30 Days of Cleaning with Hayley (Day 20) | STAIRWELL & BANISTERS

0:00 [Music] hi team welcome to day 20 in the 30 days of cleaning with hayley today we are going to be cleaning our stairs one of the most common ways to pick up germs and spread viruses is by touching contaminated surfaces so it's probably no surprise that stairwells rank high when it comes to a germ hotspot in our home seeing multiple people going up and down them throughout the day this is why it is important that we keep it clean and disinfected for today's clean we are going to be using a vacuum we're also going to be using some multi-purpose cleaner and we are also going to be using a disinfectant spray so grab your

0:46 cleaning supplies guys because we are about to sanitize and clean our stairs the first thing we're going to do when it comes to our stays is we're going to give them a really good vacuum so you want to use an attachment like this this is going to enable you to get into all the corners this is normally where most of the dust and dirt hangs out it gets kind of into the corners and the back of the stairs these are places that your normal hoover probably won't get to as great as using an attachment so we're gonna go down the whole stairwell and do the entire set of stairs with this and then we're going to move on to c before d we're going to clean and then

1:33 we're going to disinfect our whole stairwell once you've done one step i want you guys to turn your attachment over so it's this way and you're then going to go ahead and do the back of the step these are notoriously missed when it comes to vacuuming but they will still hold dust and dirt so we're gonna literally turn it this way and do this motion across the whole of the back step and that is gonna get that nice and clean and dust free for us

2:43 [Music] now we have finished vacuuming our stairs we can go ahead and move on to the clean so for this i'm going to be using just a multi-purpose spray you can also use dish soap and a damp cloth if you want to but just for ease i'm going to be using this i'm going to show you guys and address this later on in the series but i've been through the process of removing all of my cloths out because i've got a new method of how i use them and it is this i find this really really useful so all of my cloths now are either black or white there's two reasons for this one of them is it's just aesthetically pleasing to my eye and that's how i like it it just feels much more uniformed the second reason is i like to have

3:31 black for the clean and white to be seen now i'm going to explain this to you when it comes to cleaning especially when you're getting dirt if you use your white cloths they're going to end up filthy they just will because you're getting dirt off of them so the black cloth is going to be used to clean the dirt then at the end we're going to go over with the white cloth now the reason this is really good is as the cloths are white if you have missed any spots or you haven't given it a deep enough clean it's going to show up on your white cloth okay so that is why i like to do it this way we will see at the end visually i'll be able to show you guys so there'll be no getting around this if i've not cleaned properly it will show up on

4:16 the white cloth but we're not looking for that we're hoping that at the end of this we would have cleaned thoroughly enough that the black cloth would have got all of the dirt away and then the white cloth will go over it to dry and polish and that should remain relatively clean this just gives you peace of mind as well that you have done a thorough job when it comes to cleaning away the dirt in your home so guys when using product make sure that you spray it onto the actual cloth rather than just spraying it onto your banister or onto these sections here we have already done these in our dust and we've removed the scuffs but i just want to go over them and give them a quick clean seeing as we're focusing on stairwells so we're going to go over all of this

5:01 with our multi-purpose spray or you can use your dish soap if that's what you're using and then after that we're going to go in with our disinfectant c before d

6:12 [Music] once we have finished using our multi-purpose cleaner for the banister and the edges around the stairs we can go ahead and partake in one of my favorite past times it is war washing now for this you can go ahead and use your multi-purpose spray if it's clear if it's like this one that i've got this red colored one don't use it um go ahead for this and use dish soap but if you have got a clear multi-purpose cleaner that's fine but don't use a colored one on your walls and we literally just going to wipe down our walls ideally an antibacterial um dish soap

6:57 is what you want to be using for these but don't worry too much because we're going to get to our disinfectant phase in a second the next phase is going in with our white cloth this is going to be to dry off the stuff that we have wiped down if you want to you can go ahead and pop a furniture polish on it just the extra fab and remember white to be seen so now we've done the clean if this shows up any dirt we'll know we haven't quite tackled that clean

7:43 as much as we would have liked to but go over it with your white cloth [Music] and that is satisfying when i don't see any dirt on that i'm like i've done quite a good job here [Music] the final part guys is the disinfectant phase and for that i'm going to be using the dectile spray and we're literally just going to spray it along our stairs and i also like to spray it on the actual carpet as well but pay particular attention to like high traffic areas so naturally as we're coming up the stairs all of us are going to be touching the

8:28 banisters i try not to just because i try not to but the kids definitely are like they touch all the walls they hold on to these like they're just kids so it's really important to sanitize these areas within our homes thanks so much for watching today's vlog guys i hope you guys have found it helpful i hope you are still holding on to the 30 days of cleaning with hayley we are nearing the end and i am so proud of all of you and i'm hoping that seeing your homes change and getting them in order

9:13 and feeling like they're clean it's inspired you to keep some of these routines in your home and in your life moving forward if you enjoyed today's vlog don't forget to smash the like button if you are new here don't forget to click on the subscribe and for those of you that are going to be carrying on with the 30 days of cleaning with hayley i will see you tomorrow for day 21 21 it's like a milestone birthday isn't it 21 is like the best so tomorrow is going to be a good one so make sure you tune in then until then guys keep it clean