If you recently did apartment renovation and want to preserve a beautiful environment for as long as possible, learn seven everyday habits, repeating which, you slowly destroy your home. HouseChief will tell you what to stop doing in order to keep the renovation as long as possible without any additional effort.
Read in the article
- 1 Cleaning dust with a broom
- 2 Lack of furniture overlays
- 3 High humidity in the house
- 4 Irregular use of the hood
- 5 Washing the fat into the sink
- 6 Sharp opening of plastic windows
- 7 Rare carpet cleaning
- 8 Finally
Cleaning dust with a broom
Despite the fact that today in the store you can buy many modern cleaning products - vacuum cleaners, rag mops, ordinary microfiber floor rags, many still prefer to clean the room using a regular broom. This primitive product is not only ineffective but can damage expensive flooring.
In addition, small crumbs and dust particles that settle on the surface are not removed. broom, which makes the floors dirty even if you wash them every day.
If you still want to use a broom, then do not soak it in water - a dry broom will perfectly collect all the dustlying on the surface, but after sweeping the floors must be washed using a cloth or mop head.
Lack of furniture overlays
When buying furniture, many people are in no hurry to put special soft pads on the legs of tables and chairs. This is a big mistake. Using overlays, you will not only protect furniture, but also prevent the appearance of scuffs on the carpet and cracks on the expensive laminate. Even if you are not going to do a rearrangement, take care of protecting furniture and the floor - you can accidentally move the table by leaning against it, and a large scratch will appear on the floor.
You can make overlays with your own hands. Take a small piece of felt and cut out squares that fit the furniture legs. Glue these squares with superglue - this is the easiest and most effective way that does not require much time and money.
High humidity in the house
High humidity in the apartment - the enemy of good repair. The main disadvantage is that the destruction appears gradually, they appear on the walls moldsthat grow every day. In addition, high humidity makes the wood swell, which causes doors to creak, and shelves that have been well fixed fall off over time.
Try to monitor the humidity indicators in the apartment, and if they are too high, more often ventilate all rooms. Do not close the bathroom door after you have bathed - leave it open so that moisture evaporates faster and black deposits do not appear on the walls.
There are several effective ways to combat high humidity:
- use Air Dryer, air conditioner or other equipment to improve air circulation in the room;
- if you live on the first or last floor of an apartment building, make sure that the problem of dampness does not lie in the flooding of the attic or basement;
- when making repairs, use natural waterproofing materials;
- if the apartment is cool, turn on additional electric heaters.
The most important part of getting rid of damp and high humidity in your home is finding the cause. If the basement of your house is in order and you do not live near a large body of water, then use standard air drying methods.
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Irregular use of the hood
A huge mistake that many housewives make when preparing food is ignoring kitchen hood. It may seem that this is a completely useless thing, but it is not. It is not difficult to press a button on the hood, but it can play a very important role in preserving your interior. The hood not only cleans the air, but also helps to reduce humidity in the room.
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Washing the fat into the sink
Surely while washing the dishes, you have repeatedly noticed that all the fat from the pots and pans does not dissolve, but flows down into the sink. If you often allow it to enter the drain, then be prepared for the appearance blockages and an unpleasant odor. This problem grows like a snowball - fat is deposited on the walls of the pipes, trapping small particles of food and dust, which leads to the formation of difficult-to-remove blockages.
To avoid this, regularly carry out prophylaxis - add an anti-blockage agent and wait 10-20 minutes. Also, do not forget to soak the skillet after frying the cutlets - drip a small amount of degreasing means and wait until the fat on the walls of the dishes dissolves - after that you can safely pour the water into sink.
If the blockage has already formed, try to get rid of it in a simple way - pour the agent into the drain. wash the dishes and wait from 30 minutes to an hour, and then use boiling water to rinse the drain holes. If the blockage is not strong, then such actions will help to eliminate it and save the family budget. However, in the future, remember that fat does not go down the drain, but settles on the walls, and try to degrease the dishes in advance.
Sharp opening of plastic windows
Regularly performing some actions, you probably do not notice how you begin to make sudden movements, for example, opening a window. After installation windows in the apartment you slowly turn the handle so as not to break, but when a few months have passed since installation, the window has already been tested for strength. From now on, you probably don't try to turn the knob gently. Even if it does not break immediately, then after a few months or even years the handle will become very loose, and you will have to call the master again.
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Rare carpet cleaning
If your home has light colored carpets, then you probably know how quickly they get dirty. Over time, many housewives stop clean the carpet every day immediately after a small speck gets on it. This leads to the fact that all stains dry out and are practically not removed in the future.
If you put a stain on your favorite light carpet, and there is no time to wash it, just soak this place. This method will save you a lot of time and effort, and the floor covering will retain its original appearance longer.
Please note that if pets live in your apartment, then you will have to clean the carpets much more often. Get a powerful vacuum cleaner and use modern, effective products that contain a small percentage of bleach.
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Finally
It is best to accustom themselves to good habits and avoid heavy carpets pollution and the emergence of blockage in the pipes. By doing simple things every day, you prevent future “disaster”. Failure to comply with banal rules leads to the fact that you waste time, money and energy. Calling a plumber to clean the pipes at home can be extremely expensive, but you won't have to do it if you use a degreaser.
Which of the following household habits are typical for you?
