Strategies for Cleaning Cabinets

Cleaning your cabinets is an important part of ensuring that they stay in good condition. Understanding how to clean your cabinets can help you to complete this process as efficiently as possible. At Lloyds Cabinetry, we can help you to create superior cabinets for your property. Here are a few important strategies for cleaning cabinets to help you navigate the cleaning process.

Conservative Water Use

It is important to remember that wood, which is usually the most common cabinet material, is rather vulnerable to water. When you wash your cabinets, you will need to ensure that you are conservative with your use of water. This will help to minimize problems and damage that may occur to your cabinetry.

Deep Clean Frequently

The more grime that builds up on cabinets, the more difficult it will be to clean. It is essential to ensure that you regularly take some time to clean your cabinets. Not only will this reduce build up, but it will also ensure that stains aren’t allowed to settle solidly onto the surface, which can cause them to be more difficult to remove.

Wipe Down after Cooking

Cooking tends to be the biggest culprit of dirty cabinets in the kitchen. Whenever you cook, you often allow grease to build up on your cabinetry. When you ensure that you take some time to wipe down your cabinets once you have finished cooking, you can often minimize problems.

Dry When Done Cleaning

Since water can cause damage to your cabinets, it will be important to ensure that you thoroughly dry the area when you are finished cleaning. This will prevent the use of water from causing any damage to your cabinetry. Ensure that cleaners are removed from the area as well, because these can also cause damage to your cabinets.

Clean Inside and Outside

It is important to ensure that you clean every component of your cabinets. The inside of the cabinets can be easily overlooked, though they house all of your food and other important objects. Spills can easily occur on the surface of your cabinetry, so it is essential to ensure that you spend some time cleaning the inside of your cabinets, as well as the outside.

Dust Often

Deep cleaning is an important step in caring for your cabinets, but lighter cleaning can also help. By regularly removing dust from the surface of your cabinets, you can help to expedite your cleaning process. This will go a long way toward maintaining the condition of your cabinetry.

Use Baking Soda

Baking soda is a commonly used natural remedy to aid with cleaning. This strategy is often useful when you need to deal with tough stains on your cabinets. When you intend to clean with baking soda, you will want a damp scrub brush. When you add baking soda to your damp scrub brush, you can use it to scrub away stains from the surface of your cabinetry.

Specific Wood Cleaner

Using a wood cleaner is another option for cleaning cabinets. There are some cleaners that are not intended to clean wood and they can cause damage when implemented. When you are choosing a cleaner for cleaning cabinets, you will need to ensure that it has been formulated for cleaning wood.

Distilled White Vinegar Solution

Distilled white vinegar is another remedy that can be helpful with cleaning cabinets. This is largely because natural acids that are in vinegar can help to break down grease. This acid doesn’t leave behind any residue, which makes it ideal for cleaning cabinets. Allow the vinegar to sit for 10 to 15 minutes before you clean the cabinets to ensure that it is as effective as possible. Then carefully wipe away the grime and grease from the surface.

Our experienced professionals at Lloyd’s Cabinetry can help to ensure that you implement the ideal cabinets to meet all of your needs. Whether these are kitchen cabinets or cabinets for a bathroom or laundry room, we can help devise the right ones for your home. Keeping them clean can help to keep them in their original, beautiful condition. For more information about how to care for your cabinets or our cabinetry services, contact us at Lloyd’s Cabinetry today!

Michael Lloyd

Mike has been in the cabinetry business since 2003 where he started as a CNC Machine operator in his father’s commercial production cabinetry factory. He has experience in all aspects of manufacturing cabinets from machining, assembly, and finishing. Mike Joined Lloyd’s Remodeling & Cabinetry as a co-owner in 2013 where he specializes in hands-on retail showroom sales. Mike’s expertise is in designing and developing all of our interior remodel projects. Mike is masterful at designing and executing full scale kitchen and bath remodels and has been very successful in meeting the needs of even the most meticulous customers. Mike doesn’t believe in “Selling a Job”, rather he builds a relationship with each customer who chooses to engage in the process with Lloyd’s Remodeling because he understands that “people buy from people”.