It may not be one of our favourite jobs around the house, but cleaning is an inevitable part of life – especially when you live in a home where you’re regularly doing some kind of building work.
And whilst I may not enjoy the actual task, I do love having a clean and tidy home.
With so much planned for this year (you can read about our slightly overambitious plans here) we’re going to have to be organised and stay on top of the more mundane day to day tasks, so to help us at least keep on track with our cleaning schedule we decided to create our own cleaning checklist.
We wanted to create a cleaning checklist that we could just grab at any time. A checklist where we could work our way around the house and tick boxes as we go, a list that would make it easy not to forget things.
So that’s exactly what we did!
Our cleaning checklist is a printable, portable and reusable pocket guide with a page for each room of the house. We’ve laminated and bound ours together so that we can tick off boxes and when we’ve done wipe it clean and reuse it again and again.
And, of course, we’re sharing our free cleaning checklist with you, too.
In addition to room checklists, we’ve also included a few blank template pages for you to fill in yourself as you may have other rooms you’d like to add to your own personal cleaning schedule.
Even if you don’t clean your home or use this cleaning checklist on a daily basis (I won’t tell anyone if you don’t), you can still use it as a cleaning checklist for the week or month.
We may not be able to help you clean your home, but hopefully, our cleaning checklist will make it easier to keep on top of your cleaning jobs!
This is what you will need:
*This post contains affiliate links to the exact products we used to make this checklist. As always, we only recommend products we love and think that you will, too!
- Paper or card & printer (the card we used is 210g/m²)
- Laminator & pouches (this is the laminator
that we used) - Craft knife or scissors
- Ribbon or cord
- Hole punch
- Whiteboard marker (this is the whiteboard marker we have. It’s the same one we use for our DIY whiteboard calendar
we have. It’s the same one we use for our Shop the Supplies We Used To Make This Cleaning Checklist
This is how to make your own cleaning checklist:
1. Download the free house cleaning checklist and print it onto some thick paper or card. There are two sides to each sheet – the front side with the checklist and a colour coordinated plain side for the back of each sheet.
(The backing side has a slightly larger pattern in case the paper doesn’t completely align when printing double-sided.)
2. Next, it’s time to get laminating. Place each page between the sheets of the laminating pouch and push it through the laminator.
We bought our laminator specifically for this project and it worked amazingly well. This is the laminator
that we have – it’s really easy to use, works really well and more importantly was cheap, too.
3. When you’ve laminated all of your checklists, it’s time to cut them out. Using a craft knife (or some scissors) carefully cut out each page.
As mentioned before, the reverse side is slightly larger to allow for some tolerance when printing double-sided, so you will be cutting some of the reverse away.
4. When you’ve cut out all of your cleaning checklist pages it’s time to assemble the whole cleaning guide.
Punch a hole into the top left corner of one of the cleaning checklist room sheets – this will be your guide hole for all others.
Then working page by page, place your guide page onto the next room page and align your punch so that you punch through the existing hole and create a new one in exactly the same position on the next page.
If you find that the pages slide around too much, you can secure them with a bulldog clip or two to make sure they don’t move.
When you’ve punched a hole into each page, it’s just a matter of stacking them and tying them all together with some ribbon or cord.
5. And there you have it – your own personal cleaning checklist. Now all you have to do is fan open the pages and work your way down the list, ticking boxes as you go.
When you’ve finished all tasks you can wipe the guide clean with some tissue and start all over again. Clean, tick, wipe, repeat!
How do you keep on top of day to day tasks? Do you find it easy to stay organised or does chaos have a way of taking over? Do you have a cleaning schedule?
PS. If you like this cleaning checklist you might like some of our other freebies, too! You can find all free printables here!
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I’m super frustrated reading through the comments, and relating all too well. I did enter my email, the email link send me right back to her home page.
I’m good on the runaround, just honestly seems like she just wants your email but doesn’t follow through with releasing the correct link.
Sorry to hear you are having problems, Sarah. The checklist has been downloaded tens of thousands of times and there are only rarely problems. I’ve checked with my email provider and you have definitely received the email with the cleaning checklist, however, you’ve just not opened it. You are obviously welcome to unsubscribe from any emails you receive from us at any time and your email address will then automatically be deleted. We have to do it this way, as we’ve had too many problems with people stealing, pinning and reproducing the printable. Please check your emails as the printable should be in your inbox.
Cx
I am looking for the new PDF where can I purchase?
You can find it here: https://www.littlehouseonthecorner.com/shop-cleaning-checklist/ Let me know if you have any other questions!
Will get this post updated asap (just haven’t got round to it yet!)
Cx
I am also still having trouble. there is now download here button for me either. Any chance you can provide the link to it directly in your response. Sorry I have tried everything but it does not have a button.
There’s a huge box under the list of supplies where it says “Download your free Cleaning Checklist”. Just pop in your email address and it’ll get sent straight to you inbox.
Hope that helps!
Cx
Yes, it’s still free and always will be! I’m not sure which download section you’re referring to, Brandy, but just click on the big “download here” button in the supplies list and the free PDF should open in a new window.
Do let me know if you’re having any more problems and I’ll be happy to help!
Cx
The link works fine, Jessica. You probably tried a direct link to the printable from somewhere like Pinterest which isn’t something we allow and doesn’t comply with our terms and conditions. I should say, that we’re more than happy for people to pin to things from our blog just not directly to the downloadable PDFs. If you click on the link in our post however you will be able to download the printable without any problems.
Cx
Is there a way to get the printables? They aren’t available.
There’s a big red button in the middle of the post. If you click on it the printable will download.
Cx
There is no link at all for this dowload. I have been trying to find one for 40 minutes. Have checked my download files in case of automatic downlad and nothing. Would like to have it but no download link
I’m sorry you’re having problems, Samantha. In the article, there’s a section with a list of the tools and supplies you’ll need to make the cleaning checklist. There’s a huge red button there where it says “click here to download the cleaning checklist”. Just click on that button and it’ll download.
Hope that helps!
Cx
I’ve temporarily taken down the printable which is why it’s not working at the moment. I’m happy to share free printables and my only rules are that they’re not sold or used commercially and that they’re not linked to directly. Sadly, I’ve seen so many cases of this happening which is why I have taken down the printable. :(
I will upload it again with some adjustments that will hopefully help.
Cx
Thanks, Brittny! I’m sorry to hear that you’re having problems downloading the file. I’m not sure what the problem is as it seems to be working fine at my end.
If it’s any help, the file is a PDF that opens in a new tab.
Hope that helps!
Cx
Hi. Love this. But I cant seem to find the download link on my side. Is there something im missing. I have went to other printables and same story. Please advise
Thanks, Muhsina! In all posts, there’s usually a “This is what you’ll need” section where everything you’ll need to make the printable is listed.
It’s the same in this post where it says “Cleaning checklist printable (you can download it for free here)”
Hope that helps!
Cx