwood floors so those floors are available to mop ASAP. There are a few reasons for this.

1) By dusting a room fully and then vacuuming it fully, it is easier to accurately divide your time between areas and be able to recognize when you’re off track.

2) If you decide to dust an entire level (or entire home) before vacuuming and you fall behind and aren’t going to finish everything in time, there won’t be anything that your partner can help you with at the end because there is only one vacuum and everything has already been dusted. However, if you clean room-by-room and are falling behind, your partner should be able to help make up some of that time by dusting your remaining room for you.

Inside each room, it is easiest to keep track of what you’ve done and keep yourself organized if you pick one corner of the room to start in and clean top-to-bottom, left-to-right around the room and then get anything in the middle of the room. Always remember to dust the lower shelves of tables and side tables, not just the top.

Staging

Staging is an integral part of each cleaning and helps vastly improve the energy of a space while also bringing a sense of completeness and peace to our clients. Here are some examples of what surfaces should look like after you’re done dusting/staging them, and what they shouldn’t look like:

before and afters

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