This lady has a great personality for advertising . Her facial expressions are very entertaining. She is the kind of neighbor that can make you forget you problems for a while.
I have been in the cleaning business for 30 plus years. A very common problem is using to much soap, that just attracts more dirt. Only use as much soap as needed to remove the dirt,and rinse well after.
I just use a steam mop, no cleaner unless there is a particular issue. The guy that professionally cleans tile said same thing as you - minimize use of cleaners and how much water you put on floor because it pushes dirt into grout. I also found a magic eraser works great at least on ceramic or porcelain tile
@@midlife_minimalist I’m in the middle of cleaning my grout and you’re right. From now on I’m going to vacuum first and get any mud etc up wi5h a sponge before mopping. I think the grout sealer also needs to be applied far more often than the bottle says. I bet it doesn’t last more than 9 months.
Cleaning vinegar is very good but make sure it's real cleaning vinegar and not just regular vinegar with added soap. Real cleaning vinegar is much more expensive than regular vinegar.
If you use a nylon bristle broom to scrub the floors, then you don't have to get down on your hands and knees. Thanks for the video, I enjoyed it very much!
I have no idea why it didn’t occur to me to get one of those🤦🏽♀️ It absolutely would have made it easier 🤣I installed new flooring in the kitchen and have (and intend to continue) mopping it regularly so it never gets like dirty like the old floors! In case you didn’t see the floor install video (link below): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--5uTU3AmnCc.html
Wow. So glad I found this. My life needs a total makeover and cleaning and decluttering an old house from the 50s is a sore focal point. My 90ish parents' home has now become mine. One has passed, another in a nursing home. I'm tired, I now work full-time after years of being their caregiver and I have lupus. I have subscribed to your channel after seeing this because it will help me tremendously. Thank you for keeping it real too. So tired of ppl not understanding that life happens and we all have different cards we're dealt. I look forward to going on a journey with your videos to help get me through all the chaos! I love that you're an artist too...I have art stuff all over the place and would love to be organized so I can paint again 🤗🌈.
Too Shay ❤no judgment just understanding is what humans need much more off .. we definitely all have different cards to play ❤best of luck 🍀 to your endeavours
I’m so glad to welcome you to my channel 💖I know what you mean about life happening. I have not been able to keep up with my house over the last couple months because of life changes. It gets messy/dirty so fast and I’ve been wanting to get back on track for weeks! So glad I was finally able to get some tidying done & post a video today🎉I hope you enjoy the journey 💖
@@markme4 I have a large glass measuring cup I put the vinegar in and microwave for about 1.5 min. Be careful and don't let it splash on you as you take it out. I don't bring it to a full boil which is usually 2+ min.
I use vinegar mixed 50/50 with dish soap for really dirty jobs, but then have to rinse well if I use it on a floor. But it’s great for the toilet. Spray and leave overnight; use the brush then flush.
I moved into this apartment in 2016 and I tried everything, I mean every thing to clean the floor and the grout. Thank you so much for this cleaning floor advice. I used everything you mentioned except I didn't have the Dawn dish soap, so I used a little over a cup of apple cider vinegar and a few squirts of Ajax dish soap. I also accidentally boiled my water in the microwave. I then mixed all the ingredients and sprayed away! while waiting, I watched a show on t.v. and here, it was a half hour that the spray was on my floor! lol Anyway, when I went to clean it, I didn't even have to use a scrub brush! I just used an old tee shirt and it came off so easily. I was so amazed! wow! Thank you again for the suggestion about the vinegar, dish soap. I will use this now for everything!!!
Vinegar & Dawn DEFINITELY work better than the 2 products I used for this video. I need to use that next time. I actually have a video about cleaning my (old) kitchen floors with that. In case you haven’t seen it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lRxX_32JCJI.html
@@TracyAkamine I’m confused about your reply, I thought you just used vinegar and dawn,yet you said vinegar and dawn works better than what you used in this video, this doesn’t make any sense!
