Deep Cleaning Room-by-Room Checklist
Which rooms have had every pass and which are half done.
CL-15 Checklist PDF Online
Cleaning and organisation · CL-18 · Planner
Spring Cleaning Planner
Free spring cleaning planner — a room-by-room plan with the jobs, who, a date and what you need, plus the whole-house jobs list. PDF and browser versions.
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Who this is for
A plan for the big seasonal clean, room by room. Each room gets its jobs, a name, a planned date, what is needed first and a tick when finished.
Anyone who wants the spring clean to happen over a few weekends without it taking over the whole spring — or the autumn, since the sheet does not mind which season.
What this helps you track
- Which rooms are in the plan, in the order you will do them
- Who has taken on which room, if the work is shared
- What has to be bought, borrowed or booked before a room can be started
- How far through the plan you are, at a glance
How to use it
- Write the year, when you want to start and finish, and who is helping.
- Go down the list of rooms. Cross out those you will not do and write the specific jobs for each one — the two or three that room really needs.
- Put a name and a planned date against each room, and note anything you need to get first: a ladder, a carpet cleaner, bags for the charity shop.
- Tick the whole-house jobs at the bottom as they are done; they can be fitted around the rooms.
- Tick each room off when it is finished. Keep the sheet — next year's plan starts from this one.
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- Printable PDF (A4 and US Letter)
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The printable is laid out inside a box that fits both A4 and US Letter, so the two files are identical and neither one is scaled. The fillable PDF has real form fields. The online version keeps what you enter in your own browser and builds the completed PDF on your device.
How to print
Download the A4 or US Letter file to match the paper in your printer, open it in a PDF reader and print at 100% — not "fit to page", which shrinks the writing space. Both files leave a 14 mm margin, which clears the unprintable edge on home printers. To print the online version with your entries in it, use the Print this sheet button, which prints only the sheet and none of the page around it. More on printing.
Questions
What should a spring clean include?
Whatever your home has not had for a while. The room list is a prompt; the jobs column is blank so you write what each room actually needs, not a generic list. The deep-clean checklist has the standard passes if you want them.
How many weekends does it take?
That is what the planned-date column is for. Most people find it takes more sessions than they hoped, which is why the sheet spreads the rooms over dates rather than assuming one big day.
Is this different from the deep-cleaning checklist?
Yes. That one is a tick grid of cleaning passes for each room. This is the plan: which rooms, in what order, by whom, on which date and what is needed first. Use both if you like — plan here, tick there.
Does it have to be spring?
No. The sheet works for any once-a-year clean. Some households do it before winter, when the house is about to be shut up, rather than after.
Related resources
Decluttering 30-Day Challenge
Which area you did on which day, so the easy ones are not repeated.
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Annual Home Maintenance Calendar
Which jobs fall in which month, decided once and written down.
HP-02 Calendar PDF Online
Also in the library
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Room-by-Room Deep Clean Checklist
Work through the deep-clean backlog one room at a time, and know which jobs you have actually done. Nobody remembers the extractor filter without a list.
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