Month: February 2025
If you are like me, house cleaning is a job that gets constantly put off. I just don’t feel like there is enough time for me to mop, sweep, dust, scrub, scrape, and polish. Thankfully, there are people out there who have been doing this kind of thing for years. These professionals know the ins and outs of the job, and they will tell us the secrets to prevent it from taking over our lives.
Okay, let’s start in the kitchen. When attempting to scrub and sanitize this massive filth and germ attractor, be sure to start on the right side of the stove and work clockwise around the room. This will leave the stove, typically the dirtiest part of the kitchen, for the last task. By doing this, you are reducing the amount of dirt and grime you spread to other parts of the kitchen during your cleaning process.
While in the kitchen, make sure that you disinfect the sink when scrubbing it. Disinfecting and sanitizing this area regularly is very important because it has been proven that the kitchen sink actually contains more germs than the toilet bowl. Now moving on to the dishwasher, I find myself rationalizing that I can skip this machine because it’s getting cleaned every time I use it. Well, I could not be further from the truth. The dishwasher is home to caked on grime and many nasty germs like e-coli. Because of this, it needs to be wiped out regularly with a combination of baking soda and bleach. This combination will kill those germs while removing old, crusty food.
To avoid the manual labor of scrubbing the bottom of your oven, a great tool to use is an oven liner. This great invention can be wiped with a towel and placed in the dishwasher to be cleaned and used over and over. It will prevent the black soot that is so prevalent in ovens from coating the bottom of yours.
A great time saver when dealing with house cleaning is to clean as you go. A great example of this can be illustrated in the kitchen. As you prepare a meal, fill the sink with hot, soapy water. Place the preparation dishes in the water to soak as you enjoy the meal, and then do the same with the dinner dishes. By the time dessert is over, all of the dishes can be transported from the sink to the dishwasher with little or no scrubbing. Along these same lines, be sure to wipe up any spills as they happen. They will be much easier to eliminate this way, than if you wait until they harden.
Another time saver when it comes to house cleaning is to simply wash your shower curtain liner with a few towels in the laundry. This method will be much faster than trying to scrub the mildew and grime off by hand, and it is not nearly as disgusting either. Also, to easily tame the toilet, simply pour some tang in the bowl and let it stand for a few minutes. The citric acid works as a scrubber to eliminate all of those nasty stains.
If you really think of customizing your sleeping space with adding trundle bed to your present bed, than you need to get some nice bunk bed and trundle plans. I mentioned both since they may be closely related and both are good space savers.
Of course the best place to look for the free plans to make a trundle bed is the Internet. You can find nice places there with a lot of information on how to build a trundle bed. The name “trundle” itself means the small trundle bed wheels which help to slide the trundle easily under the main bed. The purpose of having such bed points to the idea of providing comfortable sleeping place and at the same time of saving floor space when there is no need in extra bed.
Before you start making your trundle bed, search for the trundle bed kits which can make your undertaking much easier. It will only require some trundle bed assembly and contains manuals how to do it. So there won’t be any problems with that. Still this may not fit everyone since you need the kit wich will ideally suit your bed. It is when you may try to make a trundle bed by yourself.
In the beginning you have to get some good instruments and bunk bed and trundle plans (the first you need if you plan to make a bunk bed with trundle). The first step is to measure everything, especially the height of a trundle bed with mattress to make it nicely fit beneath the main bed.
The next step is making a wood frame,where you have to provide boards to the bottom of the plywood base and add sides. To strengthen the corners use L-brackets.
You can purchase cut to size plywood at many home improvement centers or trundle bed hardware stores, which will substantially reduce your workload, the time you spend on the undertaking. The wood must be sanded and passed over before you put primer or paint on it.
When you finish the frame, you can make it to glide easily by mounting trundle bed wheels or casters. You may like to impart drawer pulls to the front to make the trundle bed easier to pull out.