• Home
  • About Me
  • Contact Me
  • Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, & Disclosures
  • Terms
  • Our Books
  • Shop
    • Shop
    • Cart
    • Help

A Cultivated Nest

Helping You Manage Your Home and Life on a Budget

  • Frugal Living
    • All Frugal Living
    • Frugal Kids Activities
    • Budgeting Printables
  • Cleaning + Organizing
    • All Cleaning + Organization
    • Organizing Tips
    • Cleaning Tips
    • DIY Cleaning Products
  • Freebies
    • Resource Library
    • All Free Printables
    • Budget Printables
    • Home Decor Printables
    • Home Management Printables
  • Budget Decorating
  • Recipes
    • All Recipes
    • Breakfast Recipes
    • Snack Recipes
    • Appetizer Recipes
    • Drink Recipes
    • Dinner Recipes
    • Dessert Recipes
  • DIY + Crafts
    • All DIYs
    • Kids Crafts
    • DIY Beauty Products
  • Gardening

How to Do Zone Cleaning + Free Printable Zone Cleaning Schedule

By Manuela Williams

Keeping a home clean can be difficult, even if your home is small! There are just so many things that need to be cleaned, so much stuff that gets out of place and has to be put back. You can easily spend hours cleaning your home every day, especially if you have kids! But no one wants to spend half a day every day trying to keep their home clean. Which is why methods like zone cleaning exist! Here is How to Do Zone Cleaning! I’ve also included a free printable zone cleaning schedule to help get you started!

How to Do Zone Cleaning + Free Printable- Zone cleaning can be a great way to easily keep your home clean! Find out how to do zone cleaning, and get my free printable zone cleaning schedule! | cleaning tips, easily keep your home clean, clean quickly, homemaking tips, blank cleaning schedule, print out a cleaning schedule, printable cleaning schedule, cleaning techniques

Disclosure: This post may contain affiliate links to Amazon and/or Etsy, which means that I may earn a small commission from some of the links in this post. Please see our Disclosure Page for more information.

Zone cleaning works well for homes of any size, and can fit into anyone’s schedule! And the great thing about it is that not only does zone cleaning help you keep your home clean, it also reduces how much time you spend cleaning every day! It also makes it so that the idea of keeping your home clean doesn’t feel overwhelming. If you’re struggling to keep your home clean, or dislike how much time you spend cleaning it, you need a zone cleaning schedule!

How to Do Zone Cleaning + Free Printable

What is Zone Cleaning?

If you’re wondering about how to do zone cleaning, you don’t need to worry about it being hard to do. Zone cleaning isn’t any crazily complicated system, and you don’t need any special products. All you need to do is break your home apart into five different zones. You will clean one zone on each day (most people choose to just clean on weekdays). So for example, maybe each Monday you tackle the bathrooms and kitchen, Tuesdays you deal with the bedrooms, and so on. I suggest that you set a timer for 1 hour for each zone each day. One hour is all you really need for each zone in most homes, and the timer will make sure you move fast so that an hour long task doesn’t drag out into 2 hours.

Also, remember that just because you clean a certain zone on a certain day doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do your usual home tidying tasks every day, like wiping down bathroom sinks, making your bed, or wiping down your shower after each use. Doing those little 5 minute things every day helps make it so you can clean each zone in one hour. Without those tasks, you might have to do deep cleans often, and those take more time. Also try to keep your home relatively neat. It’ll be hard to clean everything in one hour if you have to spend half that time putting things back where they belong!

Different Possible Zone Rooms

Now that you know the general ideas behind how to do zone cleaning, you need to figure out what zones you have to clean! Not every home is the same. Some people have basements and attics, other people don’t. Some people have relatively small master bedrooms, others have huge master bedrooms that take a while to clean. You know your home and how long it usually takes you to clean things, so keep that in mind when setting up your zones.

So that you don’t forget an area when planning out your cleaning, here are the possible rooms. Remember, you need to create 5 zones. Some times it may make sense to break rooms into zones by location (they’re all on the top floor, for example), while in other cases you may want to group them by purpose (like all the bathrooms, even if they’re on different floors). And some rooms you may just want to leave out, like the basement or garage, because they don’t truly need cleaning every week.

Master bedroom
Kids bedrooms
Guest bedroom
Master bathroom
Kids bathrooms
Guest bathroom
Home office
Living room
Family room
Dining Room
Kitchen
Pantry
Laundry room
Exercise room
Garage
Attic
Basement
Foyer
Porch

My Zone Cleaning Schedule

This is what my cleaning schedule looks like on my free printable zone cleaning schedule. In the example below, I’ve already finished my tasks for Monday (Zone #1), so they’re checked off.

How to Do Zone Cleaning + Free Printable- Zone cleaning can be a great way to easily keep your home clean! Find out how to do zone cleaning, and get my free printable zone cleaning schedule! | cleaning tips, easily keep your home clean, clean quickly, homemaking tips, blank cleaning schedule, print out a cleaning schedule, printable cleaning schedule, cleaning techniques

Here are the details for the tasks on my schedule. You may want to copy some of my tasks, build on some tasks, or remove some tasks as you plan out how to do zone cleaning in your own home.

