Speed Cleaning

This book has helped me to transform my home. I don't know if I have undiagnosed adult-ADD or what, but before I owned this book, I was a mess. Having a specific housecleaning process written out for me step-by-step made everything click. I have struggled with Flylady for years and try as I might, it just never really worked for me. This book takes her 'home blessing hour' to a whole new (efficient) level -- although this book was written before Flylady came onto the scene.Speed Cleaning spells out an entire weekly cleaning routine, which you do on one day, and ideally get it down to less than one hour, total. When I first bought the book I tried to wing it without the apron and with using my own products, which you can do, but it wasn't until I finally caved and bought the Clean Team apron that it all fell into place.You follow a specific path through each room going top to bottom and left to right (clockwise). You will hit EVERY spot in every room this way. Not only do you get the cleaning done fast, it is done to what I consider to be a professional level. I had never cleaned in such detail before, and yet it gets done quickly! Once you get into the routine it really becomes a breeze. I actually enjoy doing it. I found that this cleaning routine motivated me to keep things picked up during the week so that I could do the Speed Cleaning without having to spend time moving around clutter first. I honestly can say anyone walking into my home now would think I'm a neatnick.This book is worth it just for the bathroom cleaning method alone, which I was doing before I got the apron, and it was easy to do (probably because it's such a small room, the cleaning sprays were nearby no matter where I go in the room!).Buy the book and try it, you can get a feel for it without the apron, but really the apron does speed things up even more.2017 Update: I am still using the Speed Cleaning methods from this book, as well as the Red and Blue Juice from the The Clean Team's website. And my Clean Team apron is still going strong! This is a quality method and the optional products are also very high quality.

I don’t like to clean the house. However, this book makes it go faster…which is the whole idea. It’s got lots of ideas, tips, and tricks. I’m a convert. Well. Almost. I still don’t like cleaning. :)

30 years ago I first bought this book. It changed how I clean. Then I loaned it to a friend and never saw it again. Guess they liked it too! Thanks to Amazon it's back in my collection! So many simple common sense ways to make cleaning easier, more efficient and faster. I don't see these cleaning ideas anywhere else. Jeff Campbell sold the Clean Team years ago, but I thank him for sharing his commercial cleaning ideas that have made my life easier.

Jeff Campbell's Speed Cleaning will be especially useful to people like me who love a clean and uncluttered house but hate to clean. We hate to clean because we don't know how. Our parents assigned us to clean the house as a weekly chore, assuming that knowing how was in our genes. Because we don't like doing things that we aren't good or successful at doing and we feel helpless and frustrated when faced with cleaning and doing things that don't work. (Like cleaning polyurethane-treated hardwood floors with Murphy's Oil Soap--something I did for years.)Jeff Campbell to the rescue. Campbell is a professional cleaner and efficiency expert, the cleaning genius behind San Francisco's "Clean Team." I first discovered "Speed Cleaning" as a temporarily single mom while my husband was away doing fieldwork. I had to clean during baby naps--and fast. I picked it up again years later because we discontinued our cleaning service due to salary cuts at my workplace. We were also not especially happy with the cleaning service, including some breakage of our Mexican wood carving collection and ignoring places like under the bed and sofas.The new edition of "Speed Cleaning" incorporates new products and introduces the products available through the Clean Team's online catalog. I haven't invested in any of the stuff yet, but might. Some readers object to this advertising aspect of the book, but it seems to me that the prices of the products are very competitive, plus the thoroughly vetted products allow you to skip a lot of random product shopping and trial and error. If you don't want to order The Clean Team's products, Campbell is very forthcoming with naming the best commercial equivalents. I know for sure that I will be purchasing one or more of their ostrich feather dusters to deal with our Mexican wood carvings. The apron that enables the cleaners to tote products with him or her rather than leaving them misplaced all over the house and then having to track them down also seems ingenious. The Sh-mop with washable covers for hardwood floors and professional dustpans also look like excellent tools.I especially like the cleaning approach that specifies making one's way around a room clockwise and top to bottom rather than taking haphazard stabs at things. The method for cleaning toilets is worth the price of the book. It is brilliant and makes it almost fun. Really. The advice never to let the powdered cleanser (e.g. Comet) get on the sink above the bowl is also priceless. And the crappy pans under your stove's burners? Don't knock yourself out cleaning them--you can buy new ones at the hardware store,I would have given the book 5 stars except that about half of it is inexplicably devoted to choosing and supervising a cleaning service. I'm not sure why a book about how to clean includes this. Would have given 4 1/2 if possible.flag

Please, don't waste your money. I am a cleaning company and I thought this book will be add something as the guy that wrote this book have made millions! But guess what? Nothing new, at least for me.

すごく影響を受けた掃除本で、読み終わったので手放したのですが、やっぱり手元に置きたくて再度頼みました。前はコードありの掃除機でしたが、今はコードレスの掃除機なのでさらに掃除がはかどります。

Ce livre est plein de bons conseils, et les méthodes sont précises.Il privilégie l'efficacité et donc préconise l'utilisation de produits plutôt chimiques disons, donc si on veut privilégier les produits de nettoyage naturels il faut prévoir des adaptations et/ou un peu plus de temps que les temps (records !) indiqués.

... das zu beherzigen ist wirklich unbezahlbar. Gleichgültig, ob man zuhause putzt oder zum Geld verdienen - es geht deutlich schneller und ist dabei weniger anstrengend.Zunächst erscheint einem zwar das schematisierte Vorgehen beim Putzen befremdlich - man soll wirklich jede Bewegung einüben. Tut man es dennoch, merkt man schnell, wie sinnvoll es ist. Ist ja auch kein Wunder - Abertausende von REFA-Leuten haben bereits bewiesen, dass sich Arbeitsabläufe auf diese Art optimieren lassen. Nur, dass das was man hier lernen kann zum eigenen Vorteil gereicht.Die empfohlenen Hilfsmittel sollte man sich auf jeden Fall auch besorgen, soweit es möglich ist. Zum Beispiel eine spezielle durchdachte Schürze mit Taschen und Schlaufen - man kann die in Amerika bestellen, oder sich selbst eine anfertigen.Das Buch ist in Englisch, aber mit Grundkenntnissen kann man es verstehen.

病人を二人抱えて、何となく体内時計もゆっくりになってしまい、ドヨーンとした日々を送っていました。その毎日にカツをいれてくれたのが、この本です。スピードクリーニングというより、それで始まる元気な毎日が戻ってきたのが嬉しかったです。