Try This One Trick To Keep Your Home Cleaner

Don’t you sometimes wish there was just one easy thing to do to solve a problem – a magic bullet so to speak?  Well, when it comes to keeping your home neat and tidy, to helping your family stay healthy, and to maintaining your carpet, there is.  In fact, there is one very simple step you can take to accomplish all three.  Remove your shoes!

Keep Cleaning at a Minimum.

There are very few people who really enjoy cleaning.  Assuming you are not one of those people, you are probably always on the look-out for ways to keep your house cleaner.  A simple way to do just that is to remove your shoes at the door.  Think about where your shoes have been today.  Through dirt and debris, outside and inside, at the office, through the parking lot, down the aisle of the grocery store, across the floor of the public bathroom.  Everywhere your shoes touch, they attract dirt that is then brought into your home.  Wouldn’t you want to keep that mess at the doorway?

Keep Germs and Pesticides Where They Belong.

But it goes deeper than just being dirty.  The bottom of your shoes are also exposed to harmful substances.  Studies continue to find that shoes are magnets to a host of microbes.  In addition to germs, shoes can also transfer chemicals.  If you have your lawn treated with fertilizer or pesticides, your shoes can easily pick up these substances and bring them into your home.  Actually, any chemical that can be found outside has a good chance of getting inside via your shoes.  Don’t you want to stop dangerous germs and pesticides before they can get into your home?

Keep Your Floors Looking New.

Finally, not wearing shoes in the house will help you maintain the beauty of your flooring.  Whether you have carpet or hard wood floors or tile, shoes are harder on them.  Wearing shoes tracks dirt all over, which causes damage to floors.  On carpet, this dirt is ground into fibers.  On laminate, hard wood, or tile floors, dirt can scratch the surface, leaving unsightly nicking and scuffing.  In addition to the damage caused by dirt, shoes themselves can also be hard on these surfaces.  Wouldn’t you do all you could to maintain the new look of your floors?

Not wearing shoes really is the cleaner, safer, and less damaging option, but if that hasn’t convinced you, consider your comfort.  Nothing says you are home and your workday is over like kicking off your shoes!  Yet even if you regularly take off your shoes, you can’t keep all shoes off your floors.  You’ll need to run in quickly or guests will want to leave their shoes on.  That’s why you need to have your floors professionally cleaned on a regular basis.  A visit from Langenwalter will remove dirt and bacteria and keep floors looking great.  Call us today at 317-876-9944 to schedule your cleaning.