Monday- Zone 1- Master Bedroom, Kids Bedrooms, Guest Bedroom
Disinfect doorknobs and light switches
Declutter
Dust furniture, knick-knacks, blinds, etc.
Vacuum
Clean baseboards
Wash Windows
Reorganize closets as necessary
Reorganize dressers as necessary

Tuesday- Zone 2- Kitchen, Dining Room, Living Room
Disinfect doorknobs and light switches
Declutter
Dust furniture, decor, blinds, etc.
Vacuum
Wash kitchen + dining room floors
Clean baseboards
Refill hand soap and dish soap dispensers
Straighten pantry
Check for expired food
Wipe down cabinets

Wednesday- Zone 3- Home Office, Family Room
Disinfect doorknobs and light switches
Declutter
Dust furniture, blinds, computer, TV, etc.
Vacuum
Clean baseboards

Thursday- Zone 4- Bathrooms
Disinfect doorknobs and light switches
Declutter
Dust furniture, blinds, decor, etc.
Vacuum
Wash floors
Clean baseboards
Clean mirrors, toilets, countertops, bathtubs, and showers
Refill hand soap dispenser
Wash bath mats
Wipe down cabinets

Friday- Zone 5- Foyer, Porch
Disinfect doorknobs and light switches
Declutter
Dust furniture, blinds, decor, etc.
Vacuum
Sweep porch
Clean baseboards

You’ll notice that many of these tasks are the same for each zone. Also, note that according to this schedule, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday are my busiest days, while Friday is the lightest. I’ve set it up like that to fit in better with how my week usually goes. But even on my busiest days, I rarely spend more than 45 minutes cleaning a zone.

To get started with zone cleaning, download my free printable zone cleaning schedule below. Fill it out with your zones and tasks, and you’ll be ready to keep your home clean, one zone at a time!

Free Printable Zone Cleaning Schedule- Zone cleaning can be a great way to easily keep your home clean! Find out how to do zone cleaning, and get my free printable zone cleaning schedule! | cleaning tips, easily keep your home clean, clean quickly, homemaking tips, blank cleaning schedule, print out a cleaning schedule, cleaning techniques

Free Printable Zone Cleaning Schedule (Download Here)

This system works really well for me, and I’m sure it will work great for you, too!

Keeping a home clean without some sort of schedule is kind of impossible.
That’s why you need a Cleaning Binder!
It’s full of handy cleaning schedules to make it easy to keep your home neat!

How do you currently plan out your cleaning tasks?

How to Do Zone Cleaning + Free Printable- Zone cleaning can be a great way to easily keep your home clean! Find out how to do zone cleaning, and get my free printable zone cleaning schedule! | cleaning tips, easily keep your home clean, clean quickly, homemaking tips, blank cleaning schedule, print out a cleaning schedule, printable cleaning schedule, cleaning techniques

You might also be interested in:

6 Things You're Forgetting to Clean in Your Bedroom

  • Facebook
  • Twitter

Filed Under: Clean and Organized Home, Organizing my nest Tagged With: Chore List Printable, Cleaning Tip, Free Printables, Home Management Printables, Homemaking Tips, Household Management, printable, Printables

« Valentine’s Day Rice Krispie Hearts
How to Improve Your Finances- for Frugal Newbies »

Comments

  1. Jackie says

    January 30, 2017 at 11:14 am

    LOVE this idea!! I am always trying to come up with a better cleaning schedule! I think it’s best to have a schedule when you’re home with 3 kids all day!

  2. Angie ~ ambient ware says

    February 3, 2017 at 11:13 am

    I’m so bad about cleaning on a daily basis. I end up doing a thorough cleaning once a week! If I did it daily, maybe it wouldn’t take me an entire day to get it done, right? This is great, helpful information! Thanks for sharing with us at Funtastic Friday! Pinning 🙂

Visit the A Cultivated Nest Shop

Check Out Our Books!

Welcome to A Cultivated Nest

Visit the Free Resource Library

Stay Up to Date!

Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date on all our new posts, plus our shop announcements. As a subscriber benefit you'll get access to our resource library!

Subscribe

Connect With Me On

Pinterest Twitter Mail

Looking For Something?

Disclaimer + Disclosure

A Cultivated Nest makes no claims of “expert status” and the owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the use of the information found on this website. Posts may contain affiliate links. A Cultivated Nest is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. A Cultivated Nest is also a participant in the Etsy affiliate program via Awin. This means that I may earn a small commission from some of the links in my posts. Please see our Disclosure Page for more information.

Search the Archives

Looking for Something?

Popular Posts

  • 10 Mind Blowing Command Hook Hacks You Need To Know
  • 7 Reasons Your Hydrangeas Aren’t Blooming
  • 7 Perfect Perennials for the Lazy Gardener

Copyright © 2021 Nest Media LLC | All Rights Reserved