Now that you’re a total pro at this whole cleaning your walls thing, you can feel confident cleaning your walls every 6-8 weeks if your wall paint is a lighter color, and every 4-6 months if you have a deeper paint color. The middle right half of the wall in the photo above is after I cleaned the wall with the dish soap and white vinegar mixture. Now that you know what to look for, let’s review the five best mops for cleaning walls and ceilings. Comparison Chart What we liked the most while testing the E-Cloth Flexi-Edge Mop is its bendy duster head, as it can close the gaps between the floor and close corners and thoroughly clean it without a problem.

E-Cloth Flexi-Edge Mop: This has a super fluffy mop head ideal for dusting and cleaning more tight areas like trim, molding, and around light fixtures. Before you get started, note that eggshell, flat and satin paint finishes are the most delicate and require the lightest touch. Gloss and semi-gloss paint finishes are more durable and can withstand a bit more pressure and stronger cleaners. Step 1: Remove dust.E-Cloth Flexi-Edge Mop managed to work well on hard floors, walls, ceilings, chair legs, baseboards, and harder-to-reach corners. But when I swiped the squeegee across the ‘ clean’ walls, a layer of dirt and water was removed, and my true clean walls were revealed! Although not required, yes, you could dust the walls before you begin. You can use a swiffer, a feather duster, or a vacuum with a brush attachment to get all the loose dirt and soil off the wall. How To Wash Walls Finally, mopping the walls will give you a more even clean and make it less likely that you will miss spots while cleaning.

Rubbermaid Reveal Spray Mop: If you’re looking for the convenience of a spray mop, this is the best one for walls and ceilings because you can use your own cleaning solution, and it doesn’t leak. The best part is that you probably already have everything you need to get your dirty walls clean again. I used it on the ceiling above my stove (an area that needed some serious TLC – it was seriously grossing me out!), and it worked beautifully with minimal scrubbing on my end! All I did was gently rub the solution on and the dirt and grime just came right off! KatarzynaBialasiewicz // Getty Images How to clean a wall with washable or non-washable wallpaper: Sponge vinyl wallpaper. One of the best materials is microfiber. It cleans well with only water, is soft enough not to cause damage, and absorbs well.

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I had some crayon marks from my toddler on the hallway walls, and they came right off with this easy wall cleaning solution, although I can’t speak for how it would work on pen or marker marks. 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. Use It Dry As A Slim Dusting Tool – Easy to maneuver as a baseboard duster to keep your home healthy by removing dust, dirt, grease, grime, smoke, and other odors

The main downside of this mop is that it’s significantly more expensive than the others. In fact, you could buy two or three other mops for the price of one Norwex. Key considerations include a weight of no more than three pounds, an extendable handle (ideally to 60 inches), a pivoting mop head for easier cleaning of corners and crevices, a large mop head (10-20 inches wide), and a soft mop head, preferably microfiber, to avoid scratching surfaces​​. Best Overall: Bona Microfiber Mop 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. Overall, if you need a simple mop for dry dusting your walls, the E-Cloth Flexi-Edge Mop is an excellent option. If you’re looking for a deep clean with water, consider the E-Cloth Deep Clean Mop. If my squeegee didn’t unscrew at one spot in the handle, I wouldn’t have been able to clean as easily towards the bottom part of the wall and would have had to work a lot harder. DIY Wall Cleaning SolutionWhen you’re done washing the walls, use the squeegee to remove the dirt and dirty water from the walls.

Bona Microfiber Mop: This is the best overall mop for ceilings and walls because you can use it dry or wet, it’s lightweight, and it features a pivoting mop head and extendable handle. My go-to product to use for cleaning random dirty fingerprints from walls is just a regular sponge with warm soapy water or a magic eraser! Use your sponge or magic eraser in circular motions to grab those everyday messes. Chomp Long Handle Dust Mop: This mop boasts a unique teardrop-shaped mop head, ideal for cleaning corners, baseboards, crown molding, and trim. The reason why is, when I washed my walls with the microfibermop part of my squeegee mop, it cleaned off the visible dirt and looked great!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. Areas around light switches and door jambs and walls exposed to greasy dirt, like in the kitchen and dining areas, need more than dry dusting. After removing surface dust and webs ...