Cleaning guides for real homes.
Practical cleaning advice from the Spruce team — how-to tips, product guides, equipment advice, moving checklists, and honest answers to the questions we hear in real homes every day.
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How to clean a fabric couch without ruining it
Check the tag before you touch it. What the W, S and X fabric codes mean, and the marks worth handing over.
How to get rid of mould on walls, and keep it off
What actually kills mould on walls, the method Tenancy Services recommends, and how to tell when it's a damp problem no clean will fix.
How often should you clean your house: a realistic schedule
Weekly, fortnightly or monthly? How to pick a cleaning rhythm that fits your home, your household and your budget.
Cleaning your house before selling: a pre-listing checklist
What to clean before the photographer and the open homes, the details buyers notice without realising it.
How to prep your home before the cleaners arrive
A two-minute prep that gets you a better result: what to clear, what to leave, and what to flag at booking.
Streak-free windows: a simple guide
Why glass streaks, what pure-water cleaning actually does, and when it pays to leave the high panes to a pro.
Coming next.
How to clean an oven, racks and all
A low-effort method for baked-on grease, the racks and the door glass, plus when the self-clean cycle is worth using.
The spring cleaning checklist for a New Zealand home
What is actually worth doing after a Kiwi winter, room by room, and the damp-season jobs that matter more here than anywhere else.
How to clean a shower: soap scum, glass and grout
Why the glass goes cloudy and stays cloudy, what shifts hard-water build-up, and the point where regrouting beats scrubbing.
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