Cleaning Tools for the Home

1. Cleaning Tools for
the Home

2. You have learn to care of your home and its surroundings.
You should always keep every area clean and sanitary. But to do
this, you should learn to use the cleaning tools. Knowing their
specific uses for the parts of the house will help you make your
cleaning tasks easy and effective.

3. Cleaning Tasks and Tools
The following are some ways to keep your home clean.
The cleaning tools that you can use as you do the task are
also presented.

4. 1. Dusting
Dusting is the act of removing small particles,
especially the dusts, on the floor, walls, pieces of
furniture, and even in ceilings. To remove the dust,
use moist soft cloth or rag on furniture surfaces and
a brush for its crevices you can dust the ceiling using
a long- handed broom.

5. 2. Sweeping
Sweeping is the process of cleaning a room or a surface
using a broom. For example, you can dust the floor using a
soft broom or walis tambo. The trash and dust on the floor
should be swept into the dustpan then thrown in the
garbage bin.
Midrib brooms or walis tingting are used for sweeping
the ground in the yard or hard surfaces such as cemented
sidewalks near the house. Long handled brooms are used for
sweeping the ceilings.

6. 3. Mopping
This is a cleaning task where a mop is used. A
mop is a cleaning tool with a piece of cloth or rug
fastened to one end of a long handle. Wet the cloth
in a bucket of water before mopping the dust or dirt
on the floor. Wash and wring the mop in the bucket
or under the faucet when it becomes dirty.

7. 4. Scrubbing
It is a cleaning task where dust that sticks hard
on the floor surface is removed by scrubbing the
them hard using a brush with hard bristles. After
scrubbing, wash the surface with water. You may
apply floor wax for dry, cemented floor afterward.
Then scrub the floor with coconut husks.

8. Modern Cleaning Tools
Nowadays some tools available for dusting and sweeping are powered
by electricity. The vacuum cleaner is used for dusting and sweeping carpets
and upholstery. Dust is sucked by a vacuum. The floor polisher has a brush
powered by motor. It is used to scrub and wax the floor. It has a long handle
and an electric cord several meters long so that it can reach the farthest
corner of the floor.

9. Modern Cleaning Tools Ran on Electricity
floor polisher robot vacuum cleaner vacuum cleaner

10. End of the Slide!