Now that we’re living through a global pandemic, it’s more important than ever to take care of our surroundings and make sure we prevent the virus from spreading even more. To keep your home germ-free, here are the most efficient tips you can use.
Scrub your kitchen sink every day
Believe it or not, your bathroom is not the most germ-packed room in your home. It’s your kitchen. This especially applies to the kitchen sponge. This little piece of fabric collects a huge amount of bacteria from meats and other foods you consume and grow in your sink.
It might sound gross, but that’s the way it is. That is why you need to prevent these germs from spreading all over the sink and then even the rest of the kitchen. Make sure you scrub your kitchen sink daily and use a disinfecting cleaner. You can also microwave your sponge for about 2 minutes every day to ensure there aren’t any germs left on it. This will kill any E. coli and salmonella that may be stuck on the surface of the sponge.
Use bleach to keep your washing machine fresh and germ-free
The next thing on the list that you need to take care of is your washing machine. This can be a potential home to many harmful microbes since the dirty laundry tends to spread bacteria, germs, and even viruses across the entire washing machine drum.
Not only that, but those same germs and bacteria that are piled up on your washing machine drums can easily spread to the clothes you are washing. To prevent that from happening, all you need to do is run your washing machine empty with just one cup of bleach. Do this once a week, and you will manage to keep your washing machine and laundry germ-free.
Install a hand dryer for improved hygiene
Maintaining hygiene has always been important, but now more than ever, it’s crucial for us to take care of our hygiene if we want to prevent the virus’s further spread. One of the things you can do to improve your hygiene is to install a hand dryer in your bathroom. First of all, hand dryers are more cost-efficient and energy-efficient, and on top of that, they are very easy to maintain.
They will help you dry your hands faster and prevent you from dripping water all over the bathroom when you’re trying to get to the towel right after washing your hands. They will also help you reduce huge amounts of waste of paper towels, which is another great advantage.
Be sure to properly disinfect your towels
In case you choose to use towels instead, here is what you should do to prevent germs from spreading from towels to people’s hands. The towels may be one of the biggest sources of bacteria in your household. This might not be such a huge problem if you were the only one using the towel, but in most cases, it’s usually the whole family that uses the same hand towel plus the people who come over.
Sharing the same towel will help the bacteria and germs spread faster than usual. For this reason, you must wash your towels regularly and disinfect them properly. Make sure you change your face towels at least twice a week. The same should be applied to your gm towels.
If one of the family members is sick, make sure to wash their towel after every use. In addition to that, make sure you wash your kitchen towels separately from your bathroom ones.
Sanitize your home office regularly.
The fact that so many of us had to switch to working from home means that we do multiple things in our homes, mostly in just one room. We eat, sleep, and work in the same space now, and that can cause germs to spread even faster.
To prevent this from happening, you need to sanitize your home and especially your office area as often as possible. Pay special attention to items you tend to touch the most daily.
Ensure your telephones, desktops, computers, remote controls, and so on are clean and sanitized almost daily. Anything you touch regularly daily could contain huge amounts of bacteria and germs, and you can end up transferring all of that to your face.
Make sure you vacuum and dust regularly. Use sanitizing wipes to clean your desktop and your keyboard. Lastly, you also need to clean your desk after you’ve spent a few hours in front of your computer.
Conclusion
You need to make sure that your living and working areas are clean and properly sanitized. This includes your bathroom, kitchen, office, etc. Apart from that, make sure your hands are always clean, and your towels are properly sanitized.
Mike is an Australian business consulting specialist. He’s working with companies that outsource their IT maintenance. He often writes about technology, business, and marketing and is a regular contributor on several sites.
