Coronavirus can stay on various surfaces for hours and even days. Therefore, in addition to cleaning your hands regularly, maintaining social distancing and isolating people with flu-like symptoms, it is crucial to disinfect various items that you come into contact with often to keep the virus at bay. Here is how to disinfect your house-
Determine High Touch Surfaces
High touch surfaces are those areas that you keep touching in the course of your daily activities. They include handles and doorknobs, remote, phones, tables, desks and chairs, countertops, light switches and toys. These areas should be disinfected as many times as possible as everyone at home will be touching them from now and then.
The Kitchen
The kitchen is a prime area for the virus to hide. One reason for this occurrence is that there are many surfaces that you touch in the course of preparing your food. Apart from the obvious high touch areas, do not forget to disinfect the inside of the shelves and vegetable drawer handles. Besides, regularly clean the silverware drawer that you touch or breathe over when getting your utensils. If you are using reusable grocery bags, soak them in warm soapy water for some time before rinsing them.
The Bathroom
Apart from your bathroom doors and surfaces, the virus can also hide in the damp towels and stay there longer than the dry ones. Wash your towels regularly and dry them as soon as you use them. Avoid using your regular towels to dry your hands and get dedicated hand towels for the purpose. Finally, do not forget such surfaces as the handles of the medicine cabinet, window latches, bath mats and soap holders.
Bedroom
The bedroom is where you will end at the end of the day. You will carry with you most of the items you had gone out with, such as phone, scarfs, cardigans and anything else that is not going to the laundry room. Change your pillowcases and sheet regularly as they get most droplets from your body. Besides, do not forget to empty the garbage containers to avoid giving the virus some areas to hide. Other high-risk areas include the curtain pulls, drawer handles and bedside lamps.
Laundry
All suspected contaminated clothes should be washed with gloves on. Do not shake them when placing them in a washing machine. If you do not have disposable gloves, dedicate a pair of reusable gloves for laundry. Always take the clothes after thoroughly drying in your dryer. You may also use a trash bag rather a reusable one to carry your clothes to the laundry room as it can be washed.
Living Room
Disinfect the upholstery, table desks, drawer handles and remote controls as many times as possible. Consider professional disinfection service to disinfect all the surfaces in the living room. On the outside, ensure there are no bushes and long grass. You may have the garage, car and the pathway disinfected regularly by professionals. Be on the lookout for pests as they can spread the virus by coming into contact with infected surfaces. Excel Pest Services can help get rid of any pest infestation.
Working on Hard Surfaces
You can use bleach to disinfect hard surfaces. Buy diluted solutions or prepare a bleach with a quarter to a third a cup in a gallon of water. Never mix bleach with alcohol-based solvents or ammonia. You may spray the services or wipe them with the breach.
Working on Soft Surfaces
Most porous surfaces, such as drapes and rugs, require regular cleaning and drying. You should also vacuum regularly to get rid of dust and pet hair that can harbour germs. There are also a few products approved for spraying on such surfaces. As for electronics, consider using wipeable covers to make disinfection easy. You can use alcohol-based wipes and sprays to disinfect their surfaces. Ensure that you use approved disinfectants for use with electronics.
