Damn we’re getting serious now. @Asheville You’ve already documented my best tips. LOL. Here’s a few more.
DAP tube caulking: You’ve got to pair this with your painting. Often surfaces that are rough or poorly caulked to begin with can be whitened and smoothed with a little of this. If you don’t know how to make a smooth bead before you slap this on, learn. Bad caulking looks terrible.
Looking around for a spot to demonstrate on I found this in a dark corner of my guest room under an window, drape and desk. This was just completed in Feb. but as it dried and settled the baseboard pulled away from the wall a bit. It’s illuminated with my head lamp.
magic eraser sponge. These are abrasives so use them gently on plastics or other surfaces that scratch easily. They don’t last forever and when they get too small or get yucky, toss them.
canned air for blowing into spaces the cloth or vacuum can’t reach. Picture frame inside corners or window frame inside tracks. Canned air paired with vacuum is the trick.
hand vacuum: gets up things a cloth leaves behind
headlight to wear while cleaning. Just wait until you see what if reveals. Once you have one you’ll wonder how you lived without it.
Genesis 950 concentrate: environmentally friendly and yet will remove dried latex paint at full strength
Smelling clean: make sure you don’t have guests who are sensitive to fragrance before using them. IMHO, nothing smells cleaner than nothing.