For most people, getting through the summer months is about maintaining basic cleanliness inside the house. You don’t want to be spending hours upon hours every single week doing laundry, cleaning the floors, wiping down services, and more. However, most people will get into the habit of vacuuming their floors at least once a week.
When you have children, it may be necessary to vacuum more frequently.
The more people you have in your house, especially when you have young children and others who may not pay as close attention to cleanliness as you do, you may be tasked with more duties with this regard.
When you vacuum more frequently, you may have a tendency to overlook some very important factors, especially dust and dirt that can collect overhead.
When was the last time you wiped down all window sills?
Most people, when asked this, won’t have an answer. That’s because most people never really do this.
You might have only done this when you first moved in to your house, if that. However, every time you have the windows open, people walk into and out of the room, or air gets displaced for any other reason, that dust and dirt that sits on the windowsills, over the door frames, ceiling fans, and more is all sifting down, gathering on the carpet.
The longer this dust and dirt is allowed to sit on the carpeting, the more likely it works its way deeper into the carpet fibers, making it much more difficult to get out, even with the strongest residential vacuum cleaners.
If you simply take a moment to wipe down these surfaces once a week, doing a different room in your house every day, it should take no more than five or 10 minutes, tops. It’s a small investment to keep your home looking its best, reducing dust and other pollutants floating through the air, and keeping your carpets and other floor surfaces looking great.
