January 1, 2024, by Isa de Laat

This way you keep the floor clean with children and pets

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January 1, 2024, by Isa de Laat

This way you keep the floor clean with children and pets

The kids, a dog and a cat at home... How on earth do you ensure that the house remains somewhat presentable? You may have given up hope of ensuring that the house is always tidy, but there is an essential difference between neat and clean.

Flip's tip: if your floor is clean, it looks a lot neater and you probably don't want the floor to be covered in dog or cat hair and your children or someone else's children to have clumps of hair on their pants. walk into the room (gadsie). Do you have one? coated floor, PVC floor or other type of floor in your home? These are the tips to keep your floor somewhat clean.

 

First things first: get the right floor

First things first: get the right floor

If you still have the chance to choose a floor before you start with children and pets, then you are in luck. You can imagine that not all floors are equally suitable if you have children and one or more pets. Our advice is to choose a smooth one cast floor at home.

These floors are not only warm in combination with underfloor heating, but are also easy to clean. As you may know, these floors have no seams and cracks and the crumbs from bread cannot accumulate. This means that vacuuming and mopping can be fixed in no time.

Precautionary actions

Precautionary actions

You know it all too well: children are unpredictable... It is your job as a parent to ensure that you take some precautions where necessary. For example, place some mats at both the front and back doors, so that they can first wipe their feet properly when they enter. Most of the dirt in the house comes from outside.

It is even better to have them take off their shoes immediately, but that is something you have to decide for yourself. And make sure you put good felt under the furniture: lindens often like to slide furniture, with all the consequences this entails for the floor.

Clean up the mess immediately

Clean up the mess immediately

If the children have made a mess, which of course happens once in a while (ahem!), make sure you clean it up as quickly as possible. Ranja pecks, causing you to cover the entire floor before you know it. So wipe it with a cloth immediately, so that this problem is solved in any case. Did some food fall? Then do the same.

Suppose you don't do this and it stays put, you may not be able to get it off the floor, causing damage to the floor because it has to be done with brute force.

Vacuum more often

Vacuum more often

If you have children and pets, you cannot avoid taking the vacuum cleaner out of the basement more than once a day. To ensure that your entire house is not covered in crumbs, it is wise to let the children eat in a fixed place. Whether you do this in front of the television or just neatly at the table as it should be, is up to each parent to decide.

The only thing we can assure you is that your house will remain a lot tidier when the children eat their sandwich neatly at the table.

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