RAINY SEASON HAS FINALLY SET IN; HOW SAFE ARE YOUR ENVIRONMENT

Rainy Season for some part  of the world is the best season, while some dread of the season. The season is always enjoyed when we have fully prepared ourselves and environment prior to its arrival.

Having a basic  knowledge of the season and why we are prone to waterborne diseases such as diarrhoea, dysentery among others during raining season is very key. Even cases of malaria surge around this time, meaning mosquitoes are more vicious at the onset of rain as they get ample breeding grounds near homesteads.

The common illnesses that come with the rainy season are probably caused by poor hygiene, our environment if not fully prepared and properly maintained during the rainy season can cause more harm than we could imagine. These diseases which include cholera, typhoid fever, diarrhoea, colds (flu and cough) among others are frequently experienced during the season where the environment has poor hygiene or lack proper cleanliness.

Health experts urge that positive attitude is necessary to boost hygienic with the wet season, this means more attention to hygiene as too many waste matters are washed into our environments, while flies make a hive of anything unhygienic in the house.

Hence Consciousnesses and Persistence are required to maintain Hygienic in our environment during Raining Season by ensuring
* All dirts are cleared
* Water gathered during the rain fall should be swept away after rain
* Use disinfectant while mobbing the floors and washing the conveniences
* Waste properly disposed into the waste bin
* Waste bin covered at all times and washed when necessary
* Always wash all household use items when necessary
*  Maintain cleanliness in your Conveniences
* Personal hygiene should not be neglected
* Contact the services of a professional Pest provider if there is need to carry out fumigation in your environment.


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BEST WAYS TO KEEP THE HOME CLEAN FROM MUD AND DIRTS IN RAINY SEASON

Rainy Season is here again and it is that time most people are so excited while some are not, it favors some and don't for others. It is a season farmers has big smiles on their faces while for some who had to be on the go working morning to night it is not. In as much as we know the period rainy season is likely to arrive, preparation is very key. Some parts of the world do face flooding, muddy roads, strong breeze, heavy down pour, etc during this period, which is why preparation to welcome the season is very important.

Rains from this part of the world (Africa) do not just make everything very muddy and dirty, it also helps germs to grow rapidly. Because of these dirt and germs, people are more prone to infections and other diseases during the rainy season. Hence, it is seriously important to keep the home clean, especially in rainy season by ensuring to;

1. Place the shoe rack and foot mart near the entrance.

For many homes that don't have shoe rack and foot mart should get one now and place it at the entrance of there home. Well, most of the dirt and the mud enter your home via your dirty shoes. I mean it is obvious, when you are going out in the rain your shoes are going to be covered with mud. Hence, keeping a shoe rack and foot mart near the entrance will help you to limit the entry of mud inside your home.
Make it a priority that everyone coming inside your home must make use of the shoe rack or foot mart before entering the home. Trust me, this is the best option and following it diligently will certainly help you to keep home clean in rainy season.

2.Get rid of wet clothes

After you are done with cleaning your feet, make sure you immediately get rid of the wet and dirty clothes. This is important for me to mention because I have seen individuals coming home and then loitering around in the dirty clothes. You can understand that doing this in the rains can actually spread the outside germs all over your home. Moreover, clothes that you wore outside during the rains can contain a lot of germs and so getting rid of them as early as possible is a good thing for your health and hygiene as well.

3.Keep your home dry

Proper air circulation is very much needed to freshen up the inner atmosphere and you must follow it. This will keep your home clean and germ free during the rains.

4.Disinfect the floor

As you already know that the climate of the rain is very damp and humid and this is absolutely favorable for the germs to breed. So, it is obvious that your home will have many of them as well. Hence, one of the easiest ways to get rid of germs as well as to keep home clean in rainy season is to clean it with a proper disinfectant. This will kill the germs and make you and your family fall less sick.

5.Interior drainage system must be good

Water logging is a common problem during the rainy season. While you cannot always stop the streets from that, you can actually avoid unnecessary water logging inside your home. And, for that, you have to have a good interior drainage system as it is one of the easiest ways to keep the home clean during the rainy season.

6.Cleaning the washroom

Bathrooms generally get most dirty in comparison to other parts of the home and hence during rainy time your bathrooms need more attention. After returning home, we rush to the washroom to wash our body and keep ourselves clean so naturally your bathroom is also exposed to a lot of extra germs, mud and dirt during the rains. It is preferable that you wash the bathrooms properly after every use and keep it free from dirt.

