Tips for Cleaning and Maintaining Your Mop

The whole point of a mop is that you use it to clean and wash surfaces — but with many mops, there comes a time when you need to clean and wash your mop head. While some households are more comfortable with the lack of hassle offered by a mop with a disposable head, the costs of such mops can quickly rack up in the long term.

For the more frugal households,however,knowing how best and most efficiently to clean a mop — be it a quality cotton mop from Fuller or a microfiber mop — can help you make sure that you’re actually cleaning your floors, and not just slinging around dirt and bacteria. As per Microfiber Wholesale, microfiber is an interesting bit of technology — it allows for the absorption of most bacteria simply mechanically due to tiny little cloth loops.

Considering Proper Use:

Mops need water, but it wasn’t always that way. As per Vacuum Cleaner History, dry mop was a thing before wet mops came into existence — and since then, we’ve been trying to keep the combination of cloth and water clean. Right off the bat, the first thing to consider is how you’re using your mop. Usage spells a large portion of mop maintenance — if you use your mop right, you’ll need to clean it less often.

Aside from that, however, clean mops clean floors — dirty mops don’t. Proper use on a mop can ensure a floor that is truly healthy to walk on, especially in areas with high commute. But even among homes where industrial cleaning standards don’t necessarily apply — they almost never do, unless you’ve got pets and children — keeping a cleaning schedule for your mops can help you keep them clean.

As per CleanLink, consider buying two or three mop heads, and cleaning one right after cleaning a floor, allowing you to switch between mop heads. For large surface homes,switching mop heads mid cleaning session is the safest way to preserve a clean home environment. Consider cleaning the kitchen, the bathroom and bedrooms with separate mop heads.

Keeping a Clean House Clean:

While figuring your mopping situation out is pretty important, it’s also important to make sure you’re doing your casual best to keep your floors generally clean. Consider certain factors like, say, taking your shoes off before you step into your home, or prioritizing cleaning your entryways so as to prevent dirt from being dragged further into your home — these are some basic precautions you can take to keep your floors generally clean without even bringing a broom or mop into the calculation.

Stripping Harmful Odours:

If your mop is starting to smell but still has the potential to help you clean your floors a few more times, then you do have some options to consider before throwing the mop head away — specifically, you can give your mop head a rinse in a homemade solution to strip it of its odor and get it back to smelling normal.

The formula is extremely simple — mix one part white vinegar with one part water, and let the mop stand in that solution for a few hours. Preferably overnight. Once the mop has been disinfected and deodorized by the white vinegar, it’s time to rinse that all off with some hot water. White vinegar has dozens of uses, as per Reader’s Digest. And voila — you’ve got yourself a clean, neutral-smelling mop without any mold or mildew.