Some suggestions for keeping your center clean
Here are some suggestions for keeping your center clean while reducing irritants:
* Keep sidewalks, porches and entrances to your center clean; dust on the sidewalks can be carried inside; sweep or hose with water at least twice a week.
* Use dirt-catching entrance mats inside and outside the doors to decrease particles entering the building. Mats should be cleaned or replaced regularly.
* Vacuum carpets, upholstered furniture, and draperies regularly as these are major dust “reservoirs” for dust, dust mites, and biological pollutants. Vacuum carpets twice a week and furniture and draperies twice a month with a high quality vacuum cleaner fitted with a double-lined paper filter bag or a filter designed to capture and retain its contents (many filters are so porous that the captured dust is promptly blown back into the area). Filter bags should be changed when they become half full (a full filter bag is not as efficient and dust particles can escape). (more…)