Finally the YT algorithm sent a video I needed to see!! A Real Person cleaning a Real Floor who doesn't own a microwave!! Are you a long lost relative🤣
Awwww thank you! 🥰 Definitely a real person over here with real dirt & real mess😂 No Pintrest worthiness over here! LOL. I am trying to improve things & do the best with what I’ve got. I recently painted the kitchen (I have a vid of that) & re-did the floors w/vinyl self stick tiles. The link is below if you want to check it out: Closet DECLUTTER | DIY Projects, Floor & more!
I hope you enjoyed some of my other videos😃 I recently painted the kitchen (there’s a video for that posted) & below is a link to the video where I re-do the floors w/self stick vinyl tiles. Came out great! Thank you for wstching🥰 Closet DECLUTTER | DIY Projects, Floor & more!
Your floor cleaning method interested me but as I live in the UK I had to find an alternative to Dawn, lo and behold it is Fairy who apparently also make Dawn and to the same Specification so off I went to clean my white coloured vinyl that I have struggled with for years, it worked like a miracle after a couple of washes and I am so pleased, thank you.
I love your down to earth bubbly personality it's so uplifting. Having no microwave and doing it on the stove and not knowing the outcome is great. Everything doesn't have to PERFECT. You can improvise.
I guess it wasn’t clear on the video but I did mop it with clean water after the scrub & dried it w/a towel to make sure it wouldn’t be sudsy. A lot of people have commented that I can use a lot less of the Dawn so next time I make the mix I’ll use less😊Thank you for watching!
I guess I must have missed the rinse. I saw you shuffling around as you were drying the floors. I do that too. It sure makes it quicker. No need to wait for your floors to dry, especially since they're wood.
I heard I can use WAY less soap in it. How much do you use? I put in new flooring in the kitchen so I don’t need to use it in there so much anymore but do like to use it to clean my tub.
I have used dawn , vinegar and hot water for years. I use 1/2 cup vinegar, a couple of drops of dawn and hot water. My floors are great and very shiny. It does not get sudsy at all.
Okay I love this totally relatable! How house needs repaired but we can't fix it so our floor is ruined too and there's a lot of other things that need fixed so I'm so glad I found a video of someone dealing with the same. I see so many videos of homes that look unlived in and pristine and I get sad but the reality for most people is homes like ours well loved well used homes
It definitely works! I couldn’t believe how easily all the gunk came off. Thank you so much for watching my vid and subscribing :) Wait til you see what it can do in the bathroom!
I added this combo to a mop bucket filled half full of hot tap water. The hot water helps to dissolve grease and grim on the floor or other surfaces. Great video. Thank you!
Or just use 11.5 strong Kangen water without anything else, no dawn, no vinegar. Use about a quart of 11.5 for your laundry for the rest of your life. No laundry detergent ! Talk about saving money. So many uses.
PLEASE DO NOT USE ON limestone or marble tiles the vinegar will destroy the tiles /surface . I would suggest using boiling water , then adding the vinegar and dawn and mopping straight as this will be better for peeps with bad backs/knees and generally keep those tiles sparkling
@@normahumphries2007 Thank you for the info! This was vinyl flooring (and was so old & nasty I wasn’t too worried about “ruining” it, lol). But definitely good to know in case anyone has other types of flooring.
Just so you know, for regular cleaning, you only need around a 1/4 c vinegar, a few drops to a teaspoon at most of Dawn, and a pint to a quart of water. Not much of the active ingredients at all. FYI. DO NOT USE VINEGAR ON WOOD FLOORS (or any wood). And actually, if you question it at all, just a little bit of Dawn - LITTLE BIT -- in a quart of water or so and leave out the vinegar altogether. If it will make you feel better, you can use WARM water, but again, not necessary magic. Try to avoid leaving enough SOAP behind to leave your floor sticky to attract more dirt. In her case here (badly dirty), maybe. What I would suggest is to vac/sweep very well, clean as I described above, then if it needs more help - go toward what she did.
AWESOME! I've been looking for something that will clean the linoleum in my bathroom. I have a lot of hair spray build up on it - I'm thinking this might work!😀
Are you sure you can use vinegar on linoleum? I ask because I moved a month ago to a rented house with plastic tiles in the floor and the stains out of the glue that the landlord used is killing me! It looks like a sidewalk full of old chiclets, gross! I use w 40 leave it for 10 seconds and scrub with a towel tile by tile. These is killing my knees and my hips without mention I am running out of towels! Please, HELP SOMEONE!
