It’s essential to keep our home clean at all times. However, in difficult times like these, it’s even more important to pay attention to those small details. And, since most of us must stay at home now, it’s a great opportunity to give a thorough, detailed cleaning to our home. So, let’s see our tips about how to keep your home clean during Coronavirus?
Clean during Coronavirus: Sanitise touchpoints
Touchpoints are those areas of your home, which you touch most of the time. These are door handles, doors, door frames, handles of cupboards, handles of the taps, lamp switches. Because you touch them many times during a day, those are the most likely to carry any traces of virus. As a result, it’s recommended to give them a wipe frequently, but at least once every day or every other day. It’s especially important with the metal handles, as the current virus lives on metal parts the longest. You can use wet wipes, or antibacterial spray too. However, using hot water with a little splash of bleach should be the most effective way of cleaning these areas. Why? The virus hates hot water, so combining it with bleach, which is a very effective sanitizer is a perfect combination.
Frequently touched areas
Apart from doors, handles and lamp switches, there are some other frequently touched areas in your home. These areas are your desks, your computers and/or laptops, but especially the keyboards and mouse. Controllers, phones, wallets and purses, bags and even coats also belong to this category. Normally, people also touch these areas very often, but because it’s such a usual thing to do, many don’t actually realise that they touch those surfaces. Most of these areas can get damaged if you clean them using water or spray. As a result, it’s recommended to use wet wipes for these areas. They provide enough moisture to clean the surfaces effectively without damaging any of your belongings. As for bags and coats, you can simply wash them in the washing machine.
Keep your bathrooms clean during Coronavirus
Bathrooms are one of the most ‘dangerous’ areas in your home. There are so many things you normally touch there during a day. Taps, door handles, toilet seat, toilet flush handle/button, shower door, shower curtain, bath mats and window. As a result, it’s worth to frequently sanitise your bathrooms, about twice a week. It’s recommended to focus on cleaning the above listed surfaces with hot water and a splash of bleach. As for the shower curtain and bath mats, you can simply throw them into your washing machine and give them a wash.
Kitchen
Kitchen is another ‘dangerous’ area in your home. Again, it has so many things you can touch here from the already mentioned handles to the actual pots and pans. It’s recommended to wipe the surfaces with hot water and a splash of bleach to sanitise all areas. As with the pots and pans, simply do what you’ve done before: wash them using hot water and soap.
Keep your cars and motorbikes clean during Coronavirus
Cars and motorbikes of course aren’t part of your home, but they are being used frequently when you go to work or do the shopping. Sanitising all touchpoints after each time you use them is again highly recommended. Just like with your computers, you shouldn’t use water or spray to clean your car either. Wet wipes are the best way to sanitise your vehicles. Wipe through all touchpoints: door handles inside and outside, steering wheel, clutch, handbrake, steering column switches, radio buttons.
This was a thorough list of all areas and things that we normally touch during the day. Of course, it is a pretty big list, and even with our additional free time, it would take ages to clean everything every day. However, there is an extremely simple solution to this problem: wash your hands frequently with warm/hot water and soap. By following this and also by using gloves and mask whenever going outside, you can avoid bringing any traces of virus into your home. So, don’t panic and don’t start to scrub every corner of your home at least 3 times a day. Simply wash your hands often, especially when cooking, wash your clothes, coats, bags more often, sanitise your home certain times a week and stay home.
