Keeping Your Place Healthy and Livable

Keeping yourplace healthy and livable has much more to do with your health than you may think. Clean houses and apartments are healthier because contaminants such as molds and dust mites are far less likely to develop and multiply.

With sufficient moisture, molds can grow on almost anything, so the first thing to defend against them is moisture control. Proper venting to the outside should get rid of much of moisture generated in kitchen, laundry and bathrooms.

Dust mites are another thing than can be kept at bay with regular household cleaning. Dust mites feed on skin scales that we shed everyday and they tend to concentrate in bedding. An impenetrable mattress cover and pillow casing will keep dust mites from establishing a beachhead there. Changing the sheets once a week and washing them in very hot water will also help control them.

Regular cleaning of your home will not only make a great impression on your visitors, it will maintain a good relationship between you and your landlord.