Spring Clean Your Garage With the Help of These 12 Products — Starting at $11

Published Mar 6, 2025 4:49 am ET


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When spring rolls around, everyone knows it’s time to give their home a good clean, but don’t overlook your garage. From clearing away dirt and leaves to finding the right cleansers for concrete floors, it takes a different set of products to get your garage spic-and-span compared to the interior of a house.

But fear not — we’ve done all the work to find these essentials to spring clean your garage. From high-powered shop vacs to heavy duty wipes and cleansers, you’ll have everything you need to straighten up your garage, whether it needs a light mop or a thorough cleaning!

  1. Whether you’re cleaning up spills and leaks or blowing away dirt and leaves, this ArmorAll do-it-all wet and dry vacuum cleaner is an essential tool.
  1. Get preventative with your spring cleaning and place these 30” x 59” spill mats in your garage, which will help prevent oil leaks and other spills from seeping into your garage floor.
  1. Let’s face it — pets and critters are known to get into garages and do their “business,” which makes this Angry Orange Pet Odor Eliminator, which works on tile as well as a carpet, a welcome addition to your cleaning arsenal.
  1. For convenience, you can’t beat this Bissell wall-mounted shop vac, which includes seven attachments to handle every kind of surface as well as car interiors.
  1. Give your garage a good airing out with this powerful oscillating tower fan, which packs a powerful blast of air in a 9” x 12” footprint.
  1. This Simple Green cleanser gives you industrial-strength power but is nonabrasive and can work on all surfaces.
  1. Not only is this O-Cedar mop and bucket set easy to store, but it uses a simple spin system to clear out dirty water in a separate bucket compartment so you’re always using clean water as you mop.
  1. These Tub o’ Towels cleaning wipes aren’t your typical cleaning wipes — at a size of 10” by 12,” each wipe is the size of a paper towel and is coated in a deep-cleaning formula that goes easy on your hands.
  1. For those extra-tough spills and stains on your garage floor, use this concrete oil stain remover, which works overnight to pull out stains from porous surfaces like concrete and brick.
  1. If you need to get serious about the stains in your garage, these Gojo dual-textured scrubbing wipes can handle everything from car interiors to grimy shelves. Plus, they can clean your hands at the same time.
  1. Don’t underestimate the value of a good old-fashioned heavy-duty broom like this Rubbermaid one, which is just as adept at cleaning garage and outdoor spaces as it is indoors.
  2. Don’t sabotage your garage cleaning with fragile garbage bags that tear too easily — these Hefty 39-gallon drawstring garbage bags are tear- and puncture-resistant.
Ho Lin

Ho Lin

Author

Ho Lin is a content writer at McClatchy. He has over two decades of experience in content strategy, creation, and development, ranging from subjects such as anime and manga to military benefits, job search advice and AI evaluation. Ho is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and holds a M.A. in Creative Writing from Johns Hopkins University. Ho also writes both fiction and non-fiction; his books include China Girl and Bond Movies: A Retrospective.

Abby Kass

Abby Kass

Editor McClatchy Commerce

Abby Kass is a Commerce Content Editor at McClatchy covering kids/babies, pets, beauty, and more. With more than seven years experience writing and editing shopping content, Abby has a strong understanding of how important commerce content really is and its important value to readers. She loves browsing online and finding innovative, unique, and just down-right cool products. Before McClatchy, Abby started her career working for Parents Magazine where she fell in love with writing about products. She then spent six years at BuzzFeed falling deeper into the shopping world writing more than 1,500 product roundups and reviews. She sees shopping as a sport and has worked hard at mastering it in order to help make people’s lives easier as they find cool and useful products.