Guides
Cleaning guides
Four longer reads covering the parts worth understanding properly — what to buy, what each surface can take, how to do it without harsh chemicals, and how to get started when starting is the hardest part.
Essential cleaning supplies
What is actually worth buying, and what is marketing.
Most homes need far fewer products than the supermarket aisle suggests. This covers the short list that handles almost everything, and which specialist products are worth the cupboard space.
Read the guideSurface cleaning guide
The right method for every material in your home.
Stone, sealed wood, stainless steel and painted plaster all fail in different ways. This is what to use on each, and the combinations that cause permanent damage.
Read the guideEco-friendly cleaning
Cleaning well without the harsh chemicals.
Which household staples genuinely work, which do not, and which pairings you should never mix. Includes what to look for on a label when you do buy something.
Read the guideADHD cleaning tips
Strategies for when starting is the hard part.
Task paralysis, time blindness and the all-or-nothing trap are the actual obstacles, not laziness. These are approaches built around that rather than against it.
Read the guide
Looking for something more specific?
The blog covers individual questions in detail — how to clean a particular item, or how to handle a particular situation. The free tools turn the method in these guides into a schedule or a checklist for your own home.
Questions
Questions about the guides
The blog answers one specific question at a time — how to clean a particular thing, or how to handle a particular situation. The guides are the reference layer underneath: the method and the reasoning that applies across a whole category, so you can work out the answer for something we have not written about yet.
If you are setting up a home from scratch, start with the supplies guide so you are not buying eleven products that do the same thing. If you have the products but keep damaging things, start with the surface guide.
No. They are about method rather than scheduling. If you want a routine as well, the cleaning schedule generator builds one around your rooms and the time you actually have.