7. Clean Your Environment

Your environs are not left out as they are the first encounter with the muds before the house. Ensure that you always sweep with or without water after rain and ensure your car tires are not left out. This helps to see that muds and dirt's don't find their way into the house after the rain has stopped.

A HOUSE OCCUPIED WITH SO MUCH HOUSE ITEMS NEED MORE ATTENTION

When you occupy a house that is almost filled up with your furniture and house items, or your kids hardly see space to have fun, then you need to consistently see that cleanliness is maintained.

Have you ever felt like all your cleaning is not making any impact in achieving your cleanliness goals in your homes? You need to strategise and try to do it differently. A house with much load can serve as a hide out for rodents, roaches or house pests because the load has taken up so much space that most cleanings could not get to. Apart from serving as a hide out for house pests, it can store up so much dust and dirts that could expose the occupants of the house to germs.

Maintaining such house could seem stressful but can be achieved with proper planning or by engaging the help of professional cleaners for a routine cleaning.

TO MAINTAIN CLEANLINESS IN THIS KIND OF HOUSE, ENSURE TO

* Draw a cleaning routine that will enable you move the loads to clean. It could be once or twice a week, or few days in a month depending on what works for you

* While cleaning those portion, ensure to always use disinfectant

* Always clear and dispose every unnecessary and unwanted items

* Arrange your items in a way that you can easily have access to clean and dust
* Once in a while use the services of professional pest control in case some unwanted guests are already occupying some space in the house.

* Should in case you are very busy and could not attend to all part of the house, engage the services of a professional cleaning company.

VALUE YOUR JANITORS

Your janitors are important staffs in your homes or offices as their work is very important for every other work to go on or make progress. Imagine how your work place or homes will be like without any cleaning done in it, every other work you attemp doing will kind of be fustrating and there will be no concentration. Hence the need to always treat your janitors well like every other staffs and encourage your senior staffs in the work place, kids at home to do same.

HOUSEHOLD CLEANING TIPS (the conclusion)

Today we will be concluding our tips on how to maintain cleanliness in your homes with less stress and less expense. Hope you find the tips very useful.

* Using washing liquid to clean your blender
Grubby blender? These little tools see some serious use in winter, from making hearty soups to blitzing cranberry sauce or even mashed potatoes. All that work can leave them looking dirty, so for an easy clean, squirt in some washing liquid and a little warm water and run your blender as normal - making sure to pop the lid on first! Then just give it a rinse.

* Polish leather with toothpaste
If you've got a leather sofa, jacket or shoes that are a bit scuffed, you can buff them up easily with toothpaste. Just make sure you use non-bleaching or non-whitening paste to prevent staining. Rub it in with a soft cloth then rinse off with a damp one.

* Clean brushed stainless steel with baby oil

Remove fingerprints, old food and smudges from your stainless steel pans and appliances with just a drop of baby oil, rubbed in on a square of kitchen roll. It's worth noting that this only works for brushed stainless steel though.

* Remove sofa stains with shaving foam   
If your sofa is looking a worse-for-wear, try dabbing a little shaving foam on any stains, leave it to settle, then blot it away to remove the shaving foam – and the stain!

* Odour-blocking balls   

Block unpleasant smells from drawers, shoes or bags by filling a coffee filter with baking soda and adding a few drops of your favourite essential oil. Secure it with an elastic band and place it anywhere that needs freshening up!

* Easy keyboard cleaning hack   
Easily clean the small nooks and crannies in your keyboard or other small electronics by placing the pointed lid of a squeezy ketchup bottle over the end of a vacuum. It will quickly get rid of any dust or crumbs.

* Use a squeegee to clean up fur   
If the vacuum isn’t getting rid of unwanted animal hair, try using a squeegee as an effective solution on the sofa, carpet, or other delicate upholstery!

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HOUSEHOLD CLEANING TIPS (prt 7)

More tips on how to maintain cleanliness in your home.

* Clean your bath with a grapefruit
Get rid of water marks or stains in your bathtub by cutting a grapefruit in half, sprinkling on some rock salt and giving it a good scrub. Have the other half for a nutritious breakfast!

