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One of the paradoxes of residential cleanouts is that everyone loves a clean house but nobody likes cleaning. In this case, the end is definitely justified, but the means can be a real chore.
Making the process as efficient and painless as possible is therefore the way to go. Even the basics can fly over the heads of most homeowners. Should you vacuum or dust right off the bat? Should you go from room to room or do everything at once? Kitchen and bathroom first? in tandem? last?
Tip #1: Establish Some Goals and Go in with a Plan
Staring at a home or apartment crammed with surplus furniture and junk, the temptation can be to start grabbing handfuls of junk and heading for the construction bags. The fact is that this strategy is inefficient and might not even give you the results at the end of the day. Straightaway, getting in touch with the reasons that you’re cleaning out your home (e.g., decluttering, selling your home, helping a loved one move) can provide clarity.
Going from one room to another can enable you to assess how many resources you’ll need to ultimately cross the job off of your list. Taking an inventory can help you develop a plan, create an order for junk removal, and inform the right junk removal options for the job ahead. After you take an inventory of the items in your path, you can decide what is best suited to tossing and what is better off getting recycled or donated, perhaps with Junk King’s help.
A plan can help you stay on track and sidestep the frustration that can result from going in without a plan, getting disheartened by a lack of progress, and throwing in the towel. Taking an inventory and knowing that, for example, a basement cleanout will take about five times longer than other rooms in your home can manage expectations and tell you what resources you’ll need to tackle the job.
Can Junk King Remove Large Appliances?
If you come across a few large appliances, such as a broken-down water heater or malfunctioning refrigerator, then you’ll likely need outside help to get those items off the ground and out of your home. Junk King prides itself on tackling the hardest jobs efficiently, which means that we’ll take bulky refrigerators, air conditioners, hot water heaters, and freezers. Many of these appliances contain fluorinated hydrocarbons, which Junk King will responsibly handle.
Tip #2: Choose Junk Removal Option Based on Plan
Before getting into specific tips, realize that Junk King can help with decluttering by offering both full-service junk removal as well as dumpster rentals. Full-service junk removal means that the junk removal pros at Junk King will handle removal, transportation, and eco-friendly disposal of residential waste like furniture, electronics, and appliances.
Self-service dumpster rental gives you options in terms of three sizes for the dumpster itself and your choice of date and time for dumpster dropoff. Junk King’s roll-off dumpsters can help with residential cleanouts if you want to take your time and tidy up your entire home over an entire weekend. Driveway-friendly and ranked number one nationally, dumpster rentals could be the best option for your next cleanout.
Tip #3: Take a House-centric Approach to Cleanouts
When it comes to efficiency you’re usually much better off tackling the entire house instead of going from room to room. This strategy actually translates into, for instance, mopping all of your hardwood floors at once, rather than inefficiently shuffling between mopping, vacuuming, and dusting room to room.
Although going from one room to another might strike some folks as a more appealing tactic or a way to boost self-esteem over the prospect of cleaning an entire room, the fact is that this plan necessarily means juggling too many tasks. Let’s say you want to clean out a bedroom from top to bottom – this means you’ll have to dust every square inch, possibly vacuum rugs and carpets, and pick up debris along the way.
In terms of efficiency, a better process is deciding to vacuum the rugs and carpets on an entire floor at the same time. This enables you to avoid having to repeatedly plug and unplug the vacuum as you move about. If you’re doing something like taking rag to fan blades, then it is much easier to do all of the fans on one floor of your home because you have the supplies you need and don’t have to shuffle between different tasks.
It can also be more cognitively and psychologically fatiguing to have to pick up the same task a half dozen times throughout the day. You’re better off doing a mundane task like cleaning off the fan blades by going from room to room and crossing it off your list before moving on to something else. Ditto for dusting off window blinds and the tops of shelves – easier to carry a step ladder from one room to another and be done quickly and more efficiently.
Tip #4: Develop a Sorting System for Items
Hard decisions sometimes have to be made during residential cleanouts. You may find yourself asking whether you can bear to part with a particular item or whether it would be better off being donated and given a second life. Other items you know you want to hang onto but perhaps designate for a different season and bring out later in the year. Then, there are items that you know are junk (e.g., old magazine, ripped clothing, and broken appliances).
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Generally, three buckets that items can go into would be: the keep items (useful in daily life), the ‘get rid of’ items (donate, sell, recycle, or responsibly dispose of with Junk King’s help), and items you want to keep and put into storage elsewhere. Having three literal boxes earmarked for this purpose can be helpful as you go from room to room with your residential cleanout.
Items that you’re planning on keeping can be moved later from the designated box to drawers or labeled plastic containers. Items slated for the ‘get rid of’ bucket could be moved to a garage storage bin to encourage action on it in the near future.
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You can also simply throw the ‘get rid of’ items straight into your rented Junk King MINI dumpster. Almost any item can go inside and Junk King will go through it later; Junk King takes virtually every kind of residential waste, except for hazardous waste in the form of, e.g., oil-based paints, gasoline, herbicides, and fertilizers.
Tip #5: Have a Cleaning Caddy at the Ready
Have a cleaning caddy, bucket, or tote at the ready as you go from one room to another can be a time-saving, efficient step to take early on. A few items you might want to have in your cleaning caddy:
- Latex gloves
- Sponges
- Scrub brush
- Baking soda and vinegar
- Old toothbrush
- Microfiber towel
- Cleaning wipes
Water, dish liquid soap like Dawn, and a microfiber cloth can remove more than 99 percent of bacteria and is said to be three times better than regular cleaning cloths.
For cleaning up afterwards and getting rid of items you want disposed of or donated in an environmentally responsible way, contact Junk King by calling 1-888-888-5865 (JUNK) or scheduling an appointment online with North America’s number-one rated and ‘greenest’ junk removal company.
Junk King provides two-hour service windows and a courtesy call when drivers are 15-30 minutes from your location.
