MONSOON, Why is it the ideal opportunity for you to deep clean your home?

No time of the year is as beautiful as monsoon, it always comes to us as a relief from the seething hot summer season. But the beauty, for the most part, lies outside our houses as inside them there are too many problems that we face. During monsoon, no matter how sealed we keep our apartments or how many foot mats we employ we cannot avoid the entry of dirt and mud inside our homes. The situation becomes particularly more problematic when this dirt starts settling in places like the sofa mattress in our living room or the floor tiles in our bathroom, places we are not accustomed to clean every day.

On top of this, the season also provides an ideal combination of both heat and moisture for the breeding of insects like mosquitoes, roaches, bedbugs, ants, etc. which invade our houses throughout the season and can become a constant source of irritation to us. These insects hide in the darkest and the most unreachable corners of our houses and carry along with the bacteria and viruses which in turn can cause diseases ranging from simple cough and diarrhea to fatal diseases like dengue, malaria, chikungunya, etc. Not only they make our houses an ugly sight for us to behold but they also constantly remind us that we are not living in hygienic surroundings. In cities like Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kolkata, Gurgaon, Chennai, etc. where the lives are fast-paced and where residents rarely find enough time to clean their houses the problem becomes more significant. So, at least once during the monsoon, we must go for deep cleaning services.

Steps to deep clean house

Tackling the big problem

ü Floor: First of all we must thoroughly brush and scrub the floor of our house and try to remove all the stains that are on it. After that, we should wipe it using proper disinfectants.

ü Walls and Ceilings: Normally when we clean our houses we tend to leave the walls and the ceilings of the house untouched and in time they become infested with spiders and insects which make it their dwelling place. But it isn’t hard to clean them, we can easily clear them by using either our vacuum cleaner or by using a simple dust cloth and a feather duster.

ü Electrical Appliances and Furniture: Nowadays we have plenty of electrical appliances and furniture inside our homes. So, before home cleaning, we should first take a pen and a paper and make an inventory of all the electrical appliances and furniture that we possess, in that we should include everything from the ceiling fan and refrigerator to the table and the tube lights. After that, we should clean all of them one by one systematically using first a dry cloth to dust them and then a wet cloth to wipe them.

ü Mirrors and windows: No one likes to see dust patches when they are looking outside their windows or inside their mirrors. But, to clean them isn’t a difficult job at all; it’s something that most of us do from time to time. All we have to do is to just sprinkle some glass cleaner on the mirror or the windowpane that we want to clean and then wipe it with a cloth.

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.