* Descale your kettle with vinegar
Remove limescale from your kettle by filling it with half white vinegar, half water and soaking overnight. In the morning, give it a rinse and the limescale should disappear. Not only will your kettle last longer, but your drinks should taste better too (assuming you've washed away the vinegar!)

* Get rid of clothes moths naturally with herbs
Clothes moths make us so angry, and once you've got them they can be tricky to remove. Make a natural repellent for clothes moths by bagging up some dried herbs including lavender, cloves, bay, rosemary or thyme and popping it into your wardrobe and drawers.

*  Remove water marks and cup rings from tables with a hairdryer
If someone hasn’t used a coaster and has marked your coffee table, use a hairdryer on it before wiping the area with a tiny amount of olive oil.

* Clean your window blinds with vinegar
Blinds can be a magnet for dust, dead insects and floating pet fluff. Get them looking good as new with an old sock. Mix one part white vinegar to one part warm water, and give your blinds a rub with an old sock to remove dust and grime.

* Clean and disinfect your dishwasher with vinegar
Pop two cups of undiluted vinegar into a dishwasher-safe bowl on the top shelf of an empty dishwasher and run it on a hot cycle. It should help clear pipes and make it smell better.

* Make a natural laundry whitener with lemon
If your whites and linens have gone yellow or are marked with orange foundation stains, squeeze the juice of one lemon into 4.5l of hot water, and soak your clothes in it for an hour. Then rinse in the washing machine or by hand and dry.

* Remove rust from cutlery with an onion
There's no need to cry over rusty cutlery - unless cutting an onion makes you weep. If your knives and forks have rusted, stick their ends into an onion a couple of times and the rust should lift straight off.

* Freshen Tupperware with baking soda
If your plastic food tubs have seen one too many packed lunch or leftover dinners, and are smelling or stained, you don't need to replace them. Simply treat them to a night at the spa! Soak them in the sink overnight in warm water with a spoonful of baking soda, and the next day, after a rinse, they'll look and smell new again.

* Remove sticker stains with vinegar
If your grandchildren have been liberal with their sticker book and applied them to walls, doors, furniture or basically anywhere you don't want them, you'll know that peeling them off can leaving a sticky mark. To tackle this, dab them repeatedly with vinegar and leave it to soak for 15 minutes. Then come back with a sponge and scrub the mark off.

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HOUSEHOLD CLEANING TIPS prt 6

• Pop a lemon in your fridge to keep it smelling nice
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Why is it that so many of our favourite foods leave our fridge stinking? Cut a lemon in half and put one on the top shelf, one on the bottom shelf, to mask any strong smells in your fridge.

•  Get rid of burning smells with salt

Burnt your dinner? If the house now smells of burning, just sprinkle some salt over your burnt pans or any food mess to reduce it. Then cut your losses and order a take away!

• Clean your pans for free with aluminium foil

Tin foil has many uses – for one thing you can use it in place of a scourer. Just scrunch it up into a ball and give pots and pans a scrub. It's a great way to recycle your sandwich wrapping, as well as saving you money.

• Protect wood or laminate floors with a tennis ball

Stop your wooden or laminate floors getting scuffed by chairs or other furniture by cutting tennis balls in half and popping them onto the end of chair, table and sofa legs as floor protectors.

• Polish furniture with olive oil

As well as having great health benefits, olive oil can be handy around the home. Put a few drops onto a duster and use it to polish your wooden furniture – so much nicer than chemical polish, and it won't cause any strong smells.

• Use old tights as dusters

Got a hole in your tights? Don’t throw them away – give them a wash and then use them as a duster. The same goes for odd socks (which we always seem to end up with, no matter how carefully we wash our clothes).

• Use a pastry brush to clean crumbs out of your toaster

Get tricky-to-reach crumbs and burnt bits out of your toaster by unplugging it and sweeping with a pastry brush. This will help your toaster last longer as well as making crumbs less likely to catch and smell.

• Get rid of greasy fingerprints from walls with white bread

It sounds weird, but rubbing finger marks with a slice of white bread will give your walls a new lease of life! We're not sure how someone discovered this, but we're grateful they did.

• Stop your washing machine from smelling with vinegar

Stinky washing machine? Run it empty on a hot wash with a cup of white vinegar inside. This will also help remove limescale and mildew, making the machine last longer and clean more efficiently.

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