Care of Sitting Room and Food Store in The House

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Various functional rooms in the house III

Care of sitting room and food store in the house

Sitting room: It requires daily cleaning e.g. airing, sweeping, and dusting of the room at every interval.

Daily cleaning/care of the sitting room

1. Open the doors and windows to air the room.
2. Empty the wastepaper basket and ash tray.
3. Sweep the floor. Reach under all places of furniture.
4. Tidy up the cushion and arrange arms and head rests on the chairs.
5. Arrange furniture and other items properly.
6. Put fresh flower in the vase if necessary.

Weekly care/cleaning of the sitting room

1. Open the doors and windows to air the room.
2. Remove curtains, table clothes, and cushion covers. Wash them if they are dirty. Otherwise air them properly.
3. Take all small pieces of furniture outside, clean each according to type.
4. Take out the floor covering and remove dirt,
5. Remove larger pieces of furniture from the wall.
6. Sweep down the ceiling, walls, doors, doors to remove dust and cobwebs. Pay attention to the ceiling fan
7. Remove and clean all pictures and wall ornaments.
8. Clean the window according to type.
9. Clean and polish larger pieces of furniture in the room.
10. Clean the floor according to type.
11. Lay the floor covering when the floor is properly dry.
12. Replace all the pieces of furniture neatly.
13. Hang the curtains neatly if they were washed, remember to iron them properly.
14. Clean the flower vase according to type. Put in fresh flower and water.

Food store: It requires daily and weekly cleaning e.g. airing, removal of cobwebs, sweeping, dusting, and arranging the food stuffs

Cleaning/care of food store

1. Sweep the store every morning.
2. Arrange food items and containers properly.
3. Clean the store very thoroughly once every week

Bathroom and toilet: It require daily and weekly cleaning e.g. sweeping, airing, scrubbing, using disinfectant.

Cleaning/care of bathroom

1. Remove all items from their usual spot.
2. Dust and sweep to get rid of dust
3. Apply cleaner to shower and bathtub.
4. Tackle other surfaces.
5. Mix cleaning solution for floor.
6. Hit the shower and bathtub.
7. Finish the shower and bathtub: Replace all items you removed, wiping them
8. Clean the vanity area. Spray the all-purpose cleaner on the sink,
9. Clean the toilet.
10. Mop the floor: Submerge your mop into the bucket of cleaning solution, squeeze out excess water, then clean the bathroom floor. Once dry, replace the trashcan and your freshly laundered rugs.

Quiz

• Write the cleaning/care of the following rooms:
• Store
• Sitting room
• Bathroom