Let’s face it. Puppies and kittens are the cutest. However, the hair they leave behind definitely isn’t. As a devoted pet parent, you want your animal to have all the amenities necessary for comfort and health. This might include their own area in your home, but that won’t keep their fine hair or thick coats from shedding like crazy.
This piece of advice probably sounds like a way to put more pet hair inside your home. On the contrary, frequent grooming actually helps eliminate excessive shedding. Short-hair breeds should be brushed at least twice weekly to remove unshed hair from coats. Long-hair breeds may require grooming three or more times a week to reduce excess hair inside your home.
Pet hair doesn’t just land on hard and soft surfaces; it can circulate through your air vents and build up in air ducts. You can take advantage of a simple pet hair solution by changing your air filters every three months without question. Your heating and cooling system will work more efficiently, with fewer pollutants and pet dander floating in the air.
Counters and hard flooring are much easier to tackle when removing pet hair. Still, you can’t neglect soft surfaces, such as carpets and upholstery. The misconception is that a vacuum will get up everything and leave zero traces of pet hair. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. Use a damp rubber glove to remove hidden hair in the carpet or upholstery fibers. While wearing the damp glove, run your hand over any soft surface to pick up pet hair that a vacuum may have left.
The emergence of the novel coronavirus COVID-19 has brought heightened awareness to household disinfecting practices. Many local service providers, including HVAC, pest control, and carpet cleaning businesses, are now starting to offer a “disinfecting” service in order to capitalize on the current events.
The First Step in Effective Disinfection
properly disinfecting the home starts with thoroughly cleaning the surface area to be disinfected. Dust, dirt, and debris can harbor harmful germs, viruses, and pathogens. In fact, the dust in your home can contain thousands of potentially harmful pathogens, and dirt and debris can cover up germs and viruses, preventing any kind of disinfectant from making the contact necessary to kill them.
Creating Lasting Results by Breaking the Chain of Infection
Following a thorough cleaning, the next goals are long-term effectiveness and breaking the chain of infection.
The surfaces with the highest risk of transmission, in order, are:
The lowest-risk areas include furniture, floors, and walls.
When researching household disinfection services, consider your return on investment—in this case, the long-term efficacy—from the particular service or service provider.
Condense, Condense, Condense!
Do you really need that huge century-old trunk your grandpa found at an estate sale? Maybe you need it for aesthetic purposes, but is it practical for a small dorm space? If the answer is no, you may want to chuck bulky furniture and condense your clothes and other essentials into a smaller storage container. The best part is that these more compact storage bins can be stored under the bed or on a shelf in your closet to house other items for daily use. We suggest going with something that’s transparent, so you can decipher the contents of the container easily without having to open and sift through everything to find what you need.
For us tiny-space rookies, pairing down is a must. If you don’t need it (or rarely use it), it’s got to go. You don’t want to clutter your closet with clothes you barely wear or have bulky furniture in the room that doesn’t serve a practical purpose.
The one thing dorms have in abundance are blank walls and vertical space that rarely gets used. But not in your dorm room! You can do so much with your walls and use them as functional storage space to keep possessions off the floor or piling up in the closet.
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