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A spring cleaning checklist by room, spread over four weekends
This spring cleaning checklist holds the once-a-year jobs: 40 of them, in eight areas of the home, five each. A plan at the top spreads them over four weekends, two areas at a time, and every area has a Who line. What turns up goes into three columns: donate, toss, fix.
- Areas
- Kitchen, bathrooms, bedrooms, living and dining, entry and closets, laundry and storage, whole house, outdoor and garage
- Paper
- US Letter and A4, portrait, one page, print at 100%
- Formats
- Blank, or a fillable PDF with 40 checkboxes and 22 text lines
- Designs
- Minimal, warm and color
What is on the spring cleaning checklist
Our four weekends
Weekend 1 to 4, with a Date line and a Rooms line under each. Two areas per weekend covers all eight.
Eight areas, five jobs each
Every job is printed, from “Descale the kettle and coffee maker” to “Clean out the gutters”, with one checkbox each.
A Who line on every area
One name, two names or “Everyone”. The subtitle sets the rule: “Every area gets an owner, and every task gets a check.”
Donate, toss, fix
Three columns with two lines each for what the clean-out uncovers: an old lamp, a cracked planter, a dripping faucet.
A spring cleaning plan in four weekends
The American Cleaning Institute advises: “Make a to-do list for what you want to clean, then divide it up by task or room.” The top row of the sheet is that division, written down before the first Saturday, so it works as a spring clean schedule and a spring cleaning planner on one page.
In the filled-in example, Leah, Carlos and their son Mateo, 15, clean a house in Sacramento on four Saturdays from March 20 to April 10. Kitchen and bathrooms go first; whole house and outdoor go last.
The sheet is shown on April 4, after the third weekend: 26 of 40 boxes are checked. Everyone can see how much is left, and that it ends on April 10.
The dates go in first, before anyone picks up a cloth.
The spring cleaning checklist by room, all 40 jobs
The full text of the sheet, word for word, in the order it is printed.
Kitchen
- Empty and wipe inside the fridge
- Clean the oven and range hood filter
- Wipe cabinets inside and out
- Descale the kettle and coffee maker
- Toss expired pantry items
Bathrooms
- Wash the shower curtain and liner
- Scrub the tile grout
- Clean the exhaust fan cover
- Sort the cabinet, toss old products
- Wash bath mats and the trash can
Bedrooms
- Wash duvets, pillows, and mattress pad
- Vacuum and rotate the mattress
- Swap winter clothes for spring
- Vacuum under the bed
- Dust blinds and the ceiling fan
Living and dining
- Vacuum the sofa and under cushions
- Dust shelves, frames, and books
- Spot-clean rugs and upholstery
- Wipe light switches and remotes
- Wash throw pillow covers
Entry and closets
- Clear out the coat closet
- Wash or replace the doormat
- Wipe the front door inside and out
- Store winter boots and gloves
- Sort bags and umbrellas
Laundry and storage
- Clean the washer drum and gasket
- Clear the dryer vent and lint trap
- Sort one storage shelf or bin
- Label bins for off-season items
- Wipe shelves and baskets
Whole house
- Wash windows inside
- Wipe baseboards and door frames
- Dust vents and light fixtures
- Test smoke and CO alarms
- Replace the HVAC filter
Outdoor and garage
- Sweep the porch and steps
- Wash outdoor furniture
- Clean out the gutters
- Sweep and sort the garage
- Hose off trash and recycling bins
The dryer vent earns its line. The U.S. Fire Administration names failure to clean as the leading factor in home dryer fires, 31% of them in 2018 to 2020. Source: USFA, Appliance and Electrical Fire Safety
Smoke alarms are a reminder here, not the schedule. The NFPA says to test them at least once a month and replace them every 10 years; the spring line catches the ones that slipped. Source: NFPA, Smoke Alarms
Download the spring cleaning checklist printable
Three designs, the same 40 jobs in each. The printable spring cleaning list is free, with no email and no account.
Every area gets an owner
None of the eight spring cleaning pages we read in this search on September 24, 2026 has a place for who does which room. On this sheet, the Who line goes in with the dates. In the example, Carlos has the kitchen, Leah the bathrooms, Mateo the living and dining room, and the bedrooms say Everyone.
The bottom row keeps the rest of the spring cleaning list from getting lost. The example family wrote an old desk lamp under Donate, a broken folding chair under Toss, and a dripping upstairs faucet under Fix. Fix lines usually outlast the four weekends, so they need a date of their own.
The Who line goes in at the same sitting as the dates.
Questions people ask
What should I include on my spring cleaning to-do list?
The jobs a weekly routine skips: inside the fridge and oven, grout, duvets, under the bed, windows, vents, the dryer vent, smoke alarms and gutters. All 40 are printed above; cross out what your home lacks.
What is usually included in a spring cleanup?
Outside, it is the porch and steps, outdoor furniture, gutters, the garage and the trash bins. On this sheet they share one block, Outdoor and garage; in the example it takes the last weekend.
What are the top 10 tips for spring cleaning?
Three from the American Cleaning Institute fit on one page: make the list first, divide it by task or room, and pace yourself with “one or two windows (or one room) a day.” This sheet adds two more: a name on every area and a date for every pair.
What is the 5-5-5 rule for cleaning?
It has no single author, and two versions circulate: five minutes in each of five spots, or five things to toss, five to donate and five to put back. The cleaning rules section of our printables traces where it comes from.
Is there an A4 version, and can I type into it?
Yes to both: each design is a free PDF in US Letter and A4. The fillable PDF has 62 fields: 40 checkboxes, eight dates and rooms, eight Who lines and six Donate, Toss and Fix lines.
Other free printable sheets
Save this checklist to Pinterest
Pin it now and the plan is on your board when the first warm weekend comes. Eight areas over four weekends, a Who for each, and three columns for what turns up.
The same four weekends, as pacts
In Alpacto each area can become a task with its owner and a deadline on its weekend, and each Fix line a task of its own. The other person confirms it is done, and the pact holds the reminder instead of one of you. Accounts start at 13.