I Wrote a Book! Meet Clean House by Sarah McAllister

You guys, I can FINALLY tell you. I WROTE A BOOK.

It’s called Clean House: An Expert’s Guide to Cleaning Right and Staying Ahead of the Mess, and I’m so proud to share it with you.

This has been over two years of hard work. Writing, reviewing, editing, and making sure these instructions make sense when you’re standing in your own house wondering what to do next.

Keeping it a secret while sharing so much of my life online? VERY HARD.

But now I can say it: Clean House is available for pre-order and hits stores March 23, 2027.

Be ready for this to become my entire personality.

What this book means to me

Cleaning has changed my life. What started with cleaning people’s homes grew into a business, a team, and an incredible community willing to watch me scrub a toilet on the internet.

You’ve trusted me with your homes, tried my methods, asked questions, and sent more dirty-water photos than I could possibly count. This book is a way to put that help in your hands.

I wanted something you could keep nearby and return to whenever you’re tackling a room, dealing with a stain, or figuring out what’s safe to use on a surface.

Writing it meant taking things I do almost automatically and explaining them carefully, step by step. I want you to know where to begin, what to use, and what comes next.

Seeing my name on the cover is a huge accomplishment. Imagining it on your counter while you get to work? That’s what I’m most excited about.

“How is it different from your guides?”

Our guides are around 20–30 pages. This book is almost 300.

We go SO much deeper.

My DIY cleaning recipes and checklists — with QR codes so you can print everything off and use them as you clean — just like we do at GoCleanCo. Plus I have detailed new schedules.  Clean House has very detailed explanations on how and what to clean and WHY — different materials and finishes, room-by-room instructions, troubleshooting, maintenance, and an entire laundry section.

If the guides have helped you get started, this book gives you a much more in-depth resource to keep reaching for.

What you’ll find inside Clean House

The book covers three big parts of caring for your home.

Getting ready to clean

Build your cleaning kit with trusted products, tools, and my DIY cleaning recipes. We cover the ingredients behind those recipes, vacuums, and caring for your cleaning tools.

How to clean everything in your house

We start with common materials and finishes: metals, painted surfaces, tile and stone, caulk and grout, synthetic materials, and wood. Then we tackle fixtures, windows, doors, walls, furniture, and floors.

From there, we go room by room through kitchens, bathrooms, laundry rooms, living rooms, bedrooms, offices, playrooms, entryways, and storage spaces.

You’ll find my deep-cleaning method, purging and organizing advice, and checklists and schedules to help you tackle the big clean AND maintain it afterward.

How to do your laundry

Sorting, stain removal, laundry symbols, cycles, water temperatures, drying, and troubleshooting all get attention. There’s also help with tricky-to-clean items, laundry stripping, and folding.

Apparently, it makes you want to clean

Someone on my team had the pleasure of proofreading it. And by “pleasure,” I mean she had a deadline and a whole lot of pages.

She said she had to mentally chain herself to her chair because she kept wanting to jump up and clean things.

This is someone who works for me. She already knows how to clean!

That made me laugh, but it also meant so much. I want this book to make you feel capable and ready to start. Hearing that it had her itching to get to work felt like a very good sign. 

I didn’t do it alone

I am a business owner and a house cleaner. Now I can add Author to my resume! But I did not do this alone — writing a book involves a lot of talented people.  My mom, my family, my team – thank you for putting up with me through the last two years. And to everyone who helped bring these pages to life; The Team at Clarkson Potter and Megan Aderluh: Thank you.  I’m lucky to have such good people in my corner.

And thank YOU. This book exists because you watch, share, ask questions, support our work, and trust me enough to try what I teach in your own home.

I’m incredibly proud of this accomplishment, and I know I didn’t get here on my own.

I can’t wait for you to have it

Clean House arrives in stores March 23, 2027, and you can pre-order now.

All the retailer links are in one place, including Amazon USA and Canada, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Target, and Bookshop.

Thank you for helping make this real. I’m so happy I finally get to share it with you.

Love,
Sarah 🧡