Cleaning the house in preparation for Ramadan .. 7 steps that will save your time and effort

Farida Ahmed

It is customary to receive the blessed month of Ramadan with a clean house, so house cleaning campaigns are being arranged days before - and sometimes hours - from the start of the holy month.

With spending a lot of time at home due to the global pandemic of Corona, "cleaning" becomes a necessity and priority to reduce the chaos that prevailed in most homes due to the isolation measures that were applied about two months ago.

Ramadan's major house cleaning campaign requires preparation, preparation and good planning to clean all the corners without exception, so that it will be easy for you to perform simple tasks while fasting.

It takes a day or several hours, and you can follow a few steps to facilitate the cleaning process.

1- Preparing the equipment
Before starting the cleaning campaign, be sure to provide all cleaning tools at home.

To ensure guaranteed cleaning, Cleaning Business Academy has compiled a list of indispensable materials and tools, most notably: soaps, polished glass, cleaning gloves, cleaning sponges, fabrics, vacuum cleaners, regular brooms, wood polish, drying papers, mop, and sodium carbonate , Vinegar, bucket, and a small toothbrush to clean the corners in the bathroom and sinks, trash bags, and a toilet brush.

2- Distribution of tasks
Take advantage of the opportunity of home quarantine and make every member of the family a task to do.

You can ask your husband to care for young children during cleaning, especially if they are babies or young children who cannot help.

If the children are older, assign them tasks appropriate for their ages, such as putting toys back in place and arranging simple things, and ask older children to help clean their rooms, polish glass, and clean the living room. Ask the husband to use the vacuum cleaner to clean the carpets, or to help polish wood and glass.

3- Sorting and Disposal
Sorting things is half the task of cleaning, especially since most homes contain a huge amount of things that can be dispensed with.

Getting rid of things that you do not need saves a lot of space and helps reduce clutter at home, and contributes to the ease of cleaning.

Make sure to sort everything in your home: shoes, clothes, kitchen utensils, and toys. You can donate the things that you no longer need and still maintain their quality, and do not hesitate to throw pots and broken things that you kept in the hope of repairing them without doing.

4- Starting from the
bottom organizing the cleaning process contributes to the achievement, start with the bedrooms, remove dust from the walls, clean the beds and their surroundings, wash the windows, polish wood and glass, then change the covers and sheets.

After the bedrooms are finished, clean the living room, dust off all the corners, clean the carpets and sofas, and polish each corner well.

Clean the corridor between the rooms and walls well, then clean the bathrooms well with disinfectant, and with mirrors, windows, basins and bath tub.

5- Kitchen plan The kitchen
needs more effort in cleaning, so make it more simple by organizing, start separating electricity from the cooking oven or closing the gas cylinder, then spray fat removal products, and use sodium carbonate and vinegar to rub the parts of the oven and use a sponge for cleaning, then Clean it with a damp cloth.

Do not scrape anything made of metal as this will leave scratches, but spray a fat-dissolving lotion, and use warm water and a little vinegar to clean.

Sort and arrange the shelves, get rid of all that is not necessary, and polish the surfaces with water, vinegar, and soap, then wash the dishes and dishes, and clean the floors well and wipe them.

6- Forgotten Details
Remember that the major cleaning campaign may make you miss some important details, so do not ignore cleaning the refrigerator well with vinegar, water and sodium carbonate, and arrange the items in an easy way, especially that you will need to store a lot of foods in it during the month of Ramadan, and make the foods that You use it first at your fingertips.

7- Last Touch
Make sure to cleanse all the corners of the house, and remember that we have been stuck in it for nearly two months because of the global pandemic of Corona, which requires clearing everything.

Use soap and water to clean and disinfect all corners, use chlorine or antiseptics that contain no less than 70% alcohol, and wipe the doors and handles well, light buttons, faucets, fridge knob, controller, and everything that constantly eats different hands. After cleaning and disinfection, wash your hands thoroughly for at least 20 seconds.