05/02/2020
Since disinfection is heavy on everyone’s mind, I wanted to recommend some things that you possibly have not thought of and are important. Some of these things I do specifically because I clean commercially with heavy traffic, but you can employ these practices at home or your business.
1) Do a full wipe down of your vacuum. Handle, cord, body of vacuum, inside of canister, and ESPECIALLY your entire brush roll and bristles. This is also a good opportunity to remove hair around your brush rolls.
2). This may sounds stupid, but wipe down the actual bottle that contains your cleaners. Yes, you heard me right, clean your cleaning bottle. Why? Imagine cleaning the toilet, picking the spray bottle up with your hands (even if they are gloves because gloves still harbor the bacteria of whatever it is you touch. This is an entire subject of its own), then using that same, now dirty bottle to clean your kitchen, then you set it on the counter with all its toilet junk on it. You get the picture.
3) Clean the bucket that contains your cleaners. Same concept as the dirty bottle......
4)Things you regularly touch while cleaning, like mop handles or broom handles can hold bacteria. Clean those too.
5)Of course we have the more obvious things, clean your cell phone (especially after touching the phone while you clean), k***s, light switches, door frames, doors, keyboards, computer mouses, computer screens, etc.
Bonus tip: For the ladies, if you set your purse down on a public counter or touch your wallet after touching things in public, wipe it down when you get home. Don’t forget the handles.
For the guys: wipe your wallets down after touching public counters and door handles or setting wallets on counters.
