For ceilings, use a Long Reach Dusters or a sponge mop, (can use a string mop, but its messier...)
Cover the floor, or keep wiping up drips with towels or newspaper
Do Not stand straight under the mop, consider wearing eye protection -(yes I am serious)
Can buy a duster-kinda fluffy material on a wand or wrap a damp towel around the bottom of a broom, secure with safety pins if you just need to dust it...
here's some sites I found
How to Clean Stuff!
How to Wash a Flat Ceiling - wikiHow
Buy a Duster sites
Harriet Carter Household Helpers Household Gadgets Hi-Reach Cleaning Set
Cleaning high ceilings
Buy or Rent a Dry Steam Machine
AmeriVap Commercial Cleaning System
For washing walls, One can use the stiff scrub brush (like those used for washing clothes)
(plastic bristles-or straw-not metal bristles) and bucket of water method or a sponge mop* works well,
use towels or newspaper to clean the drip on the floor, wash the molding too...
Wash from the top down, start in a corner and work your way around the room,
use a cleanser appropriate for what you are trying to remove-dirt and grime, grease, crayon, etc...
I like vinegar and water for most everything
I've read you can use a Swiffer Wet, but haven't tried it.
here's a couple of sites I found
How to Wash Walls
Cleaning House: Tips for Washing Walls - Associated Content
*Best sponge mop I think is the one with a push handle in the middle that makes the sponge fold in half to wring it out, another good one has rollers on it.
Ohhh, I forgot to consider what are your walls made of? If drywall-plaster has watersoluable stuff in it, so don't soak it, OK?
Home Tips : How to Clean Dirty Plaster Walls
For outside walls, you can get a power washer...or just use a garden hose and a long handled scrub brush like those used for washing cars-some of them even attach to the hose-one can scrub and rinse at the same time
For Marble floors, I would say- just sweep or damp mop the floor, it should work, .not sure about marble, we have ceramic tile, My Mother and I used to walk around with a dust mop, but one of the sites below recommends do not use oil-treated dust mops
......do you have to polish your marble floors too?
do reseal your grout every 6 months or so-whatever is recommended (there is a little bottle with a brush tip one can go around each square and "paint" it on)
Marble Floor Cleaning, Restoration, Floors Care, Ceramic Tile Grout, Scratch Removal, Encino L.A. CA, site recommends do not use oil-treated dust mops
Marble Floor Cleaning, Restoration, Floors Care, Ceramic Tile Grout, Scratch Removal, Encino L.A. CA,
Marble, Granite, Countertops - Articles about natural stone care. Caring for marble part 1
Oh yes, Another use for blueing...For windows, blueing and water is a good cleanser