@@carydelano5484 I actually found a better solution. Krud Kutter in the blue bottle, and a scouring pad. That’s all you need to clean a linoleum floor. The spray doesn’t leave a smell, nor does it make the floor sticky. I’ve tried a few different things, and I noticed these “natural” ways make absolutely no difference.
@@sebring31482 Thank you, the floor of my new rented home is not just dirty at the glimpse but also sticky that the sleepers stuck in the tiles and you end up barefoot. That is why I have to use W-40 and a scraper before the towel scrub. I am going to try the vinegar, soap solution, I never seen something like this floor🥵
It's another way to clean really stained nasty floors and that's by using ammonia have to make sure you have a face mask on and the windows all open but if you pour it on the floor let it sit for a minute and then scrub it'll come right up just got to be careful you don't breathe it
I use this solution all the time. I pour 1 cup of vinegar into a spray bottle, add a Tbspoon of dawn and fill with water. I don't heat it. I use it to spray in my shower and as a spray cleaner for bathroom surfaces. I use it as a deodorizer after p**ping, just flush and spray a bit into the toilet bowl. No more fruity deodorant smells., it really gets rid of stinkiest. When I mop ,I use a cup of my solution in the bucket with hot water and it works really well.
You are HEAVEN SENT!!! Awesome video and THANK YOU SO MUCH for keeping it short and straight to the point. I LOVE your sense of humor and the cute faces you make also. LOL Another AWESOME thing is YOU DON'T HAVE A MICROWAVE!!! You don't have to worry about radiation a grave danger from microwaves. Food from the Stove and Oven is much better anyways especially Left Overs. God bless your heart.
Thank you! …I haven’t had a microwave in at least 10 years I’d guess. Don’t miss it☺️I’m so glad you enjoyed the video. Hope there are others you enjoyed😎
I have been using dawn and vinegar to clean my kitchen floor. I have a while ceramic tile and I loved it when we bought our house but with a big hairy dog, I’m hating it! To get my grout clean a use a gel toilet bowl cleaner. I get it so clean this way! I nearly spit out my coffee when I saw you drying the floor. I do that very same thing!
I use a mixture of a few drops of Dawn, half & half white vinegar and water to clean my floors, as a fruit and vegetable wash and for windows. I vac my floor first, wet a microfiber cloth and wring it out good, then put it over a Swiffer and punch the rag into the holes to hold it on. Then I spray it with the mixture. It's great for just spills too. I feel this is safe for my cat to walk on too. Great video here and great presententation! She doesn't have a microwave.....I don't understand how she can survive!
You are so entertaining to watch and to listen to! Never knew about using Dawn and vinegar - seems like a great hack! Fun and informative video - thank you!!👍😊
I use the regular Dawn (the blue one), very hot water and apple cider vinegar to mop my aggregate floors, it leaves my floors feeling and looking clean a lot longer than using the perfumed cleaners.
@@didileong4116 I’m so sorry, I just saw your question: I use about a tablespoon of Dawn and about 1/4 cup of vinegar to 2 gallons of hot water, when I use this combination I noticed that my floors stay cleaner longer. But you would probably have to adjust this to your liking…I just eyeball the mixture every time I make it. Sure hope this helps and once again I apologize for taking so long to answer.
@@Ferretlover64 I’m so sorry for taking so long to answer, I just saw your question…I use about a tablespoon of Dawn and about maybe a 1/4 cup of vinegar to 2 gallons of hot water. When I use this combination my floors stay cleaner longer I’ve noticed…of course you would have to play with this combination to find what works good for you. I just eyeball the mixture every time I make it. Hope this works for you!
Too much work i work for a carpet place you be better off replacing those every 5 years and get darker color . I know most apts purposely put in white flooring vinyl so the renters won't stay for too long
Wow! It worked. Your floors look clean! I normally add vinegar to hot water at 50/50 ratio + cleaning solution. Vinegar dries up the floor so fast! I love it.
