The Right Way To Disinfect Your Home

With the recent outbreak of different viruses, such as COVID-19, monkeypox, cholera, and hemorrhagic fever, frequently cleaning and disinfecting your home has become even more essential. While human-to-human contact presents a faster mode of transmission, high-touch surfaces at home, such as door knobs, light switches, and floors, can also become a source of sickness when not properly disinfected, posing a serious risk of harm as viruses spread.

Keep your family safe and healthy from disease-causing germs and viruses by knowing how to disinfect your home safely. Read to find out how.

 

Cleaning Versus Disinfecting

Regularly cleaning your surfaces at home reduces and prevents the spread of germ-causing illnesses. This can usually be done with soap, water, and a good scrubbing to remove dirt and impurities from surfaces. On the other hand, disinfection involves stronger products with chemicals that work by killing, instead of merely removing germs and viruses so they could no longer cause harm. Remembering this distinction is vital since you may effectively clean, but not entirely eliminate sickness-causing microorganisms in surfaces.

 

Things to Remember When Disinfecting

 

• Focus on Contaminated Surfaces

 

According to experts, viruses may stay infectious for several hours to days, depending on their kind and the places where their droplets fall. Generally, they stay longer on plastic, fabric, stainless steel, and similar hard and soft surfaces. When they accumulate in high-touch areas, they can be easily transmitted among family members, making everyone at home sick. To avoid this, make sure that you focus on surfaces at home that your family usually touches. 

 

 

• Always Follow the Instructions on the Product Label

 

Disinfection products may have varying instructions for usage. In order to use them safely and accurately, always check the label to find out whether you will be needing protective equipment, such as gloves or goggles, and to determine the right amount of product and the contact time recommended to kill viruses more effectively.

 

 

• Ensure Adequate Ventilation

 

Maintain adequate ventilation while disinfecting your home by keeping doors and windows open and using fans and HVAC systems to improve air flow. This reduces your exposure to the disinfecting products used to decontaminate surfaces, keeping you from the risk of airborne transmission. You can engage in HVAC cleaning in Dubai to ensure that your ventilation system is always working.

 

How to Safely Disinfect Surfaces

 

 

• Hard Surfaces

 

Hard surfaces, such as floors, door knobs, and kitchen counters, can be disinfected by first cleaning it with a general household product such as soap or detergent. Rinse or wipe them with a wet cloth, then follow with a disinfectant once dry. Make sure to wear latex gloves, and dispose of them thereafter so that you will not be exposed  to the virus as you clean. 

 

 

• Soft Surfaces

 

Soft surfaces, such as upholstery, carpet, rugs, and drapes, can be disinfected by first vacuuming them in order to remove surface dirt. Laundering them when possible, or engaging in mattress deep cleaning services is also advisable. For this, you can use diluted bleach, a solution with at least 70% isopropyl alcohol, or other products with antimicrobial claims that can be effective against hard-to-kill viruses. Make sure to wear disposable gloves while disinfecting these surfaces, and wash your hands with soap and water for twenty seconds in order to destroy any virus particles that may have survived on your hands.

 

Get the Help You Need

Home sanitization and disinfection is advisable when someone in your household is sick or is at a higher risk of being infected due to a weak immune system caused by immune-suppressing drugs or even genetic conditions.

Make sure that you do it right and keep viruses from spreading by reaching out to Adams Care for home sanitization services in Dubai.