I briefly had a cleaner for a few months last year. Yes, it’s as life-changing as everyone says it is. But also life-changing is the advice they give you whilst cleaning your space from top to bottom. My lovely cleaner, Alex, let me in on a secret tip for cleaning bathroom floors, the proper way.
First, let’s rewind — my cleaner used to clean all 3 of my bathrooms, as well as the entire upstairs of my house. The rest, I’d do myself. We had her come when I was integrating, going back to working after maternity leave, and she was a total lifesaver. I noticed that one of the times she came, she never took the mop upstairs. I politely asked her if she could clean the bathroom floors up there, and she let me in on a secret bathroom cleaning hack: you should never mop your bathroom floors.
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This life-changing advice means I’m never grossed out by my mop heads, since they’re only used for cleaning my living room and kitchen floors. As a rule, I have special color-coded cleaning towels that I solely use for my bathrooms, to avoid crossing them between my kitchen and bathroom.
This also makes it easy to clean your bathroom baseboards while you’re cleaning the floors. And you can wipe down the seal of your toilet while you’re there, too.
I also have help from my iRobot vacuum mop when it comes to cleaning my floors. I never let this in my bathroom downstairs because of bacteria, and it doesn’t ever go upstairs. The same goes for my wet vacuum; I use the Bissell Crosswave for my entryway, living room, and kitchen floors. Again, never for my bathrooms.
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