Keep Dust and Dirt at Bay
Create a Vacuuming Schedule
Vacuum More Than Once
Move Furniture and Declutter
Clean Hard-to-reach Areas
Tips for Vacuum Cleaning Vertical Surfaces
Change/Clean Vacuum Containers
Technology and modern-day electronics have made our lives easier than ever in a number of ways. If you look around in your home, you would find many appliances that help you with your day-to-day chores and other routine tasks.
Take a vacuum cleaner for example. It is one of the most essential cleaning products, which helps you remove dirt and dust easily, even from the most hard-to-reach surfaces. Well, if you have recently bought a vacuum cleaner and want to use it like a pro, then here are some useful vacuum cleaning tips you should be aware of
Some Amazing Vacuum Cleaning Tips for a Sparkling Clean Home
Wondering how to use a vacuum cleaner in an effective way? Follow these easy-to-work-on tips and tricks to improve your vacuum cleaning routine and keep your house free from dust and germs.
Try Your Best to Keep Dust and Dirt at Bay
You know you have a vacuum cleaner to help you get rid of all the dirt and dust accumulated on different surfaces around your home. But, if you are a little more careful in keeping the dust particles and other types of pollutants from entering your home, it would make things a lot easier for you.
Keep a separate pair of shoes for outdoor activities and make sure you are not wearing them when at home. Put a doormat or rug at the entrance and humbly ask your visitors and guests to wipe their feet before entering your home. You should also keep your doors and windows closed because keeping them unnecessarily opened could let airborne dust and dirt particles enter your home with the flowing air. On a side note, here are some more tips on how to keep your home dust-free.
Follow a Regular Schedule
Our busy routines often make us forget things, especially when it comes to doing and managing different types of chores and cleaning tasks at home. Creating and following a regular schedule for vacuuming your home could be helpful. Pick a day or days in every week or month, respectively.
You could also set a reminder for your weekly or monthly vacuum cleaning routine. If you stick to a set routine, it would help you keep your home clean, well-maintained and organized. Make sure you are setting a schedule according to the cleaning requirements of your living space.
If the dirt and dust accumulate in your home in days instead of weeks, you should vacuum your space every once a week, otherwise, vacuuming twice a month would also be enough. Also, if you have wall-to-wall carpeting, you may need to vacuum clean your home more frequently.
Vacuum Multiple Times
It is one of the most useful vacuum cleaning tips because there is a chance you could miss out on pulling up many dust particles, fur and hair on the floor in one go. This is why it is highly recommended to vacuum a particular spot in your home more than once. Vacuuming multiple times becomes even more important when cleaning the high traffic areas and other places in your home where you keep your pets.
Also, let’s not forget about the carpets and rugs in your home, which act as a magnet to fur, dust and dirt particles and many different types of pollen and airborne allergens. Try to vacuum the carpeted areas in your home multiple times from different angles and directions. Some people even use crisscross patterns while vacuuming their carpets and rugs.
Move Furniture if Required
When you are cleaning your room, make sure to clean it entirely; from left to right and top to bottom. However, this becomes a bit challenging for you if your space is filled with many different types of furnishings. Probably, the best solution to this problem is preparing your home beforehand for the cleaning day, according to your vacuuming schedule. By preparing we mean moving your furniture here and there and of course, decluttering your room.
If you find it hard to move heavy furniture on your own, ask any of your family members to provide you with a helping hand. High-traffic areas have more furnishing items as well as the clutter of things that are used frequently than any other part of your home.
First of all, you need to get rid of all the clutter in the living room and other common areas and then move the furniture. After getting all the clutter and obstacles out of the way, you can get started with vacuum cleaning your space. Cleaning a well-organized space would also be less time-consuming.
Go for Hard-to-reach Surfaces
It could be tricky but cleaning the hard-to-reach areas is considered among the best vacuum cleaning tips. A lot of people skip cleaning the surfaces that are difficult to reach while vacuuming their space because it usually requires some little extra effort and time.
Skipping on hard-to-approach areas would only make the situation worse. Dust particles accumulated on any particular surface could mix up in the indoor environment of your living space and contaminate it. These airborne particles can also easily spread all over the room you have just cleaned, making it dirty and filled with germs again.
Putting in some hard work to go for hard-to-reach surfaces is actually worth it because it would help you make your space sparkling clean for weeks if not months. Meanwhile, if you want to get more tips on cleaning the hard-to-reach areas in your home, don’t forget to check out our comprehensive guide on the subject.
Clean Vertical Surfaces from Top to Bottom
Cleaning a vertical surface with a vacuum cleaner looks easy but you may be doing it wrong. From carpets and rugs decorated on walls to curtains and blinds, there are many things that are required to be cleaned in a vertical position.
Whenever you are vacuuming a vertical surface, remember to go from top to bottom, not vice versa. It is because if you clean the lower part of any particular surface first, there is a chance it could catch dust again falling off from the upper part while you are cleaning it.
If you clean the upper surface first and then move onto the lower surface, it means you’re not going against gravity and it is the correct way to vacuum anything in a vertical position.
Change/Clean the Vacuum Bag/Container When Necessary
Cleaning and maintaining your vacuum cleaner totally depends on its size and how often you use it. If you have wall-to-wall carpeting or rugs in your home, you may be using your vacuum cleaner more frequently. Keep checking the container and bag of your vacuum cleaner. If it is filled with dust and other types of debris, you should either empty it, clean it or get it replaced (if required) right away.
If you don’t get the container emptied, it may affect the performance of your vacuum cleaner, making it hard for you to clean even some of the easiest surfaces around your home. If you don’t know how to remove the bag or container from your vacuum cleaner, read the user manual that comes with the product.
Pro Tip: Different vacuum cleaners come with different types of accessories and containers, which can only be attached or detached correctly by following the instructions written on the product’s user guide.
Now that we have given you all the useful vacuum cleaning tips, it’s time for us to wrap up. We hope the information we have shared above will help you vacuum your space in a more effective and efficient way to make your home sparkling clean.
If you are looking for some more guidance on how to use a vacuum cleaner or have any feedback to share with us on the subject, feel free to reach out to us at blog@zameen.com.
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