Weekly Maintenance Cleaning

This stage happens after deep cleaning. If you have cleaned the nooks and crannies of a space, you no doubt want to keep it that way.

Before you can do this step, you have to follow the steps for Getting Started.

In that first week, you will have designated 5 main areas of your room: each of the 4 walls, and the middle. You will have set up a general schedule for cleaning each area. I find it helps me to list that general plan on my personal daily agenda, and keep a list of the specific details on a laminated paper so I can cross them off with a dry erase marker as I move through each step. Once I am in the weekly cleaning stage for any area, I no longer need the deep cleaning or purging information.

• Look for visible trash, spills, or crumbs and throw it away.

• Wipe down and sanitize frequently touched surfaces such as student cubbies, desk tops, door handles etc.

• Straighten any physical items in that area such as papers, books, student supplies.

• If you have items to dust, do that in this stage.

If you truly have already deep cleaned an area and are in this stage, doing each of these tasks will only take 15 minutes. Remember, you have already done the hard tasks. Now you just have to keep up with them with a quick tidy up of the area.

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