Use The Pink Stuff: The Pink Stuff is one of the internet’s favourite cleaning products, and for good reason. While this product can also clean your walls without removing paint - especially if your children have covered your precious white walls with crayons - you do need to proceed with caution when using this magical creation. Due to its abrasive nature, a heavy hand or too much product will remove your paint, too. So, be gentle. In short, it is a versatile and durable tool built to stand up to multiple cleaning tasks. Plus, Bona is known for having great cleaning solutions for all kinds of floors and surfaces. Due to the thousands of fluffy fibers, it is better suited for dusting than wet cleaning. That doesn’t mean you can’t use it for wet applications, but use water and not a cleaning solution for the best results when you do. If the mop is too heavy, you’re going to experience difficulties. Maneuvering a heavy mop above your head is also an injury risk.

The Rubbermaid Reveal Spray Mop is the heaviest in this guide. It weighs over four pounds and will be challenging to clean walls for extended periods and even more difficult to clean ceilings. If you’re not comfortable holding up that amount of weight for a few minutes at a time, avoid this mop.

Washing the walls this wayliterally cuts the time and effort down to a fraction of what it used to take…especially if you have a home with vaulted ceilings like I do. Yes, a wet rag is the most basic way to wash walls or surfaces throughout the home, and I only recommend doing it in low-traffic areas because otherwise you really should use some sort of cleaning agent to wash away body oils and smudges that make our homes actually dirty. It also has the largest mop head at 20 inches long. That may be too big for certain spaces (for example, around light fixtures), but if you have a large home with tall ceilings, you’ll be able to cover a ton of space in minutes. KatarzynaBialasiewicz // Getty Images How to clean a wall with washable or non-washable wallpaper: Sponge vinyl wallpaper. Wipe down your walls from top to bottom in circular motions until your walls are thoroughly cleaned.

Cleaning the walls in your home may seem like a daunting task, but it’s actually quite simple (though it will probably take longer than you think). Plus most of the items you’ll need to get the job done, you probably already have in your home. 1. Dust the Walls In today’s fast-paced world, time-saving solutions are a must, even when it comes to household chores like washing walls. Run air purifiers and exhaust fans. Doing so helps keeps airborne dust and grease to a minimum so it's less likely to settle on walls and other surfaces. Of all the surfaces in your home that need cleaning, walls are probably way down on your list, if they are even on the list at all. But like floors, countertops, furniture and other horizontal surfaces, vertical surfaces collect dust, fingerprints and scuffs and scrapes, too. With an occasional cleaning, the walls in your home — whether painted or papered — can stay looking their best. All walls can be dry dusted, but only some are safe for wet cleaning. In the Good Housekeeping Institute Cleaning Lab, one of the tests we do when we evaluate multi-purpose cleaners is to see how well and how safely they clean painted walls.First, you can add your own liquid to the built-in 22-ounce capacity spray bottle, so you can ensure the solution is compatible with painted walls. To dispense the solution, all you have to do is pull the trigger on the handle. Even though the mop head is a bit on the larger side (16.5”), it’s not so big that you can’t fit it in corners and small spaces (like between the window trim and ceiling). For glossy finishes, which are less durable when it comes to cleaning, avoid harsh substances and consider using heat instead. Place an absorbent cloth over the oil stain and heat the cloth with an iron on its lowest heat setting. The heat should emulsify the oil so that it soaks into the cloth. This should remove most, if not all,of the dust. You can always just keep swapping out the pad and repeating until it’s asdustless as you want it to be. Then just go ahead and wash your little heart out.

Mix a cup of baking soda with half a cup of water to form a paste (think ‘toothpaste’ consistency). Second, it features a large, soft mop head that can cover a wide surface area. It comes with three mop pads, so you won’t have to keep washing the same one after each use. Each mop pad is machine washable and lasts for at least 100 uses. This is the only spray mop on the list because this type of mop can potentially leak, oversaturate walls, or come with cleaning solutions that can damage your paint. It just so happens that Ifigured out this method of washing walls when I hadsuch a large task ahead of me that Iwas so overwhelmed at the thought of it, thatmy choices were either have a good cry and do it anyway. The best and easiest way to clean painted walls is with a mixture of warm water and soap. This will clean any loose dirt, debris, and general marks and scuffs without harming your walls in the process. It’s a gentle cleaner, which means that you won’t remove the paint as you go.Note: The duster head will not fit on the E-Cloth Deep Clean Mop; it is designed to work only with the E-Cloth Flexi-Edge Mop.