I liked the video, you're so funny and down to earth but, I'm not going to try this, too many ppl had problems with this and my floors are pretty nice, thankyou anyway😊
I sprayed it on my shower door which was loaded with heavy soap scum. Waited a bit and used a wet dish scrubber pad on it . I could not believe how well it worked!
Thank you. I'm in the UK so we don't have Dawn here, so will try what I think might be our nearest alternative. I've got builders this week, so will definitely be trying this after they've finished.
Since this video I’ve been told you can just use a very small amount of the dish soap and it works as well. Also, that it shouldn’t be used on hardwood floors. Just fyi.
I bought some 30% vinegar at Walmart to spray on some mold. Wondering if it would be too strong to use for floors? I'm trying to clean some really grimey, sticky floors for someone that just moved into an apartment. Everything else we've tried so far just can't get up whatever this residue is from the last tenant 😕
If my water is super hot, the solution of distilled vinegar and Dawn it works even better. I use it on the inside of my all glass shower and I don’t even need to worry about streaks!
Thanks for the tip! I use it on my tub too and it definitely works better than regular cleaners I notice. I ran out & cleaned with other things the last 2 times but didn’t get as good of results. I’m also going to try use less of the Dawn when I make another batch as many people have commented they use way less & it works great. Thank you for watching! 😊
WOW!!! I am going to try this on my linoleum floors for sure. Your floors look like mine and I just accepted the fact they would always be like that…thank you!!!!
Woo lookit that floor! Another good way (and for walls cabinets etc) is a little powdered laundry detergent in hot water. The enzymes really break down grease, gunk etc
That's what my mum used to wash our floors with, just washing powder and hot water. Worked like a charm. It's hard to find the powdered detergent now, and I've been leery of using the liquid stuff as it's so concentrated.
NOT ON HARDWOOD, EVER. This may be great on ceramic tile, vinyl tile and all those floors, but I had an idiot cleaning lady who thought it would be a great way to clean hardwood floors sealed in polyurathane. Be careful!!! She ruined every floor in my home. And yes, I fired her.
I was reading one comment along the lines of you should not let it get that dirty? hmmm, do you by chance have lino? mine been down a year and its stained everywhere and I clean a lot ..
sweaty or not, your beauty shines through! I use vinegar for just about everything, but my favorite, is as fabric softener. clothes do NOT end up smelling like vinegar at all. thanks for this video!
I fill both the bleach container and the fabric softener container in my washer. I have a gaggle of cats, some who are mad at the new ones and love to pee on stuff to let me know their feelings. The clothes come out very nice and no smell of pee or vinegar. Just got 4 bottles at 1.99 each at Superstore.
Nice turnout! I can’t figure why it didn’t bubble up using Dawn? Was it slippery afterwards? Ha, ha, love the speed up. Wish we could do that in real life, right? Love cleaning hacks!
It was soapy but not as much as I thought it was going to be. You can’t see too well in vid but I wiped off with a rag then mopped with plain water, then wiped dry with clean towel. It wasn’t slippery at all!
The vinegar is what keeps this solution from bubbling too much. If someone accidentally puts dish liquid in your dishwasher (as my brilliant husband did once) you can use vinegar to cut down the foamy bubbles. Same thing if someone does something similar in your clothes washer.
This is actually a completely wrong method of cleaning a resilient flooring. I have been in the flooring business for decades and specially worked for vinyl floor manufacturers. This is not an good way to clean your floors. A no rinse vinyl floor cleaner specifically designed for resilient floors should be used. I am not aware of any manufacturer that recommends vinegar. Each manufacturer has specific recommendations on their website. The Dawn will attract more dirt and grime.
My mom uses vinegar/water mixture on the regular which was recommended by her floor installer. Heating is to help with mixing, dissolving the grime. Getting the dissolved grime up no matter the solution is key. A microfiber or something to soak it up does well, a mop that smears it around does not. LA's Totally Awesome all-purpose does a great job as does the concentrate for grime buildup. I often think Dawn comes up with these hacks which work some of the time but not any better than other products. Glad you found a solution.
