Have you ever heard that using a sponge is a bad idea for cleaning countertops? In fact, sponges are not ideal for even cleaning your dishes. The best thing is to use a towel, and only use it once before throwing it in the wash.
A sponge traps germs and bacteria and then spreads it around all across your countertops, stove tops, tables, and other surfaces. When it comes to cleaning your floors, especially your hardwood floors, a mop or mop and bucket is really not much different. It’s going to be picking up all of that dirt, all of that bacteria, and all of those germs and instead of removing them completely, it will spread it around.
When you take a brand-new mop and begin cleaning the floor, you notice that dirt collecting on the mop surface or sponge head immediately. You can wring it out, dip it in solution, and keep wringing out to your hearts content, but the bacteria and germs are not coming off of it that way.
So how can you properly wash your floors?
The best way is to use some type of product you can either put in the wash or dispose of after each use. You’re still going to be spreading some of the bacteria and germs around while cleaning floors, but minimize how much floor surface is being cleaned with each particular product.
For example, if you have to clean the hallway that leads down to the bedrooms, living room, the dining room, and kitchen floors, that mop is going to get dirty before you’re out of one of those rooms, let alone all of them. Instead, use a different cleaning material, whether it’s a towel, product you buy for each use, pre-soaked pad onto the handle, etc., for each room.
That will help not only keep your floors clean, but it will keep your home a bit more sanitary and safer.
